Muyu He

I am Muyu He (何牧语), a research scientist at Zyphra AI. I studied both philosophy and computer science, and after exploring a few areas of research I converged on machine learning, in particular its application to Large Language Models.

LLM research is the merging point of four things I love:

1. Applying simple, deep insights from math and probability.
2. Understanding the structure of language, thought, and knowledge, as traditionally studied by my intellectual heroes Tyler Burge, David Kaplan, and Saul Kripke in the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and epistemology.
3. Using general-intelligence models to solve the world's most pressing problems.
4. Exerting Feynman-style excessive inquisitive energy with a detective-story plot, an exercise we excuse with the term “research.”

I try to think from first principles as much as possible, so that my models need to see as few tokens and FLOPs as possible. I view models as interlocutors, friends, and mentors (like the Machine from Person of Interest and Roy Batty from Blade Runner), not as some software that runs overnight, and I would hate for them to replace me in the areas I truly love and have expertise in: music production, manga creation, dancing, philosophy, and mixed martial arts.

I would love to meet more friends who are simply curious about deep problems in ML, math, and science. You can find me on X all the time, and we can grab coffee at Saint Frank on Folsom St in SF.