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Mufan Li
Assistant Professor, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
Joined
November 2018
Names
Mufan Li
(Preferred)
,
Mufan Bill Li
Emails
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****@outlook.com
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****@princeton.edu
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****@uwaterloo.ca
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Career & Education History
Assistant Professor
Statistics and Actuarial Science,
University of Waterloo
(uwaterloo.ca)
2025
–
Present
Postdoc
ORFE,
Princeton University
(princeton.edu)
2023
–
2025
PhD student
University of Toronto
(utstat.toronto.edu)
2017
–
2023
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Postdoc Advisor
Boris Hanin
2023
–
2025
PhD Advisor
Murat Erdogdu
2020
–
2023
PhD Advisor
Daniel Roy
2018
–
2023
Coauthor
Maxime Gazeau
2018
–
2021
Expertise
Deep Learning Theory
2021
–
2026
Probability Theory
2017
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2026
PDEs
2017
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2026
Stochastic Analysis
2017
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2026
Learning Theory
2017
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2023
Numerical Analysis
2017
–
2023
Publications
Is Random Attention Sufficient for Sequence Modeling?
Yihe Dong
,
Lorenzo Noci
,
Mikhail Khodak
,
Mufan Li
Submitted to ICLR 2026
Readers:
Everyone
Is Random Attention Sufficient for Sequence Modeling?
Yihe Dong
,
Lorenzo Noci
,
Mikhail Khodak
,
Mufan Li
FoRLM 2025
Readers:
Everyone
Don't be lazy: CompleteP enables compute-efficient deep transformers
Nolan Simran Dey
,
Bin Claire Zhang
,
Lorenzo Noci
,
Mufan Li
,
Blake Bordelon
,
Shane Bergsma
,
Cengiz Pehlevan
,
Boris Hanin
,
Joel Hestness
NeurIPS 2025 poster
Readers:
Everyone
Differential Equation Scaling Limits of Shaped and Unshaped Neural Networks
Mufan Bill Li
,
Mihai Nica
Accepted by TMLR
Readers:
Everyone
Depthwise Hyperparameter Transfer in Residual Networks: Dynamics and Scaling Limit
Blake Bordelon
,
Lorenzo Noci
,
Mufan Li
,
Boris Hanin
,
Cengiz Pehlevan
M3L 2023 Oral
Readers:
Everyone
Depthwise Hyperparameter Transfer in Residual Networks: Dynamics and Scaling Limit
Blake Bordelon
,
Lorenzo Noci
,
Mufan Bill Li
,
Boris Hanin
,
Cengiz Pehlevan
ICLR 2024 poster
Readers:
Everyone
The Shaped Transformer: Attention Models in the Infinite Depth-and-Width Limit
Lorenzo Noci
,
Chuning Li
,
Mufan Bill Li
,
Bobby He
,
Thomas Hofmann
,
Chris J. Maddison
,
Daniel M. Roy
NeurIPS 2023 poster
Readers:
Everyone
The Neural Covariance SDE: Shaped Infinite Depth-and-Width Networks at Initialization
Mufan Bill Li
,
Mihai Nica
,
Daniel M. Roy
Published: 31 Oct 2022, Last Modified: 28 Jan 2023
NeurIPS 2022 Accept
Readers:
Everyone
Acceleration of Gossip Algorithms through the Euler-Poisson-Darboux Equation
Mufan Bill Li
,
Raphaël Berthier
24 Feb 2022
OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
Readers:
Everyone
Analysis of Langevin Monte Carlo from Poincaré to Log-Sobolev
Mufan Bill Li
,
Sinho Chewi
,
Murat A Erdogdu
,
Ruoqi Shen
,
Matthew Shunshi Zhang
24 Feb 2022
OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
Readers:
Everyone
View all 14 publications
Co-Authors
Bin Claire Zhang
Blake Bordelon
Bobby He
Boris Hanin
Cengiz Pehlevan
Chris J. Maddison
Chuning Li
Daniel M. Roy
Joel Hestness
Lorenzo Noci
Matthew Shunshi Zhang
Maxime Gazeau
Mihai Nica
Mikhail Khodak
Murat A Erdogdu
Nolan Simran Dey
Raphaël Berthier
Ruoqi Shen
Shane Bergsma
Sinho Chewi
Thomas Hofmann
Yihe Dong