About Me

I am a second-year M.S. student at the School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, USTC, advised by Prof. Tong Xu. My research lies at the intersection of learning theory and large language models. I am interested in using theoretical analysis to understand how large models learn and behave, and in turning that understanding into more principled and effective algorithms.


πŸ”¬ Research Interests

So far, I have worked mainly on lifelong model editing, where I used theoretical analysis to study the stability of the editing process. More recently, I have been moving toward more fundamental questions about the optimization dynamics of neural networks β€” how the loss landscape and the behavior of optimization algorithms shape the training process.

As I am still early in my research, I am always happy to learn about new directions and to think about problems outside what I have worked on so far. If you have related problems you would like to think through together, please feel free to reach out.


πŸŽ“ Education

2024.9 - Present M.S. Student
School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, University of Science and Technology of China
2020.9 - 2024.6 B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics (Statistics)
South China University of Technology

πŸ“’ News

Date Update
2026.05 πŸŽ‰ Our paper β€œMore Edits, More Stable: Understanding the Lifelong Normalization in Sequential Model Editing” has been accepted to ICML 2026!
2026.05 πŸ‘‹ First post on this website. Welcome!

πŸ“ Selected Research

ICML 2026 More Edits, More Stable: motivation figure

More Edits, More Stable: Understanding the Lifelong Normalization in Sequential Model Editing

Xin Ma, Wei Chen, Qi Liu, Derong Xu, Zhi Zheng, Tong Xu, Enhong Chen

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ICML 2026

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🐈 Miscellaneous

Outside of research, I am a big fan of cats 🐈. One of my favorite things at USTC is wandering around campus to photograph the lazy cats lounging in the sun, somehow it always feels healing. Here are a few of them:

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