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Mufan Li

@mufan-li.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor @UWaterloo Statistics and @VectorInst | Prev: Postdoc @Princeton PhD @UofTStatSci mufan-li.github.io

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Mufan Li @mufan-li.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Wasserstein geometry = quotient geometry of permutation invariance. In this blog, I explain why this is the natural language for exchangeable particles—and why mean-field neural network training shows up as a W2 gradient flow. mufan-li.github.io/OT2/
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Everyone Should Learn Optimal Transport, Part 2
In the previous blog post, we saw that optimal transport gives us calculus on the space of probability distributions. In this post, we will continue the core message, but we will also see that Wassers...
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Mufan Li @mufan-li.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen Linkin Park Dream Theater X-Japan Lamb of God Rivers of Nihil
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Mufan Li @mufan-li.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
People should write more blog posts. I have been pleasantly surprised over and over again by how much people found them beneficial, when I just wanted to share some cool math.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Starter packs are helpful as well as the twitter import tool chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...
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Mufan Li @mufan-li.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Since I'm moving over, I would like to reshare my most recent blog post on why you should learn Optimal Transport. Part 2 is coming, most likely during the winter break :) mufan-li.github.io/OT1/
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Everyone Should Learn Optimal Transport, Part 1
In my opinion, optimal transport (OT) is a seriously underrated topic. I think part of the reason is the way OT is often introduced: as an optimization problem or a metric on probability distributions...
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Roman Hauksson-Neill @roman.technology · 22/11/2024
Great writeup: meaningness.com/sad-light-le...
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YOU NEED MORE LUX | Meaningness
Seriously bright indoor lights for seasonal affective disorder, or just the winter blahs
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