Hong-Yu Chen | Northwestern University
Department of Computer Science.
Address: Mudd Hall 3205, 2233 Tech Drive, Third Floor, Evanston, IL 60208.
Email: charlie.chen@u.northwestern.edu.
Hi, I’m a second-year PhD student at Northwestern University in MAGICS lab advised by Prof. Han Liu. I focus on advancing the understanding and application of foundation models. My research explores their theoretical foundations, including their universal approximation capabilities, potential to perform complex algorithms, and their links to associative memory such as Hopfield Model. I also work on extending their applications beyond language and vision, particularly in time series analysis and other scientific domain such as astrophysics. I received my B.S. degree in Physics from National Taiwan University, advised by Prof. Hsi-Sheng Goan.
news
| Oct 08, 2025 | Talk at OAC Summit 2025Gave a talk at Open Accelerated Computing (OAC) Summit 2025 on our project StarEmbed-GPT. |
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| Sep 04, 2025 | Gave a talk at Open SkAI 2025 on our project StarEmbed-GPT. |
selected publications
- Universal Approximation with Softmax Attention21–27 jul 2025*Equal Contribution, Under review at ICLR 2026
- Learning spectral methods by transformersarXiv preprint arXiv:2501.01312, 21–27 jul 2025Under review at Journal of the American Statistical Association