Anming Gu

I'm a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Texas, Austin, where I am fortunate to be advised by Kevin Tian. Previously, I completed my B.A. in Computer Science at Boston University.

I primarily work on data privacy and log-concave sampling. More broadly, I'm interested in problems at the intersection of theoretical computer science, high-dimensional statistics, probability theory, and machine learning.

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News
I (tentatively) will be in Singapore interning with Atsushi Nitanda at A*STAR during Summer 2026. Feel free to reach out if you are in the area or are interested in collaborating!

2026.2 First preprint of my PhD on arXiv!
2025.8 Started my PhD at UT Austin.
2025.4 Attended ICLR 2025 in Singapore
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anminggu@cs.utexas.edu
GDC 4.718C
2317 Speedway
Austin, TX 78712

Publications

Authors are ordered alphabetically unless starred. Then, authors are in contribution order with starred authors contributing equally.

Functional Stochastic Localization
Anming Gu, Bobby Shi, Kevin Tian
arXiv

Differentially Private Wasserstein Barycenters
Anming Gu*, Sasidhar Kunapuli, Edward Chien, Mark Bun, Kristjan Greenewald
arXiv

Mirror Mean-Field Langevin Dynamics
Anming Gu, Juno Kim
arXiv

Private Continuous-Time Synthetic Trajectory Generation via Mean-Field Langevin Dynamics
Anming Gu*, Edward Chien, Kristjan Greenewald
arXiv

Compute-Optimal LLMs Provably Generalize Better with Scale
Marc Anton Finzi*, Sanyam Kapoor, Diego Granziol, Anming Gu, Christopher De Sa, J Zico Kolter, Andrew Gordon Wilson
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025.
arXiv

Partially Observed Trajectory Inference using Optimal Transport and a Dynamics Prior
Anming Gu*, Edward Chien, Kristjan Greenewald
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025.
Preliminary version in NeurIPS OPT workshop, 2024.
arXiv / poster / code

k-Mixup Regularization for Deep Learning via Optimal Transport
Kristjan Greenewald*, Anming Gu, Mikhail Yurochkin, Justin Solomon, Edward Chien
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2023.
arXiv / code

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