Please encourage your students to apply, if they are interested in pursuing a PhD at NTU. This is a great opportunity to meet their future advisors and establish connections. We especially welcome students from "non-traditional countries", which historically did not send a lot of students to NTU.

Given DeepSeek R1, the next major obstacle for AI is soft reasoning, or reasoning that requires common sense and does not have definite right or wrong answers. The RL reward becomes ill defined. One needs either RLHF or curated MCQs.

Today I saw this formula. It's not a student's work.

There is some hype about how using solved problems to train the next model (i.e., the data flywheel) will directly lead to AGI or superhuman AI.

While I don't believe the hype, here is a paper that may help you implement that data flywheel idea: arxiv.org/abs/2407.09985