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Nan Jiang

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Associate professor of computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, researching the theoretical foundations of reinforcement learning.

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Role at the time: Personal response to Bubeck's explanation

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Jiang argues that even an offer of authorship on OpenAI's proof did not justify unilaterally excluding the other team's collaborator.

“you unilaterally tried to dictate who from other side can stay on the paper”
Read the original post (opens in a new tab)Nan Jiang challenges the proposed authorship arrangements after Bubeck's clarification
Why we used this label

A substantive criticism that survives the distinction between the two teams' proofs.

Read statementDid OpenAI improperly pressure mathematicians over authorship and credit?

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