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William Bialek

William Bialek has 2 papers in our library, in 2007–2025, most of them on Language models & pretraining, English.

2 papers in our library · 2007–2025

OpenAlex · ORCID · Wikidata · h-index 73 · 305 works · 29,811 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7268

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 Affiliations

🎓Princeton UniversityPrinceton · United States1985–2026 · 117 papersEmployment since 2001 · John Archibald Wheeler/Battelle Professor, Physicscurrent🎓City University of New YorkNew York · United States2009–2026 · 21 papersEmployment 2009–2020 · Visiting Presidential Professor of Physics, The Graduate CenterEmployment since 2024 · Visiting Research Scholar, The Graduate Centercurrent🎓The Graduate Center, CUNYNew York · United States2014–2026 · 21 paperscurrent🎓Rockefeller UniversityNew York · United States2007–2026 · 10 papersEmployment 2007–2009 · Visiting Professor, Center for Studies in Physics and BiologyEmployment 2022–2023 · Visiting Professor, Center for Studies in Physics and Biologycurrent🎓University of California, BerkeleyBerkeley · United States1938–1994 · 36 papersEducation 1977–1979 · AB, BiophysicsEducation 1979–1983 · PhD, BiophysicsEmployment 1986–1991 · Assistant Professor, Physics and Biophysics🏢NECTokyo · Japan1991–2007 · 9 papers🔬Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryBerkeley · United States1938–1987 · 7 papers🤝Kavli Institute for Theoretical PhysicsSanta Barbara · United States1985–1988 · 6 papers🎓University of California, Santa BarbaraSanta Barbara · United States1984–1988 · 6 papersEducation 1984–1986 · Postdoctoral, Theoretical PhysicsEmployment🎓University of California, San FranciscoSan Francisco · United States1979–2004 · 5 papersEmployment 1994–2004 · Visiting Professor, Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 9 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 8The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Artificial Intelligence · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksEconomics and Econometrics · 1 workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance · 1 workPhysics and Astronomy · 1 workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics · 1 workArts and Humanities · 1 workLanguage and Linguistics · 1 work

🧭 Topics 2Research subjects and languages the work is about.English · 1 workLanguage models & pretraining · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20251 paper

2000s

20071 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Toward a statistical mechanics of four letter words (2007 · 74 citations)
    The paper asks whether English spelling, which looks highly combinatorial and rule-bound, can be described by a simple model that uses only pairwise statistics between letter positions.
  2. Large language models and the entropy of English (2025)
    The authors use modern LLMs to revisit Shannon's guessing game and ask how far back in a text the useful predictive information extends.

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