Chunyuan Deng ι‚“ζ·³θΏœ

He is a CS PhD student at Rice University, advised by Prof. Hanjie Chen. Previosly, he was also affiliated with Yale NLP and Georgia Tech.

His research mainly focuses on language model architectures and understanding their mechanism and limitations.

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πŸ”¦ Publications

A selection of work that represents his recent research style.

Language Modeling
ByteFlow: Language Modeling through Adaptive Byte Compression without a Tokenizer
Chunyuan Deng, Sanket Lokegaonkar, Colin Lockard, Besnik Fetahu, Nasser Zalmout, Xian Li
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026.
Mechanisms & Limitations of LMs
Language Models are Symbolic Learners in Arithmetic
Chunyuan Deng, Zhiqi Li, Roy Xie, Ruidi Chang, Hanjie Chen
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2026.
Steering Information Utility in Key-Value Memory for Language Model Post-Training
Chunyuan Deng, Ruidi Chang, Hanjie Chen
Advances in Neural Information Processing System (NeurIPS), 2025.
Language Models (Mostly) Know When to Stop Reading
Roy Xie, Junlin Wang, Paul Rosu, Chunyuan Deng, Bolun Sun, Zihao Lin, Bhuwan Dhingra
Advances in Neural Information Processing System (NeurIPS), 2025.
Learning Distribution-wise Control in Representation Space for Language Models
Chunyuan Deng, Ruidi Chang, Hanjie Chen
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025.
πŸ› οΈ Service

  • Program Committee/Reviewer: ICML 2026, ICLR 2025-2026, NeurIPS 2024-2025, COLM 2024-2025, ACL ARR(2023 - now), AISTATS 2025-2026, EMNLP 2024 BlackboxNLP Workshop, NAACL 2024 Student Research Workshop.

πŸŽ„ Miscellaneous

In his free time, he enjoys walking around the city photographing magnificent architecture, gorgeous scenery, and lovely interactions between human beings. πŸŒ‡