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Shawn Yin

Shawn Yin

Machine Learning Research Engineer

Hi! I’m a Machine Learning Research Engineer. I recently completed my MSCS at NYU Courant, following an MS in Financial Engineering at NYU Tandon and a few years of industry experience as a software and data engineer.

I will join Cerebras Systems as a Machine Leraninng Research Engineer Intern in Summer 2026!

May 2026

Our Paper DREAM-R (ES-Reasoning Workshop @ ICLR 2026) has been accepted by ICML 2026!

Apr 2026

A speculative reasoning paper (DREAM-R) I contribute has been accepted by ES-Reasoning Workshop @ ICLR 2026!

Mar 2026

My paper CodeQuant has been accepted by ICLR 2026!

Jan 2026

Efficient AI Inference

Hardware-software co-design across speculative decoding, quantization, and pruning.

Quantization
Speculative Decoding
Pruning

Agents

Building agent tooling and constructing benchmarks for evaluating agent capabilities.

Benchmark
Tool
Application

World Models

Using world-model ideas to strengthen representation learning.

Language
Multimodal

ResNet Sparse Distillation

The increasing depth and width of neural networks improve accuracy but also raise hardware requirements and slow down inference. This project proposes a distillation loss function that enables immediate weight and activation pruning on the student model after distillation.
ResNet Sparse Distillation

JEPA Architecture Probing Model

This project designed a JEPA architecture model with CNN and MLPs as encoder and predictor. The main task is to predict the trajectory of an object in an environment with wall and door.
JEPA Architecture Probing Model