About Me

I’m a second-year PhD student in Tsinghua University, advised by Jianyong Wang. Meanwhile, I’m working as a research intern in Microsoft Research Asia, mentored by Li Dong. My research interest is the LLM backbone, long sequence’s modeling and inference, and Multimodal LLM.

Email: syt23@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn
Links: [GitHub] [Twitter] [Google Scholar]

Education

• Ph.D. student, Tsinghua University (2023/08 ~ )
• Undergrauate student, Tsinghua University (2018/08 ~ 2023/07)
  • Computer Science and Technology (2020/08 ~ 2023/07)
  • Mathematics and Physics (2018/08 ~ 2020/07)
• Taiyuan No.5 Middle School (2015/08 ~ 2018/07)
  • Participated in Physics Olympics and achieved nothing

Selected Publications

Preprint

• Differential Transformer
  Tianzhu Ye*, Li Dong*, Yuqing Xia*, Yutao Sun*, Yi Zhu, Gao Huang, Furu Wei.
  arXiv:2307.08621, 2023.
  [pdf][code]
• Retentive Network: A Successor to Transformer for Large Language Models
  Yutao Sun*, Li Dong*, Shaohan Huang, Shuming Ma, Yuqing Xia, Jilong Xue, Jianyong Wang, Furu Wei.
  arXiv:2307.08621, 2023.
  [pdf][code]
• Structured Prompting: Scaling In-Context Learning to 1,000 Examples
  Yaru Hao*, Yutao Sun*, Li Dong, Zhixiong Han, Yuxian Gu, Furu Wei.
  arXiv:2212.06713, 2022.
  [pdf][code]

Conference

• You Only Cache Once: Decoder-Decoder Architectures for Language Models
  Yutao Sun*, Li Dong*, Yi Zhu, Shaohan Huang, Wenhui Wang, Shuming Ma, Quanlu Zhang, Jianyong Wang, Furu Wei.
  Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Oral, 2024.
  [pdf][code]
• A Length-Extrapolatable Transformer
  Yutao Sun, Li Dong, Barun Patra, Shuming Ma, Shaohan Huang, Alon Benhaim, Vishrav Chaudhary, Xia Song, Furu Wei. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Long paper, 2023.
  [pdf][code]
• Why Can GPT Learn In-Context? Language Models Secretly Perform Gradient Descent as Meta-Optimizers
  Damai Dai, Yutao Sun, Li Dong, Yaru Hao, Shuming Ma, Zhifang Sui, Furu Wei. Findings of Association for Computational Linguistics (Findings of ACL), Long paper, 2023.
  [pdf]

Talks

• (08/2024) YOCO at Unify, SDU, and Danqi’s group in Princeton
• (07/2023) RetNet at BAAI, DAMO Academy, and HanLab in MIT

Honors & Awards

• (06/2023) Outstanding Graduate & Thesis, Tsinghua University
• (09/2022) Tang Jun-Yuan Scolarship, Tsinghua University
• (09/2020) Academic & Social Work Excellence Award, Tsinghua University

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Assistant in Object-Oriented Programming (2024 Spring)
• Teaching Assistant in Software Engineering (2022 Spring, 2022 Fall, 2023 Fall)