Kai Yi
Research Scientist at Meta
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolKai Yi is a research scientist focused on model compression and inference acceleration, currently at Meta AI in Sunnyvale with nine years of research and engineering experience across academia and industry. His PhD work at KAUST produced practical LLM compression and communication-efficient federated learning methods (including NeurIPS and ICLR oral/poster papers), and he has a track record of translating research into deployable systems through internships at SonyAI, Tencent, CMU, SenseTime, and others. Kai combines deep expertise in multimodal learning, zero-shot methods, and efficient on-device models with hands-on experience optimizing and porting networks for embedded and production environments. He is particularly skilled at bridging federated learning theory and large-model deployment, often delivering both algorithmic novelty and pragmatic speedups.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Candidate of Computer Science, Machine Learning Optimization, PhD Candidate of Computer Science, Machine Learning Optimization at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, GPA: 85.49/100, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, GPA: 85.49/100 at Xi'an Jiaotong University
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Github Skills (83)
transformers10
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python10
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deep-learning10
few-shot-learning10
transformer10
nlp10
jax10
seq2seq10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
meta-learning10
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
WilliamYi96/Machine-Learning
Jan 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:280 commits, 272 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
WilliamYi96/awesome-continual-zero-shot-learning
Feb 2021 - Jan 2022
A curated list of resources on continual zero-shot learning
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 11 months
pytorchzerodeep-learningzero-shot-learningshot-learning
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