Yanzhi Chen

I am a final-year PhD student at Cambridge Machine Learning Group co-supervised by Dr. Adrian Weller and Dr. Yingzhen Li. My research is supported by the Cambridge Trust and Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship. Previously, I graduated from the MSc AI programme of The University of Edinburgh. I have worked full-time at Alibaba Group on autonomous cloud and part-time at Microsoft Research on foundational models.


Information
E-mail: yc514 [AT] cam.ac.uk
Github: cyz-ai
Google scholar: link


Research interests

  • - Foundational models e.g. LLMs, tabular foundation models
  • - Information theory e.g. compression, quantization, neural estimation of mutual information & differential entropy
  • - Approximate inference e.g. VI/MCMC, likelihood-free inference, speculative decoding