Ph.D. Student · Xidian University

Yan Xie

I am a final year Ph.D. student in Information and Telecommunication Engineering at Xidian University, advised by Prof. Bo Chen. I received my bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering from Xidian University in 2022.

My research focuses on finding and leveraging sparse, dynamic, yet highly informative learning signals in foundation models—from efficient attention and multimodal concept learning to reward signals and credit assignment in post-training. I am currently interested in agentic post-training and Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI).

I also worked as an LLM Research Intern at BandAI, ByteDance, and as a Project Up Intern at the Yuanbao AI-Infra team, Tencent.

Efficient ML Sparse Attention Agentic Post-training
Portrait of Yan Xie
Xi'an, China

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† Equal contribution. Highlighted cards are first-author papers. See Google Scholar for the latest list.

Experience & Education

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2026

BandAI, ByteDance

LLM Research Intern

Built evaluation and data-synthesis pipelines for e-commerce agents, deployed Agentic OPD for post-training, and studied stale-sample mitigation in fully asynchronous agentic reinforcement learning.

2026

Yuanbao AI-Infra, Tencent

Project Up Intern

Developed model-sparsification methods for inference efficiency and deployed Sparse Feature Attention in production workflows.

Open-source Projects

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