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Zhenyi Shen 沈振翼

PhD Student · King's College London

I am a third-year PhD student at King's College London (2024–2028), supervised by Prof. Yulan He and Dr. Yali Du.

My research focuses on Efficient Scaling, Attention, and Reasoning.

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News

Sep 2026One paper accepted at NeurIPS 2026.
Sep 2026Joined Subquadratic as a Research Scientist Intern.
Apr 2026One paper accepted at ICML 2026.
Mar 2026Our paper CODI won the Best Research Paper Award at the Responsible AI UK 2026 AI & Robotics Research Awards!
Mar 2026Delivered a talk on Context and Knowledge Compression at the "AI for and with Human" workshop at The Royal Society.
Nov 2025Completed a 3-month research internship at Tencent Youtu Lab.
Aug 2025One paper accepted at EMNLP 2025 (Main).
May 2025One paper accepted at ICML 2025.
May 2025One paper accepted at ACL 2025 (Main).

Publications

SSA: Sparse Sparse Attention by Aligning Full and Sparse Attention Outputs in Feature Space
Zhenyi Shen*, Junru Lu*, Lin Gui, Jiazheng Li, Yulan He, Di Yin, Xing Sun
ICML 2026
paper code
Youtu-LLM: Unlocking the Native Agentic Potential for Lightweight Large Language Models
Youtu-LLM Team
Technical Report
paper
Fix the Structural Bottleneck: Context Compression via Explicit Information Transmission
Jiangnan Ye, Hanqi Yan, Zhenyi Shen, Heng Chang, Ye Mao, Yulan He
NeurIPS 2026
paper code
CODI: Compressing Chain-of-Thought into Continuous Space via Self-Distillation
Zhenyi Shen, Hanqi Yan, Linhai Zhang, Zhanghao Hu, Yali Du, Yulan He
EMNLP 2025 Main
paper code
Position: LLMs Need a Bayesian Meta-Reasoning Framework for More Robust and Generalizable Reasoning
Hanqi Yan, Linhai Zhang, Jiazheng Li, Zhenyi Shen, Yulan He
ICML 2025
paper
Beyond Prompting: An Efficient Embedding Framework for Open-Domain Question Answering
Zhanghao Hu, Hanqi Yan, Qingling Zhu, Zhenyi Shen, Yulan He, Lin Gui
ACL 2025 Main
paper