CV

Research, publications, systems projects, and selected experience.

Contact Information

Name Huanyi Xie
Professional Title MS/PhD Student in Computer Science
Email huanyi.xie@kaust.edu.sa
Phone +966 54 941 9078
Website https://xiehuanyi.github.io

Professional Summary

MS/PhD student at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), advised by Prof. Di Wang. I work on efficient training and inference of large language models, including LLM serving, memory-efficient fine-tuning, and data attribution.

Education

  • 2025 - Present

    Saudi Arabia

    MS/PhD
    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
    Computer Science
    • Advised by Prof. Di Wang.
  • 2024 - 2025

    Sweden

    M.Sc.
    KTH Royal Institute of Technology
    Data Science
  • 2020 - 2024

    China

    B.Eng.
    Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai
    Artificial Intelligence

Publications

  • 2026
    Efficient Text-Attributed Graph Learning through Selective Annotation and Graph Alignment
    TMLR

    Huanyi Xie, Lu Yu, Tianhao Huang, Longfei Li, Meng Li, Jun Zhou, Lijie Hu, Di Wang.

  • 2026
    High-Throughput and Memory-Efficient Zeroth-Order Fine-tuning LLMs with Distributed Parallel Computing
    ACL

    Liangyu Wang, Huanyi Xie, Di Wang.

  • 2026
    Predicting LLM Output Length via Entropy-Guided Representations
    ICLR

    Huanyi Xie, Yubin Chen, Liangyu Wang, Lijie Hu, Di Wang.

  • 2026
    Dissecting Representation Misalignment in Contrastive Learning via Influence Function
    ICLR

    Huanyi Xie, Chenyang Ren, Khouloud Saadi, Shu Yang, Zhen Tan, Jingfeng Zhang, Lijie Hu, Di Wang.

  • 2026
    Evaluating Data Influence in Meta Learning
    ICLR

    Chenyang Ren, Huanyi Xie, Shu Yang, Meng Ding, Dongrui Liu, Lijie Hu, Di Wang.

  • 2025
    ZO2: Scalable Zeroth-Order Fine-Tuning for Extremely Large LMs with Limited GPU Memory
    COLM

    Liangyu Wang, Jie Ren, Hang Xu, Junxiao Wang, Huanyi Xie, David E. Keyes, Di Wang.

  • 2025
    Semi-supervised Concept Bottleneck Models
    ICCV

    Lijie Hu, Tianhao Huang, Huanyi Xie, Xilin Gong, Chenyang Ren, Zhengyu Hu, Lu Yu, Ping Ma, Di Wang.

Open Source Projects

  • nanoSGLang

    Minimal LLM Serving Engine.

    • Built a high-performance LLM serving engine from scratch in Python/PyTorch, implementing continuous batching, chunked prefill, paged KV cache, prefix-sharing radix cache, streaming API, and request-level metrics.
    • Integrated FlashInfer paged attention and fused operators; benchmarked Qwen2.5-0.5B at 3469 tok/s on RTX A5000, exceeding the referenced SGLang baseline in the same workload.
  • nanoMegatron

    Minimal Distributed Training Framework.

    • Implemented core distributed-training algorithms in a compact educational codebase, including DDP, ZeRO-1/2/3, tensor parallelism, sequence parallelism, pipeline parallelism, and expert parallelism.
    • Built a working SFT pipeline for Phi-tiny-MoE and GSM8K, with MoE AllToAll dispatch, ZeRO/FSDP-style sharding, and benchmark logs against DeepSpeed/PyTorch FSDP.

Awards

  • 2023
    Honorable Mention, Mathematical Contest in Modeling
    MCM
  • 2022
    Baidu PaddlePaddle Developer Groups Gold Team Leader
    Baidu
  • 2022
    Third Prize, Baidu Cognitive AI Creative Contest
    Baidu
  • 2021
    Second Prize, National College Student Mathematics Competition (Non-Mathematics Category)
    Chinese Mathematical Society
  • 2021
    First Prize, China Collegiate Computing Contest Artificial Intelligence Innovation Contest
    CCCC