Chunyuan Deng 邓淳远

He is a CS PhD student at Rice University, advised by Prof. Hanjie Chen. Previosly, he was also affiliated with Yale NLP and Georgia Tech.

His research mainly focuses on language model architectures and understanding their mechanism and limitations.

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🔦 Publications

A selection of work that represents his recent research style.

LT2: Linear-Time Looped Transformers
Chunyuan Deng, Yizhe Zhang, Rui-jie Zhu, Yuanyuan Xu, Jiarui Liu, T. S. Eugene Ng, Hanjie Chen
Preprint, 2026.
ByteFlow: Language Modeling through Adaptive Byte Compression without a Tokenizer
Chunyuan Deng, Sanket Lokegaonkar, Colin Lockard, Besnik Fetahu, Nasser Zalmout, Xian Li
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026.
🛠️ Service

  • Program Committee/Reviewer: ICML 2026, ICLR 2025-2026, NeurIPS 2024-2025, COLM 2024-2025, ACL ARR(2023 - now), AISTATS 2025-2026, EMNLP 2024 BlackboxNLP Workshop, NAACL 2024 Student Research Workshop.

🎄 Miscellaneous

In his free time, he enjoys walking around the city photographing magnificent architecture, gorgeous scenery, and lovely interactions between human beings. 🌇