Akiva Block (Preferred)
Akiva Block
Researcher, Huawei Technologies Ltd.
MS student, Computer Science, Computer Science Department, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Joined
May 2024
Names
Emails
****@campus.technion.ac.il (Confirmed)
****@gmail.com
Personal Links
Career & Education History
Researcher
Huawei Technologies Ltd. (huawei.com)
2024 – Present
MS student
Computer Science, Computer Science Department, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (cs.technion.ac.il)
2021 – Present
Undergrad student
Computer Science, Computer Science Department, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (cs.technion.ac.il)
2018 – 2021
Undergrad student
Computer Science, Ariel University Center of Samaria (ariel.ac.il)
2017 – 2018
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Coworker
Yann Delorme
2024 – Present
Expertise
LLMs
Present
AI inference acceleration
Present
LLM Quantization
Present
Sparse attention
Present
Linear attention
Present
Flash attention
Present
CPU -GPU collaboration
Present
State space machines
Present
SSM
Present
Mamba
Present
Discrete diffusion
Present
Multimodal models
Present
World models
Present
KV cache
Present
Structured matrices
Present
Butterfly matrices
Present
Sinkhorn
Present
Stochastic matrices
Present
Fast approximations
Present
Neural network compression
Present
Mixture of experts
Present
Hyper connections (residual connection alternatives)
Present
Distributed inference optimization
Present
Prefill-phaase optimization
Present
Decode-phase optimization
Present