Akiva Block

Researcher, Huawei Technologies Ltd.
MS student, Computer Science, Computer Science Department, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Joined
May 2024

Names

Akiva Block (Preferred)

Emails

****@campus.technion.ac.il (Confirmed)
****@gmail.com

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher
Huawei Technologies Ltd. (huawei.com)
2024Present
MS student
Computer Science, Computer Science Department, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (cs.technion.ac.il)
2021Present
Undergrad student
Computer Science, Computer Science Department, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (cs.technion.ac.il)
20182021
Undergrad student
Computer Science, Ariel University Center of Samaria (ariel.ac.il)
20172018

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coworker
2025Present
Coworker
2024Present
Coworker
2024Present
Coworker
Yann Delorme
2024Present
Coauthor
20242026
MS advisor
20212024

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