Felix Chern

Researcher, Google

Joined

April 2022

Names

Felix Chern (Preferred)

Emails

****@google.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

Google (google.com)

2016 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

No relations added

Expertise

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search

2018 – Present

Publications

Scaling Laws for Nearest Neighbor Search
Philip Sun, Felix Chern, Yaroslav Akhremtsev, Ruiqi Guo, David Simcha, Sanjiv Kumar
- VecDB 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Spark Transformer: Reactivating Sparsity in Transformer FFN and Attention
Chong You, Kan Wu, Zhipeng Jia, Lin Chen, Srinadh Bhojanapalli, Jiaxian Guo, Utku Evci, Jan Wassenberg, Praneeth Netrapalli, Jeremiah J. Willcock, Suvinay Subramanian, Felix Chern, Alek Andreev, Shreya Pathak, Felix X. Yu, Prateek Jain, David E Culler, Henry Levy, Sanjiv Kumar
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
EQuARX: Efficient Quantized AllReduce in XLA for Distributed Machine Learning Acceleration
Ibrahim Ahmed, Clemens JS Schaefer, Gil Tabak, Zenong Zhang, Felix Chern, Anatoliy Yevtushenko, Andy Davis
- MLArchSys 2025 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Spark Transformer: How Many FLOPs is a Token Worth?
Chong You, Kan Wu, Zhipeng Jia, Lin Chen, Srinadh Bhojanapalli, Praneeth Netrapalli, Jeremiah J. Willcock, Suvinay Subramanian, Felix Chern, Alek Andreev, Shreya Pathak, Felix Yu, Prateek Jain, David E Culler, Henry Levy, Sanjiv Kumar
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Accelerating large-scale inference with anisotropic vector quantization
Ruiqi Guo, Philip Sun, Erik Lindgren, Quan Geng, David Simcha, Felix Chern, Sanjiv Kumar
- 04 Jan 2023
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
The Lazy Neuron Phenomenon: On Emergence of Activation Sparsity in Transformers
Zonglin Li, Chong You, Srinadh Bhojanapalli, Daliang Li, Ankit Singh Rawat, Sashank J. Reddi, Ke Ye, Felix Chern, Felix Yu, Ruiqi Guo, Sanjiv Kumar
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 01 Mar 2023
- ICLR 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone
TPU-KNN: K Nearest Neighbor Search at Peak FLOP/s
Felix Chern, Blake Hechtman, Andy Davis, Ruiqi Guo, David Majnemer, Sanjiv Kumar
- Published: 31 Oct 2022, Last Modified: 09 Jan 2023
- NeurIPS 2022 Accept
- Readers: Everyone

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