Lequn Chen

Researcher, Perplexity AI

Joined

October 2023

Names

Lequn Chen (Preferred)

Emails

****@cs.washington.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@perplexity.ai (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

Perplexity AI (perplexity.ai)

2024 – Present

PhD student

Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington (cs.washington.edu)

2018 – 2024

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Arvind Krishnamurthy

2018 – Present

Expertise

Systems for machine learning

2018 – Present

Publications

FlashInfer: Efficient and Customizable Attention Engine for LLM Inference Serving
Zihao Ye, Lequn Chen, Ruihang Lai, Wuwei Lin, Yineng Zhang, Stephanie Wang, Tianqi Chen, Baris Kasikci, Vinod Grover, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Luis Ceze
- MLSys 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Computing in the Era of Large Generative Models: From Cloud-Native to AI-Native
Yao Lu, Song Bian, Lequn Chen, Yongjun He, Yulong Hui, Matthew Lentz, Beibin Li, Fei Liu, Jialin Li, Qi Liu, Rui Liu, Xiaoxuan Liu, Lin Ma, Kexin Rong, Jianguo Wang, Yingjun Wu, Yongji Wu, Huanchen Zhang, Minjia Zhang, Qizhen Zhang et al. (2 additional authors not shown)
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Punica: Multi-Tenant LoRA Serving
Lequn Chen, Zihao Ye, Yongji Wu, Danyang Zhuo, Luis Ceze, Arvind Krishnamurthy
- MLSys 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Atom: Low-Bit Quantization for Efficient and Accurate LLM Serving
Yilong Zhao, Chien-Yu Lin, Kan Zhu, Zihao Ye, Lequn Chen, Size Zheng, Luis Ceze, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Tianqi Chen, Baris Kasikci
- MLSys 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Atom: Low-bit Quantization for Efficient and Accurate LLM Serving
Yilong Zhao, Chien-Yu Lin, Kan Zhu, Zihao Ye, Lequn Chen, Size Zheng, Luis Ceze, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Tianqi Chen, Baris Kasikci
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Symphony: Optimized Model Serving using Centralized Orchestration
Lequn Chen, Weixin Deng, Anirudh Canumalla, Yu Xin, Matthai Philipose, Arvind Krishnamurthy
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
A vision for autonomous blockchains backed by secure hardware
Kai Mast, Lequn Chen, Emin Gün Sirer
- SysTEX@SOSP 2019
- Readers: Everyone
Nexus: a GPU cluster engine for accelerating DNN-based video analysis
Haichen Shen, Lequn Chen, Yuchen Jin, Liangyu Zhao, Bingyu Kong, Matthai Philipose, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Ravi Sundaram
- 2019 (modified: 22 Aug 2024)
- SOSP 2019
- Readers: Everyone
Enabling Strong Database Integrity using Trusted Execution Environments
Kai Mast, Lequn Chen, Emin Gün Sirer
- CoRR 2018
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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