Yikang Shen

Researcher, xAI

Joined

October 2017

Names

Yikang Shen

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@ibm.com (Confirmed)

****@umontreal.ca (Confirmed)

****@x.ai (Confirmed)

Personal Links

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Career & Education History

Researcher

xAI (x.ai)

2025 – Present

Researcher

International Business Machines (ibm.com)

2022 – 2025

PhD student

University of Montreal (umontreal.ca)

2016 – 2021

MS student

Beihang University (buaa.edu.cn)

2013 – 2016

Undergrad student

Beihang University (buaa.edu.cn)

2009 – 2013

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Aaron C. Courville

2016 – Present

Expertise

Deep Learning

2013 – Present

Natural Language Processing

2013 – Present

Publications

Do Larger Language Models Generalize Better? A Scaling Law for Implicit Reasoning at Pretraining Time
Xinyi Wang, Shawn Tan, Shenbo Xu, Mingyu Jin, William Yang Wang, Rameswar Panda, Yikang Shen
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
SELECT: Search-Enhanced Language Models for Analog Circuit Topology Generation
Guanglei Zhou, Chen-Chia Chang, Yikang Shen, Jonathan Ku, Isaac Jacobson, Jingyu Pan, Yiran Chen, Xin Zhang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Do Larger Language Models Imply Better Generalization? A Pretraining Scaling Law for Implicit Reasoning
Xinyi Wang, Shawn Tan, Mingyu Jin, William Yang Wang, Rameswar Panda, Yikang Shen
- MOSS@ICML2025 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
PaTH Attention: Position Encoding via Accumulating Householder Transformations
Songlin Yang, Yikang Shen, Kaiyue Wen, Shawn Tan, Mayank Mishra, Liliang Ren, Rameswar Panda, Yoon Kim
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Compressed Decentralized Momentum Stochastic Gradient Methods for Nonconvex Optimization
Wei Liu, Anweshit Panda, Ujwal Pandey, Christopher Brissette, Yikang Shen, George Slota, Naigang Wang, Jie Chen, Yangyang Xu
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Diversity Measurement and Subset Selection for Instruction Tuning Datasets
Peiqi Wang, Yikang Shen, Zhen Guo, Matthew Stallone, Yoon Kim, Polina Golland, Rameswar Panda
- ICLR 2025 Workshop Data Problems Poster
- Readers: Everyone
LaMAGIC2: Advanced Circuit Formulations for Language Model-Based Analog Topology Generation
Chen-Chia Chang, Wan-Hsuan Lin, Yikang Shen, Yiran Chen, Xin Zhang
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
ModuleFormer: Learning Modular Large Language Models From Uncurated Data
Yikang Shen, Zheyu Aqa Zhang, Tianyou Cao, Shawn Tan, Zhenfang Chen, Chuang Gan
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
GraphText: Graph Reasoning in Text Space
Jianan Zhao, Le Zhuo, Yikang Shen, Meng Qu, Kai Liu, Michael M. Bronstein, Zhaocheng Zhu, Jian Tang
- AFM 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Towards Efficient and No Forgetting Domain Continual Pretraining by Mitigating the Stability Gap
Yiduo Guo, Jie Fu, Huishuai Zhang, Dongyan Zhao, Yikang Shen
- ICLR 2025 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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