Yuan Cao

CEO, Unreasonable Labs

Joined

September 2018

Names

Yuan Cao (Preferred)

Emails

****@google.com (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@unreasonablelabs.ai (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

CEO

Unreasonable Labs (unreasonablelabs.ai)

2025 – Present

Research scientist

Google DeepMind (google.com)

2017 – 2025

PhD student

Johns Hopkins University (jhu.edu)

2009 – 2015

MS student

Shanghai Jiao Tong University (sjtu.edu.cn)

2005 – 2008

Undergrad student

Shanghai Jiao Tong University (sjtu.edu.cn)

2001 – 2005

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Sanjeev Khudanpur

2010 – 2015

Expertise

natural language processing

Present

machine translation

Present

dialog model

Present

visual language model

Present

large language model

Present

Publications

RoboVQA: Multimodal Long-Horizon Reasoning for Robotics
Pierre Sermanet, Tianli Ding, Jeffrey Zhao, Fei Xia, Debidatta Dwibedi, Keerthana Gopalakrishnan, Christine Chan, Gabriel Dulac-Arnold, sharath maddineni, Nikhil J Joshi, Pete Florence, Wei Han, Robert Baruch, Yao Lu, Suvir Mirchandani, Peng Xu, Pannag R Sanketi, Karol Hausman, Izhak Shafran, brian ichter et al. (1 additional authors not shown)
- LangRob @ CoRL 2023 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
RoboVQA: Multimodal Long-Horizon Reasoningfor Robotics
Pierre Sermanet, Tianli Ding, Jeffrey Zhao, Fei Xia, Debidatta Dwibedi, Keerthana Gopalakrishnan, Christine Chan, Gabriel Dulac-Arnold, sharath maddineni, Nikhil Joshi, Pete Florence, Wei Han, Robert Baruch, Yao Lu, Suvir Mirchandani, Peng Xu, Pannag Sanketi, Karol Hausman, Izhak Shafran, brian ichter et al. (1 additional authors not shown)
- FMDM@NeurIPS2023
- Readers: Everyone
MUX-PLMs: Data Multiplexing for High-throughput Language Models
Vishvak Murahari, Ameet Deshpande, Carlos E Jimenez, Izhak Shafran, Mingqiu Wang, Yuan Cao, Karthik R Narasimhan
- EMNLP 2023 Findings
- Readers: Everyone
Can Public Large Language Models Help Private Cross-device Federated Learning?
Boxin Wang, Yibo Jacky Zhang, Yuan Cao, Bo Li, Hugh Brendan McMahan, Sewoong Oh, Zheng Xu, Manzil Zaheer
- ES-FoMO 2023 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Can Public Large Language Models Help Private Cross-device Federated Learning?
Boxin Wang, Yibo Jacky Zhang, Yuan Cao, Bo Li, Hugh Brendan McMahan, Sewoong Oh, Zheng Xu, Manzil Zaheer
- DeployableGenerativeAI
- Readers: Everyone
Grammar Prompting for Domain-Specific Language Generation with Large Language Models
Bailin Wang, Zi Wang, Xuezhi Wang, Yuan Cao, Rif A. Saurous, Yoon Kim
- NeurIPS 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Binarized Neural Machine Translation
Yichi Zhang, Ankush Garg, Yuan Cao, Lukasz Lew, Behrooz Ghorbani, Zhiru Zhang, Orhan Firat
- NeurIPS 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models
Shunyu Yao, Dian Yu, Jeffrey Zhao, Izhak Shafran, Thomas L. Griffiths, Yuan Cao, Karthik R Narasimhan
- NeurIPS 2023 oral
- Readers: Everyone
MUX-PLMs: Pre-training Language Models with Data Multiplexing
Vishvak Murahari, Ameet Deshpande, Carlos E. Jimenez, Izhak Shafran, Mingqiu Wang, Yuan Cao, Karthik Narasimhan
- 2023 (modified: 16 Apr 2023)
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models
Shunyu Yao, Jeffrey Zhao, Dian Yu, Izhak Shafran, Karthik R Narasimhan, Yuan Cao
- 05 Oct 2022 (modified: 30 Dec 2025)
- FMDM@NeurIPS2022
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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