Zhewei Yao

Researcher, Snowflake

Joined

August 2018

Names

Zhewei Yao (Preferred)

Emails

****@berkeley.edu (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Snowflake (snowflake.com)

2023 – Present

Researcher

Microsoft (microsoft.com)

2021 – 2023

PhD student

University of California Berkeley (berkeley.edu)

2016 – 2021

Undergrad student

Shanghai Jiao Tong University (sjtu.edu.cn)

2012 – 2016

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Michael Mahoney

2016 – 2021

Coworker

Jinglai Li

2014 – 2016

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

Learning to Self-Evolve
Xiaoyin Chen, Canwen Xu, Yite Wang, Boyi Liu, Zhewei Yao, Yuxiong He
- LLA 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
VizAgentBench: Benchmarking Multimodal Agent Reasoning on Coordinated Multi-View Visual Analytics Tasks
Guande Wu, Canwen Xu, Eden Wu, Zhewei Yao, Yuxiong He
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
XYZ-Text2SQL-R1: Simple Rewards, Strong Reasoning in Text-to-SQL
Zhewei Yao, Guoheng Sun, Łukasz Borchmann, Zheyu Shen, Minghang Deng, Bohan Zhai, Hao Zhang, Ang Li, Yuxiong He
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
DARE-bench: Evaluating Modeling and Instruction Fidelity of LLMs in Data Science
Fan Shu, Yite Wang, Ruofan Wu, Boyi Liu, Zhewei Yao, Yuxiong He, Feng Yan
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
ReFoRCE: A Text-to-SQL Agent with Self-Refinement, Format Restriction, and Column Exploration
Minghang Deng, Ashwin Ramachandran, Canwen Xu, Lanxiang Hu, Zhewei Yao, Anupam Datta, Hao Zhang
- ICLR 2025 Workshop VerifAI Poster
- Readers: Everyone
SwiftKV: Fast Prefill-Optimized Inference with Knowledge-Preserving Model Transformation
Aurick Qiao, Zhewei Yao, Samyam Rajbhandari, Yuxiong He
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Found in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts Better via Plug-and-Play Positional Encoding
Zhenyu Zhang, Runjin Chen, Shiwei Liu, Zhewei Yao, Olatunji Ruwase, Beidi Chen, Xiaoxia Wu, Zhangyang Wang
- NeurIPS 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
AdaSR: Adaptive Super Resolution for Cross Platform and Dynamic Runtime Environments
Syed Zawad, Zhewei Yao, Cheng Li, Feng Yan, Yuxiong He
- Submitted to ICLR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
ZeRO++: Extremely Efficient Collective Communication for Large Model Training
Guanhua Wang, Heyang Qin, Sam Ade Jacobs, Xiaoxia Wu, Connor Holmes, Zhewei Yao, Samyam Rajbhandari, Olatunji Ruwase, Feng Yan, Lei Yang, Yuxiong He
- ICLR 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Scaling Vision-Language Models with Sparse Mixture of Experts
Sheng Shen, Zhewei Yao, Chunyuan Li, Trevor Darrell, Kurt Keutzer, Yuxiong He
- EMNLP 2023 Findings
- Readers: Everyone

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