Ph.D. Student
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington
cyulin [at] cs.washington.edu

About

I’m a Ph.D. student in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Washington. I'm broadly interested in efficient machine learning and particularly passionate about acceleration. I like to tackle the inefficiency from a vertical perspective, up from algorithms, middle to system software, and down to hardware architecture. I have done works in sparse CNNs, graph neural networks, neural rendering, and currently focus on LLMs. I’m fortunate to be advised by Prof. Luis Ceze.

We're open to collaboration, please drop me an email if you find our research interesting!

Prior to UW, I obtained my Bachelor and Master degree from Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University. I also hold a minor in Computer Science for my undergraduate. During my Master, I was fortunate to work with Prof. Bo-Cheng Lai.

Besides doing research, I enjoy tennis, hiking and skiing.

Selected Publications

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, arXiv, 2024 (In submission).

FastSR-NeRF: Improving NeRF Efficiency on Consumer Devices with A Simple Super-Resolution Pipeline
Chien-Yu Lin, Qichen Fu, Thomas Merth, Karren Yang, Anurag Ranjan, IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2024 (To appear).

SPIN: An Empirical Evaluation on Sharing Parameters of Isotropic Networks
Chien-Yu Lin, Anish Prabhu, Thomas Merth, Sachin Mehta, Anurag Ranjan, Maxwell Horton and Mohammad Rastegari, in the 17th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022. [Paper] [Code] [Video]

Accelerating Spmm Kernel with Cache-First Edge Sampling for Graph Neural Networks
Chien-Yu Lin, Liang Luo, and Luis Ceze, arXiv, 2021. [Code]

Enhancing Utilization of SIMD-Like Accelerator for Sparse Convolutional Neural Networks
Bo-Cheng Lai, Jyun-Wei Pan and Chien-Yu Lin, in IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, 2019. [Paper]

Supporting compressed-sparse activations and weights on SIMD-like accelerator for sparse convolutional neural networks
Chien-Yu Lin and Bo-Cheng Lai, in the 23rd Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2018. [Paper] [Slides]