Xu Ouyang
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Greetings! My name is Xu Ouyang, a fourth-year Computer Science Ph.D. student at University of Virginia. I'm fortunately advised by Prof. Thomas Hartvigsen. I spent two great years with Prof. Felix Xiaozhu Lin and Prof. Yangfeng Ji at UVA CS.
My research interests lie in the Training Dynamics of Large Language Models, Archtecture of LLMs and Data-centric ML.

I'm always looking for collaboration and internship opportunities, feel free to shoot me an email!


News
2025
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Aug 18
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Start my internship at Bytedance Seed @San Jose! Working on LLM models
Jun 23
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New scaling law paper is accepted to ACL 2025 Main Conference! Project homepage: Low-Bit Quantization Favors Undertrained LLMs repo is available!
Jun 10
2024
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Awarded the UVA iPRIME Student Fellowship for the advance of Precision Immunomedicine!
Nov 27
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Start my internship on AGI at Tencent AI Lab Seattle!
May 28
2023
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Apr 19
2022
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Awarded the UVA Computer Science Scholar Fellowship!
Aug 28
Education
  • University of Virginia
    University of Virginia
    Ph.D. Student in Computer Science
    Aug. 2022 - present
  • Cornell University
    Cornell University
    M.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Aug. 2019 - Dec. 2020
Experience
  • Bytedance Seed @San Jose
    Bytedance Seed @San Jose
    Student Researcher of LLM Models
    Jun. 2025 - Dec. 2025
  • Tencent AI Lab Seattle
    Tencent AI Lab Seattle
    Artificial General Intelligence Research Intern
    May. 2024 - Nov. 2024
  • Rice University
    Rice University
    Research Assistant, Prof. Yingyan (Celine) Lin
    May. 2021 - Apr. 2022
  • University of Texas at Austin
    University of Texas at Austin
    Research Assistant, Prof. Atlas (Zhangyang) Wang
    Feb. 2021 - Mar. 2021
Teaching & Services
  • CS4501 Natural Language Processing, Teaching Assistant
    2024 Fall
  • CS6316 Machine Learning, Teaching Assistant
    2024 Spring
  • CS6501 Natural Language Processing, Teaching Assistant
    2023 Fall
  • Reviewer: ICLR 2025, COLM 2025
Selected Publications (view all 10 papers )
ADMIRE-BayesOpt: Accelerated Data MIxture RE-weighting for Language Models with Bayesian Optimization
ADMIRE-BayesOpt: Accelerated Data MIxture RE-weighting for Language Models with Bayesian Optimization

Xu Ouyang*, Shengzhuang Chen*, Michael Arthur Leopold Pearce, Thomas Hartvigsen, Jonathan Richard Schwarz

Arxiv 2025

ADMIRE-BayesOpt: Accelerated Data MIxture RE-weighting for Language Models with Bayesian Optimization

Xu Ouyang*, Shengzhuang Chen*, Michael Arthur Leopold Pearce, Thomas Hartvigsen, Jonathan Richard Schwarz

Arxiv 2025

Low-Bit Quantization Favors Undertrained LLMs
Low-Bit Quantization Favors Undertrained LLMs

Xu Ouyang, Tao Ge, Thomas Hartvigsen, Zhisong Zhang, Haitao Mi, Dong Yu

The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Main Conference) 2025

Low-Bit Quantization Favors Undertrained LLMs

Xu Ouyang, Tao Ge, Thomas Hartvigsen, Zhisong Zhang, Haitao Mi, Dong Yu

The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Main Conference) 2025

Selectformer in Data Markets: Privacy-Preserving and Efficient Data Selection for Transformers with Multi-Party Computation
Selectformer in Data Markets: Privacy-Preserving and Efficient Data Selection for Transformers with Multi-Party Computation

Xu Ouyang, Felix Xiaozhu Lin, Yangfeng Ji

The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025

Selectformer in Data Markets: Privacy-Preserving and Efficient Data Selection for Transformers with Multi-Party Computation

Xu Ouyang, Felix Xiaozhu Lin, Yangfeng Ji

The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025

Efficient NLP Model Finetuning via Multistage Data Filtering
Efficient NLP Model Finetuning via Multistage Data Filtering

Xu Ouyang, Shahina Mohd Azam Ansari, Felix Xiaozhu Lin, Yangfeng Ji

International Joint Conference On Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2023

Efficient NLP Model Finetuning via Multistage Data Filtering

Xu Ouyang, Shahina Mohd Azam Ansari, Felix Xiaozhu Lin, Yangfeng Ji

International Joint Conference On Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2023

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