Yufeng Xu is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science advised by Professor Yucheng Lu. Prior to that, he earned his B.S. degree in Computer Science from NYU Shanghai. His current research focuses on diffusion language models, speculative decoding and inference engines.
Publications
Dylan Zhang, Yufeng Xu, Haojin Wang, Qingzhi Chen, Hao Peng Good SFT optimizes for SFT; Better SFT prepares for RL. ICML 2026.
Research Interests
- Machine Learning Systems
- Deep Learning
- Reinforcement Learning