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Muyang Li (李沐阳)

EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

I’m a second-year Ph.D. student at MIT, advised by Prof. Song Han. I obtained my master’s degree at Robotics Institute, CMU, advised by Prof. Jun-Yan Zhu and my Bachelor’s degree from Zhiyuan College (ACM Class), Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

My research interest is in the intersection of machine learning, system, and computer graphics. I am currently working on building efficient and hardware-friendly generative models with its applications in computer vision and graphics.

News

Jul 1, 2025 🚀 We released Radial Attention, a static sparse attention with O(nlogn) computational complexity for long video generation. Our code is publicly available!
May 1, 2025 🎉 Sparse VideoGen and SANA-1.5 have been accepted to ICML 2025!
Feb 11, 2025 🎉 SANA is selected as an ICLR 2025 Oral presentation! SVDQuant is selected as an ICLR 2025 Spotlight!
Jan 22, 2025 🎉 SVDQuant, SANA and DC-AE have been accepted to ICLR 2025!
Nov 7, 2024 We released SVDQuant. Our code and demo are publicly available!

Education

  1. EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Ph.D. Student, advised by Prof. Song Han
    Sep 2023 - Present
  2. Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
    Master of Science in Robotics, advised by Prof. Jun-Yan Zhu and Prof. Song Han
    Jul 2021 - May 2023
  3. Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science, advised by Prof. Kai Yu and Prof. Yong Yu
    Sep 2016 - Jul 2020

Other Experiences

  1. NVIDIA, Santa Clara
    Summer Intern, working with Prof. Song Han
    May 2024 - Aug 2024
  2. NVIDIA, Shanghai
    Summer Intern, working with Prof. Song Han and Ming-Yu Liu
    Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
  3. OmniML Inc., San Jose
    Summer Intern, working with Prof. Song Han
    May 2022 - Aug 2022
  4. Dawnlight Inc., Shanghai
    Data Scientist, working with Prof. Song Han
    Jul 2020 - Jul 2021
  5. MIT HAN Lab, Cambridge
    Research Assistant, working with Prof. Jun-Yan Zhu and Prof. Song Han
    Jul 2019 - Jan 2020

Selected Publications [Full List]

  1. Radial Attention: O(nlogn) Sparse Attention with Energy Decay for Long Video Generation
    Xingyang Li*, Muyang Li*, Tianle Cai, Haocheng Xi, and 10 more authors
    In ArXiv 2025
    Website PDF Code
  2. SVDQuant: Absorbing Outliers by Low-Rank Components for 4-Bit Diffusion Models
    Muyang Li*, Yujun Lin*, Zhekai Zhang*, Tianle Cai, and 6 more authors
    In ICLR 2025 Spotlight
    Website PDF Demo Code
  3. DistriFusion: Distributed Parallel Inference for High-Resolution Diffusion Models
    Muyang Li*, Tianle Cai*, Jiaxin Cao, Qinsheng Zhang, and 6 more authors
    In CVPR 2024 Highlight
    Website PDF Blog Code
  4. Efficient Spatially Sparse Inference for Conditional GANs and Diffusion Models
    Muyang Li, Ji Lin, Chenlin Meng, Stefano Ermon, and 2 more authors
    In T-PAMI & NeurIPS 2022
    Website PDF Slides Video Code
  5. GAN Compression: Efficient Architectures for Interactive Conditional GANs
    Muyang Li, Ji Lin, Yaoyao Ding, Zhijian Liu, and 2 more authors
    In T-PAMI & CVPR 2020
    Website PDF Slides Video Code

Honors and Awards

  • Best Pitch Award, MARC 2025 Jan, 2025
  • Seneff-Zue CS Fellowship, $98K Sep, 2023
  • Honorable Mention, Award for 2019 American Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM) Jan, 2019
  • Zhiyuan Honorary Scholarship, (3 times), Award for top 5% students 2016,2017,2018
  • A-Class School-level Scholarship, Award for top 1% students Dec, 2018
  • 1st Runner up’s Coach, Award on ICPC2018 Pathom Regional Nov, 2018
  • Jin Long Yu Fellowship, Award for top 1% students Dec, 2017
  • 1st Runner-up, Award on Singing Competition of Zhiyuan College in SJTU Dec, 2017
  • 3rd Runner-up, Award on ICPC2017 Jakarta Regional Nov, 2017
  • Gold Medal, Award on ICPC2017 Qingdao Regional, Ranked 5th Nov, 2017
  • Gold Medal, Award on CCPC2017 Qingdao Regional, Ranked 10th Oct, 2017

Teaching

  • Coach, SJTU's ICPC team Jun 2019 - Apr 2019
  • Teaching Assistant, CS147: Data Structures at SJTU Mar 2018 - May 2018

Academic Service

  • Conference Reviewer: ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICCV, CVPR, SIGGRAPH Asia
  • Journal Reviewer: T-PAMI, IJCV, TVCJ, TCSVT

Misc.

  • I am enthusiastic about pop singing. I usually publish my singing works at Douyin.