Papers and Preprints

• MiniMax Sparse Attention [PDF] [Code]
  Xunhao Lai, Weiqi Xu, Yufeng Yang, Qiaorui Chen, Yang Xu, Lunbin Zeng, Xiaolong Li, Haohai Sun, Haichao Zhu, Vito Zhang, Jinkai Hu, Jiayao Li, Rui Gao, Zekun Li, Songquan Zhu, Jingkai Zhou, Pengyu Zhao.
  arXiv preprint, 2026.

• Layerwise Change of Knowledge in Neural Networks [PDF]
  Xu Cheng*, Lei Cheng*, Zhaoran Peng, Yang Xu, Tian Han, Quanshi Zhang.
  Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), PMLR 235:8038-8059, 2024.

• Towards the Dynamics of a DNN Learning Symbolic Interactions [PDF]
  Qihan Ren*, Junpeng Zhang*, Yang Xu, Yue Xin, Dongrui Liu, Quanshi Zhang.
  Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.

• Tracking the Feature Dynamics in LLM Training: A Mechanistic Study [PDF]
  Yang Xu, Yi Wang, Hengguan Huang, Hao Wang.
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.17626, 2024.

• Simulating and Understanding Deceptive Behaviors in Long-Horizon Interactions [PDF]
  Yang Xu*, Xuanming Zhang*, Samuel Yeh, Jwala Dhamala, Ousmane Dia, Rahul Gupta, Sharon Li.
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.03999, 2025. (ICLR 2026 Accepted).

  You can find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.