Liyuan Liu
Scholar

Liyuan Liu

Google Scholar ID: RmvbkzYAAAAJ
Microsoft Research
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
7,647
 
H-index
27
 
i10-index
36
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
12
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - Paper 'Model Tells You What to Discard: Adaptive KV Cache Compression for LLMs' received Outstanding Paper Honorable Mention at ICLR 2024
  • - Multiple papers accepted as oral presentations at top conferences like NeurIPS, EMNLP, etc.
Research Experience
  • - Principal Researcher, MSR, 2025 → Present
  • - Senior Researcher, MSR, 2022 → 2025
Education
  • - Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Advisor: Prof. Jiawei Han
  • - B.Eng. in Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Advisor: Prof. Linli Xu
Background
  • Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. His research focuses on understanding the underlying mechanisms of pretraining heuristics.
Miscellany
  • Loves skiing and met his amazing wife during a ski trip; DJI fan; plays Sheng Ji (双扣), Ark Nova, and Mafia (狼人杀) with families & friends.