Marco T. Chen

Undergraduate CS @ Tsinghua University

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Hi! I’m Marco Chen, a senior CS undergraduate student at Tsinghua University advised by Prof. Jun Zhu and Prof. Jianfei Chen. My research interests primarily focus on optimization theory and efficient machine learning systems. I am currently a summer visiting researcher at UC Berkeley Sky Computing Lab, advised by Prof. Ion Stoica.

In my free time, I enjoy playing squash, reading, and occasionally playing the violin. If you want to collaborate, play squash, or just want to chat, feel free to email me at marco.ty.chen@gmail.com.

selected publications

  1. ICML 2026 Poster
    SimpleGPT: Improving GPT via A Simple Normalization Strategy
    Marco Chen*, Xianbiao Qi*, Yelin He, and 2 more authors
    In International Conference on Machine Learning, 2026
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  2. ICML 2026 Spotlight
    Delving into Muon and Beyond: Deep Analysis and Extensions
    Xianbiao Qi*, Marco Chen*, Jiaquan Ye, and 2 more authors
    In International Conference on Machine Learning, 2026
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  3. arXiv 2026 Preprint
    SageBwd: A Trainable Low-Bit Attention
    Jintao Zhang*, Marco Chen*, Haoxu Wang*, and 5 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.02170, 2026
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  4. ICLR 2026 Poster
    DNT: A Deeply Normalized Transformer That Can Be Trained by Momentum SGD
    Xianbiao Qi, Marco Chen, Wenjie Xiao, and 4 more authors
    In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2026
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  5. arXiv 2026 Preprint
    Vidu S1: A Real-Time Interactive Video Generation Model
    Jintao Zhang, Kai Jiang, Jintao Chen, and 24 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.03118, 2026
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  6. NeurIPS 2025 Poster
    Señorita-2M: A High-Quality Instruction-Based Dataset for General Video Editing by Video Specialists
    Bojia Zi*, Penghui Ruan*, Marco Chen, and 7 more authors
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025
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selected awards

  • Tsinghua CS Department Comprehensive Excellence Scholarship, 2024 and 2025
  • Beijing Foreign Student Full Scholarship (Grade A), 2024–2026
  • American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) qualification, 2021 and 2022