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Leap into that sea of light. 跃入那光那海。

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Qingyu is an undergraduate student from Zhejiang University, class of 2022.

I am actively working on (1) scaling foundational models and (2) building trustworthy methods.

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Selected Publications

Conference Papers

Constraining Alignment with Sparse AutoEncoders [ICML’25] ArXiv / Github / X(Twitter) Qingyu Yin*, Chak Tou Leong*, Hongbo Zhang, Minjun Zhu, Hanqi Yan, Qiang Zhang, Yulan He, Wenjie Li, Jun Wang, Yue Zhang, Linyi Yang

StableMask: Refining Causal Masking in Decoder-only Transformer  [ICML'24] ArXiv / Github / X(Twitter) Qingyu Yin, Xuzheng He, Xiang Zhuang, Yu Zhao, Jianhua Yao, Xiaoyu Shen, Qiang Zhang

Deeper Insights Without Updates: The Power of In-Context Learning Over Fine-Tuning  [EMNLP'24 Findings] ArXiv / Github / X(Twitter) Qingyu Yin, Xuzheng He, Chak Tou Leong, Fan Wang, Yanzhao Yan, Xiaoyu Shen, Qiang Zhang

Why Safeguarded Ships Run Aground? Aligned Large Language Models' Safety Mechanisms Tend to Be Anchored in The Template Region [ACL’25 Oral] ArXiv / Github / X(Twitter) / Project Page Chak Tou Leong, Qingyu Yin, Jian Wang, Wenjie Li

ModRWKV: Transformer Multimodality in Linear Time [EMNLP’25 Oral] ArXiv / Github / X(Twitter) / Huggingface Jiale Kang*, Ziyin Yue*, Qingyu Yin*, Jiang Rui, Weile Li, Zening Lu, Zhouran Ji

Preprints

Refusal Falls off a Cliff: How Safety Alignment Fails in Reasoning Models [Preprint] ArXiv / Github / X(Twitter) Qingyu Yin, Chak Tou Leong, Linyi Yang, Wenxuan Huang, Wenjie Li, Xiting Wang, Jaehong Yoon, YunXing, XingYu, Jinjin Gu

Balancing LoRA Performance and Efficiency with Simple Shard Sharing [Preprint] ArXiv / Github / X(Twitter) / PEFT Jiale Kang, Qingyu Yin

Technical Reports

MagicInfinite: Generating Infinite Talking Videos with Your Words and Voice [Preprint] ArXiv / Github / X(Twitter) / Huggingface Hongwei Yi, Tian Ye, Shitong Shao, Xuancheng Yang, Jiantong Zhao, Hanzhong Guo, Terrance Wang, Qingyu Yin, Zeke Xie, Lei Zhu, Wei Li, Michael Lingelbach, Daquan Zhou

Experiences

Ace Top Talent Internship Research Scientist, RedNote(Xiaohongshu Inc.) Hi Lab

Research Intern, Hedra Inc.

Research Intern, WestlakeNLP

Research Intern, ZJUKG

2025.07 - 2025.12

2024.10 - 2025.05

2024.07 - 2024.10

2023.05 - 2024.07

Projects & Rewards

Awesome Undergraduate Research Award at ZJU (Grand Prize)

Zhejiang Province University New Seed Talent Program

2024.12

2024.04

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