My name is Xingcheng Yao (姚星丞). Welcome to my homepage!

I’m currently an independent AI developer. Previously, I was an AI researcher at Moonshot AI, a startup that develops KimiChat. I was also planning to pursue my PhD at UCLA with advisement from Prof. Kai-Wei Chang, but decided to postpone this plan as I got AGI-pilled. I received my Bachelor’s degree from IIIS (well known as Yao Class), Tsinghua University, where I was fortunate to work with Prof. Danqi Chen and Prof. Zhilin Yang. I’m excited to contribute to the development of artificial general intelligence and explore its potential impact on humanity.


Selected Publications

* for equal contribution

Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture Kimi Team (including Xingcheng Yao) Kimi K2: Open Agentic Intelligence Kimi Team (including Xingcheng Yao) Kimi-VL Technical Report Kimi Team (including Xingcheng Yao) Muon is Scalable For LLM Training Jingyuan Liu, Jianlin Su, Xingcheng Yao, Zhejun Jiang, Guokun Lai, Yulun Du, Yidao Qin, Weixin Xu, Enzhe Lu, Junjie Yan, Yanru Chen, Huabin Zheng, Yibo Liu, Shaowei Liu, Bohong Yin, Weiran He, Han Zhu, Yuzhi Wang, Jianzhou Wang, Mengnan Dong, Zheng Zhang, Yongsheng Kang, Hao Zhang, Xinran Xu, Yutao Zhang, Yuxin Wu, Xinyu Zhou, Zhilin Yang QLASS: Boosting Language Agent Inference via Q-Guided Stepwise Search Zongyu Lin*, Yao Tang*, Xingcheng Yao*, Da Yin*, Ziniu Hu, Yizhou Sun, Kai-Wei Chang Automatic Truss Design with Reinforcement Learning Weihua Du, Jinglun Zhao, Chao Yu, Xingcheng Yao, Zimeng Song, Siyang Wu, Ruifeng Luo, Zhiyuan Liu, Xianzhong Zhao, Yi Wu NLP From Scratch Without Large-Scale Pre-training: A Simple and Efficient Framework Xingcheng Yao*, Yanan Zheng*, Xiaocong Yang, Zhilin Yang SimCSE: Simple Contrastive Learning of Sentence Embeddings Tianyu Gao*, Xingcheng Yao*, Danqi Chen