About Me

I am Yichen You, an incoming Ph.D. student in Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University. My research asks how reasoning systems can spend computation where it matters—through adaptive computation, efficient routing, and long-horizon decision-making.

Outside research, I enjoy movies, badminton, and working out. More about me →

Publications

ICML 2026

Think-at-Hard: Selective Latent Iterations to Improve Reasoning Language Models

Tianyu Fu^†, Yichen You^†, Zekai Chen, Guohao Dai, Huazhong Yang, Yu Wang

ICML 2026; ICLR 2026 Workshop (Oral).

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arXiv 2026

Post-Trained MoE Can Skip Half Experts via Self-Distillation

Xingtai Lv^†, Li Sheng^†, Kaiyan Zhang^†, Yichen You, Siyan Gao, Xueheng Luo, Yuxin Zuo, Yuchen Fan, Junlin Yang, Ganqu Cui, Bingning Wang, Fan Yang, Youbang Sun, Ning Ding, Bowen Zhou

arXiv preprint, 2026.

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