Zhaoxuan Wu is a former Postdoctoral Associate at the Singapore–MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) in the interdisciplinary research programme, Mens, Manus, and Machina (M3S), where he worked under the supervision of Prof. Daniela Rus (MIT) and Prof. Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (NUS).
Zhaoxuan received his PhD in Data Science from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2024, supervised by Prof. Bryan Kian Hsiang Low. His doctoral studies were supported by the President’s Graduate Fellowship jointly offered by the NUS Graduate School Integrative Sciences and Engineering Programme (ISEP) and the NUS Institute of Data Science (IDS). He is also a recipient of the Singapore Data Science Consortium (SDSC) Dissertation Research Fellowship.
His research focuses on data-centric AI and resource-efficient machine learning, with applications across a wide range of domains, including large language models.
He currently works as a member of the AI Search Team at TikTok Singapore.
MineDraft: A Framework for Batch Parallel Speculative Decoding
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ICML 2026
2026
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Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Zhenwei Tang (NTU), Arun Verma (SMART), Zijian Zhou (SMART), Zhaoxuan Wu (SMART), Alok Prakash (SMART), Daniela Rus (SMART & MIT), Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (SMART & NUS)
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NeurIPS 2025
2025
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Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Jiangwei Chen (NUS & A*STAR), Pham Kieu Thao Nguyen (NUS), Rachael Hwee Ling Sim (NUS), Arun Verma (SMART), Zhaoxuan Wu (SMART), Chuan-Sheng Foo (A*STAR), Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (NUS)
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ICLR 2026 (Best Paper Award at the Workshop on Multi-Turn Interactions in Large Language Models (MTI-LLM), in conjunction with NeurIPS 2025)
2025
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Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Zijian Zhou (SMART), Ao Qu (MIT), Zhaoxuan Wu (SMART), Sunghwan Kim (Yonsei University), Alok Prakash (SMART), Daniela Rus (MIT), Jinhua Zhao (MIT), Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (NUS), Paul Pu Liang (MIT)
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The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Vienna, Austria, 27th July, 2025
2025
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Zhaoxuan Wu (SMART), Zijian Zhou (SMART), Arun Verma (SMART), Alok Prakash (SMART), Daniela Rus (MIT), and Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (NUS)
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13th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR-25)
2025
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Rui Qiao (SMART), Zhaoxuan Wu (SMART), Jingtan Wang (NUS & A*STAR), Pang Wei Koh (University of Washington), Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (NUS)
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Venue:
Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Vancouver, Canada
2024
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Zhaoxuan Wu (SMART), Xiaoqiang Lin (NUS), Zhongxiang Dai (CUHK-Shenzhen), Wenyang Hu (NUS), Yao Shu (Guangdong Lab of AI), See-Kiong Ng (NUS), Patrick Jaillet (MIT), Bryan Low (NUS)
Use Your INSTINCT: INSTruction optimization for LLMs usIng Neural bandits Coupled with Transformers.
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The 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
2024
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Xiaoqiang Lin (NUS, co-first author), Zhaoxuan Wu (SMART, co-first author), Zhongxiang Dai (MIT), Wenyang Hu (NUS), Yao Shu (Guangdong Lab of AI), See-Kiong Ng (NUS), Patrick Jaillet (MIT), Bryan Low (NUS)