Leo (Linxiao) Li
AI Infrastructure & LLM Systems
I am a researcher focusing on large-scale LLM systems and AI infrastructure. Currently I work as an AI Infrastructure / Training Systems Researcher at AIGCode (蔻町科技).
My work focuses on large-scale LLM training systems. I study system-level optimizations to improve efficiency and hardware utilization, including Model FLOPs Utilization (MFU) improvement, communication–computation overlap, operator/kernel fusion, and runtime-level scheduling and memory optimization. I work closely with distributed training stacks to improve scalability, throughput, and cost-efficiency of foundation model training.
Previously, I was a Senior Researcher and core member at Huawei Cloud Architecture Innovation Lab (Cloud Lab), under CTO Fellow Jiongjiong Gu (Chief Architect), working on MoE inference, memory offloading, and cloud-scale AI infrastructure. I also collaborated with the Guangming Laboratory (Intelligent Recommendation & Resource Scheduling Group).
My long-term research goal is to design more efficient system architectures for large-scale AI models, improving scalability and resource efficiency of future AI infrastructure.
My research and engineering interests include:
- Efficient training and inference systems for large language models
- Model FLOPs Utilization (MFU) optimization and system efficiency
- Communication–computation overlap and operator / kernel fusion
- Distributed training systems and memory-efficient execution
- Scalable inference systems for large models (LLMs, MoE)
Check out my publications, CV, and gallery for more details.
News
| Jun 2026 | Paper EcoThink selected as Oral (4.6%) at WWW 2026. |
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| Jun 2026 | Gave an academic seminar at Guangming Laboratory on communication-aware scheduling optimization for large-scale MoE model training on Ascend NPUs. |
| Apr 2026 | Paper Deterministic Component Mining for Multi-framework UI2Code Generation accepted to ICML 2026 as co-first author! (Acceptance rate: 26.6%) |
| Apr 2026 | Released a technical talk on DeepSeek-V4 mechanism details at AIGCode. |
| Apr 2026 | Codex AutoResearch — my open-source project, a self-directed iterative research system inspired by Karpathy’s autoresearch concept — reached 1,000+ GitHub Stars! |
| Jan 2026 | Paper EcoThink accepted to The Web Conference 2026 (WWW’26) as first author! Average 40.4% energy savings for LLM agents. |
| Dec 2025 | Invited to give a talk at Guangming Laboratory on research methodology, internship planning, and career development for graduate students. |
| Oct 2025 | Joined AIGCode (蔻町科技) as Large Model Algorithm AI Infra Tech Leader, leading model pretraining optimization. |
| Jun 2025 | Ranked 14th out of 5200+ in the Huawei ICT Software Competition (Top 3 in Huawei Cloud, 1st in Chengdu Research Institute). |
| May 2025 | Ascend NPU User-Space Virtualization and MoE Memory Offloading solutions announced at Huawei HDC 2025 (~50 min mark) — industry-leading with <3% performance overhead. |
| May 2024 | Awarded Golden Cloud Award (金代码, Top 2%) and HCS Cloud Summit Star (云巅之星, Top 5%) by Huawei Cloud. |
| Jan 2023 | Received Huawei “Rising Star” (明日之星) Award again (Top 5%). |
| May 2022 | Received Huawei “Rising Star” (明日之星) Award (Top 5%). |
Selected Research Highlights
Selected papers and talks aligned with efficient large-scale AI systems.
EcoThink: A Green Adaptive Inference Framework for Sustainable and Accessible Agents
In Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference (WWW), 2026
Communication-Aware Scheduling Optimization for Large-Scale MoE Model Training on Ascend NPUs
Academic seminar on communication-aware scheduling optimization for large-scale MoE model training on Ascend NPUs.