Hanqi Xiao

I am a research assistant at MURGe-Lab under Professor Mohit Bansal, and a undergraduate at UNC Chapel Hill, class of 2026.

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Research

I'm interested in compression, interpretability, and embedded applications, currently working on LLMs. I have been working with Elias Stengel-Eskin and Yi-Lin Sung on LLM Quantization and Interpretability.

Task-Circuit Quantization: Leveraging Knowledge Localization and Interpretability for Compression
Hanqi Xiao, Yi-Lin Sung, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Mohit Bansal,
Arxiv, 2025
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Using interpretability informed saliency scores based on task-specific information to localize important weights to preserve during model compression, yielding improvements for both general and task specific quantization


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