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About Me
I am currently a first-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Tsinghua University.
Advisors
Ph.D. Advisors:...Prof. Jun Zhu and Prof. Jianfei Chen
Master Advisor: Prof. Guoliang Li
Research Interests
My research focuses on (1) Efficient Machine Learning System, specializing in accelerating model training and inference; (2) Data Management, specializing in query optimization and high-quality data acquisition.
Selected Publications
SageAttention3: Microscaling FP4 Attention for Inference and An Exploration of 8-Bit Training
Jintao Zhang, Jia Wei, Pengle Zhang, Xiaoming Xu, Haofeng Huang, Haoxu Wang, Kai Jiang, Jun Zhu, Jianfei Chen
Arxiv 2025 (Full Paper)
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SageAttention2++: A More Efficient Implementation of SageAttention2
Jintao Zhang, Xiaoming Xu, Jia Wei, Haofeng Huang, Pengle Zhang, Chendong Xiang, Jun Zhu, Jianfei Chen
Arxiv 2025 (Short Paper)
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SpargeAttention: Accurate and Training-free Sparse Attention Accelerating Any Model Inference
Jintao Zhang, Chendong Xiang, Haofeng Huang, Haocheng Xi, Jia Wei, Jun Zhu, Jianfei Chen
ICML 2025 (CCF-A, Research track, Full paper)
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SageAttention2: Efficient Attention with Thorough Outlier Smoothing and Per-thread INT4 Quantization
Jintao Zhang, Haofeng Huang, Pengle Zhang, Jia Wei, Jun Zhu, Jianfei Chen
ICML 2025 (CCF-A, Research track, Full paper)
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SageAttention: Accurate 8-Bit Attention for Plug-and-play Inference Acceleration
Jintao Zhang, Jia Wei, Pengle Zhang, Jun Zhu, Jianfei Chen
ICLR 2025 (TH-CPL-A, Research track, Full paper)
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SAGE: A Framework of Precise Retrieval for RAG
Jintao Zhang, Guoliang Li, Jinyang Su
ICDE 2025 (CCF-A, Research track, Full paper)
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PACE: Poisoning Attacks on Learned Cardinality Estimation
Jintao Zhang, Guoliang Li, Chao Zhang, Chengliang Chai
SIGMOD 2024 (CCF-A, Research track, Full paper)
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AutoCE: An Accurate and Efficient Model Advisor for Learned Cardinality Estimation
Jintao Zhang, Chao Zhang, Guoliang Li, Chengliang Chai
ICDE 2023 (CCF-A, Research track, Full paper)
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Learned Cardinality Estimation: A Design Space Exploration and A Comparative Evaluation
Ji Sun*, Jintao Zhang*, Zhaoyan Sun, Nan Tang, Guoliang Li
VLDB 2022 (CCF-A, Research track, Full paper)
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Accurate INT8 Training Through Dynamic Block-Level Fallback
Pengle Zhang, Jia Wei, Jintao Zhang, Jun Zhu, Jianfei Chen
Arxiv 2025 (Full Paper)
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Sparse VideoGen2: Accelerate Video Generation with Sparse Attention via Semantic-Aware Permutation
Shuo Yang, Haocheng Xi, Yilong Zhao, Muyang Li, Jintao Zhang, Han Cai, Yujun Lin, Xiuyu Li, Chenfeng Xu, Kelly Peng, Jianfei Chen, Song Han, Kurt Keutzer, Ion Stoica
Arxiv 2025 (Full Paper)
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Sparse VideoGen: Accelerating Video Diffusion Transformers with Spatial-Temporal Sparsity
Haocheng Xi, Shuo Yang, Yilong Zhao, Chenfeng Xu, Muyang Li, Xiuyu Li, Yujun Lin, Han Cai, Jintao Zhang, Dacheng Li, Jianfei Chen, Ion Stoica, Kurt Keutzer, Song Han
ICML 2025 (CCF-A, Research track, Full paper)
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HTAP Databases: A Survey
Chao Zhang, Guoliang Li, Jintao Zhang, Xinning Zhang, Jianhua Feng
TKDE (CCF-A, Journal)
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Awards
May. 2023: Siebel Scholars Scholarship (Tsinghua’s highest master’s award)
Dec. 2020: President’s Scholarship of Xidian University (Top 0.02%)
Dec. 2020: National Scholarship
Dec. 2019: National Scholarship