Bowen Yang

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Member of Technical Staff at Cohere

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Overview

Bowen Yang is a Member of Technical Staff on Coheres Foundation team, focusing on pushing the capabilities of large language models. A graduate of Columbia University and the University of Waterloo, his recent work includes co-authoring papers on hybrid attention strategies and KV cache efficiency, which were accepted at NeurIPS 2024 and 2025.

There is no publicly available information regarding Bowens personal life or hobbies outside of his professional work in AI research and development. His public profile and publications are centered on his technical contributions to the field of large language models.

He was a featured speaker at NVIDIA GTC, where he co-presented a talk on the challenges and innovations in scaling transformer models for long-context modeling.

Personality Overview

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Curious

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Topics They Care About

Long-Context LLMs
He co-authored the NeurIPS 2025 paper "Rope to Nope and Back Again" and spoke at NVIDIA GTC on scaling transformers to handle increasingly long contexts.
LLM Efficiency
Co-authored the NeurIPS 2024 paper "SnapKV, " which introduces a method to reduce KV cache size, significantly improving memory and time efficiency for LLMs.
Model Architecture
His work and talks frequently cover innovations in model architecture, framework design, and low-level optimizations to advance the capabilities of large language models.

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Work History

10-2023
Member of Technical Staff at Cohere
1-2022 - 10-2023
Applied Scientist | Member of Technical Staff at Cerebras Systems
5-2021 - 9-2021
MLE Intern at Wish
9-2019 - 1-2020
Recommendation System Intern at Wish
9-2018 - 12-2018
Mobile Engineer Intern at Wish

Education

2020 - 2021
Master's degree from Columbia University
2016 - 2020
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc from University of Waterloo

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