Education

  • UC Berkeley — M.S. EECS, GPA 4.0/4.0; Advisor: Kurt Keutzer
  • UC Berkeley — Honors B.S. EECS; Honors B.A. Mathematics; Phi Beta Kappa

Research Interests

Efficient Machine Learning; Large-scale ML Systems; Optimization Models; Natural Language Processing.

Publications

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Residual Context Diffusion: Unleashing the Potential of Diffusion LLMs via Residual Denoising
Yuezhou Hu*, Harman Singh*, Monishwaran Maheswaran*, Haocheng Xi, Coleman Hooper, Jintao Zhang, Aditya Tomar, Michael W. Mahoney, Sewon Min, Mehrdad Farajtabar, Kurt Keutzer, Amir Gholami†, Chenfeng Xu†
Preprint 2026
project page arXiv code models
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Arbitrage: Efficient Reasoning via Advantage-Aware Speculation
Monishwaran Maheswaran*, Rishabh Tiwari*, Yuezhou Hu*, Kerem Dilmen, Coleman Hooper, Haocheng Xi, Nicholas Lee, Mehrdad Farajtabar, Michael W. Mahoney, Kurt Keutzer, Amir Gholami
Preprint 2025
project page arXiv code
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ETS: Efficient Tree Search for Inference-Time Scaling
Coleman Hooper, Sehoon Kim, Suhong Moon, Kerem Dilmen, Monishwaran Maheswaran, Nicholas Lee, Michael W. Mahoney, Sophia Shao, Kurt Keutzer, Amir Gholami
Preprint 2025
arXiv
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Squeezed Attention: Accelerating Long-Context LLM Inference
Coleman Hooper*, Sehoon Kim*, Hiva Mohammadzadeh, Monishwaran Maheswaran, June Paik, Michael W. Mahoney, Kurt Keutzer, Amir Gholami
Main Track @ ACL 2025
arXiv code
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Summation Identities
Monishwaran Maheswaran, Oliver Knill
Harvard University Mathematics Department, 2017
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Undergraduate Thesis

Scaling Laws and Training Dynamics in Extremely Wide Neural Networks — UC Berkeley. Empirical and theoretical analysis of loss landscapes, minima distribution, and weight evolution in wide networks. Supervisors: Prof. Federico Pasqualotto (Mathematics).

Awards

  • 2023 — Phi Beta Kappa
    For academic excellence in a broad array of undergraduate courses in the liberal arts and sciences. Top 1/10th of UC Berkeley graduates campus wide in terms of GPA.
  • 2022 — Texas Instruments–UC Berkeley Class Design Contest Award
    For efficient design of new high performance hardware systems for signal processing, custom manufactured and assembled for an ASIC project funded by EECS Department.
  • 2022 — Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society
    For outstanding performance in Engineering. Top 1/8th of UC Berkeley College of Engineering in terms of GPA.
  • 2021 — IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu National Electrical Engineering Honor Society (HKN)
    For outstanding performance in EECS. Top 1/4th of UC Berkeley EECS students in terms of GPA.
  • 2019 — INK Fellowship
    INK identifies and nurtures 20 young achievers worldwide who are passionate to redefine the fields they are in.

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