About Me
Hi! I am a PhD student at the University of Washington advised by Prof. Ali Farhadi. I also collaborate with Prof. Tim Dettmers. I am currently a Student Researcher at Google Deepmind, where I work on AI safety under Been Kim. My research is supported by the PD Soros and NSF GRFP Fellowships.
Previously, I worked on coding agents at Ai2. I have also had the privilege of working with Prof. Ranjay Krishna, Aditya Kusupati, and Matt Wallingford.
Some of my current interests include:
- Agents for code and science
- Model architectures
- AI policy
Publications
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OpenThoughts-Agent: Data Recipes for Agentic Models
Negin Raoof, Richard Zhuang, …, Ethan Shen, …, Jenia Jitsev, Alex Dimakis, Benjamin Feuer, Ludwig Schmidt
Preprint
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SERA: Soft-Verified Efficient Repository Agents
Ethan Shen, Daniel Tormoen, Saurabh Shah, Ali Farhadi, Tim Dettmers
ICML 2026
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Perception Tokens Enhance Visual Reasoning in Multimodal Language Models
Mahtab Bigverdi, Zelun Luo, Cheng‑Yu Hsieh, Ethan Shen, Dongping Chen, Linda Shapiro, Ranjay Krishna
CVPR 2025
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Superposed Decoding: Multiple Generations from a Single Autoregressive Inference Pass
Ethan Shen, Alan Fan, Sarah M Pratt, Jae Sung Park, Matthew Wallingford, Sham M. Kakade, Ari Holtzman, Ranjay Krishna, Ali Farhadi, Aditya Kusupati
NeurIPS 2024
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Are “Hierarchical” Visual Representations Hierarchical?
Ethan Shen, Ali Farhadi, Aditya Kusupati
NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations
pdf code
Writing for Fun
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Gregory of Tours and Einhard: Clovis and Charlemagne
In this essay, I analyze the credibility of Einhard and Gregory of Tours as sources on Clovis and Charlemagne, two of the most influential figures in the Early Middle Ages.
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The Detroit Riots of 1967
I contend that the Detroit Riots of 1967 were primarily caused by the decentralization of Detroit’s automobile industry in the decade prior.
essay