About Me
Hi! I am a first-year PhD student at the University of Washington advised by Prof. Ali Farhadi. I currently work on coding agents at the Allen Institute of AI. In my free time, I like to study history, practice photography, and swim. My current research interests include:
- Agents for code and science.
- Efficient and novel model architectures.
- Anything interesting!
Publications
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SERA: Soft-Verified Efficient Repository Agents
Ethan Shen, Daniel Tormoen, Saurabh Shah, Ali Farhadi, Tim Dettmers
Preprint 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
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Projects
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Video-Language Models as Out-of-the-Box Reward Functions
CSE 542 Reinforcement Learning Final Project
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Generative Visual Question Answering
CSE 493 Deep Learning Final Project
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Essays
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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.
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