Zhejian Peng

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“Extend the light of consciousness to the stars.” — Elon Musk

Writing on ranking, recommendation, and coding RL. At xAI I work on the Phoenix ranking model and Grok Coding RL.

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2025 · SpaceXAI / xAI

Phoenix ranking. Grok Coding RL.

2023 · Snap

Tech lead, product ads. Speaker at Ai4.

2021 · TikTok

Video rec. Led comment ranking for a team of six.

2019 · Walmart

Analyst → Senior DS. Patented fresh-inventory forecasting.

Pre-Norm vs. Post-Norm: The Identity Path That Stabilizes LLMs

Why normalization placement changes gradient flow — with a runnable JAX stress test

Kimi K3: An In-Depth Look at KDA

Kimi Delta Attention across the sequence, Attention Residuals across depth

WIP-Rec System

An syllabus

Stanford - CS224U, Natural Language Understanding

Spring 2020

Stanford - CS224n, NLP with Deep learning

Winter 2019

Python for Absolute Newbies

Python installation, pip, and some basic functionality

Research / Project

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