4 sources
Useful because his work connects the main RWKV sequence-model line with the RWKV-inspired SpikeGPT branch, making the page more informative than a single coauthor record.
Researcher Profile
Editor reviewedRui-Jie Zhu
RWKV and efficient sequence modeling
PhD student at the University of California, Santa Cruz working on efficient language models and spiking neural networks
Probably the strongest page in this batch because he spans the original RWKV paper, Eagle/Finch-adjacent work, and later efficient-language-model papers like SpikeGPT and Gated Slot Attention instead of ending at a single coauthor credit.
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University of California, Santa Cruz
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March 18, 2026
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RWKV and Eagle/Finch sequence-model work
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SpikeGPT
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Efficient language modeling and spiking neural networks
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RWKV and efficient sequence modeling
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RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
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RWKV (project)
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