Publications (International Conferences / Preprints)

• Kevin Xu and Issei Sato, “A Formal Comparison Between Chain of Thought and Latent Thought” (preprint) 📄 🛠️ 

• Kevin Xu and Issei Sato, “On Expressive Power of Looped Transformers: Theoretical Analysis and Enhancement via Timestep Encoding” (ICML 2025) 📄 🛠️

Work Experiences

• Part-time Research Engineer at Preferred Networks. Japan, Feb. 2024 - Present

Education 

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, The University of Tokyo, Apr. 2024 – Present

• M.S., The University of Tokyo, Apr. 2022 – Mar. 2024 

• B.S., The University of Tokyo, Apr. 2018 – Mar. 2022