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Ying Sheng

SGLang co-author and codeowner; first author of FlexGen, for running large models on a single GPU

  • Officer, LMSYS2
  • Codeowner and maintainer-nomination contact, SGLang project45

Ying Sheng works on systems for serving and running large language models. Sheng is first author of FlexGen, a 2023 system that runs large language models with limited GPU memory by spreading weights and cache across GPU, CPU memory, and disk and compressing them to 4 bits. Sheng is an author of the SGLang paper and a codeowner of the SGLang repository, whose maintenance guide names Sheng and Lianmin Zheng as the people who start nominations for new maintainers. Sheng is also an officer of LMSYS, the nonprofit that hosts SGLang.1764523

Work

  • SGLang

    Listed as an author of the SGLang paper (arXiv 2312.07104) and as a codeowner for core areas of the repository, including the scheduler managers, memory cache, model executor, LoRA, and speculative decoding code.641

    Project page (external site: github.com)

  • FlexGen (FlexLLMGen) (external site: github.com)

    First author of the FlexGen paper on high-throughput inference of large language models with a single GPU. The project repository, now archived, describes running large models on a single GPU for throughput-oriented work.78

Earlier roles

  • Member of technical staff who co-led the inference team (2024–2025), xAI1

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Sources · reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  1. 1.
    Ying Sheng — homepage (marked by its author as outdated) (external site: sites.google.com)

    Ying Sheng · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  2. 2.
    About — LMSYS (external site: lmsys.org)

    LMSYS · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  3. 3.
    sgl-project/sglang README (external site: github.com)

    SGLang project (GitHub repository) · Repository · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  4. 4.
    sgl-project/sglang CODEOWNERS (external site: github.com)

    SGLang project (GitHub repository) · Repository · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  5. 5.
    SGLang Code Maintenance Model (MAINTAINER.md) (external site: github.com)

    SGLang project (GitHub repository) · Documentation · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  6. 6.
    SGLang: Efficient Execution of Structured Language Model Programs (arXiv 2312.07104) (external site: arxiv.org)

    arXiv · Paper · published Dec 12, 2023 · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  7. 7.
    FlexGen: High-Throughput Generative Inference of Large Language Models with a Single GPU (arXiv 2303.06865) (external site: arxiv.org)

    arXiv · Paper · published Mar 13, 2023 · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  8. 8.
    FMInference/FlexLLMGen README (archived repository) (external site: github.com)

    FMInference (GitHub repository) · Repository · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

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