Real-time intelligence · Embodied agents · Interactive AI

Xiaoxin Shi 石枭昕

Research interests: post-training and inference infrastructure; on-device embodied real-time agents, with faster structured decisions, scalable embodied agents, and on-device AI-native applications.

Ph.D. student at Shanghai Innovation Institute / Shanghai Jiao Tong University, advised by Prof. Zengfeng Huang.

Research

My work spans LLM post-training, inference systems, and on-device products. The recurring question is: when an intelligent model must perceive state, decide, and affect an interface or physical system within tens of milliseconds, how should the model, action space, and execution stack be designed together?

Selected projects

Research, systems, and product

ICML 2026 · First author

SimpleTool / RealtimeTool

Parallel Decoding for Real-Time LLM Function Calling

After one shared prefill, function names and arguments are generated concurrently across parallel heads, removing the serial structured-decision bottleneck in real-time agents. It delivers 3–6× typical end-to-end speedup and up to 9.6×, with RT-Qwen3-4B reaching 61.2 ms P50 on an RTX 4090.

SimpleTool multi-head parallel function-calling architecture
Shared prefix / KV with parallel decoding of function and arguments.

Ongoing research · Embodied Agent-as-Policy

SimpleToolVLA

Typed tool calls as a scalable embodied action space

SimpleToolVLA treats tool calling as the high-level interface between an LLM / VLM and controllers, VLA skills, or world-action models. Dynamic schemas define typed, composable, and verifiable semantic actions. The current work tests two falsifiable hypotheses: whether simulation and synthetic tool trajectories scale transferable policies, and whether the resulting edge loop can reliably meet physical deadlines.

Multimodal contexttool(args)Embodiment adapterPhysical loop

Startup · AI-OC-native interactive content

SimpleLove

Personal OC for the Interactive Internet

SimpleLove explores persistent AI-OC identity, cross-experience memory, and prompt-to-interactive-content. One side is a content experience shaped by an OC, memory, and preference; the other is a creation platform where agents help modify, test, and remix runnable experiences. The long-term goal is for the same OC to grow from a character inside content into a personal agent on the user's devices.
In short: a “TikTok” for OC mini-apps, driven by coding agents and AIGC.

SimpleLove AI Coding Studio product interface
Prompt-to-content, AI remix, and runnable interactive experiences.

Experience & education

miHoYoIntern

Shanghai Innovation Institute / Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityPh.D. student · post-training and infra · Advisor: Prof. Zengfeng Huang

Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityB.S. in Chemistry · Computational chemistry

Open invitation

Build the next generation of interactive intelligence with us

SimpleLove is looking for people who share a long-term view of on-device intelligence, AI-native interactive content, and character intelligence. I welcome conversations with investors, founders, researchers, engineers, and creators about funding, collaboration, or joining the team.