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Hannah Wang

A research paper co-authored by Liang Wenfeng, founder of Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek, was honoured with the best paper award at the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) conference in Vienna, Austria, widely recognised as the premier global conference for AI researchers.
The paper, titled “Native Sparse Attention: Hardware-Aligned and Natively Trainable Sparse Attention,” was published on February 27, with Liang listed as one of 15 authors. The “native sparse attention” mechanism is a core improvement that underpins the high efficiency and low-cost performance of DeepSeek’s AI models.
The paper’s win comes as Chinese scientists and researchers are outperforming US peers in basic research in the field of computational linguistics and natural language processing.
At this year’s ACL conference, more than half of the first-named authors on accepted papers originated from China, up from less than 30 per cent last year. The US ranked second, with 14 per cent of first-named authors, according to ACL data.
Among the four best papers recognised by ACL, two author teams were from China. They included Liang’s DeepSeek team and Yang Yaodong’s team from Peking University.

Yang, an assistant professor at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and chief scientist of the Peking University-PsiBot Joint Laboratory, led research that explored a possible mechanism explaining the fragility of alignment in language models, attributed to the elasticity of language models.
Liang, 40, has maintained a low profile and it was not clear if he personally attended the Vienna conference. In May, he co-authored another research paper that, for the first time, detailed how DeepSeek built one of the world’s most powerful open-source AI systems at a significantly lower cost than its competitors.
Amid its global attention, DeepSeek has focused its efforts on research and was not rushing into fundraising or new commercial ventures, the Post reported in February.
However, DeepSeek has seen use of its models in China drop to 80 per cent from 99 per cent in June, according to Chinese cloud computing platform PPIO, reflecting the intense competition in the industry.


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More than half of the first-named authors on accepted papers originated from China, up from less than 30 per cent last year


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DeepSeek founder shares best paper award at top global AI research conference

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}More than half of the first-named authors on accepted papers originated from China, up from less than 30 per cent last year

More than half of the first-named authors on accepted papers originated from China, up from less than 30 per cent last year