🤗 Hello! I am Mingkun Lei. Nice to meet you!
👨💻 I am a research assistant at Westlake University, supervised by Professor Chi Zhang.
💻 Prior to this, I worked as an intern at SenseTime with Chunze Lin and Quan Wang.
📖 I obtained my bachelor degree at Computer Science School, BIT.
📝 My research focuses on generative AI…
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Introduction Modern AI research is rarely done locally. Whether you are fine-tuning LLMs or training diffusion models, you will almost always work on remote servers, and often on HPC (High Performance Computing) clusters. A single server feels like a big computer without a GUI. But once you step into a Slurm cluster, the logic changes completely. Many new researchers get lost here, spending more time on setup and queue errors than on research. ...
A phrase circulated around the 2026 New Year, “2026 will be the summer of a century.” It resonated with me. I grew up in Changsha and spent my undergraduate years in Beijing. On August 19, 2024, I wrapped up an internship in Beijing and moved to Hangzhou. In 2025, I lived in Hangzhou for a full year. Looking back, Hangzhou feels like an unlikely blend of Changsha’s temperament and Beijing’s pace of development. Even more coincidentally, its climate also seems like an average of the two. It is neither persistently humid like Changsha nor aggressively dry like Beijing. It does rain, but rarely in a way that makes your mood start to mildew. ...