Joseph An

I'm a BS/MS student in the Allen School at the University of Washington working on LLM reasoning and quantization research. Currently, I'm building agent infrastructure for clinical trials at Astraea.

• Encode Once, Decode Never: Reusing Audio LM Internals for Efficient Temporal Localization ↗
  Joseph An, Phillip Keung, Jiaqi Wang, Orevaoghene Ahia, Noah A. Smith
  COLM 2026
• STE Is Not a Heuristic: A Variational Justification in Quantization-Aware Training
  Phillip Keung, Joseph An, Noah A. Smith
  Under review at ICLR

• latent chain-of-thought ↗ llm reasoning in latent space
• tpu-inference ↗ assorted patches to vllm's tpu backend
• choco-os ↗ C operating system kernel for retro games
• soundcloud-desktop ↗ native soundcloud client for macos