About Me

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I am currently a PhD student at Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, advised by Prof. Guoliang Fan. I obtained my B.Eng. (2022) at Wuhan University, advised by Prof. Wen Yang. Currently, I am jointly trained at Zhongguancun Academy in Beijing under the supervision of Prof. Chao Yu, and collaborating with Infinigence AI on developing and maintaining the RLinf framework.

Previously I was a research intern at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), where I worked on multi-agent reinforcement learning under the guidance of mentor Xianliang Yang and Lei Song.

I am now a research intern with the Qwen-VL team at Alibaba, where I work on general-purpose embodied reward models under the guidance of Jian Guan and Shuai Bai.

My current research interests include embodied intelligence, multi-agent reinforcement learning, and LLM for RL.

Research Focus

Embodied Intelligence

Building intelligent agents that interact with physical environments through perception, reasoning, and action.

Primary Focus

LLM for RL

Leveraging large language models to enhance reinforcement learning through semantic understanding, reasoning, and decision-making.

Active Research

Multi-Agent RL

Designing efficient algorithms for cooperative and competitive multi-agent reinforcement learning scenarios.

Core Expertise

Publications

2026
Yixian Zhang, Huanming Zhang, Feng Gao, Xiao Li, Zhihao Liu, Chunyang Zhu, Jiaxing Qiu, Yuchen Yan, Jiyuan Liu, Wenhao Tang, Zhengru Fang, Yi Nie, Changxu Wei, Yu Wang, Wenbo Ding, Chao Yu
arXiv preprint
Zhihao Liu, Qiuyi Gu, Yitao Wang, Dongming Qiao, Yixian Zhang, Shuaihang Chen, Liangzhi Shi, Tianxing Zhou, Zefang Huang, Kang Chen, Zhen Guo, Quanlu Zhang, Jincheng Yu, Xiaodan Liang, Guoliang Fan, Yu Wang, Feng Gao, Xinlei Chen, Chao Yu
arXiv preprint
Zhiwei Xu, Miduo Cui, Dapeng Li, Zhihao Liu, Haifeng Zhang, Hangyu Mao, Guoliang Fan, Bin Zhang
ICLR 2026
2025
Chao Yu, Yuanqing Wang, Zhen Guo, Hao Lin, Si Xu, Hongzhi Zang, Quanlu Zhang, Yongji Wu, Chunyang Zhu, Junhao Hu, et al.
OSDI 2026
Kang Chen, Zhihao Liu*, Tonghe Zhang, Zhen Guo, Si Xu, Hao Lin, Hongzhi Zang, Xiang Li, Quanlu Zhang, Zhaofei Yu, et al.
arXiv preprint · * Equal contribution
Hongzhi Zang, Mingjie Wei, Si Xu, Yongji Wu, Zhen Guo, Yuanqing Wang, Hao Lin, Liangzhi Shi, Yuqing Xie, Zhexuan Xu, Zhihao Liu, et al.
RSS 2026
2024
2023
2021

Experience

Qwen
Alibaba
Research Intern · Qwen-VL Team · Jul 2026 – Present
RLinf
Infinigence AI
Research Intern · RLinf Team · Jun 2025 – Jun 2026
Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA)
Research Intern · Machine Learning Group · Feb 2023 – Jun 2024