publications

papers I led or co-led (first, co-first, or corresponding author), in reverse chronological order.

Full list in Google Scholar.

2026

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    NatureBench: Can Coding Agents Match the Published SOTA of Nature-Family Papers?
    Yuru Wang, Lejun Cheng, Yuxin Zuo, +11 more authors, Ning Ding, Bowen Zhou, and Kaiyan Zhang
    Preprint, 2026
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    EnterpriseClawBench: Benchmarking Agents from Real Workplace Sessions
    Jincheng Zhong, Weizhi Wang, Che Jiang, +4 more authors, and Kaiyan Zhang
    Preprint, 2026
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    Self-Improving Agents in the Era of Experience: A Survey of Self- to Meta-Evolution
    Che Jiang, Jincheng Zhong, Yu Fu, +21 more authors, Ning DingKaiyan Zhang, and Bowen Zhou
    Preprint, 2026
  4. TIR-Agent: Training an Explorative and Efficient Agent for Image Restoration
    Yisheng Zhang, Guoli Jia, Haote Hu, +9 more authors, Kaiyan Zhang, and Bowen Zhou
    European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026
  5. MARTI-MARS2: Scaling Multi-Agent Self-Search via Reinforcement Learning for Code Generation
    Shijie Wang*, Pengfei Li*, Yikun Fu*, Kaifeng Liu, Fangyuan Li, Yang Liu, +10 more authors, Bowen ZhouKaiyan Zhang, and Biqing Qi
    Preprint, 2026
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    MARTI: A Framework for Multi-Agent LLM Systems Reinforced Training and Inference
    Kaiyan Zhang*†, Runze Liu*, Xuekai Zhu*, Kai Tian*, Sihang Zeng*, Guoli Jia*, Yuchen Fan*, Xingtai Lv*, Yuxin Zuo*, Che Jiang*, and 16 more authors
    The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2026

2025

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    A Survey of Reinforcement Learning for Large Reasoning Models
    Kaiyan Zhang*†, Yuxin Zuo*†, Bingxiang He*, Youbang Sun*, Runze Liu*, Che Jiang*, Yuchen Fan*, Kai Tian*, Guoli Jia*, Pengfei Li*, and 29 more authors
    Preprint, 2025
  2. ReviewRL: Towards Automated Scientific Review with RL
    Sihang Zeng*, Kai Tian*Kaiyan Zhang*, Junqi Gao, Runze Liu, Sa Yang, Jingxuan Li, Xinwei Long, Jiaheng Ma, Biqing Qi, and 1 more author
    The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025
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    SSRL: Self-Search Reinforcement Learning
    Yuchen Fan*Kaiyan Zhang*†, Heng Zhou*, Yuxin Zuo, Yanxu Chen, Yu Fu, Xinwei Long, Xuekai Zhu, Che Jiang, Yuchen Zhang, and 8 more authors
    Preprint, 2025
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    TTRL: Test-Time Reinforcement Learning
    Yuxin Zuo*Kaiyan Zhang*†, Shang Qu, Li Sheng, Xuekai Zhu, Biqing Qi, Youbang Sun, Ganqu Cui, Ning Ding, and Bowen Zhou
    The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025
  5. OpenPRM: Building Open-domain Process-based Reward Models with Preference Trees
    Kaiyan Zhang, Jiayuan Zhang, Haoxin Li, Xuekai Zhu, Ermo Hua, Xingtai Lv, Ning Ding, Biqing Qi, and Bowen Zhou
    The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025
  6. Fast and Slow Generating: An Empirical Study on Large and Small Language Models Collaborative Decoding
    Kaiyan Zhang*, Jianyu Wang*, Ning Ding, Biqing Qi, Ermo Hua, Xingtai Lv, and Bowen Zhou
    ICML 2025 Workshop on MAS, 2025

2024

  1. Towards Building Specialized Generalist AI with System 1 and System 2 Fusion
    Kaiyan Zhang*, Biqing Qi*, and Bowen Zhou
    Preprint, 2024
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    Ultramedical: Building specialized generalists in biomedicine
    Kaiyan Zhang, Sihang Zeng, Ermo Hua, Ning Ding, Zhang-Ren Chen, Zhiyuan Ma, Haoxin Li, Ganqu Cui, Biqing Qi, Xuekai Zhu, and 1 more author
    The Thirty-eight Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track, 2024
  3. CoGenesis: A Framework Collaborating Large and Small Language Models for Secure Context-Aware Instruction Following
    Kaiyan Zhang, Jianyu Wang, Ermo Hua, Biqing Qi, Ning Ding, and Bowen Zhou
    Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024
  4. Large Language Models as Biomedical Hypothesis Generators: A Comprehensive Evaluation
    Biqing Qi*Kaiyan Zhang*, Kai Tian, Haoxiang Li, Zhang-Ren Chen, Sihang Zeng, Ermo Hua, Hu Jinfang, and Bowen Zhou
    First Conference on Language Modeling, 2024

2023

  1. CRaSh: Clustering, Removing, and Sharing Enhance Fine-tuning without Full Large Language Model
    Kaiyan Zhang, Ning Ding, Biqing Qi, Xuekai Zhu, Xinwei Long, and Bowen Zhou
    Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023

2021

  1. SCIENTIA
    A survey of multi-party dialogue research based on deep learning
    Kaiyan Zhang, Wei-Nan Zhang, and Ting Liu
    SCIENTIA SINICA Informationis, 2021