About Me

I am currently a second-year undergraduate student in the School of Data Science and Engineering., East China Normal University, under the supervision of Prof. Xiang Li in the PLANING (graPh mining and LANguage processING) lab.

My recent research interests lie in large language models and their post-training, with a focus on:

• LLM Post-training and Reinforcement Learning OPD, search agents, and rubrics as rewards.
• LLM-based Scientific Application:especially paper assignment.

Beyond research, I am also interested in value investing.

Although I am still early in my research journey, I am eager to explore opportunities in both academia and industry. I also enjoy connecting with people who share similar interests, whether to discuss research ideas, collaboration opportunities, or personal experiences.

★★★ Feel free to reach out to me for academic discussions and collaborations!

🔥 News

• 2026.05 🎊🎊 A recent work MERIT has been released on ArXiv!
• 2026.04 🔥🔥 Our work RATE is accepted by ACL 2026, see you in San Diego!
• 2026.01 🎊🎊 Happy New Year! A recent work RATE has been released on ArXiv!

📑 Publications

• ACL 2026 RATE: Reviewer Profiling and Annotation-free Training for Expertise Ranking in Peer Review Systems,
  Weicong Liu*, Zixuan Yang*, Yibo Zhao, Xiang Li.

📜 Preprints

• MERIT: Matching Expertise via Rubric-Informed Training for Reviewer Assignment,
  Zixuan Yang, Yibo Zhao, Weicong Liu, Xiang Li.

📖 Educations

• 2024.09 - now, Undergraduate student, Data Science and Engineering, East China Normal University

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