Yao Tang
Scholar

Yao Tang

Google Scholar ID: Xt4j-eAAAAAJ
University of Pennsylvania
Reinforcement LearningLanguage Models
Citations & Impact
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Citations
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H-index
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i10-index
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Publications
4
 
Co-authors
6
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • 1. QLASS: Boosting Language Agent Inference via Q-Guided Stepwise Search - ICML 2025
  • 2. Learning Versatile Skills with Curriculum Masking - NeurIPS 2024
Research Experience
  • Research experiences mainly lie in the intersection of reinforcement learning and large language models. Projects include: Unsupervised Pre-training for Reinforcement Learning, Language Agent Self-improvement, Conditional Generative Modeling for Decision Making.
Education
  • Received a bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). Worked at Microsoft Research Asia in 2025, mentored by Dr. Li Dong. Spent a summer at UCLA NLP in 2024, advised by Prof. Kai-Wei Chang and collaborated with Johnson Lin.
Background
  • Research Interests: Agentic reasoning, reinforcement learning; Professional Field: Artificial Intelligence; Brief Introduction: A first-year CIS PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania, advised by Prof. Jiatao Gu.
Miscellany
  • Personal Interests: Not provided