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Yuze Zhao

Yuze Zhao

Fifth-Year PhD Candidate in Computer Science

About Me

I am Yuze Zhao, a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Science and Technology of China. I conduct research on large language models at the State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Intelligence and am a member of the BASE Group. I am advised by Prof. Qi Liu and Asst. Prof. Zhenya Huang.

My research interests include code reasoning, agentic reinforcement learning, human-computer interaction, and trustworthy large language model systems.

Bio

Age
26
Email
yuzezhao[AT]mail.ustc.edu.cn
Address
No. 100 Fuxing Road, Hefei City, Anhui Province
Hobby
Go (6D), Fitness, Reading

News

Recent research, experience, and honor updates.

2026-07
Started as an Applied Algorithm Intern at ByteDance, Doubao, focusing on long-horizon trajectory data pipelines and reinforcement learning.
2026-05
Our paper What Really Improves Mathematical Reasoning: Structured Reasoning Signals Beyond Pure Code was accepted to ICML 2026.
2026-04
Our paper SWE-Mutation: Can LLMs Generate Reliable Test Suites in Software Engineering? was accepted to ACL 2026 Findings.
2026-01-13
Our paper Adaptive Model and Strategy Routing for Cost-Efficient LLM Services was accepted to The ACM Web Conference (WWW 2026).

Education

PhD Candidate in Computer Science from University of Science and Technology of China

Experience

Applied Algorithm Intern at ByteDance, Doubao
July, 2026 ~ Present
Long-horizon trajectory data collection and feedback pipelines, and reinforcement learning training for Doubao.
Research Intern at Ant Group, Ling Team
April, 2025 ~ February, 2026
Data selection and synthesis for pre-trained language models, and SWE-bench optimization for Ling.
Research Intern at National Education Examinations Authority
September, 2023 ~ February, 2024
An automated question generation system for teacher feedback alignment.
Server Management Team, Team Leader at State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Intelligence
June, 2022 ~ Present
Large-scale cluster maintenance, server hardware installation, and personnel management.

Publications

Selected papers are listed first, followed by other accepted papers and preprints.

Selected Publications

Yuze Zhao, Junpeng Fang, Lu Yu, Zhenya Huang, Kai Zhang, Qing Cui, Qi Liu, Jun Zhou, Enhong Chen

The Forty-third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026).

PaperarXiv
@inproceedings{zhao2026what,
  title={What Really Improves Mathematical Reasoning: Structured Reasoning Signals Beyond Pure Code},
  author={Zhao, Yuze and Fang, Junpeng and Yu, Lu and Huang, Zhenya and Zhang, Kai and Cui, Qing and Liu, Qi and Zhou, Jun and Chen, Enhong},
  booktitle={Forty-third International Conference on Machine Learning},
  year={2026},
  url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=7EK1E8wxVO}
}

Yuze Zhao, Tianyun Ji, Wenjun Feng, Zhenya Huang, Qi Liu, Zhiding Liu, Yixiao Ma, Kai Zhang, Enhong Chen

The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025), Singapore, 2025.

Introduces code reasoning as a distinct reasoning setting and proposes the RHDA pipeline to iteratively decompose, verify, and amend hypotheses during program reasoning.

PaperCode
@inproceedings{zhao2025unveiling,
  title={Unveiling the Magic of Code Reasoning through Hypothesis Decomposition and Amendment},
  author={Zhao, Yuze and Ji, Tianyun and Feng, Wenjun and Huang, Zhenya and Liu, Qi and Liu, Zhiding and Ma, Yixiao and Zhang, Kai and Chen, Enhong},
  booktitle={The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations},
  year={2025},
  url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=kN25ggeq1J}
}

Yuze Zhao, Zhenya Huang, Yixiao Ma, Rui Li, Kai Zhang, Hao Jiang, Qi Liu, Linbo Zhu, Yu Su

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024, pages 16415-16429, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.

PaperCode
@inproceedings{zhao2024repair,
  title={RePair: Automated Program Repair with Process-based Feedback},
  author={Zhao, Yuze and Huang, Zhenya and Ma, Yixiao and Li, Rui and Zhang, Kai and Jiang, Hao and Liu, Qi and Zhu, Linbo and Su, Yu},
  booktitle={Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024},
  pages={16415--16429},
  year={2024},
  url={https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.973/}
}

Yuze Zhao, Zhenya Huang, Kai Zhang, Weibo Gao, Qi Liu, Xukai Liu, Fangzhou Yao, Enhong Chen

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 36(10): 19240-19254, 2025.

Public Version
@article{zhao2025semantic,
  title={Semantic-Aligned Code Summarization: Bridging the Gap Between Code and Natural Language Through Data Flow Analysis},
  author={Zhao, Yuze and Huang, Zhenya and Zhang, Kai and Gao, Weibo and Liu, Qi and Liu, Xukai and Yao, Fangzhou and Chen, Enhong},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems},
  volume={36},
  number={10},
  pages={19240--19254},
  year={2025}
}

Yuxuan Sun, Yuze Zhao, Yufeng Wang, Yao Du, Zhiyuan Ma, Jinbo Wang, Mengdi Zhang, Kai Zhang, Zhenya Huang

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026, pages 39651-39674, San Diego, California, United States.

PaperCode
@inproceedings{sun-etal-2026-swe,
  title={SWE-Mutation: Can LLMs Generate Reliable Test Suites in Software Engineering?},
  author={Sun, Yuxuan and Zhao, Yuze and Wang, Yufeng and Du, Yao and Ma, Zhiyuan and Wang, Jinbo and Zhang, Mengdi and Zhang, Kai and Huang, Zhenya},
  booktitle={Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026},
  pages={39651--39674},
  year={2026},
  doi={10.18653/v1/2026.findings-acl.1976},
  url={https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1976/}
}

Hao Jiang, Qi Liu, Rui Li, Yuze Zhao, Yixiao Ma, Shengyu Ye, Junyu Lu, Yu Su

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 39(23): 24276-24284, 2025.

Public Version
@inproceedings{jiang2025verse,
  title={VERSE: Verification-based Self-Play for Code Instructions},
  author={Jiang, Hao and Liu, Qi and Li, Rui and Zhao, Yuze and Ma, Yixiao and Ye, Shengyu and Lu, Junyu and Su, Yu},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  volume={39},
  number={23},
  pages={24276--24284},
  year={2025}
}

Weibo Gao, Qi Liu, Rui Li, Yuze Zhao, Hao Wang, Linan Yue, Fangzhou Yao, Zheng Zhang

Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pages 354-365, 2025.

Public Version
@inproceedings{gao2025denoising,
  title={Denoising Programming Knowledge Tracing with a Code Graph-based Tuning Adaptor},
  author={Gao, Weibo and Liu, Qi and Li, Rui and Zhao, Yuze and Wang, Hao and Yue, Linan and Yao, Fangzhou and Zhang, Zheng},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining},
  pages={354--365},
  year={2025}
}

Rui Li, Liyang He, Qi Liu, Yuze Zhao, Zheng Zhang, Zhenya Huang, Yu Su, Shijin Wang

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 38(8): 8679-8687, 2024.

Public Version
@inproceedings{li2024consider,
  title={CONSIDER: Commonalities and Specialties Driven Multilingual Code Retrieval Framework},
  author={Li, Rui and He, Liyang and Liu, Qi and Zhao, Yuze and Zhang, Zheng and Huang, Zhenya and Su, Yu and Wang, Shijin},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  volume={38},
  number={8},
  pages={8679--8687},
  year={2024}
}
Other Accepted Papers and Preprints

Zhihong Pan, Kai Zhang, Yuze Zhao, Yupeng Han

Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, pages 5568-5578, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

PaperarXivCode
@inproceedings{pan2026adaptive,
  title={Adaptive Model and Strategy Routing for Cost-Efficient LLM Services},
  author={Pan, Zhihong and Zhang, Kai and Zhao, Yuze and Han, Yupeng},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026},
  pages={5568--5578},
  year={2026},
  publisher={ACM},
  doi={10.1145/3774904.3792556}
}

Zhiding Liu, Jiqian Yang, Qingyang Mao, Yuze Zhao, Mingyue Cheng, Zhi Li, Qi Liu, Enhong Chen

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 48(10): 11808-11821, 2026.

PaperarXiv
@article{liu2026disents,
  title={DisenTS: Disentangled Channel Evolving Pattern Modeling for Multivariate Time Series Forecasting},
  author={Liu, Zhiding and Yang, Jiqian and Mao, Qingyang and Zhao, Yuze and Cheng, Mingyue and Li, Zhi and Liu, Qi and Chen, Enhong},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},
  volume={48},
  number={10},
  pages={11808--11821},
  year={2026},
  doi={10.1109/TPAMI.2026.3697127}
}

Yixiao Ma, Shulan Ruan, Zijie Song, Xin Zhang, Yuze Zhao, Zhenya Huang, Enhong Chen

Frontiers of Computer Science, 21(4): 2104704, 2027. Published online in 2026.

Paper
@article{ma2027position,
  title={Position-aware modeling for fine-grained visually-rich long document understanding},
  author={Ma, Yixiao and Ruan, Shulan and Song, Zijie and Zhang, Xin and Zhao, Yuze and Huang, Zhenya and Chen, Enhong},
  journal={Frontiers of Computer Science},
  volume={21},
  number={4},
  pages={2104704},
  year={2027},
  doi={10.1007/s11704-026-51131-x}
}

Honors

Scholarships, awards, and competition results.

2026

National Scholarship

2024

CAAI Outstanding Paper Award

2024

USTC Global Digital Scholarship

2023-2026

First Prize of PhD Scholarship

2022

Kaggle Google AI4Code, Top 2.7% (Silver Medal, Team Leader)

2021-2023

Second Prize of Postgraduate Scholarship

2019

Academic Technology Award

2019

First Prize of Undergraduate Scholarship

2018

Second Prize of China Computer Game Competition

2010

National Second-level Athlete

Contact

yuzezhao[AT]mail.ustc.edu.cn