Zhilin Wang.
First-year Ph.D. Student at USTC.
Focusing on AI & Music , and Generative AI .
I am a first-year Ph.D. student at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), fortunate to be advised by Prof. Yu Cheng (CUHK).
My research interests center on AI and Music. I am passionate about exploring the intersection of creative arts and artificial intelligence.
Latest News
- Now Building DAW Cursor, an AI assistant for music production.
- Now Working on an Automatic Music Theory Question Generator for RLVR.
Code
Publications
Unveiling Attractor Cycles in Large Language Models: A Dynamical Systems View of Successive Paraphrasing
Zhilin Wang, Yafu Li, Jianhao Yan, Yu Cheng, Yue Zhang.
SEE: Continual Fine-tuning with Sequential Ensemble of Experts
Zhilin Wang, Yafu Li, Xiaoye Qu, Yu Cheng.
Lost in Literalism: How Supervised Training Shapes Translationese in LLMs
Yafu Li, Ronghao Zhang, Zhilin Wang, Huajian Zhang, Leyang Cui, Yongjing Yin, Tong Xiao, Yue Zhang.
From Drafts to Answers: Unlocking LLM Potential via Aggregation Fine-Tuning
Yafu Li*, Zhilin Wang*, Tingchen Fu, Ganqu Cui, Sen Yang, Yu Cheng. (* Equal Contribution)
Reasoning over Boundaries: Enhancing Specification Alignment via Test-time Deliberation
Haoran Zhang, Yafu Li, Xuyang Hu, Dongrui Liu, Zhilin Wang, Bo Li, Yu Cheng.
Spotting AI's Touch: Identifying LLM-Paraphrased Spans in Text
Yafu Li*, Zhilin Wang*, Leyang Cui, Wei Bi, Shuming Shi, Yue Zhang. (* Equal Contribution)
Mage: Machine-generated text detection in the wild
Yafu Li, Qintong Li, Leyang Cui, Wei Bi, Zhilin Wang, Longyue Wang, Linyi Yang, Shuming Shi, Yue Zhang.
Just Like a Human Would, Direct Access to Sarcasm Augmented with Potential Result and Reaction
Changrong Min, Ximing Li, Liang Yang, Zhilin Wang, Bo Xu, Hongfei Lin.
Towards an AI Musician: Synthesizing Sheet Music Problems for Musical Reasoning
Zhilin Wang, Zhe Yang, Yun Luo, Yafu Li, Xiaoye Qu, Ziqian Qiao, Haoran Zhang, Runzhe Zhan, Derek F Wong, Jizhe Zhou, et al.
Experience
Shanghai AI Laboratory
2024.09 - PresentConducting research on Large Language Models and Musical Reasoning.
Westlake University (WestlakeNLP)
2023.07 - 2023.09 & 2024.06 - 2024.08Mentored by Prof. Yue Zhang. Focused on NLP research.
Jilin University
2021.08 - 2025.06Major in Computer Science.
Awards
Huawei ICT Competition
Global Grand Prize
Computer Games Competition
First Prize
CCF BDCI Contest
Third Prize
Nanrui Jibao Scholarship
Scholarship
Service
Conference Reviewer
Life & Music
When not researching, I'm usually playing music.
