EvoPolicyGym
A benchmark infrastructure for evaluating whether coding agents can improve executable policies through budget-limited environment feedback.
Ph.D. Student at USTC
Zhilin Wang
I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), advised by Prof. Yu Cheng (CUHK).
My research focuses on Agents, Language Models, and AI for Music, with an emphasis on reasoning, adaptation, and intelligent tools for creative work.
Updates
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EvoPolicyGym was released on arXiv.
Publications
- Agents
- Language Models
- Music
Selected Publications
7 selected
Agents
1 paper
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arXiv 2026
EvoPolicyGym: Evaluating Autonomous Policy Evolution in Interactive Environments
Zhilin Wang, Han Song, Runzhe Zhan, Jusen Du, Jiacheng Chen, Tianle Li, Qingyu Yin, Yulun Wu, Zhennan Shen, Tong Zhu, et al.
Language Models
4 papers
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COLM 2026
New Skills or Sharper Primitives? A Probabilistic Perspective on the Emergence of Reasoning in RLVR
Zhilin Wang, Yafu Li, Shunkai Zhang, Zhi Wang, Haoran Zhang, Xiaoye Qu, Yu Cheng.
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AI4Math @ ICML 2026
Achieving gold-medal-level olympiad reasoning via simple and unified scaling
Yafu Li, Runzhe Zhan, Haoran Zhang, Shunkai Zhang, Yizhuo Li, Zhilin Wang, Jiacheng Chen, Futing Wang, Xuyang Hu, Yuchen Fan, et al.
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ACL 2025
Unveiling Attractor Cycles in Large Language Models: A Dynamical Systems View of Successive Paraphrasing
Zhilin Wang, Yafu Li, Jianhao Yan, Yu Cheng, Yue Zhang.
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ACL 2024 · Findings
Spotting AI's Touch: Identifying LLM-Paraphrased Spans in Text
Yafu Li*, Zhilin Wang*, Leyang Cui, Wei Bi, Shuming Shi, Yue Zhang. * Equal contribution.
Music
2 papers
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ISMIR 2026
SymphonyGen: 3D Hierarchical Orchestral Generation with Controllable Harmony Skeleton
Xuzheng He, Nan Nan, Zhilin Wang, Ziyue Kang, Zhuoru Mo, Ao Li, Yu Pan, Xiaobing Li, Feng Yu, Xiaohong Guan.
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arXiv 2025
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.
More Publications 11 papers
Agents
1 paper
2026
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arXiv
π-Bench: Evaluating Proactive Personal Assistant Agents in Long-Horizon Workflows
Haoran Zhang*, Luxin Xu*, Zhilin Wang*, Runquan Gui, Shunkai Zhang, Haodi Lei, Zihao He, Bingsu He, Chicheng Qin, Tong Zhu, et al. * Equal contribution.
Language Models
10 papers
2026
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ICML
Reasoning over Boundaries: Enhancing Specification Alignment via Test-time Deliberation
Haoran Zhang, Yafu Li, Xuyang Hu, Dongrui Liu, Zhilin Wang, Bo Li, Yu Cheng.
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ICML Oral
Characterizing, Evaluating, and Optimizing Complex Reasoning
Haoran Zhang, Yafu Li, Zhi Wang, Zhilin Wang, Shunkai Zhang, Xiaoye Qu, Yu Cheng.
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ACL Findings
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.
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ICML
Evaluating Parameter Efficient Methods for RLVR
Qingyu Yin, Yulun Wu, Zhennan Shen, Sunbowen Li, Zhilin Wang, Yanshu Li, Chak Tou Leong, Jiale Kang, Jinjin Gu.
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arXiv
On the Geometry of On-Policy Distillation
Zhennan Shen, Yanshu Li, Qingyu Yin, Chak Tou Leong, Zhilin Wang, Yanxu Chen, Rongduo Han, Sunbowen Lee, Yi R. Fung.
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arXiv
ComBench: A Benchmark for Rigorous Proof Reasoning and Constructive Realization in Olympiad-Level Combinatorics
Shunkai Zhang, Haoran Zhang, Yun Luo, Qianjia Cheng, Haodi Lei, Yizhuo Li, Runzhe Zhan, Zhilin Wang, Bangjie Xu, Yucheng Su, et al.
2025
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ACL
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.
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ACL Findings
SEE: Continual Fine-tuning with Sequential Ensemble of Experts
Zhilin Wang, Yafu Li, Xiaoye Qu, Yu Cheng.
2024
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ACL
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.
2023
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ACL
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.
Projects
Research prototypes across agents, language models, and music intelligence.
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Echos
A headless, API-first DAW engine that exposes end-to-end music production workflows to AI agents, spanning composition, sound design, mixing, and mastering.
Experience
Research Experience
MiniMax
Intern
Research on agent context compaction and cross-session memory.
Shanghai AI Laboratory
Research Intern · Shanghai, China
Conducting research on large language models and musical reasoning.
Westlake University (WestlakeNLP)
Visiting Student · Hangzhou, China
Mentored by Prof. Yue Zhang. Focused on NLP research.
Education
University of Science and Technology of China
Ph.D. Student
Researching agents, language models, and AI for music.
Jilin University
Undergraduate Student
Major in Computer Science.
Awards
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Nanrui Jibao Scholarship
Scholarship
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Huawei ICT Competition
Global Grand Prize
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Computer Games Competition
First Prize
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CCF BDCI Contest
Third Prize
Academic Service
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Conference Reviewer
ACL · EMNLP · NAACL · NIPS · ICML · ICLR, etc.
Beyond Research
Guitar, composition, and live performance.
