Xuekai Zhu

Xuekai Zhu 朱学凯

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I am a Ph.D. student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, co-supervised by Zhouhan Lin and Bowen Zhou. I am expected to graduate in late 2026 and actively seeking full-time positions. Feel free to reach out!

Currently, I am an intern @ Seed, working on self-evolving agents. Previously, I interned at Microsoft Research, Redmond, working on reinforcement learning.

Open-Source Contributions

FlowRL - #1 Paper of the Day
FP16 Training Feature in veRL - Invited Talk @ veRL Meetup

Awards

ACL 2023 Area Chair Award
CCF-CBC 2021 Outstanding Paper Award
Excellent Paper Award -- Big Data Mining and Analytics, 2025

Selected Papers (see all)

FlowRL: Matching Reward Distributions for LLM Reasoning
Xuekai Zhu, Daixuan Cheng, Dinghuai Zhang, Hengli Li, Kaiyan Zhang, et al.
ICLR 2026

How to Synthesize Text Data without Model Collapse?
Xuekai Zhu, Daixuan Cheng, Hengli Li, Kaiyan Zhang, Ermo Hua, Xingtai Lv, Ning Ding, Zhouhan Lin, Zilong Zheng, Bowen Zhou
ICML 2025

PaD: Program-aided Distillation Can Teach Small Models Reasoning Better than Chain-of-thought Fine-tuning
Xuekai Zhu, Biqing Qi, Kaiyan Zhang, Xinwei Long, Zhouhan Lin, Bowen Zhou
NAACL 2024 Oral

StoryTrans: Non-Parallel Story Author-Style Transfer with Discourse Representations and Content Enhancing
Xuekai Zhu^*, Jian Guan^*, Minlie Huang, Juan Liu
ACL 2023 Area Chair Award