Xuekai Zhu

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I am a Ph.D. student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, co-supervised by Zhouhan Lin and Bowen Zhou. I will graduate in June 2027 and am actively seeking opportunities on the job market this year and next. Please feel free to reach out!

Recent Open-Source Contributions:

FlowRL - 100+ stars, #1 Paper of the Day
FP16 Training Feature in veRL - Invited Talk @ veRL Meetup

Intern @ Microsoft Research (Redmond), Shanghai AI Lab (InternLM Team)

Award:

ACL 2023 Area Chair Award
CCF-CBC 2021 Outstanding Paper Award

Selected Papers (see all)

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

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