Bo Pang

Researcher, SalesForce.com

PhD student, University of California, Los Angeles

Joined

July 2019

Names

Bo Pang (Preferred)

Emails

****@g.ucla.edu (Confirmed)

****@salesforce.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

SalesForce.com (salesforce.com)

2022 – Present

PhD student

University of California, Los Angeles (ucla.edu)

2017 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Ying Nian Wu

2017 – 2021

Expertise

LLMs

2020 – Present

Probabilistic Modeling

2018 – Present

Publications

Inference-Time Rethinking with Latent Thought Vectors for Math Reasoning
Deqian Kong, Minglu Zhao, Aoyang Qin, Bo Pang, Chenxin Tao, David Hartmann, Edouardo Honig, Dehong Xu, Amit H. Kumar, Matthew Sarte, Chuan Li, Jianwen Xie, Ying Nian Wu
- LIT Workshop @ ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
SSR: Socratic Self-Refine for Large Language Model Reasoning
Haizhou Shi, Ye Liu, Bo Pang, Zeyu Leo Liu, Hao Wang, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong, Yingbo Zhou, Semih Yavuz
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Reasoning Curriculum: Bootstrapping Broad LLM Reasoning from Math
Bo Pang, Deqian Kong, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong, Yingbo Zhou
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
CLOVER: A Test Case Generation Benchmark with Coverage, Long-Context, and Verification
Jiacheng Xu, Bo Pang, Jin Qu, Hiroaki Hayashi, Caiming Xiong, Yingbo Zhou
- DL4C @ ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
BOLT: Bootstrap Long Chain-of-Thought in Language Models without Distillation
Bo Pang, Hanze Dong, Jiacheng Xu, Silvio Savarese, Yingbo Zhou, Caiming Xiong
- Reasoning and Planning for LLMs @ ICLR2025
- Readers: Everyone
Latent Thought Models with Variational Bayes Inference-Time Computation
Deqian Kong, Minglu Zhao, Dehong Xu, Bo Pang, Shu Wang, Edouardo Honig, Zhangzhang Si, Chuan Li, Jianwen Xie, Sirui Xie, Ying Nian Wu
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
GReaTer: Gradients Over Reasoning Makes Smaller Language Models Strong Prompt Optimizers
Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das, Ryo Kamoi, Bo Pang, Yusen Zhang, Caiming Xiong, Rui Zhang
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Diversity Empowers Intelligence: Integrating Expertise of Software Engineering Agents
Kexun Zhang, Weiran Yao, Zuxin Liu, Yihao Feng, Zhiwei Liu, Rithesh R N, Tian Lan, Lei Li, Renze Lou, Jiacheng Xu, Bo Pang, Yingbo Zhou, Shelby Heinecke, Silvio Savarese, Huan Wang, Caiming Xiong
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
RLHF Workflow: From Reward Modeling to Online RLHF
Hanze Dong, Wei Xiong, Bo Pang, Haoxiang Wang, Han Zhao, Yingbo Zhou, Nan Jiang, Doyen Sahoo, Caiming Xiong, Tong Zhang
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Latent Plan Transformer for Trajectory Abstraction: Planning as Latent Space Inference
Deqian Kong, Dehong Xu, Minglu Zhao, Bo Pang, Jianwen Xie, Andrew Lizarraga, Yuhao Huang, Sirui Xie, Ying Nian Wu
- NeurIPS 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone

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