Chaoyun Zhang

Researcher, Microsoft

Joined

November 2016

Names

Chaoyun Zhang (Preferred)

Emails

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Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

Microsoft (microsoft.com)

2022 – 2026

PhD student

University of Edinburgh (ed.ac.uk)

2016 – 2020

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Paul Patras

2016 – 2020

Expertise

LLM agent

2023 – Present

Publications

Computer-Using World Model
Yiming Guan, Rui Yu, John Zhang, Lu Wang, Chaoyun Zhang, Liqun Li, Bo Qiao, Si Qin, He Huang, Fangkai Yang, Pu Zhao, Lukas Wutschitz, Samuel Kessler, Huseyin A Inan, Robert Sim, Saravan Rajmohan, Qingwei Lin, Dongmei Zhang
- ICLR 2026 Workshop World Models
- Readers: Everyone
QueryAgent: A Reliable and Efficient Reasoning Framework with Environmental Feedback-based Self-Correction
Xiang Huang, Sitao Cheng, Shanshan Huang, Jiayu Shen, Yong Xu, Chaoyun Zhang, Yuzhong Qu
- ACL 2024 Main(Oral)
- Readers: Everyone
VEM: Environment-Free Exploration for Training GUI Agent with Value Environment Model
Mengzhuo Chen, Jiani zheng, Lu Wang, Fangkai Yang, Chaoyun Zhang, Lingrui Mei, Wenjie Yin, Qingwei Lin, Dongmei Zhang, Saravan Rajmohan
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Learning GUI Grounding with Spatial Reasoning from Visual Feedback
Yu Zhao, Wei-Ning Chen, Huseyin A Inan, Samuel Kessler, Lu Wang, Lukas Wutschitz, Fangkai Yang, Chaoyun Zhang, Pasquale Minervini, Saravan Rajmohan, Robert Sim
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
VEM: Environment-Free Exploration for Training GUI Agent with Value Environment Model
Mengzhuo Chen, Jiani zheng, Lu Wang, Fangkai Yang, Chaoyun Zhang, Lingrui Mei, Wenjie Yin, Qingwei Lin, Dongmei Zhang, Saravan Rajmohan
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Text2Grad: Reinforcement Learning from Natural Language Feedback
Hanyang Wang, Lu Wang, Chaoyun Zhang, Tianjun Mao, Si Qin, Qingwei Lin, Saravan Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
GUI-360° : A Comprehensive Dataset and Benchmark for Computer-Using Agents
Jian Mu, Chaoyun Zhang, Chiming Ni, Lu Wang, Bo Qiao, Kartik Mathur, Qianhui Wu, Yuhang Xie, Xiaojun Ma, Mengyu Zhou, Si Qin, Liqun Li, Yu Kang, Minghua Ma, Qingwei Lin, Saravan Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
G-KV: Decoding-Time KV Cache Eviction with Global Attention
Mengqi Liao, Lu Wang, Chaoyun Zhang, Zekai Shen, Xiaowei Mao, Si Qin, Qingwei Lin, Saravan Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang, Huaiyu Wan
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Zoomer: Adaptive Image Focus Optimization for Black-box MLLM
Jiaxu Qian, Chendong Wang, Yifan Yang, Chaoyun Zhang, Huiqiang Jiang, Xufang Luo, Yu Kang, Qingwei Lin, Anlan Zhang, Shiqi Jiang, Ting Cao, Tianjun Mao, Suman Banerjee, Guyue Liu, Saravan Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang, Yuqing Yang, Qi Zhang, Lili Qiu
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
API Agents vs. GUI Agents: Divergence and Convergence
Chaoyun Zhang, Shilin He, Liqun Li, Si Qin, Yu Kang, Qingwei Lin, Saravan Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang
- WCUA 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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