Hanning Zhang

MS student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Joined

December 2023

Names

Hanning Zhang (Preferred)

Emails

****@connect.ust.hk (Confirmed)

****@illinois.edu (Confirmed)

****@ucsb.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

MS student

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (illinois.edu)

2024 – 2026

Undergrad student

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (ust.hk)

2020 – 2024

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Tong Zhang

2023 – Present

Coauthor

Shizhe Diao

2023 – Present

Expertise

Natural Language Processing

2024 – Present

Large Language Models

2024 – Present

Publications

Towards Better Generalization via Distributional Input Projection Network
Yifan HAO, Yanxin Lu, Hanning Zhang, Xinwei Shen, Tong Zhang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Optimizing Chain-of-Thought Reasoners via Gradient Variance Minimization in Rejection Sampling and RL
Jiarui Yao, Yifan HAO, Hanning Zhang, Hanze Dong, Wei Xiong, Nan Jiang, Tong Zhang
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Entropy-Regularized Process Reward Model
Hanning Zhang, Pengcheng Wang, Shizhe Diao, Yong Lin, Rui Pan, Hanze Dong, Dylan Zhang, Pavlo Molchanov, Tong Zhang
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Self-rewarding correction for mathematical reasoning
Wei Xiong, Hanning Zhang, Chenlu Ye, Lichang Chen, Nan Jiang, Tong Zhang
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Understanding Overadaptation in Supervised Fine-Tuning: The Role of Ensemble Methods
Yifan HAO, Xingyuan Pan, Hanning Zhang, Chenlu Ye, Rui Pan, Tong Zhang
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
RAG-Reward: Optimizing RAG with Reward Modeling and RLHF
Hanning Zhang, Juntong Song, Juno Zhu, Yuanhao Wu, Tong Zhang, Cheng Niu
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Mitigating the Alignment Tax of RLHF
Yong Lin, Hangyu Lin, Wei Xiong, Shizhe Diao, Jianmeng Liu, Jipeng Zhang, Rui Pan, Haoxiang Wang, Wenbin Hu, Hanning Zhang, Hanze Dong, Renjie Pi, Han Zhao, Nan Jiang, Heng Ji, Yuan Yao, Tong Zhang
- EMNLP 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Entropy-Regularized Process Reward Model
Hanning Zhang, Pengcheng Wang, Shizhe Diao, Yong Lin, Rui Pan, Hanze Dong, Dylan Zhang, Pavlo Molchanov, Tong Zhang
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
R-Tuning: Instructing Large Language Models to Say 'I Don't Know'
Hanning Zhang, Shizhe Diao, Yong Lin, Yi R. Fung, Qing Lian, Xingyao Wang, Yangyi Chen, Heng Ji, Tong Zhang
- NAACL-HLT 2024
- Readers: Everyone
InfoPattern: Unveiling Information Propagation Patterns in Social Media
Chi Han, Jialiang Xu, Manling Li, Hanning Zhang, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Heng Ji
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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