Hanqing Zhu

PhD student, University of Texas, Austin

Joined

May 2021

Names

Hanqing Zhu (Preferred)

Emails

****@utexas.edu (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

PhD student

University of Texas, Austin (utexas.edu)

2020 – 2026

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

David Pan

2020 – Present

Coauthor

Jiaqi Gu

2020 – Present

Coauthor

Chenghao Feng

2020 – Present

Coauthor

Zixuan Jiang

2020 – Present

Coauthor

Ray Chen

2020 – Present

Expertise

AI acceleration and neuromorphic computing

2020 – 2025

Publications

The Path Not Taken: RLVR Provably Learns Off the Principals
Hanqing Zhu, Zhenyu Zhang, Hanxian Huang, DiJia Su, Zechun Liu, Jiawei Zhao, Igor Fedorov, Hamed Pirsiavash, Jinwon Lee, David Z. Pan, Zhangyang Wang, Yuandong Tian, Kai Sheng Tai
- NeurIPS 2025 ER Workshop Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Can Test-Time Scaling Improve World Foundation Model?
Wenyan Cong, Hanqing Zhu, Peihao Wang, Bangya Liu, Dejia Xu, Kevin Wang, David Z. Pan, Yan Wang, Zhiwen Fan, Zhangyang Wang
- RIWM Non Archival
- Readers: Everyone
Why RL Updates Look Sparse: An Implicit Compass Drives Optimization Bias
Hanqing Zhu, Zhenyu Zhang, Hanxian Huang, DiJia Su, Zechun Liu, Jiawei Zhao, Igor Fedorov, Hamed Pirsiavash, Jinwon Lee, David Z. Pan, Zhangyang Wang, Yuandong Tian, Kai Sheng Tai
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
E3D-Bench: A Benchmark for End-to-End 3D Geometric Foundation Models
Wenyan Cong, Yiqing Liang, Yancheng Zhang, Ziyi Yang, Hanqing Zhu, Yan Wang, Boris Ivanovic, Marco Pavone, Chen Chen, Zhangyang Wang, Zhiwen Fan
- ICLR 2026 Conference Desk Rejected Submission
- Readers: Everyone
VideoLifter: Lifting Videos to 3D with Fast Hierarchical Stereo Alignment
Wenyan Cong, Hanqing Zhu, Kevin Wang, Jiahui Lei, Colton Stearns, Yuanhao Cai, Dilin Wang, Rakesh Ranjan, Matt Feiszli, Leonidas Guibas, Zhangyang Wang, Weiyao Wang, Zhiwen Fan
- 3DV 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Can Test-Time Scaling Improve World Foundation Model?
Wenyan Cong, Hanqing Zhu, Peihao Wang, Bangya Liu, Dejia Xu, Kevin Wang, David Z. Pan, Yan Wang, Zhiwen Fan, Zhangyang Wang
- COLM 2025
- Readers: Everyone
APOLLO: SGD-like Memory, AdamW-level Performance
Hanqing Zhu, Zhenyu Zhang, Wenyan Cong, Xi Liu, Sem Park, Vikas Chandra, Bo Long, David Z. Pan, Zhangyang Wang, Jinwon Lee
- MLSys 2025
- Readers: Everyone
PACE: Pacing Operator Learning to Accurate Optical Field Simulation for Complicated Photonic Devices
Hanqing Zhu, Wenyan Cong, Guojin Chen, Shupeng Ning, Ray Chen, Jiaqi Gu, David Z. Pan
- NeurIPS 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Pre-RMSNorm and Pre-CRMSNorm Transformers: Equivalent and Efficient Pre-LN Transformers
Zixuan Jiang, Jiaqi Gu, Hanqing Zhu, David Z. Pan
- NeurIPS 2023 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
ELight: Toward Efficient and Aging-Resilient Photonic In-Memory Neurocomputing
Hanqing Zhu, Jiaqi Gu, Chenghao Feng, Mingjie Liu, Zixuan Jiang, Ray T. Chen, David Z. Pan
- Mar 2023 (modified: 25 Apr 2023)
- IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 2023
- Readers: Everyone

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