Hanyang Zhao

PhD student, Columbia University

Joined

September 2022

Names

Hanyang Zhao (Preferred)

Emails

****@columbia.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

Columbia University (columbia.edu)

2022 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Present

PhD Advisor

Present

Expertise

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

2024 – Present

Diffusion Generative Models

2023 – Present

Reinforcement Learning

2022 – Present

Publications

Understanding Sampler Stochasticity in Training Diffusion Models for RLHF
Jiayuan Sheng, Hanyang Zhao, Haoxian Chen, David Yao, Wenpin Tang
- ReALM-GEN 2026 - ICLR 2026 Workshop
- Readers: Everyone
Understanding Sampler Stochasticity in Training Diffusion Models for RLHF
Jiayuan Sheng, Hanyang Zhao, Haoxian Chen, Wenpin Tang, David Yao
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
DiFFPO: Training Diffusion LLMs to Reason Fast and Furious via Reinforcement Learning
Hanyang Zhao, Dawen Liang, Wenpin Tang, David Yao, Nathan Kallus
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
DiFFPO: Training Diffusion LLMs to Reason Fast and Furious via Reinforcement Learning
Hanyang Zhao, Dawen Liang, Wenpin Tang, David Yao, Nathan Kallus
- NeurIPS 2025 ER Workshop
- Readers: Everyone
SOCRATES: Simulation Optimization with Correlated Replicas and Adaptive Trajectory Evaluations
Haoting Zhang, Haoxian Chen, Donglin Zhan, Hanyang Zhao, Henry Lam, Wenpin Tang, David Yao, Zeyu Zheng
- NeurIPS 2025 Workshop MLxOR
- Readers: Everyone
R3: Robust Rubric-Agnostic Reward Models
David Anugraha, Zilu Tang, Lester James Validad Miranda, Hanyang Zhao, Shou-Yi Hung, Mohammad Rifqi Farhansyah, Garry Kuwanto, Derry Tanti Wijaya, Genta Indra Winata
- NeurIPS 2025 LLM Evaluation Workshop Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Score as Action: Fine-Tuning Diffusion Generative Models by Continuous-time Reinforcement Learning
Hanyang Zhao, Haoxian Chen, Ji Zhang, David Yao, Wenpin Tang
- ICLR 2025 DeLTa Workshop Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Score as Action: Fine Tuning Diffusion Generative Models by Continuous-time Reinforcement Learning
Hanyang Zhao, Haoxian Chen, Ji Zhang, David Yao, Wenpin Tang
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Score-based Diffusion Models via Stochastic Differential Equations--a Technical Tutorial
Wenpin Tang, Hanyang Zhao
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
RainbowPO: A Unified Framework for Combining Improvements in Preference Optimization
Hanyang Zhao, Genta Indra Winata, Anirban Das, Shi-Xiong Zhang, David Yao, Wenpin Tang, Sambit Sahu
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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