Huayu Chen

PhD student, Tsinghua University

Joined

September 2022

Names

Huayu Chen (Preferred)

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****@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn (Confirmed)

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****@nvidia.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

PhD student

Tsinghua University (tsinghua.edu.cn)

2021 – Present

Undergrad student

Tsinghua University (tsinghua.edu.cn)

2017 – 2021

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Jun Zhu

2021 – Present

Expertise

Reinforcement Learning

Present

Generative Models

Present

Machine Learning

Present

Publications

Discrete Diffusion Trajectory Alignment via Stepwise Decomposition
Jiaqi Han, Austin Wang, Minkai Xu, Wenda Chu, Meihua Dang, Haotian Ye, Huayu Chen, Yisong Yue, Stefano Ermon
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Process Reinforcement through Implicit Rewards
Ganqu Cui, Lifan Yuan, Zefan Wang, Hanbin Wang, Yuchen Zhang, Jiacheng Chen, Wendi Li, Bingxiang He, Yuchen Fan, Tianyu Yu, Qixin Xu, Weize Chen, Jiarui Yuan, Huayu Chen, Kaiyan Zhang, Xingtai Lv, Shuo Wang, Yuan Yao, Xu Han, Hao Peng et al. (5 additional authors not shown)
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
NFT: Bridging Supervised Learning and Reinforcement Learning in Math Reasoning
Huayu Chen, Kaiwen Zheng, Qinsheng Zhang, Ganqu Cui, Yin Cui, Haotian Ye, Tsung-Yi Lin, Ming-Yu Liu, Jun Zhu, Haoxiang Wang
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Exploratory Diffusion Model for Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning
Chengyang Ying, Huayu Chen, Xinning Zhou, Zhongkai Hao, Hang Su, Jun Zhu
- ICLR 2026 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
The Entropy Mechanism of Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning Language Models
Ganqu Cui, Yuchen Zhang, Jiacheng Chen, Lifan Yuan, Zhi Wang, Yuxin Zuo, Haozhan Li, Yuchen Fan, Huayu Chen, Weize Chen, Zhiyuan Liu, Hao Peng, LEI BAI, Wanli Ouyang, Yu Cheng, Bowen Zhou, Ning Ding
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Large Scale Diffusion Distillation via Score-Regularized Continuous-Time Consistency
Kaiwen Zheng, Yuji Wang, Qianli Ma, Huayu Chen, Jintao Zhang, Yogesh Balaji, Jianfei Chen, Ming-Yu Liu, Jun Zhu, Qinsheng Zhang
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
DiffusionNFT: Online Diffusion Reinforcement with Forward Process
Kaiwen Zheng, Huayu Chen, Haotian Ye, Haoxiang Wang, Qinsheng Zhang, Kai Jiang, Hang Su, Stefano Ermon, Jun Zhu, Ming-Yu Liu
- ICLR 2026 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
InfoTok: Adaptive Discrete Video Tokenizer via Information-Theoretic Compression
Haotian Ye, Qiyuan He, Jiaqi Han, Puheng Li, Jiaojiao Fan, Zekun Hao, Fitsum Reda, Yogesh Balaji, Huayu Chen, Sheng Liu, Angela Yao, James Zou, Stefano Ermon, Haoxiang Wang, Ming-Yu Liu
- ICLR 2026 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Visual Generation Without Guidance
Huayu Chen, Kai Jiang, Kaiwen Zheng, Jianfei Chen, Hang Su, Jun Zhu
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Free Process Rewards without Process Labels
Lifan Yuan, Wendi Li, Huayu Chen, Ganqu Cui, Ning Ding, Kaiyan Zhang, Bowen Zhou, Zhiyuan Liu, Hao Peng
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone

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