Jiawei Zhao

Researcher, Meta FAIR

Joined

August 2019

Names

Jiawei Zhao (Preferred)

Emails

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****@caltech.edu (Confirmed)

****@meta.com (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Meta FAIR (meta.com)

2024 – Present

PhD student

California Institute of Technology (caltech.edu)

2019 – 2024

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Anima Anandkumar

2019 – Present

Expertise

deep learning

distributed machine learning

2019 – Present

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
Prosperity before Collapse: How Far Can Off-Policy RL Reach with Stale Data on LLMs?
Haizhong Zheng, Jiawei Zhao, Beidi Chen
- NeurIPS 2025 ER Workshop Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Prosperity before Collapse: How Far Can Off-Policy RL Reach with Stale Data on LLMs?
Haizhong Zheng, Jiawei Zhao, Beidi Chen
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Deep Think with Confidence
Yichao Fu, Xuewei Wang, Hao Zhang, Yuandong Tian, Jiawei Zhao
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- 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
Deep Think with Confidence
Yichao Fu, Xuewei Wang, Yuandong Tian, Jiawei Zhao
- NeurIPS 2025 ER Workshop Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Act Only When It Pays: Efficient Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning via Selective Rollouts
Haizhong Zheng, Yang Zhou, Brian R. Bartoldson, Bhavya Kailkhura, Fan Lai, Jiawei Zhao, Beidi Chen
- ES-FoMo III
- Readers: Everyone
HeadInfer: Memory-Efficient LLM Inference by Head-wise Offloading
Cheng Luo, Zefan Cai, Hanshi Sun, Jinqi Xiao, Bo Yuan, Wen Xiao, Junjie Hu, Jiawei Zhao, Beidi Chen, Anima Anandkumar
- LCFM 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Act Only When It Pays: Efficient Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning via Selective Rollouts
Haizhong Zheng, Yang Zhou, Brian R. Bartoldson, Bhavya Kailkhura, Fan Lai, Jiawei Zhao, Beidi Chen
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
ParetoQ: Improving Scaling Laws in Extremely Low-bit LLM Quantization
Zechun Liu, Changsheng Zhao, Hanxian Huang, Sijia Chen, Jing Zhang, Jiawei Zhao, Scott Roy, Lisa Jin, Yunyang Xiong, Yangyang Shi, Lin Xiao, Yuandong Tian, Bilge Soran, Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi, Tijmen Blankevoort, Vikas Chandra
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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