Minda Hu

PhD student, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Joined

June 2023

Names

Minda Hu (Preferred)

Emails

****@link.cuhk.edu.hk (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (cse.cuhk.edu.hk)

2022 – 2026

Researcher

USC Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California (usc.edu)

2019 – 2020

Undergrad student

Department of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (buaa.edu.cn)

2016 – 2019

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Irwin King

2022 – 2026

Expertise

Natural Language Processing

2022 – 2026

Social Computing

2022 – 2026

Publications

Saliency-R1: Enforcing Interpretable and Faithful Vision-language Reasoning via Saliency-map Alignment Reward
Shizhan Gong, Minda Hu, Qiyuan Zhang, Chen Ma, Qi Dou
- CoRR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
CL-bench Life: Can Language Models Learn from Real-Life Context?
Shihan Dou, Yujiong Shen, Chenhao Huang, Junjie Ye, Jiayi Chen, Junzhe Wang, Qianyu He, Shichun Liu, Changze Lv, Jiahang Lin, Jiazheng Zhang, Ming Zhang, Shaofan Liu, Tao Ji, Zhangyue Yin, Cheng Zhang, Huaibing Xie, Jianglu Hu, Jingcheng Deng, Lincheng Li et al. (18 additional authors not shown)
- CoRR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Probability-Entropy Calibration: An Elastic Indicator for Adaptive Fine-tuning
Wenhao Yu, Shaohang Wei, Jiahong Liu, Yifan Li, Minda Hu, Aiwei Liu, Hao Zhang, Irwin King
- CoRR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Search-R2: Enhancing Search-Integrated Reasoning via Actor-Refiner Collaboration
Bowei He, Minda Hu, Zenan Xu, Hongru Wang, Licheng Zong, Yankai Chen, Chen Ma, Xue Liu, Pluto Zhou, Irwin King
- CoRR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
ConMax: Confidence-Maximizing Compression for Efficient Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Minda Hu, Zexuan Qiu, Zenan Xu, Kun Li, Bo Zhou, Irwin King
- CoRR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
A Survey of Self-Evolving Agents: What, When, How, and Where to Evolve on the Path to Artificial Super Intelligence
Huan-ang Gao, Jiayi Geng, Wenyue Hua, Mengkang Hu, Xinzhe Juan, Hongzhang Liu, Shilong Liu, Jiahao Qiu, Xuan Qi, Qihan Ren, Yiran Wu, Hongru Wang, Han Xiao, Yuhang Zhou, Shaokun Zhang, Jiayi Zhang, Jinyu Xiang, Yixiong Fang, Qiwen Zhao, Dongrui Liu et al. (7 additional authors not shown)
- Trans. Mach. Learn. Res. 2026
- Readers: Everyone
A Survey of Self-Evolving Agents: What, When, How, and Where to Evolve on the Path to Artificial Super Intelligence
Huan-ang Gao, Jiayi Geng, Wenyue Hua, Mengkang Hu, Xinzhe Juan, Hongzhang Liu, Shilong Liu, Jiahao Qiu, Xuan Qi, Qihan Ren, Yiran Wu, Hongru WANG, Han Xiao, Yuhang Zhou, Shaokun Zhang, Jiayi Zhang, Jinyu Xiang, Yixiong Fang, Qiwen Zhao, Dongrui Liu et al. (7 additional authors not shown)
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
A Survey of Self-Evolving Agents: On Path to Artificial Super Intelligence
Huan-ang Gao, Jiayi Geng, Wenyue Hua, Mengkang Hu, Xinzhe Juan, Hongzhang Liu, Shilong Liu, Jiahao Qiu, Xuan Qi, Yiran Wu, Hongru Wang, Han Xiao, Yuhang Zhou, Shaokun Zhang, Jiayi Zhang, Jinyu Xiang, Yixiong Fang, Qiwen Zhao, Dongrui Liu, Qihan Ren et al. (7 additional authors not shown)
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
From General to Targeted Rewards: Surpassing GPT-4 in Open-Ended Long-Context Generation
Zhihan Guo, Jiele Wu, Wenqian Cui, Yifei Zhang, Minda Hu, Yufei Wang, Irwin King
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
WebCoT: Enhancing Web Agent Reasoning by Reconstructing Chain-of-Thought in Reflection, Branching, and Rollback
Minda Hu, Tianqing Fang, Jianshu Zhang, Junyu Ma, Zhisong Zhang, Jingyan Zhou, Hongming Zhang, Haitao Mi, Dong Yu, Irwin King
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone

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