Noah Ziems

PhD student, University of Notre Dame

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October 2023

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Noah Ziems (Preferred)

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****@nd.edu (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

PhD student

University of Notre Dame (nd.edu)

2022 – 2026

Undergrad student

Ball State University (bsu.edu)

2017 – 2021

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Dr. Meng Jiang

2022 – 2026

Coauthor

Wenhao Yu

2022 – 2026

Coauthor

Zhihan Zhang

2022 – 2026

Expertise

natural language processing

open domain question answering

question answering

information retrieval

2018 – 2026

Publications

Optimizing Decomposition for Optimal Claim Verification
Yining Lu, Noah Ziems, Hy Dang, Meng Jiang
- ACL 2025
- Readers: Everyone
GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning
Lakshya A Agrawal, Shangyin Tan, Dilara Soylu, Noah Ziems, Rishi Khare, Krista Opsahl-Ong, Arnav Singhvi, Herumb Shandilya, Michael J Ryan, Meng Jiang, Christopher Potts, Koushik Sen, Alex Dimakis, Ion Stoica, Dan Klein, Matei Zaharia, Omar Khattab
- ICLR 2026 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
BigCodeArena: Unveiling More Reliable Human Preferences in Code Generation via Execution
Terry Yue Zhuo, Xiaolong Jin, Hange Liu, Juyong Jiang, Tianyang Liu, Chen GONG, Bhupesh Bishnoi, Vaisakhi Mishra, Marek Suppa, Noah Ziems, Saiteja Utpala, Ming Xu, Guangyu Song, Kaixin Li, Yuhan Cao, Bo Liu, Zheng Liu, Sabina Abdurakhmanova, Wenhao Yu, Mengzhao Jia et al. (20 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Multi-module GRPO: Composing Policy Gradients and Prompt Optimization for Language Model Programs
Noah Ziems, Dilara Soylu, Lakshya A Agrawal, Isaac Miller, Liheng Lai, Chen Qian, Kaiqiang Song, Meng Jiang, Dan Klein, Matei Zaharia, Karel D'Oosterlinck, Christopher Potts, Omar Khattab
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning
Lakshya A Agrawal, Shangyin Tan, Dilara Soylu, Noah Ziems, Rishi Khare, Krista Opsahl-Ong, Arnav Singhvi, Herumb Shandilya, Michael J Ryan, Meng Jiang, Christopher Potts, Koushik Sen, Alex Dimakis, Ion Stoica, Dan Klein, Matei Zaharia, Omar Khattab
- FoRLM 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Multi-module GRPO: Composing Policy Gradients and Prompt Optimization for Language Model Programs
Noah Ziems, Dilara Soylu, Lakshya A Agrawal, Isaac Miller, Liheng Lai, Chen Qian, Kaiqiang Song, Meng Jiang, Dan Klein, Matei Zaharia, Karel D'Oosterlinck, Christopher Potts, Omar Khattab
- FoRLM 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Explaining Tree Model Decisions in Natural Language for Network Intrusion Detection
Noah Ziems, Gang Liu, John Flanagan, Meng Jiang
- NeurIPS XAIA 2023
- Readers: Everyone

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Noah Ziems

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Publications

Optimizing Decomposition for Optimal Claim Verification

GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning

BigCodeArena: Unveiling More Reliable Human Preferences in Code Generation via Execution

Multi-module GRPO: Composing Policy Gradients and Prompt Optimization for Language Model Programs

GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning

Multi-module GRPO: Composing Policy Gradients and Prompt Optimization for Language Model Programs

Explaining Tree Model Decisions in Natural Language for Network Intrusion Detection

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