Qining Zhang

PhD student, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Joined

May 2022

Names

Qining Zhang (Preferred)

Emails

****@umich.edu (Confirmed)

,

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (umich.edu)

2021 – 2026

Undergrad student

Tsinghua University (mails.tsinghua.edu.cn)

2017 – 2021

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

2021 – 2026

Expertise

Stochastic Bandits

Present

Reinforcement Learning Theory

Present

Publications

Multi-Metric Adaptive Experimental Design Under a Fixed Budget with Validation
Qining Zhang, Tanner Fiez, Yi Liu, Wenyang Liu
- AISTATS 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Provable Policy Optimization for Reinforcement Learning from Trajectory Preferences with an Unknown Link Function
Qining Zhang, Lei Ying
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Provable Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback with an Unknown Link Function
Qining Zhang, Lei Ying
- NeurIPS 2025 Workshop MLxOR
- Readers: Everyone
Zeroth-Order Policy Gradient for Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback without Reward Inference
Qining Zhang, Lei Ying
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Cost Aware Best Arm Identification
Kellen Kanarios, Qining Zhang, Lei Ying
- RLC 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback without Reward Inference: Model-Free Algorithm and Instance-Dependent Analysis
Qining Zhang, Honghao Wei, Lei Ying
- RLC 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Fast and Regret Optimal Best Arm Identification: Fundamental Limits and Low-Complexity Algorithms
Qining Zhang, Lei Ying
- NeurIPS 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Minimizing the Age of Synchronization in Power-Constrained Wireless Networks with Unreliable Time-Varying Channels
Qining Zhang, Haoyue Tang, Jintao Wang
- 2020 (modified: 10 May 2022)
- INFOCOM Workshops 2020
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors