Teng Xiao

Researcher, AI2 & UW

Joined

July 2019

Names

Teng Xiao (Preferred)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

AI2 & UW (allenai.org)

2025 – Present

PhD student

PSU (psu.edu)

2021 – 2025

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Vasant G Honavar

Present

Expertise

Large language Models

2024 – Present

Reinforcement Learning

2021 – Present

Machine Learning

2019 – Present

Publications

Internalizing World Models via Self-Play Finetuning for Agentic RL
Shiqi Chen, Tongyao Zhu, Zian Wang, Jinghan Zhang, Kangrui Wang, Siyang Gao, Teng Xiao, Yee Whye Teh, Junxian He, Manling Li
- MSLD 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Self-Evolving Language Models through Co-evolved Discriminative Rubrics
Shuyue Stella Li, Rui Xin, Yike Wang, Teng Xiao, Rulin Shao, Zoey Hao, Melanie Sclar, Faeze Brahman, Pang Wei Koh, Yulia Tsvetkov
- ICLR 2026 Workshop RSI Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Incentivizing Strong Reasoning from Weak Supervision
Yige Yuan, Teng Xiao, Shuchang Tao, Xue Wang, Jinyang Gao, Bolin Ding, Bingbing Xu
- AAAI 2026 Bridge LMReasoning
- Readers: Everyone
Adaptive Code Watermarking Through Reinforcement Learning
Zhimeng Guo, Huaisheng Zhu, Siyuan Xu, Hangfan Zhang, Teng Xiao, Minhao Cheng
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Internalizing World Models via Self-Play Finetuning for Agentic RL
Shiqi Chen, Tongyao Zhu, Zian Wang, Jinghan Zhang, Teng Xiao, Kangrui Wang, Siyang Gao, Yee Whye Teh, Junxian He, Manling Li
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Inference-time Alignment in Continuous Space
Yige Yuan, Teng Xiao, Li Yunfan, Bingbing Xu, Shuchang Tao, Yunqi Qiu, Huawei Shen, Xueqi Cheng
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Simple Distillation for One-Step Diffusion Models
Huaisheng Zhu, Teng Xiao, Shijie Zhou, Zhimeng Guo, Hangfan Zhang, Siyuan Xu, Vasant G Honavar
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Inference-time Alignment in Continuous Space
Yige Yuan, Teng Xiao, Li Yunfan, Bingbing Xu, Shuchang Tao, Yunqi Qiu, Huawei Shen, Xueqi Cheng
- ICLR 2025 Bi-Align Workshop Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Leveraging Invariant Principle for Heterophilic Graph Structure Distribution Shifts
Jinluan Yang, Zhengyu Chen, Teng Xiao, Yong Lin, Wenqiao Zhang, Kun Kuang
- WWW 2025 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
From Scaling Law to Sub-Scaling Law: Understanding the Diminishing Returns of Larger Models
Zhengyu Chen, Siqi Wang, Teng Xiao, Yudong Wang, Shiqi Chen, Xunliang Cai, Junxian He, Jingang Wang
- ICLR 2025 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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