Tianle Cai

Researcher, ByteDance Inc.

Joined

September 2018

Names

Tianle Cai (Preferred)

Emails

****@pku.edu.cn (Confirmed)

****@princeton.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@bytedance.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

ByteDance Inc. (bytedance.com)

2025 – Present

PhD student

Princeton University (princeton.edu)

2021 – 2025

Undergrad student

Peking University (pku.edu.cn)

2016 – 2020

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Kai Li

Present

PhD Advisor

Jason D. Lee

Present

Expertise

Machine learning

Present

Publications

Mitigating LLM Hallucination via Behaviorally Calibrated Reinforcement Learning
Jiayun Wu, Jiashuo Liu, Zhiyuan Zeng, Tianyang Zhan, Tianle Cai, Wenhao Huang
- Agentic AI in the Wild: From Hallucinations to Reliable Autonomy Poster
- Readers: Everyone
In-Place Test-Time Training
Guhao Feng, Shengjie Luo, Kai Hua, Ge Zhang, Wenhao Huang, Di He, Tianle Cai
- ICLR 2026 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
FutureX: An Advanced Live Benchmark for LLM Agents in Future Prediction
Zhiyuan Zeng, Jiashuo Liu, Siyuan Chen, Tianci He, Yali Liao, Yixiao Tian, wangjinpeng.levi, Zaiyuan Wang, YangYang, Lingyue Yin, Mingren Yin, Zhu Zhenwei, Tianle Cai, Xinjie Chen, Zehui Chen, Jiecao Chen, Yantao Du, Xiang Gao, Jiacheng Guo, LIANG HU et al. (12 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Radial Attention: $\mathcal{O}(n\log n)$ Sparse Attention with Energy Decay for Long Video Generation
Xingyang Li, Muyang Li, Tianle Cai, Haocheng Xi, Shuo Yang, Yujun Lin, Lvmin Zhang, Songlin Yang, Jinbo Hu, Kelly Peng, Maneesh Agrawala, Ion Stoica, Kurt Keutzer, Song Han
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Unnatural Languages Are Not Bugs but Features for LLMs
Keyu Duan, Yiran Zhao, Zhili Feng, Jinjie Ni, Tianyu Pang, Qian Liu, Tianle Cai, Longxu Dou, Kenji Kawaguchi, Anirudh Goyal, J Zico Kolter, Michael Qizhe Shieh
- BuildingTrust
- Readers: Everyone
MATH-Perturb: Benchmarking LLMs' Math Reasoning Abilities against Hard Perturbations
Kaixuan Huang, Jiacheng Guo, Zihao Li, Xiang Ji, Jiawei Ge, Wenzhe Li, Yingqing Guo, Tianle Cai, Hui Yuan, Runzhe Wang, Yue Wu, Ming Yin, Shange Tang, Yangsibo Huang, Chi Jin, Xinyun Chen, Chiyuan Zhang, Mengdi Wang
- Reasoning and Planning for LLMs @ ICLR2025
- Readers: Everyone
MATH-Perturb: Benchmarking LLMs' Math Reasoning Abilities against Hard Perturbations
Kaixuan Huang, Jiacheng Guo, Zihao Li, Xiang Ji, Jiawei Ge, Wenzhe Li, Yingqing Guo, Tianle Cai, Hui Yuan, Runzhe Wang, Yue Wu, Ming Yin, Shange Tang, Yangsibo Huang, Chi Jin, Xinyun Chen, Chiyuan Zhang, Mengdi Wang
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Unnatural Languages Are Not Bugs but Features for LLMs
Keyu Duan, Yiran Zhao, Zhili Feng, Jinjie Ni, Tianyu Pang, Qian Liu, Tianle Cai, Longxu Dou, Kenji Kawaguchi, Anirudh Goyal, J Zico Kolter, Michael Qizhe Shieh
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
CommVQ: Commutative Vector Quantization for KV Cache Compression
Junyan Li, Yang Zhang, Muhammad Yusuf Hassan, Talha Chafekar, Tianle Cai, Zhile Ren, Pengsheng Guo, Foroozan Karimzadeh, Colorado Reed, Chong Wang, Chuang Gan
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Training-Free Activation Sparsity in Large Language Models
James Liu, Pragaash Ponnusamy, Tianle Cai, Han Guo, Yoon Kim, Ben Athiwaratkun
- ICLR 2025 Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone

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