Wenhao Yu

Researcher, OpenAI

Joined

April 2021

Names

Wenhao Yu (Preferred)

Emails

****@nd.edu (Confirmed)

****@global.tencent.com (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@openai.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

OpenAI (openai.com)

2026 – Present

Researcher

Tencent Hunyuan (tencent.com)

2023 – 2025

PhD student

University of Notre Dame (nd.edu)

2019 – 2023

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coworker

Dong Yu

2023 – Present

Coworker

Hongming Zhang

2023 – Present

Coauthor

Chenguang Zhu

2021 – Present

PhD Advisor

Meng Jiang

2019 – Present

Expertise

Language Agent

2022 – Present

Natural language generation

2019 – Present

Question answering

2019 – Present

Publications

Group Distributionally Robust Optimization-Driven RL for LLM Reasoning
Kishan Panaganti, Zhenwen Liang, Wenhao Yu, Haitao Mi, Dong Yu
- MALGAI
- Readers: Everyone
On the Evolution of Language Models without Labels: Majority Drives Selection, Novelty Promotes Variation
Yujun Zhou, Zhenwen Liang, Haolin Liu, Wenhao Yu, Kishan Panaganti, Linfeng Song, Dian Yu, Xiangliang Zhang, Haitao Mi, Dong Yu
- MATH-AI 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
R-Zero: Self-Evolving Reasoning LLM from Zero Data
Chengsong Huang, Wenhao Yu, Xiaoyang Wang, Hongming Zhang, Zongxia Li, Ruosen Li, Jiaxin Huang, Haitao Mi, Dong Yu
- MATH-AI 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
VScan: Rethinking Visual Token Reduction for Efficient Large Vision-Language Models
Ce Zhang, Kaixin Ma, Tianqing Fang, Wenhao Yu, Hongming Zhang, Zhisong Zhang, Haitao Mi, Dong Yu
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Vision-SR1: Self-Rewarding Vision-Language Model via Reasoning Decomposition and Multi-Reward Policy Optimization
Zongxia Li, Wenhao Yu, Chengsong Huang, Zhenwen Liang, Rui Liu, Fuxiao Liu, Jingxi Chen, Dian Yu, Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber, Haitao Mi, Dong Yu
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
VOGUE: Guiding Exploration with Visual Uncertainty Improves Multimodal Reasoning
Rui Liu, Dian Yu, Tong Zheng, Runpeng Dai, Zongxia Li, Wenhao Yu, Zhenwen Liang, Linfeng Song, Haitao Mi, Pratap Tokekar, Dong Yu
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
MobileGUI-RL: Advancing Mobile GUI Agent through Reinforcement Learning in Online Environment
Yucheng Shi, Wenhao Yu, ZAITANG LI, yonglingwang, Hongming Zhang, Ninghao Liu, Dong Yu
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Don't Throw Away Your Pretrained Model
Shangbin Feng, Wenhao Yu, Yike Wang, Hongming Zhang, Yulia Tsvetkov, Dong Yu
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Parallel-R1: Towards Parallel Thinking via Reinforcement Learning
Tong Zheng, Hongming Zhang, Wenhao Yu, Xiaoyang Wang, He Xing, Runpeng Dai, Rui Liu, Huiwen Bao, Chengsong Huang, Heng Huang, Dong Yu
- NeurIPS 2025 ER Workshop Spotlight
- 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

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Co-Authors

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