Xuchao Zhang

Researcher, Microsoft

Joined

November 2017

Names

Xuchao Zhang

Emails

****@vt.edu (Confirmed)

****@microsoft.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Microsoft (microsoft.com)

2022 – Present

Researcher

NEC-Labs (nec-labs.com)

2019 – 2022

PhD student

Virginia Tech (vt.edu)

2015 – 2019

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Chang-Tien Lu

2015 – 2019

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

Your Self-Play Algorithm is Secretly an Adversarial Imitator: Understanding LLM Self-Play through the Lens of Imitation Learning
Shangzhe Li, Xuchao Zhang, Chetan Bansal, Weitong Zhang
- ICLR 2026 Workshop RSI Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Adaptive Control for Test-time Scaling
Taneesh Gupta, Rahul Madhavan, Rishabh Tiwari, Xuchao Zhang, Chetan Bansal, Saravan Rajmohan, Kurt Keutzer
- MATH-AI 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Provable and Practical In-Context Policy Optimization for Self-Improvement
Tianrun Yu, yuxiao Yang, Zhaoyang Wang, Kaixiang Zhao, Porter Jenkins, Xuchao Zhang, Chetan Bansal, Huaxiu Yao, Weitong Zhang
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Multi-Preference Optimization: Generalizing DPO via Set-Level Contrasts
Taneesh Gupta, Rahul Madhavan, Xuchao Zhang, Nagarajan Natarajan, Chetan Bansal, Saravan Rajmohan
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
ACTS: Adaptive Control for Test-time Scaling
Taneesh Gupta, Rahul Madhavan, Rishabh Tiwari, Xuchao Zhang, Chetan Bansal, Saravan Rajmohan, Kurt Keutzer
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Enhancing Reasoning Capabilities of Small Language Models with Blueprints and Prompt Template Search
Dongge Han, Menglin Xia, Daniel Madrigal, Samuel Kessler, Ankur Mallick, Xuchao Zhang, Mirian Del Carmen Hipolito Garcia, Jin Xu, Victor Rühle, Saravan Rajmohan
- TTODLer-FM @ ICML 2025 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Generative Caching for Structurally Similar Prompts and Responses
Sarthak Chakraborty, Suman Nath, Xuchao Zhang, Chetan Bansal, Indranil Gupta
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
REFA: Reference Free Alignment with Fine-Grained Length Control
Taneesh Gupta, Rahul Madhavan, Xuchao Zhang, Chetan Bansal, Saravan Rajmohan
- COLM 2025
- Readers: Everyone
AMPO: Active Multi Preference Optimization for Self-play Preference Selection
Taneesh Gupta, Rahul Madhavan, Xuchao Zhang, Chetan Bansal, Saravan Rajmohan
- SSI-FM Poster
- Readers: Everyone
SWEPO: Simultaneous Weighted Preference Optimization for Group Contrastive Alignment
Taneesh Gupta, Rahul Madhavan, Xuchao Zhang, Chetan Bansal, Saravan Rajmohan
- ICLR 2025 Bi-Align Workshop Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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