Zhaoran Wang

Associate Professor, IEMS/CS, Northwestern University

Joined

December 2017

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Zhaoran Wang (Preferred)

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Career & Education History

Associate Professor

IEMS/CS, Northwestern University (northwestern.edu)

2024 – Present

PhD student

ORFE/EE, Princeton University (princeton.edu)

2012 – 2018

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Publications

Paying Less Generalization Tax: A Cross-Domain Generalization Study of RL Training for LLM Agents
Zhihan Liu, Lin Guan, Yixin Nie, Kai Zhang, Zoey Hao, Lin Chen, Asli Celikyilmaz, Zhaoran Wang, Na Zhang
- LLA 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
ActionEQA: Action Interface for Embodied Question Answering
Tianwei Bao, Qineng Wang, Kangrui Wang, Mingkai Deng, Guangyi Liu, Jiayuan Mao, Lawrence Birnbaum, Zhiting Hu, Eric P. Xing, Zhaoran Wang, Manling Li
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Learning to Reason as Action Abstractions with Scalable Mid-Training RL
Shenao Zhang, Donghan Yu, Yihao Feng, Bowen Jin, Zhaoran Wang, John Peebles, Zirui Wang
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Local Linear Attention: An Optimal Interpolation of Linear and Softmax Attention For Test-Time Regression
Yifei Zuo, Yutong Yin, Zhichen Zeng, Ang Li, Banghua Zhu, Zhaoran Wang
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Beyond Markovian: Reflective Exploration via Bayes-Adaptive RL for LLM Reasoning
Shenao Zhang, Yaqing Wang, Yinxiao Liu, Tianqi Liu, Peter Grabowski, Eugene Ie, Zhaoran Wang, Yunxuan Li
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
A Near-Optimal Control Policy for Data-driven Assemble-to-order Systems
Lun Yu, Zhixuan Cai, Zhaoran Wang, Tianhu Deng
- NeurIPS 2025 Workshop MLxOR
- Readers: Everyone
Beyond Markovian: Reflective Exploration via Bayes-Adaptive RL for LLM Reasoning
Shenao Zhang, Yaqing Wang, Yinxiao Liu, Tianqi Liu, Peter Grabowski, Eugene Ie, Zhaoran Wang, Yunxuan Li
- PUT at ICML 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Reward-Augmented Data Enhances Direct Preference Alignment of LLMs
Shenao Zhang, Zhihan Liu, Boyi Liu, Yufeng Zhang, Yingxiang Yang, Yongfei Liu, Liyu Chen, Tao Sun, Zhaoran Wang
- ICLR 2025 Workshop Data Problems Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Policy learning “without” overlap: pessimism and generalized empirical Bernstein’s inequality
Ying Jin, Zhimei Ren, Zhuoran Yang, Zhaoran Wang
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
BRiTE: Bootstrapping Reinforced Thinking Process to Enhance Language Model Reasoning
Han Zhong, Yutong Yin, Shenao Zhang, Xiaojun Xu, Yuanxin Liu, Yifei Zuo, Zhihan Liu, Boyi Liu, Sirui Zheng, Hongyi Guo, Liwei Wang, Mingyi Hong, Zhaoran Wang
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone

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