Zhenwei Dai

Researcher, Microsoft

Joined

August 2019

Names

Zhenwei Dai (Preferred)

Zhenwei DAI

Emails

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Microsoft (microsoft.com)

2025 – Present

Researcher

Amazon (amazon.com)

2022 – 2025

PhD student

Rice University (rice.edu)

2018 – 2022

MS student

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (cuhk.edu.hk)

2016 – 2018

Undergrad student

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (cuhk.edu.hk)

2012 – 2016

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

George Karypis

2022 – 2023

PhD Advisor & Co-author

Anshumali Shrivastava

2018 – 2023

PhD Advisor

Reinhard Heckel

2018 – 2022

Expertise

large language model

2022 – Present

natural language processing

2021 – Present

deep learning efficiency

2019 – Present

information retrieval

2018 – Present

Publications

How Do Latent Reasoning Methods Perform Under Weak and Strong Supervision?
Yingqian Cui, Zhenwei Dai, Bing He, Zhan Shi, Hui Liu, Rui Sun, Zhiji Liu, Yue Xing, Jiliang Tang, Benoit Dumoulin
- LIT Workshop @ ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Adaptive Test-Time Reasoning via Reward-Guided Dual-Phase Search
Yingqian Cui, Zhenwei Dai, Pengfei He, Bing He, Hui Liu, Xianfeng Tang, Jingying Zeng, Suhang Wang, Yue Xing, Jiliang Tang, Benoit Dumoulin
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
TRAJECT-Bench:A Trajectory-Aware Benchmark for Evaluating Agentic Tool Use
Pengfei He, Zhenwei Dai, Bing He, Hui Liu, Xianfeng Tang, Hanqing Lu, Juanhui Li, Jiayuan Ding, Subhabrata Mukherjee, Suhang Wang, Yue Xing, Jiliang Tang, Benoit Dumoulin
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Bradley-Terry and Multi-Objective Reward Modeling Are Complementary
Zhiwei Zhang, Hui Liu, Xiaomin Li, Zhenwei Dai, Jingying Zeng, Fali Wang, Minhua Lin, Ramraj Chandradevan, Linlin Wu, Zhen Li, Chen Luo, Zongyu Wu, Xianfeng Tang, Qi He, Suhang Wang
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Seeing but Not Believing: Probing the Disconnect Between Visual Attention and Answer Correctness in VLMs
Zhining Liu, Ziyi Chen, Hui Liu, Chen Luo, Xianfeng Tang, Suhang Wang, Jingying Zeng, Zhenwei Dai, Zhan Shi, Tianxin Wei, Hanqing Lu, Benoit Dumoulin, Hanghang Tong
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
How Far Are LLMs from Professional Poker Players? Revisiting Game-Theoretic Reasoning with Agentic Tool Use
Minhua Lin, Enyan Dai, Hui Liu, Xianfeng Tang, Yuliang Yan, Zhenwei Dai, Jingying Zeng, Zhiwei Zhang, Fali Wang, Hongcheng Gao, Chen Luo, Xiang Zhang, Qi He, Suhang Wang
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
In-Context Personalized Alignment with Feedback History under Counterfactual Evaluation
Xisen Jin, Zheng Li, Zhenwei Dai, Hui Liu, Xianfeng Tang, Chen Luo, Rahul Goutam, Xiang Ren, Qi He
- MoFA Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Keeping an Eye on LLM Unlearning: The Hidden Risk and Remedy
Jie Ren, Zhenwei DAI, Xianfeng Tang, Yue Xing, Shenglai Zeng, Hui Liu, Jingying Zeng, Qiankun Peng, Samarth Varshney, Suhang Wang, Qi He, Charu C. Aggarwal, Hui Liu
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
AgentTTS: Large Language Model Agent for Test-time Compute-optimal Scaling Strategy in Complex Tasks
Fali Wang, Hui Liu, Zhenwei DAI, Jingying Zeng, Zhiwei Zhang, Zongyu Wu, Chen Luo, Zhen Li, Xianfeng Tang, Qi He, Suhang Wang
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Examples as the Prompt: A Scalable Approach for Efficient LLM Adaptation in E-Commerce
Jingying Zeng, Zhenwei Dai, Hui Liu, Samarth Varshney, Zhiji Liu, Chen Luo, Zheng Li, Qi He, Xianfeng Tang
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone

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