Zhihan Yang

PhD student, Computer Science, Cornell University

Joined

September 2021

Names

Zhihan Yang (Preferred)

Emails

****@carleton.edu (Confirmed)

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****@cornell.edu (Confirmed)

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****@cs.cornell.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

Computer Science, Cornell University (cornell.edu)

2024 – Present

Undergrad student

Mathematics & Statistics, Carleton College (carleton.edu)

2018 – 2023

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

No relations added

Expertise

Machine Learning

Present

Generative Models

Present

Reinforcement Learning

Present

Publications

Esoteric Language Models: Bridging Autoregressive and Masked Diffusion LLMs
Subham Sekhar Sahoo, Zhihan Yang, Yash Akhauri, Johnna Liu, Deepansha Singh, Zhoujun Cheng, Zhengzhong Liu, Eric P. Xing, John Thickstun, Arash Vahdat
- ICLR 2026 Workshop MM Intelligence Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Esoteric Language Models
Subham Sekhar Sahoo, Zhihan Yang, Yash Akhauri, Johnna Liu, Deepansha Singh, Zhoujun Cheng, Zhengzhong Liu, Eric P. Xing, John Thickstun, Arash Vahdat
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Block Diffusion: Interpolating Between Autoregressive and Diffusion Language Models
Marianne Arriola, Aaron Gokaslan, Justin T Chiu, Zhihan Yang, Zhixuan Qi, Jiaqi Han, Subham Sekhar Sahoo, Volodymyr Kuleshov
- ICLR 2025 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Under Mixed Observability
Hai Nguyen, Zhihan Yang, Andrea Baisero, Xiao Ma, Robert Platt, Christopher Amato
- 2022 (modified: 14 Apr 2023)
- WAFR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Recurrent Off-policy Baselines for Memory-based Continuous Control
Zhihan Yang, Hai Huu Nguyen
- 12 Oct 2021 (modified: 12 Oct 2025)
- Deep RL Workshop NeurIPS 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Game Level Clustering and Generation Using Gaussian Mixture VAEs
Zhihan Yang, Anurag Sarkar, Seth Cooper
- AIIDE 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Conditional Level Generation and Game Blending
Anurag Sarkar, Zhihan Yang, Seth Cooper
- AIIDE Workshops 2020
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors