Zhongruo Wang

Applied Scientist, SFAI, Amazon

Joined

September 2023

Names

Zhongruo Wang (Preferred)

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@amazon.com (Confirmed)

****@ucdavis.edu (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Applied Scientist

SFAI, Amazon (amazon.com)

2022 – Present

PhD student

University of California, Davis (ucdavis.edu)

2016 – 2022

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coworker

Mingyi Hong

2023 – Present

Coworker

Kai Zhong

2022 – Present

PhD Advisor

Krishna Balasubramanian

2018 – 2022

PhD Advisor

Shiqian Ma

2017 – 2022

Expertise

Optimization

Present

Generative AI

2023 – Present

BERT

2021 – Present

machine learning

2016 – Present

optimization

2016 – 2022

Publications

GmNet: Revisiting Gating Mechanisms From A Frequency View
Yifan Wang, Xu Ma, Yitian Zhang, Yizhou Wang, Zhongruo Wang, Sung-Cheol Kim, Vahid Mirjalili, Vidya Renganathan, Yun Fu
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Aligning Frozen LLMs by Reinforcement Learning: An Iterative Reweight-then-Optimize Approach
Xinnan Zhang, Chenliang Li, Siliang Zeng, Jiaxiang Li, Zhongruo Wang, Songtao Lu, Kaixiang Lin, Alfredo Garcia, Mingyi Hong
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
ST-PPO: Stabilized Off-Policy Proximal Policy Optimization for Multi-Turn Agents
Chenliang Li, Adel Elmahdy, Alex James Boyd, Zhongruo Wang, Alfredo Garcia, Parminder Bhatia, Taha Kass-Hout, Cao Xiao, Mingyi Hong
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
SFT Doesn’t Always Hurt General Capabilities: Revisiting Domain-Specific Fine-Tuning in LLMs
Jiacheng Lin, Zhongruo Wang, Kun Qian, Tian Wang, Arvind Srinivasan, Hansi Zeng, Ruochen Jiao, Xie Zhou, Jiri Gesi, Dakuo Wang, Yufan Guo, Kai Zhong, Weiqi Zhang, sujay sanghavi, Changyou Chen, Hyokun Yun, Lihong Li
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
SynerGen: Contextualized Generative Recommender for Unified Search and Recommendation
Vianne R. Gao, Chen Xue, Marc Versage, Xie Zhou, Zhongruo Wang, Chao Li, Yeon Seonwoo, Nan Chen, Zhen Ge, Gourab Kundu, Weiqi Zhang, Tian Wang, qingjun cui, Trishul Chilimbi
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
GT2Vec: Large Language Models for Knowledge Graph Augmented Text Embedding
Jiacheng Lin, Kun Qian, Haoyu Han, Nurendra Choudhary, Tianxin Wei, Zhongruo Wang, Sahika Genc, Edward W Huang, Sheng Wang, Karthik Subbian, Danai Koutra, Jimeng Sun
- KDD 2025 Workshop SKnow-LLM Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Reinforcement Learning in Inference Time: A Perspective from Successive Policy Iterations
Xinnan Zhang, Chenliang Li, Siliang Zeng, Jiaxiang Li, Zhongruo Wang, Songtao Lu, Alfredo Garcia, Mingyi Hong
- Reasoning and Planning for LLMs @ ICLR2025
- Readers: Everyone
A Survey for Foundation Models in Autonomous Driving
Haoxiang Gao, Zhongruo Wang, Yaqian Li, Kaiwen Long, Ming Yang, Yiqing Shen
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Automatic Dataset Construction (ADC): Sample Collection, Data Curation, and Beyond
Minghao Liu, Zonglin Di, Jiaheng Wei, Zhongruo Wang, Hengxiang Zhang, Ruixuan Xiao, Haoyu Wang, Jinlong Pang, Hao Chen, Ankit Shah, Hongxin Wei, Xinlei He, Zhaowei Zhu, Haobo Wang, Lei Feng, Jindong Wang, James Davis, Yang Liu
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone

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