PhD · Pattern Recognition & Intelligent Systems
Huanxuan Liao 廖桓萱
I am a second-year PhD student in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems at the
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)
and the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
(CASIA),
advised by Prof. Shizhu He and
Prof. Kang Liu.
Previously, I earned my B.Eng. from
North China Electric Power University (NCEPU) (2023),
working with
Prof. Min Shi and Prof. Yun Ju.
Better data & architectures for Stronger models and longer horizons.
Research statement · Long-Horizon Adaptive Intelligence
I study foundation models for long-horizon adaptive intelligence: models that use growing contexts effectively, acquire and retain reusable capabilities across evolving tasks, and act reliably over extended interactions.
- Long-Context Data & Model Co-Design: long-context data curation and synthesis, length- and capability-aware mixtures, scalable pretraining and mid-training, efficient attention, KV-cache optimization, and architectures to jointly improve capability, scalability, and efficiency (Awesome-LCLM, HyCo2, SparK, ResAdapt).
- Knowledge & Continual Adaptation: mechanisms for acquiring, transferring, internalizing, and updating knowledge and capabilities across evolving tasks, while balancing plasticity, retention, and generalization (TAGI, AAG, NesyCD, SKIntern, SpaRTA).
- Agent Learning & Self-Improvement: persistent memory, long-horizon decision-making, and learning from interaction and feedback, toward agents that verifiably refine their memory, policies, and learning procedures (CITI, KATE, OPERATE, Distill Yourself, Scientist's Last Exam).
Education & Background
PhD in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems
University of Chinese Academy of
Sciences (UCAS)
2023 - Present
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy
of Sciences (CASIA)
2023 - Present
B.Eng. in Intelligence Science and Technology
North China Electric Power
University (NCEPU)
2019 - 2023
Graduated with honors, Outstanding Graduate
Recent News
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Paper One paper accepted to EMNLP 2026 (Main). BuPO (co-author).
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Paper One paper accepted to the FAGEN Workshop at ICML 2026. Multi-step tool-use RL study (co-author).
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Paper One paper accepted to AAAI 2026. SparK (first author).
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Award Received the National Scholarship from the Ministry of Education at CASIA.
Earlier news
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Paper One paper accepted to ACL 2025 (Main). ETAPP (co-author).
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Survey A Comprehensive Survey on Long Context Language Modeling released on arXiv (co-author and core contributor).
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Paper One paper accepted to NeurIPS 2024. TAGI (first author).
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Paper One paper accepted to CCKS 2023. Dynamic Weighted Neural Bellman-Ford Network (first author).
Award Received the Beijing Outstanding Graduate honor.
Publications
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Conference Papers
Preprints
Collaborative Works
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Awards & Honors
Scholarships & Honors
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National Scholarship (国家奖学金)
Ministry of Education
CASIA (2025) - NCEPU (2021-2022, 2 consecutive years). Top scholarship in China; 0.2% domestically
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Climbing Second Prize Scholarship
Institute of Automation, CAS, 2024
Top scholarship in CASIA
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Beijing Outstanding Graduate Awards
Beijing Ministry of Education, 2023
Top graduate in Beijing
Competitions
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National Third Prize
Information Security Competition, 2022
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National Excellence
College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project, 2021
Academic Services
Conference Reviewing
- ACL ARR 2024–2026
- NeurIPS 2025–2026
- ICML 2026
- COLM 2026
- ICLR 2025–2026
- AAAI 2026
Community Contributions
- Awesome-LLM-Long-Context-Modeling > 2.2k
- Distill Yourself Homepage
- LCLM-Horizon Survey Core Contributor
- NVIDIA/kvpress Contributor