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Zongmeng Zhang

Ph.D. Candidate

University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

zhangzm@mail.ustc.edu.cn

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Biography

I am currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), with an expected graduation in the summer of 2026. My research interests include large language models and reinforcement learning. My supervisors are Prof. Houqiang Li and Prof. Wengang Zhou. I received the B.E. degree from Shandong University (SDU) in 2021, where I was advised by Prof. Liqiang Nie and Prof. Xuemeng Song.

I am currently working on developing advanced coding agent at Qwen Team. If you are interested in me, feel free to reach out to me via WeChat: leviohsa.

Publications

  • Scaling Agentic Verifier for Competitive Coding
        Zeyao Ma, Jing Zhang, Xiaokang Zhang, Jiaxi Yang, Zongmeng Zhang, Jiajun Zhang, Yuheng Jing, Lei Zhang, Hao Zheng, Wenting Zhao, Junyang Lin, Binyuan Hui
        International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026
        [paper]

  • Exploration-Exploitation Reshaping towards Efficient Reasoning for Large Language Models
        Yufeng Shi, Weilin Luo, Yuxiang Zhang, Zongmeng Zhang, Haoyang Liu, Yubing Wang, Bin Wang, Wengang Zhou, Houqiang Li
        Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2026
        [paper]

  • Qwen3-Coder-Next Technical Report
        Qwen Team
        ArXiv, 2026
        [paper]

  • SWE-Universe: Scale Real-World Verifiable Environments to Millions
        Mouxiang Chen, Lei Zhang, Yunlong Feng, Xuwu Wang, Wenting Zhao, Ruisheng Cao, Jiaxi Yang, Jiawei Chen, Mingze Li, Zeyao Ma, Hao Ge, Zongmeng Zhang, Zeyu Cui, Dayiheng Liu, Jingren Zhou, Jianling Sun, Junyang Lin, Binyuan Hui
        ArXiv, 2026
        [paper]

  • Robust Multimodal Large Language Models Against Modality Conflict
        Zongmeng Zhang, Wengang Zhou, Jie Zhao, Houqiang Li
        International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025
        [paper] [code]

  • Mitigating Hallucination in VideoLLMs via Temporal-Aware Activation Engineering
        Jianfeng Cai, Wengang Zhou, Zongmeng Zhang, Jiale Hong, Nianji Zhan, Houqiang Li
        Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025

        [paper] [code]

  • Controllable Style Arithmetic with Language Models
        Weiqi Wang, Wengang Zhou, Zongmeng Zhang, Jie Zhao, Houqiang Li
        Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025
        [paper] [code]

  • Qwen3 Technical Report
        Qwen Team
        ArXiv, 2025
        [paper]

  • Single-Source Dual-Stream Representation Learning for DNA Sequence Classification
        Jiarui Zhou, Zongmeng Zhang, Min Wang, Wengang Zhou, Houqiang Li
        ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), 2025

        [paper] [code]

  • Trustworthy Alignment of Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models via Reinforcement Learning
        Zongmeng Zhang, Yufeng Shi, Jinhua Zhu, Wengang Zhou, Xiang Qi, Peng Zhang, Houqiang Li
        International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024
        [paper] [code]

  • BoolQuestions: Does Dense Retrieval Understand Boolean Logic in Language?
        Zongmeng Zhang, Jinhua Zhu, Wengang Zhou, Xiang Qi, Peng Zhang, Houqiang Li
        Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024
        [paper] [code]

  • Hybrid and Collaborative Passage Reranking
        Zongmeng Zhang, Wengang Zhou, Jiaxin Shi, Houqiang Li
        Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023
        [paper] [code]

  • Multi-Modal Interaction Graph Convolutional Network for Temporal Language Localization in Videos
        Zongmeng Zhang, Xianjing Han, Xuemeng Song, Yan Yan, Liqiang Nie
        IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2021
        [paper] [code]

Working Experiences

Feb., 2025 - present    Intern, Qwen Team, Alibaba

Awards

2023    National Scholarship for Graduate Student

2022    Huawei Scholarship

2021    Honours Degree in Shandong University

2021    Outstanding Undergraduate Dissertation Award in Shandong University

2021    Outstanding Graduate of Shandong University

2020    National Scholarship for Undergraduate Student

2019    First Prize of China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM)