Hongliang Lu

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Welcome to my personal homepage! My name is Lu Hongliang (卢红亮), and I am a third-year M.E. student in Mechanical Engineering at the College of Engineering, Peking University, advised by Prof. Zaiwen Wen. I received my B.E. degree in Robotics Engineering from Peking University in 2023.

My research centers on the synergy between Reinforcement Learning and Large Language Models, focusing on three key directions:

  • RL for LLMs: Developing data-efficient reinforcement learning algorithms to enhance post-training effectiveness, aiming to improve model performance and alignment with human preferences;

  • Agentic RL: Designing novel RL methods to advance autonomous agent capabilities, with a particular emphasis on self-evolving mechanisms that push the boundaries of agent performance through continuous self-improvement and autonomous capability scaling;

  • LLMs for Optimization: Leveraging the reasoning capabilities of large language models to tackle complex optimization modeling and decision-making problems.

I have interned at two leading AI companies. At Alibaba’s QuarkLLM team (May to September 2025), I contributed to the Deep Search project, designing RL algorithms to strengthen the Deep Search agent’s performance on tasks requiring multi-step reasoning and complex retrieval. Previously, at Moonshot AI (January to May 2025), I worked on data synthesis and RL training for their WebAgent.

news

Jul 30, 2026 The technical report I contributed to, “Qwen-UI-Agent Technical Report: Toward Next-Generation Real-World Centric Foundation GUI Agents”, is now available on arXiv! Learn more on the Qwen-UI-Agent project page. 🤖
May 14, 2026 Our paper “PEARL: Solver-in-the-Loop Interactive Optimization Modeling from Natural Language” is now available on arXiv! We have also open-sourced the code and released the PEARL-Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 model on Hugging Face. 🔓
May 01, 2026 Our paper “Constructing Industrial-Scale Optimization Modeling Benchmark” has been accepted to ICML 2026! 🎉
Jan 28, 2026 Our paper “Search Self-Play: Pushing the Frontier of Agent Capability without Supervision” has been accepted to ICLR 2026! 🎉
Oct 22, 2025 We are excited to release our latest research work in Agentic RL: “Search Self-Play: Pushing the Frontier of Agent Capability without Supervision”! 🚀 The paper has been submitted to ICLR 2026 and explores novel self-play training methods for enhancing agent capabilities without supervision.

education

Peking University · College of Engineering

2023 — 2026
M.E. in Mechanical Engineering

Peking University · College of Engineering

2019 — 2023
B.E. in Robotics Engineering

experience

Alibaba Group · Tongyi Lab

Mar 2026 — Jun 2026
Research Intern (校招提前实习)

Alibaba Group · QuarkLLM

May 2025 — Sep 2025
Research Intern

Moonshot AI · RL Team

Jan 2025 — May 2025
Research Intern

selected publications

  1. Technical Report
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    Qwen-UI-Agent Technical Report: Toward Next-Generation Real-World Centric Foundation GUI Agents
    Hanzhang Zhou*, Panrong Tong*, Xu Zhang* , and 24 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.28227, 2026
  2. ICLR 2026
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    Search Self-Play: Pushing the Frontier of Agent Capability without Supervision
    Hongliang Lu*, Yuhang Wen*, Pengyu Cheng , and 7 more authors
    The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2026
  3. ICML 2025
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    OptMATH: A Scalable Bidirectional Data Synthesis Framework for Optimization Modeling
    Hongliang Lu*, Zhonglin Xie*, Yaoyu Wu , and 3 more authors
    Forty-Second International Conference on Machine Learning, 2025

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