Wei Yang

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Viterbi School of Engineering, USC

Los Angeles, USA

My name is Wei Yang. I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California (USC), advised by Prof. Yue Zhao, Prof. Jesse Thomason, and Prof. Xuezhe Ma. I am a member of the FORTIS Lab and the GLAMOR Lab. I received my B.S. degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

I am on the 2027 job market! Please feel free to reach out if you think I would be a good fit, and I would greatly appreciate any referrals.

πŸ”¬ Research Interests

My research interests primarily lie in Multi-Agent LLM Systems, Agentic Data Synthesis, Self-Evolving LLMs, Multi-Agent RL, and Generative & Multimodal Ranking:

  • Agentic LLM Systems
    • Long-term Memory
    • Meta-Thinking MAS Collaboration
    • LLM Reasoning Compression
    • Rubrics-oriented Auto-Research
  • Data Synthesis for Self-Evolving LLMs
    • Agentic Data Synthesis
    • Feedback-driven Self-Evolving LLMs
    • Synthesis - Reasoning Agents Co-training
  • Multi-Agent LLMs RL Co-training
    • General RL Framework for MAS LLMs
    • Efficient MARL Algorithms
  • Generative & Multimodal Ranking
    • User Preference Reasoning, Alignment & Optimization
    • Cross-Modal Fusion & Alignment
    • Multi-Agent Collaboration for Reranking

πŸ—žοΈ News

Date Update
Sep 24, 2026 πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰ Two papers are accepted by NeurIPS 2026.
Sep 02, 2026 πŸŽ‰ One papers is accepted by AI OPEN [IF8.9, CiteScore31.3].
Aug 20, 2026 πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰ Two papers are accepted by EMNLP 2026.
Jul 10, 2026 πŸŽ‰ One paper is accepted by ICCAD 2026.
Jun 09, 2026 πŸŽ‰ One paper is accepted by TMLR 2026.
May 26, 2026 πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯ We release UnityMAS-O: A General RL Optimization Framework for Multi-Agent LLM Systems article
May 17, 2026 πŸŽ‰ One paper is accepted by KDD 2026.
Apr 30, 2026 πŸŽ‰ One paper is accepted by ICML 2026. Honored to be nominated as a Gold Reviewer.
Apr 02, 2026 πŸŽ‰ One paper is accepted by SIGIR 2026 Oral.
Mar 13, 2026 πŸŽ‰ Our team is selected as a Finalist for the 2026 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship: link
Mar 06, 2026 🎀 Give a Talk at NICE AI on Human-Multi-Agent Collaboration: post
Feb 25, 2026 πŸŽ‰ One paper is accepted by TMLR 2026.
Feb 20, 2026 πŸ”₯ We release TemporalBench Benchmark for LLM Agents on Contextual Time Series: article
Jan 26, 2026 πŸŽ‰ One paper is accepted by MLSys 2026 Oral.
Jan 26, 2026 πŸŽ‰ One paper is accepted by ICLR 2026.
Jan 17, 2026 πŸŽ‰ One paper is accepted by ICASSP 2026 Oral.
Dec 16, 2025 πŸ”₯ We release Towards Evolutionary Agentic LLMs with MARL Survey: article
Nov 09, 2025 πŸ“° Interviewed by MIT Technology Review: article - Meta-Policy Multi-Agent Collaboration
Nov 07, 2025 πŸŽ‰ One paper is accepted by AAAI 2026.
Sep 16, 2025 πŸ”₯ We release Reasoning and Agentic LLMs for Time Series Survey: article
Sep 10, 2025 πŸŽ‰ One paper is accepted by NeurIPS 2025.
Jul 05, 2025 πŸŽ‰ One paper is accepted by ACM MM 2025.
Jul 03, 2025 πŸŽ‰ One paper is accepted by RecSys 2025.
Apr 05, 2025 πŸŽ‰ One paper is accepted by SIGIR 2025 Oral.
Jan 15, 2025 πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰ Two papers are accepted by WWW 2025 Oral.
Jul 01, 2024 πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰ Two papers are accepted by ACM MM 2024.
Apr 05, 2024 πŸŽ‰ One paper is accepted by IJCAI 2024.


selected publications

  1. arXiv
    SynCo: Data Synthesis Co-Training for Self-Evolving LLMs via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
    Wei Yang, Shawn Li, Yuehan Qin, and 8 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.11345, 2026
  2. arXiv
    Know What You Don’t Know: Agentic Data Synthesis by Evolving Generation Space for Closed-Loop Learning
    Wei Yang, Qing Ping, Youzhi Luo, and 4 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.12593, 2026
  3. arXiv
    GRADUS: Discovering and Recovering Agent Lessons from the Environment’s Latent Syllabus
    Qing Ping, Wei Yang, Panpan Xu, and 4 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.27781, 2026
  4. arXiv
    From Relevant Memories to Sufficient Evidence: Rethinking Memory Utilization in LLM Agents
    Shixuan Li*, Wei Yang*, Peiyu Zhang, and 7 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.22668, 2026
  5. arXiv
    Beyond Final Accuracy: Auditing Communication in LLM Multi-Agent Systems
    Shixuan Li*, Wei Yang*, Peiyu Zhang, and 3 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.01042, 2026
  6. NeurIPS2026
    OASES: Outcome-Aligned Search-Evaluation Co-Training for Agentic Search
    Erhan Zhang, Yiqun Chen, Zechun Niu, and 6 more authors
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2026
  7. NeurIPS2026
    Memory Retrieval for Changing Preferences
    Yuehan Qin, Li Li, Linxin Song, and 4 more authors
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2026
  8. AI OPEN
    Toward Evolutionary Intelligence: LLM-based Agentic Systems with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
    Wei Yang, Muyan Weng, Jiacheng Pang, and 8 more authors
    Available at SSRN 5819182, 2025
  9. EMNLP2026
    Tournament-GRPO: Group-Wise Tournament Rewards for Reinforcement Learning in Open-Ended Long-Form Generation
    Zixuan Yang*, Yiqun Chen*, Wei Yang*, and 7 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.26958, 2026
  10. EMNLP2026
    Auditing Multi-Agent LLM Reasoning Trees Outperforms Majority Vote and LLM-as-Judge
    Wei Yang*, Shixuan Li*, Heng Ping, and 3 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.09341, 2026
  11. arXiv
    RaMem: Contextual Reinstatement for Long-term Agentic Memory
    Wei Yang, Bryce Kan, Shixuan Li, and 5 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.22844, 2026
  12. arXiv
    UnityMAS-O: A General RL Optimization Framework for LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems
    Yiqun Chen, Wei Yang, Erhan Zhang, and 8 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.26646, 2026
  13. TMLR 2026
    A Survey of Reasoning and Agentic Systems in Time Series with Large Language Models
    Ching Chang, Yidan Shi, Defu Cao, and 8 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.11575, 2026
  14. KDD 2026
    TemporalBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLM-Based Agents on Contextual and Event-Informed Time Series Tasks
    Muyan Weng, Defu Cao, Wei Yang, and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.13272, 2026
  15. ICML 2026
    "Someone Hid It": Query-Agnostic Black-Box Attacks on LLM-Based Retrieval
    Jiate Li, Defu Cao, Li Li, and 8 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.00364, 2026
  16. SIGIR 2026
    TimeMM: Time-as-Operator Spectral Filtering for Dynamic Multimodal Recommendation
    Wei Yang, Rui Zhong, Zihan Lin, and 4 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.26247, 2026
  17. arXiv
    PRAISE: Prefix-Based Rollout Reuse in Agentic Search Training
    Erhan Zhang, Yiqun Chen, Zechun Niu, and 6 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.03675, 2026
  18. ICLR 2026
    Adaptive Collaboration with Humans: Metacognitive Policy Optimization for Multi-Agent LLMs with Continual Learning
    Wei Yang, Defu Cao, Jiacheng Pang, and 2 more authors
    In The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2026
  19. TMLR 2026
    TS-Reasoner: Domain-oriented time series inference agents for reasoning and automated analysis
    Wen Ye*, Wei Yang*, Defu Cao, and 4 more authors
    Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2026
  20. arXiv
    Self-Compression of Chain-of-Thought via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
    Yiqun Chen*, Jinyuan Feng*, Wei Yang*, and 9 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.21919, 2026
  21. arXiv
    De-conflating Preference and Qualification: Constrained Dual-Perspective Reasoning for Job Recommendation with Large Language Models
    Bryce Kan*, Wei Yang*, Emily Nguyen, and 4 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.03097, 2026
  22. MLSys 2026
    VeriMoA: A Mixture-of-Agents Framework for Spec-to-HDL Generation
    Heng Ping, Arijit Bhattacharjee, Peiyu Zhang, and 8 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.27617, 2025
  23. arXiv
    Maestro: Learning to Collaborate via Conditional Listwise Policy Optimization for Multi-Agent LLMs
    Wei Yang, Jiacheng Pang, Shixuan Li, and 3 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.06134, 2025
  24. WWW 2025
    TourRank: Utilizing Large Language Models for Document Ranking with a Tournament-Inspired Strategy
    Yiqun Chen, Qi Liu, Yi Zhang, and 6 more authors
    In Proceedings of The Web Conference (WWW) 2025, 2025
  25. AAAI 2026
    Learning to Deliberate: Meta-Policy Collaboration for Agentic LLMs with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
    Wei Yang and Jesse Thomason
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.03817, 2025
  26. NeurIPS 2025
    Structured Spectral Reasoning for Frequency-Adaptive Multimodal Recommendation
    Wei Yang, Rui Zhong, Yiqun Chen, and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.01372, 2025
  27. ACM MM 2025
    FITMM: Adaptive Frequency-Aware Multimodal Recommendation via Information-Theoretic Representation Learning
    Wei Yang, Rui Zhong, Yiqun Chen, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2025), 2025
  28. WWW 2025
    Hierarchical Sequence ID Representation of Large Language Models for Large-Scale Recommendation Systems
    Rui Zhao, Rui Zhong, Haoran Zheng, and 5 more authors
    In Companion Proceedings of The Web Conference (WWW) 2025, 2025
  29. SIGIR 2025
    Hierarchical Tree Search-Based User Lifelong Behavior Modeling on Large Language Model
    Yu Xia, Rui Zhong, Hao Gu, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), 2025
  30. RecSys 2025
    R4ec: A Reasoning, Reflection, and Refinement Framework for Recommendation Systems
    Hao Gu, Rui Zhong, Yu Xia, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Nineteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2025), 2025
  31. ACM MM 2024
    Enhancing Transformer-Based Semantic Matching for Few-Shot Learning through Weakly Contrastive Pre-Training
    Wei Yang, Tengfei Huo, and Zhiqiang Liu
    In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2024), 2024
  32. IJCAI 2024
    PTDE: Personalized Training with Distilled Execution for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
    Yiqun Chen, Hangyu Mao, Jiaxin Mao, and 5 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.08872, 2024
  33. ACM MM 2024
    Multimodal-Aware Multi-Intention Learning for Recommendation
    Wei Yang and Qingchen Yang
    In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2024), 2024
  34. IJCNN 2022
    Commander-Soldiers Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems
    Yiqun Chen, Wei Yang, Tianle Zhang, and 2 more authors
    In 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2022), 2022