Yang Ziyue
Master Student @ SJTU · AI Agents · Indie Game Developer
I am a master's student in the School of Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. I'm studying at X-lance lab under the guidance of Professor Chen Lu
Welcome to my personal sites. Here includes Research Papers, Games Made, my Honors, and my Volunteer Work. My research interests lie in scientific research agents and reinforcement learning. Additionally, I am an entry-level game developer who has undertaken program and design roles for several independent games.
the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. it eluded us then,
but that's no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out arms farther…
and one fine morning — so we beat on, boats against the current,
borne back ceaselessly into the past. — The Great Gatsby
📄 Papers
Arrange in descending order of publication year.
I am Amadeus, the Amadeus that dreams.
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From Mechanism Discovery to Proposal Closure: Graph-Grounded Hierarchical Search for Scientific Ideation
COLM 2026
Formulates scientific ideation as hierarchical search over a method-level scientific evidence graph: exploring mechanism directions, then closing proposals by binding ideas to concrete baselines, datasets, and experimental protocols, with the clearest gains in feasibility and evidence consistency.
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Externalizing Research Synthesis and Validation in AI Scientists through a Research Harness
arXiv preprint 2026
Introduces Xcientist, a research harness that externalizes literature synthesis and experimental validation into inspectable, contract-governed artifacts, keeping AI scientists' claims attributable and preventing claim drift.
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A Self-powered Spherical Compound Eye with 8 ns-motion Response for Source-constrained Drones
Nature Communications 2026
A self-powered artificial spherical compound eye achieving 8 ns event-driven motion detection across a 294° panoramic field of view, demonstrated on drone-based laser alarming and real-time motion tracking.
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IEA: Amateur-Friendly Conversational Image Editing Agent via Three Stages of Multitask Alignment
CVPR 2026
A conversational image editing agent for amateur users that operates 16 parameterized tools in an explicit, interpretable action space, trained via a three-stage multitask pipeline (SFT, GRPO, synthetic fine-tuning).
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Empowering LLM Tool Invocation with Tool-call Reward Model
ICLR 2026
A tool-call reward model that rewards each tool invocation, integrated with PPO and GRPO via refined credit assignment and turn-level advantage estimation to avoid the gradient conflicts and reward hacking of outcome-only RL rewards.
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Reducing Image Bias: Collaborative Multi-Role Reasoning with Adaptive Modality Filtering for Multimodal Stance Detection
ChinaMM English, Springer Nature Multimedia Article 2025
A collaborative multi-role reasoning framework with adaptive modality filtering that reduces image bias for multimodal stance detection.
🎮 Games
Game demos that I have participated in or independently produced.
This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something.
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Escape the Pool
Collect items in the pool-core space, open the door, and escape as soon as possible. If you spend too much time ....
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Pop You Off
A two-player local battle game created for the Global Game Jam (GGJ) - see who can blow the most bubbles and who can pop the opponent's bubbles first!
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Inside the Game
A game designer falls into the very game he created, where he must fight the bugs that infest it. Step by step he finds his companions — a planner, an artist, a programmer — but as the way out comes into view, a question remains: can he truly leave? And who, exactly, doesn't want him to?
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ShanHai
A 2D Metroidvania. You are an ancient sword granted human form, cutting down the yaoguai of the Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shan Hai Jing) — and, with every strike, piecing together the truth of your own origin.
🏆 Honors
Scholarships and awards I have received.
It's the kind of thing that makes you glad you stopped and smelled the pine trees along the way.
- 2026Outstanding Graduate of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Class of 2026)
- 2025Tang Zhongying Scholarship
- 2024Huawei Scholarship
- 2024SJTU Undergraduate Second-Class Excellence Scholarship, AY 2023–2024 (Top 10%)
- 2024Honorable Mention, MCM/ICM (Mathematical Contest in Modeling)
- 2023First Prize, "Shanshu Cup" Collegiate Mathematical Modeling Elite League
🤝 Volunteer Work
Volunteer programs that I have taken part in.
There ain't no shame in looking for a better world.
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Blue Letter — Letter-writing Volunteer
As a letter-writing volunteer (通信大使) of the Blue Letter Children Care Center, I exchanged monthly handwritten letters with a left-behind child in a rural area, building a long-term one-to-one companionship that offers the child a steady listener and emotional support.
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Classic Literature Guided Reading
Visited local primary schools to pick age-appropriate classics for the students and lead guided reading sessions — introducing each book, explaining the difficult passages, and opening discussion, so that reading becomes a habit beyond the textbook.
🌿 Hobbies
🎮 PC GAME · 🎸 Guitar · ✨ ACG · 🏀 Basketball & NBA · 📚 Reading