School of EECS, The University of Queensland, Australia
I am a PhD student at The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. My research focuses on large language models (LLMs) and diffusion large language models (dLLMs), conducted under the supervision of Dr. Ruihong Qiu and Prof. Zi (Helen) Huang. I completed my dual Bachelor of Computer Science and Master of Data Science degrees at UQ under the supervision of Prof. Zi (Helen) Huang, graduating on 16 December 2023.
We study block-size domain conflict in multi-domain RL post-training for dLLMs, introduce Block-R1-41K and Block-R1 benchmark, and propose sample-level best-improved training block sizes.
We propose b1, a post-training framework that learns dynamic-size reasoning blocks via Monotonic Entropy Descent with reinforcement learning to improve reasoning coherence in dLLMs.
We propose the ALEX framework for balanced and explainable social media analysis in public health using data augmentation and LLM-based explanation.