Qingyang Zhang 张庆阳

I am a 3rd-year PhD student at Tianjin University, supervised by Prof. Changqing Zhang. My research interests include Agentic RL, On-Policy Distillation (OPD) and Synthetic Data / Environment Scaling.

I received my Bachelor's degree from the School of Computer Science, Tianjin University. I then pursued my Master's at the same school and transitioned into a PhD candidate through the direct doctoral program (2+4) in 2024.

Currently, I am a research intern in the Post-train Team of Tencent Hunyuan LLM (Qingyun Talent Program), contributing to Hy4 preview and Hy4. I also spent wonderful time at Alibaba Tongyi Qwen, Shanghai AI Lab and Tencent AI Lab.

Qingyang Zhang

News

Foundation Models I contributed to

Hy4

Nov 2026

Contributor · Tencent Hunyuan

Tencent Hunyuan's flagship multimodal LLM.

Hy4 preview

Aug 2026Open-weight

Contributor · Tencent Hunyuan

770B-A49B MoE, 1M context.

P1-VL

Feb 2026Open-weight

Contributor · Shanghai AI Lab

VLM for Physics Olympiad reasoning.

P1

Nov 2025Open-weight

Contributor · Shanghai AI Lab

First open-source model to win IPhO gold.

Publications

EMPO

Right Question is Already Half the Answer: Fully Unsupervised LLM Reasoning Incentivization

Qingyang Zhang, Haitao Wu, Changqing Zhang, Peilin Zhao, Yatao Bian

NeurIPS 2025Spotlight

Incentivize LLM reasoning without any external supervision (human-verified reasoning traces, golden answers or pretrained reward models).

COME

COME: Test-time Adaption by Conservatively Minimizing Entropy

Qingyang Zhang, Yatao Bian, Xinke Kong, Peilin Zhao, Changqing Zhang

ICLR 2025

A simple learning principle for test-time adaptation.

DUL

The Best of Both Worlds: On the Dilemma of Out-of-Distribution Detection

Qingyang Zhang, Qiuxuan Feng, Joey Tianyi Zhou, Yatao Bian, Qinghua Hu, Changqing Zhang

NeurIPS 2024

Resolve the conflict between OOD detection and generalization for dual-optimal performance.

QMF

Provable Dynamic Fusion for Low-quality Multimodal Learning

Qingyang Zhang, Haitao Wu, Changqing Zhang, Qinghua Hu, Huazhu Fu, Joey Tianyi Zhou, Xi Peng

ICML 2023

Theory-inspired dynamic fusion strategy for quality-varying modalities in the real world.

CML

Calibrating Multimodal Learning

Huan Ma, Qingyang Zhang*, Changqing Zhang, Bingzhe Wu, Huazhu Fu, Joey Tianyi Zhou, Qinghua Hu (*co-first author)

ICML 2023Oral

Mitigate the greedy nature of multimodal learning by regularizing model confidence.

Survey

Survey

Multimodal Fusion on Low-quality Data: A Comprehensive Survey

Qingyang Zhang, Yake Wei, Zongbo Han, Huazhu Fu, Xi Peng, Cheng Deng, Qinghua Hu, Cai Xu, Jie Wen, Di Hu, Changqing Zhang

arXiv 2024

A systematic survey on fusion of low-quality multimodal data.

Internships

Services

Conference Reviewer: ICLR 2022–2026, NeurIPS 2023–2025, ICML 2024–2025

Invited Talks

"LLM RL with Internal Rewards" @ BUAA, Huawei 2012 Lab

Awards

National Scholarship (twice, top 1%), 2022, 2023