Ziran Yang   |   杨子然

I am currently an undergraduate student majoring in Artificial Intelligence at Yuanpei College, Peking University. I am now guided by Prof. Yaodong Yang, while I am also fortunate to be a member of the Tong Class (an elite AI program led by Prof. Song-Chun Zhu).

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Research Overview

My current research focuses on how we can characterize and control the behavior of astonishingly complex AI systems, particularly those driven by Large Language Models. This is especially pertinent in areas beyond supervised learning, such as employing Reinforcement Learning and Game Theory to help align LLMs in context of Trustworthy AI or enhance their capabilities in long-horizon reasoning for LLM agents.
I am also interested in Multimodal Models and embodied AI, particularly in how these systems perceive and model the world.

Publications

Evolving Diverse Red-team Language Models in Multi-round Multi-agent Games
Chengdong Ma*, Ziran Yang*, Hai Ci, Jun Gao, Minquan Gao, Xuehai Pan, Yaodong Yang
Under Review


Panacea: Pareto Alignment via Preference Adaptation for LLMs
Yifan Zhong*, Chengdong Ma*, Xiaoyuan Zhang*, Ziran Yang, Qingfu Zhang, Siyuan Qi, Yaodong Yang,
Published in Neurips, 2024


SafeSora: Towards Safety Alignment of Text2Video Generation via a Human Preference Dataset
Josef Dai, Tianle Chen, Xuyao Wang, Ziran Yang, Taiye Chen, Jiaming Ji, Yaodong Yang,
Published in Neurips DB Track, 2024




Experience

UCSD Halicioglu Data Science Institute
2024.04 - Present
Visiting Research Intern
Advisor: Prof. Zhiting Hu
PAIR Lab: PKU Alignment and Interaction Research Lab
2023.05 - Present
Research Intern
Advisor: Prof. Yaodong Yang
Tong Class, Peking University
2021.09 - Present
Undergraduate Student
Advisor: Prof. Yixin Zhu, Prof. Song-Chun Zhu

Services

  • Reviewer: International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025).
  • Reviewer: Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024).

  • Before 2022


    Ministry of Education Talent Program Thesis

    I was selected for the Ministry of Education Talent Program and conducted research in the math track guided by Falai Chen at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) during my high school years.

    I was also selected as the Outstanding Thesis of the National Math Forum 2019 of the Ministry of Education Talent Program.


    Selected Awards

  • 2024: Yuanpei College Undergraduate Research Award and Academic Star Title
  • 2024: SenseTime Scholarship Nomination Award
  • 2024: Song Qingling Future Scholarship
  • 2024: Fifth Yuanpei Young Scholar Award
  • 2023: Peking University Institute for Artificial Intelligence Annual Technology Day, Best Innovation Award
  • 2023: Peking University Learning Excellence Award
  • 2023: Peking University Shu Qi Scholarship
  • 2022: Peking University Learning Excellence Award
  • 2022: Peking University Lee Wai Wing Scholarship
  • 2021: Peking University Freshman Scholarship
  • 2020: Chinese Mathematics Olympiad (Anhui Provincial), First Prize
  • 2019: Ministry of Education Talent Program: annual Outstanding Thesis


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