A work in progress
Ruiyao Xu.
I'm a Ph.D. candidate at Northwestern University. I work on self-improving LLM agents, synthetic data, and alignment. Previously, I studied Applied Mathematics at UCLA.
I'm on the job market for full-time Research Scientist or Applied Scientist roles in industry. Let's connect ↗
Selected preprints and publications
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* Equal contribution.
Recursive Self-Improvement
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Harness²: Recursive Agent Harnessing for an Open World
Work done during an internship at Google Cloud AI Research.
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HyperSkill: Self-Evolving LLM Agents via Hypergraph-Structured Skill Memory
LLM Reasoning and Alignment
Data-Centric Post-Training
Other Selected Work
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The Text Uncanny Valley: Non-Monotonic Performance Degradation in LLM Information Retrieval
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MUSTANG: Multi-Variable Spatio-Temporal Meta-Learning for Water Data Imputation
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A Survey of Agent Memory in the Second Half: Towards Self-Evolving and Long-Horizon Agents
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AD-LLM: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Anomaly Detection
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Large Language Models for Anomaly and Out-of-Distribution Detection: A Survey