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Runyang You

1st year Ph.D. Student

PolyU NLP Group

Department of Computing

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University


I am Runyang You, a first-year Ph.D. student at the NLP Group of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, co-supervised by Prof. Wenjie Li (Maggie) and Prof. Yongqi Li. I received my M.Sc. from University College London (2023) and my B.Sc. from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (2022).

Research

My work spans two directions:

  • LLM Reasoning — I study how reasoning can make language models both more efficient and more useful: accelerating inference with latent reasoning (ACL'26) , and extending reasoning into recommendation (NeurIPS'25).

  • LLM Agents — I investigate whether LLM agents can act as reliable judges for evaluating complex AI systems (arXiv'26).

📬 I am open to collaborations and discussions. Please feel free to reach out if you are interested in my research or related topics.

Publications

Parallel Test-Time Scaling for Latent Reasoning Models

Runyang You, Yongqi Li, Meng Liu, Wenjie Wang, Liqiang Nie, Wenjie Li

ACL 2026 (Main)

R2ec: Towards Large Recommender Models with Reasoning

Runyang You, Yongqi Li, Xinyu Lin, Xin Zhang, Wenjie Wang, Wenjie Li, Liqiang Nie

NeurIPS 2025

Surveys

A Survey on Agent-as-a-Judge

Runyang You, Hongru Cai, Caiqi Zhang, Qiancheng Xu, Meng Liu, Tiezheng Yu, Yongqi Li, Wenjie Li

Submitted to TPAMI

Experiences

Large Language Model Machine Learning Engineer

Ping An (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.

2024 - 2025

Education

University College London

M.Sc. Scientific and Data Intensive Computing

* Awarded the Harrie Massey Prize as the top-1 student

2022 - 2023

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

B.Sc. of Telecommunications Engineering

* Top 15%, Received 3 years of scholarships and outstanding student awards

2018 - 2022