Zongze Li

I'm a first-year M.Phil. student in Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University, advised by Prof. Bo Han in the TMLR Group. I received my B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology (Excellent Class) from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2026.

My research focuses on foundation model reasoning: understanding what actually drives an LLM's reasoning, and making it stronger through training-time and test-time methods.

I am always open to discussions and possible collaborations. Please feel free to email me!

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Research

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Selected Preprints

AlphaApollo: A System for Deep Agentic Reasoning

Zhanke Zhou, Chentao Cao, Xiao Feng, Xuan Li, Zongze Li, Xiangyu Lu, Jiangchao Yao, Weikai Huang, Tian Cheng, Jianghangfan Zhang, Tangyu Jiang, Linrui Xu, Yiming Zheng, Brando Miranda, Tongliang Liu, Sanmi Koyejo, Masashi Sugiyama, Bo Han

Technical Report Paper Code Website

AlphaDiana: A System for Evaluating Reasoning Agents

Zhanke Zhou, Zongze Li, Weikai Huang, Xuan Li, Chentao Cao, Xiao Feng, Xiangyu Lu, Jinbo Hu, Menghan Lu, Yi Xie, Nico Pelleriti, Shiyang Liu, Max Zimmer, Brando Miranda, Jiangchao Yao, Bo Liu, Sanmi Koyejo, Sebastian Pokutta, Bo Han

Technical Report Paper Code Website

Selected Conference Papers

On the Fragility of Latent Knowledge: Layer-wise Influence under Unlearning in Large Language Model

Jianing Zhu, Zongze Li, Chandler Squires, Qizhou Wang, Bo Han, Pradeep Ravikumar

NeurIPS 2026 Paper

Reference-guided Policy Optimization for Molecular Optimization via LLM Reasoning

Xuan Li, Zhanke Zhou, Zongze Li, Jiangchao Yao, Yu Rong, Lu Zhang, Bo Han

ICLR 2026 Paper Code

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