I am a DPhil student of WhiRL at University of Oxford, advised by Prof. Shimon Whiteson. I’m also a member of AIMS CDT. I’m generally interested in improving the efficiency and generalization of reinforcement learning (RL). Currently I mainly focus on meta-RL and multi-task RL to achieve this goal, with application in domains such as robotic control and automated algorithm design.
Previously, I graduated from Tsinghua University with Bachelor in Electronic Engineering and Master in Computer Science, working on automated machine learning with Prof. Wenwu Zhu.
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Education
- University of Oxford (2020 - Expected 2024), DPhil in Computer Science, supervised by Prof. Shimon Whiteson
- Tsinghua University (2017 - 2020), MSc in Computer Science, supervised by Prof. Wenwu Zhu.
- Tsinghua University (2013 - 2017), BSc in Electronic Engineering
Work Experience
- Huawei, London (2023.8 - 2023.12)
- Mila (2019.12 - 2020.3), advised by Prof. Jian Tang
- University of Freiburg (2019.7 - 2019.9), advised by Prof. Frank Hutter
Publications
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Pangu-Agent: A Fine-Tunable Generalist Agent with Structured Reasoning
Filippos Christianos*, Georgios Papoudakis*, Matthieu Zimmer, Thomas Coste, Zhihao Wu, Jingxuan Chen, Khyati Khandelwal, James Doran, Xidong Feng, Jiacheng Liu, Zheng Xiong, Yicheng Luo, Jianye Hao, Kun Shao, Haitham Bou-Ammar, Jun Wang
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Recurrent Hypernetworks are Surprisingly Strong in Meta-RL
NeurIPS 2023
Jacob Beck, Risto Vuorio, Zheng Xiong, Shimon Whiteson
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Universal Morphology Control via Contextual Modulation
ICML 2023
Zheng Xiong, Jacob Beck, Shimon Whiteson
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A Survey of Meta-Reinforcement Learning
Jacob Beck*, Risto Vuorio*, Evan Zheran Liu, Zheng Xiong, Luisa Zintgraf, Chelsea Finn, Shimon Whiteson
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On the practical consistency of meta-reinforcement learning algorithms
NeurIPS 2021 Meta Learning Workshop
Zheng Xiong, Luisa Zintgraf, Jacob Beck, Risto Vuorio, Shimon Whiteson
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Graph policy network for transferable active learning on graphs
NeurIPS 2020
Shengding Hu, Zheng Xiong, Meng Qu, Xingdi Yuan, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Zhiyuan Liu, Jian Tang
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Auto-Lifelong: An AutoML System for Lifelong Machine Learning
ICML 2019 AutoML Workshop (contributed talk). The second-place winning solution to NeurIPS 2018 AutoML Challenge
Zheng Xiong, Wenpeng Zhang, Jiyan Jiang, Wenwu Zhu
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