Hi there! I am Haoran Ye (叶皓然), a Ph.D. student at SIST, Peking University, advised by Prof. Guojie Song. My research focuses on general-purpose, self-evolving agents, including their alignment with human values in non-verifiable domains.

📖 Education

• Sep 2024 - Jun 2029 (anticipated), Ph.D. Student in AI, School of Intelligence Science and Technology (SIST), Peking University
  • Advised by Guojie Song and co-advised by Xin Zhang
  • Rank: 1/33 (for two consecutive years)
  • GPA: 3.87/4.00
• Sep 2020 - Jun 2024, B.Eng. in AI, School of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University
  • Advised by Zhiguang Cao, Helan Liang, and Yong Li
  • Rank: 1/250
  • Average Grade: 95/100

📑 Selected Publications (Full List)

• Ye, H., Lu, Y., Dong, H., Su, Z., & Song, G. (2026). Harness-Zero: Harness distillation via agent-as-harness.
• Ye, H., He, X., Arak, V., Dong, H., & Song, G. (2026). Meta context engineering via agentic skill evolution. ICML 2026.
• Ye, H., Jin, J., Xie, Y., Zhang, X., & Song, G. (2025). Large language model psychometrics: A systematic review of evaluation, validation, and enhancement.
• Ye, H., Zhang, T., Xie, Y., Zhang, L., Ren, Y., Zhang, X., & Song, G. (2025). Generative psycho-lexical approach for constructing value systems in large language models. ACL 2025 Main.
• Ye, H., Xie, Y., Ren, Y., Fang, H., Zhang, X., & Song, G. (2025). Measuring human and AI values based on generative psychometrics with large language models. AAAI 2025.
• Ye, H., Wang, J., Cao, Z., Berto, F., Hua, C., Kim, H., Park, J., & Song, G. (2024). ReEvo: Large language models as hyper-heuristics with reflective evolution. NeurIPS 2024.
• Ye, H., Wang, J., Liang, H., Cao, Z., Li, Y., & Li, F. (2024). GLOP: Learning global partition and local construction for solving large-scale routing problems in real-time. AAAI 2024.
• Ye, H., Wang, J., Cao, Z., Liang, H., & Li, Y. (2023). DeepACO: Neural-enhanced ant systems for combinatorial optimization. NeurIPS 2023.
• Dong, H., Jiang, K., Ye, H., Zhu, W., Kang, Z., & Song, G. (2026). NeuReasoner: Towards explainable, controllable, and unified reasoning via mixture-of-neurons. ACL 2026 Main (Oral).
• Hou, Y., Ye, H., Yang, S., Zhang, Y., Xu, S., & Song, G. (2025). TransPlace: Transferable circuit global placement via graph neural network. KDD 2025.
• Berto, F., Hua, C., Park, J., Luttmann, L., Ma, Y., Bu, F., Wang, J., Ye, H., Kim, M., et al. (2025). RL4CO: An extensive reinforcement learning for combinatorial optimization benchmark. KDD 2025 D&B Track.
• Ren, Y., Ye, H., Fang, H., Zhang, X., & Song, G. (2024). ValueBench: Towards comprehensively evaluating value orientations and understanding of large language models. ACL 2024 Main.

• Hou, Y., Ye, H., Zhang, Y., Xu, S., & Song, G. (2024). RoutePlacer: An end-to-end routability-aware placer with graph neural network. KDD 2024.

• Kimi Team (including Ye, H.) (2026). Kimi K3: Open frontier intelligence. Technical Report.
• Kimi Team (including Ye, H.) (2026). Kimi K2.5: Visual agentic intelligence. Technical Report.

📜 Grants

• 2025.12, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Youth Student Basic Research Project (Doctoral Student), Grantee
• 2025.12, China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) Young Talent Cultivation Project for Doctoral Students, Grantee
• 2022.06, National College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program (National Key Support Project), Project lead

🎖 Selected Honors and Awards

• Dec 2025, Beijing Municipal Merit Student
• Sep 2025, National Scholarship
• Jun 2025, PKU Presidential Scholarship (the only recipient in the 2024 SIST cohort)
• Jun 2024, Student of the Year, Jiangsu (江苏) Province (Ranked 2nd among all undergraduate students in Jiangsu Province)

💼 Services

• Reviewer (since 2024): NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL ARR, TMLR, etc.

🌈 Language Proficiency

• Mandarin (Native)
• English (Fluent; CET-6: 636)

⛹️‍♀️ Extracurricular Activities

• 2024 - Present:
  • 🥳 Individual Medals in PKU Sports Festival and PKU Cup: 🥇x5, 🥈x4, 🥉x1
  • 🤸 Member of the PKU Rope Skipping Team; won the silver medal 🥈 at the National Rope Skipping Competition of China
  • 🏀 Captain of the Men’s Basketball Team, SIST, PKU; scored 10+ points on average in 2025 PKU Cup; led the team to its first-ever top 8 finish
  • 🏊‍♂️ 6th place in the Men’s 100m Breaststroke, PKU Cup
  • 💪 4th place in Men’s Physique (Group B) at the first Fitness and Bodybuilding Championship of PKU
• 2020 - 2024:
  • 💬 Debating Team of SUDA; Participated in a series of debating competitions, including the Chinese Debate World Cup
  • 🏀 Captain of the Men’s Basketball Team, SCST, SUDA
  • 💪 Full marks in the National Student Physical Health Standard Test