Zhizheng Zhao

Zhizheng Zhao 赵志政

I am a final-year undergraduate student at the School of Physics, Peking University. My research interests broadly span machine learning, with a current focus on multimodal generation and reasoning, reinforcement learning, and AI for science.

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Education

B.S. in Physics Sep 2022 – Expected Jul 2026
Peking University
GPA: 3.5/4.0 · Relevant Fields: Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision, AI for Science
Visiting Student Jan 2025 – Feb 2025
Shenzhen International Quantum Academy

News

Publications

CoF-T2I: Video Models as Pure Visual Reasoners for Text-to-Image Generation
Chengzhuo Tong*, Mingkun Chang*, Shenglong Zhang, Yuran Wang, Cheng Liang, Zhizheng Zhao, Ruichuan An, Bohan Zeng, Yang Shi, Yifan Dai, Ziming Zhao, Guanbin Li, Pengfei Wan, Yuanxing Zhang, Wentao Zhang (* Equal contribution)
ICML 2026 page / arXiv / project / code
Let's Verify and Reinforce Image Generation Step by Step
Renrui Zhang*, Chengzhuo Tong*, Zhizheng Zhao*, Ziyu Guo*, Huaidong Zhang, Manyuan Zhang, Peng Gao, Hongsheng Li (* Equal contribution)
CVPR 2025 PDF

Research Experience

Research Intern Mar 2026 – Present
DP Technology
Reinforcement Learning · Mentor: Prof. Tianhan Zhang
Research Assistant Mar 2025 – Jul 2025
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Reward and Policy Distribution Optimization in GRPO · Advisor: Prof. Minjia Zhang
Research Intern Sep 2024 – Jan 2025
CUHK MMLab & ByteDance
Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Advanced Image Generation · Advisor: Dr. Renrui Zhang
Research Assistant Mar 2024 – Present
Peking University
Muon Imaging Algorithm Research · Advisor: Prof. Qite Li

Awards