Me
Xin Xu
Ph.D. in Mathematics @ HKUST

About

๐Ÿ‘‹ Hi, I'm Xin Xu (่ฎธ้‘ซ), a 3rd-year Ph.D. in Mathematics student at HKUST, advised by Prof. Can Yang.
๐ŸŽ“ I obtained a Statistics Bachelor's degree from School of Gifted Young (ๅฐ‘ๅนด็ญ), USTC.

๐Ÿ‘€ My research interest is LLMs (evluation & post-training, reasoning) and AI for Math ๐Ÿ’ญ.


Education


Ph.D.           Sep. 2022 - Present
                    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China
                    Mathematics, Prof. Can Yang
B.E.             Sep. 2018 - Jun. 2022
                    University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China.
                    Statistics, School of Gifted Young

Experience

Huawei, Noah's Ark Lab
Research Intern, Oct. 2024 -- Apr. 2025, Shenzhen, China
LLMs Math Reasoning (TIR & SFT)
Advisor: Yan Xu, Lifeng Shang
Meituan, LLMs Evaluation Group
Research Intern, May 2024 -- Sept. 2024, Shanghai, China
LLMs Math Reasoning (Evlauation & SFT)

Selected Paper [All]

* equal contribution

  • Safe: Enhancing Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models via Retrospective Step-aware Formal Verification
    Chengwu Liu, Ye Yuan, Yichun Yin, Yan Xu, Xin Xu, Zaoyu Chen, Yasheng Wang, Lifeng Shang, Qun Liu, Ming Zhang

    ACL 2025 main [Paper] [Code]

  • UGPhysics: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Undergraduate Physics Reasoning with Large Language Models
    Xin Xu*, Qiyun Xu*, Tong Xiao, Tianhao Chen, Yuchen Yan, Jiaxin Zhang, Shizhe Diao, Can Yang, Yang Wang

    ICML 2025 [Paper] [Code] [data]

  • UGMathBench: A Diverse and Dynamic Benchmark for Undergraduate-Level Mathematical Reasoning with Large Language Models
    Xin Xu*, Jiaxin Zhang*, Tianhao Chen*, Zitong Chao, Jishan Hu, Can Yang

    ICLR 2025 [Paper] [Code] [data]

  • Can LLMs Solve Longer Math Word Problems Better?
    Xin Xu*, Tong Xiao*, Zitong Chao, Zhenya Huang, Can Yang, Yang Wang

    ICLR 2025 [Paper] [Code]

  • $S^3$cMath: Spontaneous Step-Level Self-Correction Makes Large Language Models Better Mathematical Reasoners
    Yuchen Yan, Jin Jiang, Yang Liu, Yixin Cao, Xin Xu, Xunliang Cai, Jian Shao

    AAAI 2025 [Paper]

  • UCS: A Unified Approach to Cell Segmentation for Subcellular Spatial Transcriptomics
    Yuheng Chen, Xin Xu, Xiaomeng Wan, Jiashun Xiao, Can Yang

    Small Methods (Q1) [Paper]

  • Can We Verify Step by Step for Incorrect Answer Detection?
    Xin Xu, Shizhe Diao, Can Yang, Yang Wang

    IJCAI 2025 [Paper] [Code] [data]

Preprints

  • GPAS: Accelerating Convergence of LLM Pretraining via Gradient-Preserving Activation Scaling
    Tianhao Chen*, Xin Xu*, Zijing Liu, Pengxiang Li, Xinyuan Song, Ajay Kumar Jaiswal, Fan Zhang, Jishan Hu, Yang Wang, Hao Chen, Shizhe Diao, Shiwei Liu, Yu Li, Lu Yin, Can Yang

    [Paper] [Code]

  • Double-Checker: Enhancing Reasoning of Slow-Thinking LLMs via Self-Critical Fine-Tuning
    Xin Xu*, Tianhao Chen*, Fan Zhang, Wanlong Liu, Pengxiang Li, Ajay Kumar Jaiswal, Yuchen Yan, Jishan Hu, Yang Wang, Hao Chen, Shiwei Liu, Shizhe Diao, Can Yang, Lu Yin

    [Paper] [Code]

  • Advancing Multimodal Reasoning Capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models via Visual Perception Reward
    Tong Xiao, Xin Xu, Zhenya Huang, Hongyu Gao, Quan Liu, Qi Liu, Enhong Chen

    [Paper] [Code]

  • VerifyBench: Benchmarking Reference-based Reward Systems for Large Language Models
    Yuchen Yan, Jin Jiang, Zhenbang Ren, Yijun Li, Xudong Cai, Yang Liu, Xin Xu, Mengdi Zhang, Jian Shao, Yongliang Shen, Jun Xiao, Yueting Zhuang

    [Paper] [Code]

  • Teaching LLMs According to Their Aptitude: Adaptive Reasoning for Mathematical Problem Solving
    Xin Xu, Yan Xu, Tianhao Chen, Yuchen Yan, Chengwu Liu, Zaoyu Chen, Yufei Wang, Yichun Yin, Yasheng Wang, Lifeng Shang, Qun Liu

    [Paper] [Code]

  • MathFimer: Enhancing Mathematical Reasoning by Expanding Reasoning Steps through Fill-in-the-Middle Task
    Yuchen Yan, Yongliang Shen, Yang Liu, Jin Jiang, Xin Xu, Mengdi Zhang, Jian Shao, Yueting Zhuang

    [Paper]


Award

The 20th HKUST Epsilon Fund Research Award, 2025
HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award, 2023;2024
The Hong Kong PhD Fellowship, 2022-Present
Outstanding Undergraduates of Anhui Province, 2022
The Second Prize of Chinese Methemetics Competition, 2019

Academic Services

Conference Reviewer: NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP
Journal Reviewer: Annals of Applied Statistics

Teaching Assistant

Matrix Algebra and Applications at HKUST, 2025.2-2025.5
Calculus at HKUST, 2024.9-2024.12
Sampling at HKUST, 2024.2-2024.5
Applied Statistics at HKUST, 2023.9-2023.12
Calculus at HKUST, 2023.3-2023.5
Probability and Mathematical Statistics at USTC, 2021.9-2022.1
Multivariable Calculus at USTC, 2021.3-2021.7
Mathematical Analysis I at USTC, 2020.9-2021.1

Miscellaneous

I love sports, board games, and Chinese poker.

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