Yudi Zhang

Yudi Zhang

Ph.D. student at TU/e

Ph.D. Student Profile

I am a second-year Ph.D. student at Eindhoven University of Technology, under the supervision of Mykola Pechenizkiy and Meng Fang. I am also working closely with Prof. Yali Du at King’s College London, and Prof. Biwei Huang at University of California San Diego. Prior to joining TU/e, I was a master student in the Visual, Sensing and Intelligent System Laboratory, School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University (SDU), supervised by Prof. Wei Zhang. I also obtained my bachelor's degree from Shandong University.

My current research interests lie in causal reinforcement learning, multi-agent reinforcement learning, text-based game, and embodied AI.

Education

  • B.S. in Automation, Shandong University, 2015 - 2019
  • M.S. in Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, 2019 - 2022
  • Ph.D in Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, 2026 (expected)

Publication

[1] Interpretable Reward Redistribution in Reinforcement Learning: A Causal Approach. Yudi Zhang, Yali Du, Biwei Huang, Ziyan Wang, Jun Wang, Meng Fang, Mykola Pechenizkiy. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023.
[Project], [Paper]

[2] COOM: A Game Benchmark for Continual Reinforcement Learning. Tristan Tomilin, Meng Fang, Yudi Zhang, Mykola Pechenizkiy. Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track (NeurIPS D&B), 2023.
[Code]

[3] Large Language Models are Neurosymbolic Reasoners. Meng Fang*, Shilong Deng*, Yudi Zhang*, Zijing Shi, Ling Chen, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Jun Wang. Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024.

[4] RSPT: Reconstruct Surroundings and Predict Trajectories for Generalizable Active Object Tracking. Fangwei Zhong*, Xiao Bi*, Yudi Zhang, Wei Zhang, Yizhou Wang. Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023 (Oral). [Project], [Paper]

Preprint:

[5] MACCA: Offline Multi-agent reinforcement learning with causal credit assignment. Ziyan Wang, Yali Du, Yudi Zhang, Meng Fang, Biwei Huang. https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03644.

Award

  • NeurIPS 2023 Travel Award
  • Outstanding Graduates of Shandong Province (2019)
  • Competitions: Second Prize in the Chinese Graduate Mathematical Modeling Competition (2019), First Prize in the National Electronic Design Competition, Shandong Province (2017), International Aquatic Robot Competition Champion (2018, 2019)
  • Scholarships: Shandong University first-class scholarship, Shandong University outstanding students special scholarship, etc.

Service

  • Journal Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
  • Conference Reviewer: International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (2024)