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Haoquan Zhang
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Hi, my name is Haoquan Zhang, an incoming phd student to join The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). I am currently working with my advisor Weiyang Liu , focusing on LLM Reasoning on Symbolic Graphics Program (SVG is a kind of SGP). Additionally, I am a intern at Shanghai AI Lab, working with Kaipeng Zhang.

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News

10th July 2025 I have completed my onsite internship at Shanghai AI Lab and will continue working remotely. Goodbye, Shanghai! Thanks to everyone I met, see you all around the world!

Research

pyvision
PyVision: Agentic Vision with Dynamic Tooling

* share first authorship
Shitian Zhao*, Haoquan Zhang*, Shaoheng Lin*, Ming Li*, Qilong Wu*, Kaipeng Zhang, Chen Wei

PyVision, an interactive framework where an MLLM can autonomously generate, execute, and iteratively refine Python code in response to multimodal queries.

Paper Code Demo Project Page

Arxiv 2025
thinkingornot
To Think or Not To Think: A Study of Thinking in Rule-Based Visual Reinforcement Fine-Tuning

Ming Li, Jike Zhong, Shitian Zhao, Yuxiang Lai, Haoquan Zhang, Wang Bill Zhu, Kaipeng Zhang

¹ No-Thinking-RFT often matches or exceeds Thinking-based RFT in visual tasks.
² Low-capability models produce poor CoT, reducing Thinking-based RFT effectiveness.
³ Inconsistencies in Thinking-based RFT responses may impede reward convergence.

Paper Code

Arxiv 2025
ideabench
AI-Idea-Bench💡: A Benchmark for AI Idea Generation

Yansheng Qiu, Haoquan Zhang, Zhaopan Xu, Ming Li, Diping Song, Zheng Wang, Kaipeng Zhang

We present AI Idea Bench 2025, a framework to quantitatively evaluate LLM-generated ideas in AI research, featuring a dataset of 3,495 papers with inspired works and a robust evaluation methodology. The system assesses idea quality based on alignment with original papers and reference-based judgment.

Paper Project Page Code Benchmark

Arxiv 2025

Projects

Perfect GunMayhem Remake: A 2D Shooting PVP Game Based on Cocos2d-x

GunMayhem Remake is a project independently completed by our team members, covering all aspects, including source code, game artwork, and music assets. You can play our executable file.

Shoutout to Kevin Gu for creating this incredible game!

Github Project Page Original Game Art Assets (.ai)


Awards

TaiHu Innovation Prize (1%),
Highest scholarship, which awarded by the Wuxi governments, 2024

Second Prize (6%), *Medical AI Track
The National BME lnnovation Design Competition, China Society of Biomedical Engineering, 2023


Experiences


Shanghai AI Lab
Research Intern
Mentored by Kaipeng Zhang

Nov 2025 - Present
Westlake University
Visiting Students
Advised by Yandong Wen

Sep 2024 - Present

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