Principal Researcher · Tencent · Hiring

Kai Wang

I build code agents for long-horizon tasks, and study how to scale the harness around them, design the agent loop, and train agents with cost-aware RL. I also work on neural parameter generation.

Portrait of Kai Wang

01About

I am a Principal Researcher at Tencent, leading efforts on code agents for long-horizon tasks. I also collaborate closely with Prof. Atlas Wang.

I received my Ph.D. in 2025 from the NUS HPC-AI Lab, advised by Prof. Yang You. During my Ph.D., I was an affiliated member at the University of Toronto with Prof. Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, and a sponsored researcher at Carnegie Mellon University with Prof. Alex Hauptmann. Before that, I received my M.S. in 2020 from MMLab@SIAT, advised by Prof. Yu Qiao and Assoc. Prof. Xiaojiang Peng.

I like simple, strong baselines that reveal how deep learning actually works. Representative work: HY-WU, DnD (NeurIPS 2025), RPG (NeurIPS 2025), p-diff, and PAB (ICLR 2025).

Research interests

  • Long-Horizon Agent Design
  • Local–Cloud Agent Collaboration
  • Parameter Generation
  • Efficient Generation & Training
  • Data-Centric AI

02News

Products & Impact

    Research

      03Research

      Long-Horizon Agent Design

      Code agents that reliably finish long-horizon tasks: scaling the harness around the model, designing robust agent loops, training agents with cost-aware RL, and coordinating local and cloud agents.

      • Harness Scaling
      • Agent Loop Design
      • Cost-Aware Agentic RL
      • Local–Cloud Collaboration

      Parameter Generation

      Treating neural network weights as a generative modality: generating, adapting, and composing parameters directly.

      Efficient Generation & Training

      Making model training and diffusion/video generation faster and cheaper, often with simple tricks that drop into existing pipelines.

      Data-Centric AI

      Getting more out of less data: dataset distillation, dataset quantization, and dynamic data pruning for lossless, faster training.

      * equal contribution  ·  + corresponding author

      05Experience & Education

        06Mentoring

        I've been lucky to work with these talented students.

        Current interns

          Alumni

            07Honors

              08Service

                09Friends