About Me
My name is Bowen LIU, a 3rd-year undergraduate student at HKUST (Guangzhou). My research interests include reasoning in large language models (LLMs), data-driven LLMs, and their applications in combinatorial optimization and planning problems.
News
- 🎉 [2026.05] Our paper "Scaling the Scaling Logic: Agentic Meta-Synthesis of Logic Reasoning" has been accepted to ICML 2026!
- 🏆 [2026] Received the Lychee Innovation Talent Scholarship (荔枝创新人才奖学金).
- 🎉 [2026.05] Our paper "AlgBench: To What Extent Do Large Reasoning Models Understand Algorithms?" has been accepted to Findings of ACL 2026!
- 💼 [2025.10] Joined Hunyuan, Tencent as an Intern
- 📝 [2025.08] Our co-first paper "Graph-R1: Unleashing LLM Reasoning with NP-Hard Graph Problems" has been released on arXiv!
- 📝 [2025.01] Our blogpost "Rethinking Graph Prompts: Unraveling the Power of Data Manipulation in Graph Neural Networks" has been accepted to ICLR 2025!
Publications
Bowen Liu, Zhi Wu, Runquan Xie, Zhanhui Kang, Jia Li
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026.
AlgBench: To What Extent Do Large Reasoning Models Understand Algorithms?
Findings of ACL 2026Henan Sun, Kaichi Yu, Yuyao Wang, Bowen Liu, Xunkai Li, Rong-Hua Li, Nuo Chen, Jia Li
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL, 2026.
Education
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
BSc in Data Science and Analytics | 2023 - Present
Technical Skills
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Blog
I write technical blogs about programming, algorithms, and machine learning at RainCedar's Blog
Honors & Awards
Scholarships
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Lychee Innovation Talent Scholarship (荔枝创新人才奖学金)
Projects
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Scaling-the-Scaling-Logic - GitHub
Programming Competitions
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Second Prize (rank 11) - ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge
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Bronze Medal - The ICPC Asia Kunming Regional Contest
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Bronze Medal - The 10th CCPC
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Honorable Mention - The ICPC Asia Nanjing Regional Contest
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Rank 18 - ACM-HK Programming Contest
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Bronze Medal - CCPC National Invitational Contest
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Second Prize - ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge
Scientific Competitions
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Gold Award - International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition
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First Prize - Chinese Chemistry Olympiad