• Statistical Foundations of Large Language Models.
• Representation Learning.

• Contrastive Network Representation Learning.
  Zihan Dong, Xin Zhou, Ryumei Nakada, Lexin Li, and Linjun Zhang.
  

  Preprint, 2025.

• Mitigating Heterogeneous Token Overfitting in LLM Knowledge Editing.
  Tianci Liu, Ruirui Li, Zihan Dong, Hui Liu, Xianfeng Tang, Qingyu Yin, Linjun Zhang, Haoyu Wang, and Jing Gao.
  

  ICML 2025.

• AceSearcher: Bootstrapping Reasoning and Search for LLMs via Reinforced Self-Play.
  Ran Xu, Yuchen Zhuang, Zihan Dong, Ruiyu Wang, Yue Yu, Joyce C. Ho, Linjun Zhang, Haoyu Wang, Wenqi Shi, and Carl Yang.
  

  NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight.