Short Bio
Currently, I am a second-year PhD student at
Nanyang Technological University, working under the supervision of Dacheng Tao.
Previously, I completed my master's studies and began my research journey at
Tsinghua University. Earlier, I obtained my bachelor's degree at
Hunan University, where I cherished four wonderful years at the foothills of Yuelu Mountain.
My research goal is to unlock the true potential of Deep Reinforcement Learning toward practical real-world deployment.
This requires RL agents capable of offline-online cooperation, handling multiple tasks, and never stopping learning in open-ended environments.
To realize this vision, I currently focus on investigating the fundamental challenges inherent in DRL, particularly optimization pathologies, scalability limitations and exploration inefficiencies.
Meanwhile, I view RL as a paradigm for understanding and developing intelligence rather than just a technique.
This inspires my interest in exploring its potential across domains, from large reasoning models and embodied agents to psychology and social sciences.
Greatness cannot be planned, so I play with joyful explorations!
News
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ICML 2025
Guozheng Ma*, Lu Li*, Zilin Wang, Li Shen, Pierre-Luc Bacon, Dacheng Tao
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025.
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ICLR 2024
Guozheng Ma*, Lu Li*, Sen Zhang, Zixuan Liu, Zhen Wang, Yixin Chen, Li Shen, Xueqian Wang, Dacheng Tao
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024.
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NeurIPS 2023
Guozheng Ma, Linrui Zhang, Haoyu Wang, Lu Li, Zilin Wang, Zhen Wang, Li Shen, Xueqian Wang, Dacheng Tao
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023.
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IJCV
Guozheng Ma, Zhen Wang, Zhecheng Yuan, Xueqian Wang, Bo Yuan, Dacheng Tao
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2025.
Invited Talks
Revisiting Plasticity in Visual Reinforcement Learning: Data, Modules and Training Stages.
Honors and Awards
- Excellent Graduates, Beijing, 2024.
- ICLR Financial Assistance Award, 2024.
- ORDOS Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2023.
- AI Safety and Alignment Fellowship, Concordia AI, 2023.
- Provincial Excellent Graduates, Hunan Province, 2021.
- First Prize of Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis, Hunan University, 2021.
- Weisheng Scholarship, Hunan University, 2020.
- XiongXiaoge Scholarship, Hunan University, 2019
- National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of China, 2019
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