💻 About Me
I am Wenxiao Zhao, a second-year Master’s student in the Department of Statistics & Data Science, University of California Los Angeles, advised by Prof. Ying Nian Wu. I received my B.Eng in Computer Science and Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2024, advised by Prof. Baoxiang Wang.
My research interests lie in large language models, reinforcement learning, and robotics.
I'm eager to collaborate on exciting research or projects. Please feel free to contact me at wenxiao0367@ucla.edu if you're interested.
📝 Publications
Explore the Reasoning Capability of LLMs in the Chess Testbed
Shu Wang, Lei Ji, Renxi Wang, Wenxiao Zhao, Haokun Liu, Yifan Hou, Ying Nian Wu
NAACL2025 Main Conference
We collect a dataset named MATE, which consists of 1 million chess positions with candidate moves annotated by chess experts for strategy and tactics. We finetune the LLaMA-3-8B model and compare it against state-of-the-art commercial language models in the task of selecting better chess moves. Our experiments show that our models perform better than GPT, Claude, and Gemini models. We find that language explanations can enhance the reasoning capability of large language models.
🎖 Honors and Awards
- Bowen First Class Scholarship, The Chinese University of Hong Kong(SZ).
- Third price, The 13th Chinese Mathematics Competitions(CMC), AY2021.
- Undergraduate Research Awards, The Chinese University of Hong Kong(SZ), 19th Round & 23th Round.
- Excellent Peer Advisor, School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong(SZ), AY2023.
📖 Educations
- Sep 2024-June 2026 (Expected), M.S in Statistics, Department of Statistics & Data Science, University of California Los Angeles.
- Sep 2020 – July 2024, B.Eng in Computer Science and Engineering, School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong(SZ).