πŸ‘€ About me

I am a Ph.D. student at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University. I am working under the supervision of Prof. Yaodong Yang, my first initiation mentor in multi-agent systems. My research interests include reinforcement learning, game theory, and their intersection with math. The current topics I am focused on are:

  • Multi-agent Systems: Developing practical algorithms for large-scale system control and multi-player computer games.
  • Reinforcement Learning for Math: Exploring the potential of reinforcement learning in fundamental mathematical problems.

πŸ“ Publications

ICLR 2025
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Magnetic Preference Optimization: Achieving Last-iterate Convergence for Language Model Alignment

Mingzhi Wang, Chengdong Ma, Qizhi Chen, Linjian Meng, Yang Han, Jiancong Xiao, Zhaowei Zhang, Jing Huo, Weijie J. Su, Yaodong Yang

AAMAS 2025
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Mean Field Correlated Imitation Learning

Zhiyu Zhao, Chengdong Ma, Qirui Mi, Ning Yang, Xue Yan, Mengyue Yang, Haifeng Zhang, Jun Wang, Yaodong Yang

NeurIPS 2024
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Panacea: Pareto Alignment via Preference Adaptation for LLMs

Yifan Zhong*, Chengdong Ma*, Xiaoyuan Zhang*, Ziran Yang, Haojun Chen, Qingfu Zhang, Siyuan Qi, Yaodong Yang

Arxiv 2023
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Evolving Diverse Red-team Language Models in Multi-round Multi-agent Games

Chengdong Ma*, Ziran Yang*, Hai Ci, Jun Gao, Minquan Gao, Xuehai Pan, Yaodong Yang

IROS 2022
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Scalable model-based policy optimization for decentralized networked systems

Yali Du*, Chengdong Ma*, Yuchen Liu, Runji Lin, Hao Dong, Jun Wang, Yaodong Yang

πŸ“¦ Resources

ICML 2025 Tutorial
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πŸŽ™ Talks

  • 2024.12: Invited Talk in Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) conference.
  • 2024.10: Invited Talk at National Key Lab of Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned Systems in Beijing Institute of Technology.
  • 2024.09: Invited Talk at Cognitive Computing and Reasoning Lab in Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence.