Yitong Lin

Master's Student · Zhejiang University


Hello! 👋🏻 I am a Master's student at Zhejiang University, advised by Prof. Xiaoxue Ren. I work on AI Agents, Agentic Evaluation, and Reinforcement Learning.

My research explores how AI agents can evaluate their actions and use that evidence to improve. I am particularly interested in agentic evaluation, reward signals for reinforcement learning, and self-improvement through interaction. My recent work studies how execution and evaluation can co-evolve at test time, while my earlier work on Code LLMs examines API evolution and executable benchmarks for code generation.

My long-term goal is to build agents that can act, verify outcomes, and learn from experience—especially on long-horizon tasks where reliable feedback is difficult to obtain.

News

Sep 2026
RAPO has been accepted by NeurIPS 2026! 🎉
Jun 2026
AEG-Edit has been accepted by ASE 2026! 🎉
Jul 2025
BioGraphFusion has been accepted by Bioinformatics! 🎉

Selected Publications

AEG-Edit: Bridging API Evolution and Code Semantics for Accurate API Usage in Code Generation
Yitong Lin, Haoye Tian, Dehai Zhao, Chao Ni, Xiaohu Yang, Xiaoxue Ren*
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2026
Improving General Role-Playing Agents via Psychology-Grounded Reasoning and Role-Aware Policy Optimization
Zhenhua Xu, Dongsheng Chen, Jian Li, Yitong Lin, Zhebo Wang, Jiafu Wu, Yizhang Jin, Chengjie Wang, Meng Han, Yabiao Wang
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026
BioGraphFusion: Graph Knowledge Embedding for Biological Completion and Reasoning
Yitong Lin†, Jiaying He†, Jiahe Chen, Xinnan Zhu, Jianwei Zheng*, Bo Tao*
Bioinformatics Journal, 2025
C3S3: Complementary Competition and Contrastive Selection for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
Jiaying He†, Yitong Lin†, Jiahe Chen, Honghui Xu*, Jianwei Zheng*
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2025

(†: Equal contribution, *: Corresponding author)


Awards & Competitions

National Scholarship, Undergraduate, 2023-2024 Academic Year (Dec 2024)
National Scholarship, Undergraduate, 2024-2025 Academic Year (Dec 2025)
Meritorious Winner, Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM), 2024 (May 2024)
National Second Prize, China College Students' Service Outsourcing Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition (Aug 2024)
National Second Prize, China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM), Undergraduate Group (Oct 2023)

Education

2026 - 2029
Zhejiang University
M.S., Software Engineering
2022 - 2026
Zhejiang University of Technology
B.S., Computer Science and Technology