Xinrun Wang Assistant Professor Lee Kong Chian Fellow DIGA@SMU School of Computing and Information Systems Singapore Management University [Email] [Google Scholar]

[Hiring!!!] I am looking for self-motivated PhD/Master students to join my group at SMU to work on i) fundamental decision making (i.e., single- and multi-agent reinforcement learning), ii) decision making for applications (e.g., RL for FinTech, MARL for urban security, AI for science), and iii) foundation agents (e.g., computer control agents and auto research agents). The requirement for SMU PhD admission can be found HERE. Visiting CSC students/researchers, and remote interns are also welcome. Please email me if you are interested.

Research Interests

(Multi-Agent) (Reinforcement) Learning, (Distributed) Foundation Models/Agents and AI for Science.

News

• September, 2025: We release a paper collection on AI for (materials) science to facilitate the research. The paper collection will be updated regularly. Please contact me for potential collaborations.

• [New Paper!] July, 2025: We release the paper AutoMAT: A Hierarchical Framework for Autonomous Alloy Discovery, our first paper of AI for science. Comments are welcome!

• [New Paper!] May, 2025: We release the paper FinMaster: A Holistic Benchmark for Mastering Full-Pipeline Financial Workflows with LLMs. Comments are welcome!

• [New Paper!] April, 2025: We release the paper Nondeterministic Polynomial-time Problem Challenge: An Ever-Scaling Reasoning Benchmark for LLMs. Comments are welcome!

• November, 2023: I will join Singapore Management University (SMU) as an Assistant Professor in July, 2024.

• March, 2023: We release our reinforcement learning for FinTech platform TradeMaster.

Selected Publications

(^* indicates equal contribution, ^† indicates corresponding author)

• Efficient integration of external knowledge to LLM-based world models via retrieval-augmented generation and reinforcement learning
  Chang Yang, Xinrun Wang^†, Qinggang Zhang, Qi Jiang, Xiao Huang
  The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2025

• FaithfulRAG: Fact-level conflict modeling for context-faithful retrieval-augmented generation
  Qinggang Zhang, Zhishang Xiang, Yilin Xiao, Le Wang, Junhui Li, Xinrun Wang, Jinsong Su
  The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025

  SAC Highlights Award

• Double oracle neural architecture search for game theoretic deep learning models
  Aye Phyu Phyu Aung, Xinrun Wang^†, Ruiyu Wang, Hau Chan, Bo An, Xiaoli Li, J. Senthilnath
  IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2025

• Cradle: Empowering foundation agents towards general computer control
  Weihao Tan, Wentao Zhang, Xinrun Xu, Haochong Xia, Ziluo Ding, Boyu Li, Bohan Zhou, Junpeng Yue, Jiechuan Jiang, Yewen Li, Ruyi An, Molei Qin, Chuqiao Zong, Longtao Zheng, YuJie Wu, Xiaoqiang Chai, Yifei Bi, Tianbao Xie, Pengjie Gu, Xiyun Li, Ceyao Zhang, Long Tian, Chaojie Wang, Xinrun Wang, Börje F. Karlsson, Bo An, Shuicheng YAN, Zongqing Lu.
  Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025

• AgentStudio: A toolkit for building general virtual agents
  Longtao Zheng, Zhiyuan Huang, Zhenghai Xue, Xinrun Wang, Bo An, Shuicheng Yan
  Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025

• A multimodal foundation agent for financial trading: Tool-augmented, diversified, and generalist
  Wentao Zhang, Lingxuan Zhao, Haochong Xia, Shuo Sun, Jiaze Sun, Molei Qin, Xinyi Li, Yuqing Zhao, Yilei Zhao, Xinyu Cai, Longtao Zheng, Xinrun Wang^†, Bo An^†
  Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data (KDD), 2024

• Configurable mirror descent: Towards a unification of decision making
  Pengdeng Li, Shuxin Li^*, Chang Yang^*, Xinrun Wang^†, Shuyue Hu, Xiao Huang, Hau Chan, Bo An
  Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024

• Reinforcement Nash equilibrium solver
  Xinrun Wang^*, Chang Yang^*, Shuxin Li, Pengdeng Li, Xiao Huang, Hau Chan and Bo An
  Proceedings of the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2024
  Previous version appears as Proceeding of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) (Extended Abstract), 2024
  Note: Extended abstract is a BAD option, remember to opt out if submitting to AAMAS.

• Self-adaptive PSRO: Towards an automatic population-based game solver
  Pengdeng Li, Shuxin Li, Chang Yang, Xinrun Wang^†, Xiao Huang, Hau Chan, Bo An
  Proceedings of the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2024

• Synapse: Trajectory-as-exemplar prompting with memory for computer control
  Longtao Zheng, Rundong Wang, Xinrun Wang^†, Bo An^†
  Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024

• True knowledge comes from practice: Aligning large language models with embodied environments via reinforcement learning
  Weihao Tan, Wentao Zhang, Shanqi Liu, Longtao Zheng, Xinrun Wang^†, Bo An^†
  Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024

• Greedy sequential execution: Solving homogeneous and heterogeneous cooperative tasks with a unified framework
  Shanqi Liu, Dong Xing, Pengjie Gu, Bo An, Yong Liu^†, Xinrun Wang^†
  Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024

• Grasper: A generalist pursuer for pursuit-evasion problems
  Pengdeng Li^*, Shuxin Li^*, Xinrun Wang^†, Jakub Cerny, Youzhi Zhang, Stephen McAleer, Hau Chan and Bo An
  Proceeding of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2024

• Transition-informed reinforcement learning for large-scale Stackelberg mean-field games
  Pengdeng Li, Runsheng Yu, Xinrun Wang^†, Bo An
  Proceedings of the 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024

• EarnHFT: Efficient hierarchical reinforcement learning for high frequency trading
  Molei Qin, Shuo Sun, Wentao Zhang, Haochong Xia, Xinrun Wang^†, and Bo An^†
  Proceedings of the 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024

• Market-GAN: Adding control to financial market data generation with semantic context
  Haochong Xia, Shuo Sun, Xinrun Wang^†, and Bo An^†
  Proceedings of the 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024

• Offline RL with discrete proxy representations for generalizability in POMDPs
  Pengjie Gu, Xinyu Cai, Dong Xing, Xinrun Wang^†, Mengchen Zhao^†, Bo An
  Proceedings of the Thirty-seventh Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023

• TradeMaster: A holistic quantitative trading platform empowered by reinforcement learning
  Shuo Sun, Molei Qin, Wentao Zhang, Haochong Xia, Chuqiao Zong, Jie Ying, Yonggang Xie, Lingxuan Zhao, Xinrun Wang^†, Bo An^†
  Proceedings of the Thirty-seventh Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Dataset and Benchmark Track, 2023

• Mastering stock markets with efficient mixture of diversified trading experts
  Shuo Sun, Xinrun Wang^†, Wanqi Xue, Xiaoxuan Lou, Bo An^†
  Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data (KDD), 2023

• PRUDEX-Compass: Towards systematic evaluation of reinforcement learning in financial markets
  Shuo Sun, Molei Qin, Xinrun Wang^†, and Bo An^†
  Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2023

• Enhancing meta learning via multi-objective soft improvement functions
  Runsheng Yu, Weiyu Chen, Xinrun Wang, and James Kwok
  The 11th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023

• Population-size-aware policy optimization for mean-field games
  Pengdeng Li, Xinrun Wang^†, Shuxin Li, Hau Chan, and Bo An
  The 11th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023

• Solving large-scale pursuit-evasion games using pre-trained strategies
  Shuxin Li, Xinrun Wang^†, Youzhi Zhang^†, Wanqi Xue, Jakub Cerny, and Bo An
  Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023

• DO-GAN: A double oracle framework for generative adversarial networks
  Aye Phyu Phyu Aung^*, Xinrun Wang^*†, Runsheng Yu^*, Bo An^†, Senthilnath Jayavelu, and Xiaoli Li^†
  Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022

• RMIX: Learning risk-sensitive policies for cooperative reinforcement learning agents
  Wei Qiu, Xinrun Wang, Runsheng Yu, Rundong Wang, Xu He, Bo An, Svetlana Obraztsova, and Zinovi Rabinovich
  Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021

• Neural regret matching for distributed constraint optimization problems
  Yanchen Deng, Runsheng Yu, Xinrun Wang, and Bo An
  Proceedings of the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2021

• CFR-MIX: Solving imperfect information extensive-form games with combinatorial action space
  Shuxin Li, Youzhi Zhang^*, Xinrun Wang^*, Wanqi Xue, and Bo An
  Proceedings of the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2021

• We mind your well-being: Preventing depression in uncertain social networks by sequential interventions
  Aye Phyu Phyu Aung, Xinrun Wang, Bo An, and Xiaoli Li
  Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2020

• Learning expensive coordination: An event-based deep RL approach
  Zhenyu Shi^*, Runsheng Yu^*, Xinrun Wang^*, Rundong Wang, Youzhi Zhang, Hanjiang Lai, and Bo An
  Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2020

• When players affect target values: Modeling and solving dynamic partially observable security games
  Xinrun Wang, Milind Tambe, Branislav Bosansky, and Bo An
  Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec), 2019
  Outstanding Student Paper Award

• Who should pay the cost: A game-theoretic model for government subsidized investments to improve national cybersecurity
  Xinrun Wang, Bo An, and Hau Chan
  Proceedings of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2019

• Catching Captain Jack: Efficient time and space dependent patrols to combat oil-siphoning in international waters
  Xinrun Wang, Bo An, Martin Strobel, and Fookwai Kong
  Proceedings of the 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2018

• Stop nuclear smuggling through efficient container inspection
  Xinrun Wang, Qingyu Guo, and Bo An
  Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2017

DIGA@SMU Research Group Distributed Intelligence of Generalist Agents (DIGA) research group mainly focuses on building highly-capable agents, empowered by (multi-agent) RL and/or (multimodal) LLMs, for complex decision-making tasks.

Speculations

• All decision-making scenarios, including single-agent, cooperative multi-agent, competitive multi-agent, i.e., game theory, and mixed cooperative and competitive scenarios, will be mastered through one algorithm, one model, and even one set of parameters of the model.

• All the methods improving over a base foundation model, i.e., prompt engineering, e.g., CoT, self-reflection, and alignment, should be addressed by a universal method, maybe reinforcement learning (RL).

• For any given problem A (maybe NP-hard), we can find another NP problem B such that if the foundation model can solve B, it can solve A. Therefore, the AGI/ASI can be achieved by focusing on NP problems only.

• The foundation agent would be and should be emerged from foundation model for solving difficult tasks, which will finally be i) a highly capable (multimodal) language model, ii) minimal embodiment for tool creation and using, and iii) optimized via RL to achieve the emergence of reasoning and tool creation/using.

• The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will ultimately be i) self-improving, i.e., searching with regularly retraining, on decisions and alignment through interacting with the (virtually) embodied environments, e.g., video games, and ii) distributed intelligently across massive open-sourced domain-specific models.

• The current AI revolution represented by LLMs is nearing its end in the service industry, or the tertiary sector. Only by entering the secondary sector, represented by industry and manufacturing, AGI can be ultimately achieved. This will be piloted by AI for science, with AI for manufacturing as the main force.