Haobo Xu 「徐浩博」
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I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Hanghang Tong. Prior to this, I obtained my bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from Tsinghua University.
My research interests include Multi-modal Learning, Efficient Deep Learning, and Large Language Models.
News
| Sep 8, 2025 | Graduated from Tsinghua University and started my Ph.D. at UIUC! 🎓 |
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| Aug 8, 2025 | Our two papers were accepted by CoRL 2025! 🎉 |
| Dec 30, 2024 | Grateful to be awarded the National Scholarship! 🎓 |
| Nov 11, 2024 | Honored to be selected as a Top Reviewer at NeurIPS 2024! |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Our paper “DuQuant: Distributing Outliers via Dual Transformation Makes Stronger Quantized LLMs” was accepted by NeurIPS 2024 as an oral! 🎉🎉 |
Education
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Ph.D. in Computer Science @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL, USA -
B.Eng. in Software Engineering @ Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
Publications
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Quantization Meets dLLMs: A Systematic Study of Post-training Quantization for Diffusion LLMsPreprint, 2025 -
TA-VLA: Elucidating the Design Space of Torque-aware Vision-Language-Action ModelsCoRL, 2025 -
RoboChemist: Long-Horizon and Safety-Compliant Robotic Chemical ExperimentationCoRL, 2025 -
DuQuant: Distributing Outliers via Dual Transformation Makes Stronger Quantized LLMsNeurIPS (Oral Presentation, Acceptance Rate ~0.4%), 2024 -
SLOG: An Inductive Spectral Graph Neural Network Beyond Polynomial FilterIn ICML, 2024
Awards & Honors
- Gene Golub Fellowship, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, UIUC, 2025
- Excellent Graduate, Tsinghua University (清华大学优良毕业生), 2025
- NeurIPS Top Reviewer Award, 2024
- China National Scholarship (国家奖学金), 2024
- NeurIPS Scholar Award, 2024
- ICML Travel Award, 2024
- Comprehensive Excellence Award, Tsinghua University, 2021–2024
- First Provincial-level in Chinese Physics Olympiad, 2018, 2019
- First Prize in National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces (NOIP) of China, 2017, 2018
Services
- Invited Reviewers:
- 2023: IEEE BigData 2023.
- 2024: AAAI 2024, NeurIPS 2024.
- 2025: AAAI 2025, AISTATS 2025, ICLR 2025, ICML 2025, NeurIPS 2025.
- 2026: AAAI 2026, AISTATS 2026, ICLR 2026.