I am an assistant professor at WPI working on building collaborative AI agents.
My research interests are in formalisms, theories, and algorithms of single- and multi-agent planning and reinforcement learning.
Prior to WPI, I was an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina from 2020 to 2025.
I completed my PhD at the University of Michigan in 2020.
I am looking for PhD students and visiting researchers to join my group.
Efficient Information Sharing for Training Decentralized Multi-Agent World Models
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(RL Conference 2025)
Xiaoling Zeng, Qi Zhang
Convergence Rates of Bayesian Network Policy Gradient for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
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(NeurIPS 2024 BDU Workshop)
Dingyang Chen, Zhenyu Zhang, Xiaolong Kuang, Xinyang Shen, Ozalp Ozer, Qi Zhang
Reinforcement Learning with Euclidean Data Augmentation for State-Based Continuous Control
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arXiv]
(NeurIPS 2024)
Jinzhu Luo, Dingyang Chen, Qi Zhang
Efficient Sequential Decision Making with Large Language Models
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arXiv]
(EMNLP 2024)
Dingyang Chen, Qi Zhang, Yinglun Zhu
E(3)-Equivariant Actor-Critic Methods for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
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arXiv]
(ICML 2024)
Dingyang Chen, Qi Zhang
Subgoal Proposition Using a Vision-Language Model
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link]
(IROS 2023 LangRob Workshop)
Jianhai Su, Qi Zhang
Context-Aware Bayesian Network Actor-Critic Methods for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
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arXiv,
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(ICML 2023)
Dingyang Chen, Qi Zhang
Convergence and Price of Anarchy Guarantees of the Softmax Policy Gradient in Markov Potential Games
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arXiv]
(Preprint)
Dingyang Chen, Qi Zhang, Thinh T. Doan
(Presented at workshops at ICML 2022)
Communication-Efficient Actor-Critic Methods for Homogeneous Markov Games
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(ICLR 2022)
Dingyang Chen, Yile Li, Qi Zhang
Semantics and Algorithms for Trustworthy Commitment Achievement under Model Uncertainty
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(JAAMAS, 2020)
Qi Zhang, Edmund Durfee, Satinder Singh
Learning to Communicate and Solve Visual Blocks-World Tasks
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(AAAI 2019)
Qi Zhang, Richard Lewis, Satinder Singh, Edmund Durfee