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2026-08-07 - Synchronized HUST appointment dates with homepage

Status: done Branch: main Commit: latest commit on main Machine: local Windows workspace Related files:

  • _pages/about.md
  • resume/CV.tex
  • resume/CV_zh.tex
  • PROGRESS.md

Summary:

  • Updated the HUST research appointment to June 2021–June 2023 in the homepage and both CV versions.
  • Kept English months in the English CV and Chinese month formatting in the Chinese CV.

Next:

  • Keep the homepage and CV appointment dates synchronized.

2026-08-07 - Aligned appointment date formats by CV language

Status: done Branch: main Commit: latest commit on main Machine: local Windows workspace Related files:

  • resume/CV.tex
  • resume/CV_zh.tex
  • PROGRESS.md

Summary:

  • Formatted the English appointment dates as Sep. 2021 -- Jun. 2023.
  • Formatted the Chinese appointment dates as 2021年9月 -- 2023年6月.

Next:

  • Keep date formatting language-consistent across both CVs.

2026-08-07 - Updated HUST research-assistant dates

Status: done Branch: main Commit: latest commit on main Machine: local Windows workspace Related files:

  • resume/CV.tex
  • resume/CV_zh.tex
  • PROGRESS.md

Summary:

  • Standardized the Huazhong University of Science and Technology research-assistant appointment to 2021.09 -- 2023.06 in both CV versions.

Next:

  • Keep the appointment dates aligned across the English and Chinese CVs.

2026-08-07 - Corrected HUST research-assistant dates

Status: done Branch: main Commit: latest commit on main Machine: local Windows workspace Related files:

  • resume/CV.tex
  • resume/CV_zh.tex
  • PROGRESS.md

Summary:

  • Updated the Huazhong University of Science and Technology research-assistant appointment to June 2022–January 2023 in both CV versions.

Next:

  • Keep the appointment dates aligned with the user’s verified record.

2026-08-07 - Unified CV hyperlinks, bookmarks, and bandit terminology

Status: done Branch: main Commit: latest commit on main Machine: local Windows workspace Related files:

  • resume/resume.cls
  • resume/CV.tex
  • resume/CV_zh.tex
  • PROGRESS.md
  • TODO.md

Summary:

  • Hidden hyperlink borders in both CVs through the shared resume class.
  • Wrapped icon-bearing section titles with texorpdfstring so PDF bookmarks use clean text labels.
  • Standardized Chinese terminology as 多臂赌博机（multi-armed bandit） and 线性赌博机（linear bandit）.
  • Restored the latest English CV wording after checking for accidental reverts, including reliable online self-improvement, ongoing visiting-scholar status, and the Research Work wording.
  • Recompiled and visually checked both current CVs; each remains 2 pages with no overflow or clipping.

Next:

  • Finalize remaining fact-sensitive wording choices before exporting submission PDFs.

2026-08-07 - Removed JSAC status from Research Work summary

Status: done Branch: main Commit: ef0929a Machine: local Windows workspace Related files:

  • resume/CV.tex
  • resume/CV_zh.tex
  • PROGRESS.md
  • TODO.md

Summary:

  • Removed the major revision at IEEE JSAC phrase from the Online Learning Research Work bullet in both CVs.
  • Kept the IEEE JSAC major-revision status in the Publications section.

Next:

  • Push the Research Work wording cleanup.

2026-08-07 - Restored ongoing visiting-scholar dates

Status: done Branch: main Commit: 62176b2 Machine: local Windows workspace Related files:

  • resume/CV.tex
  • resume/CV_zh.tex
  • PROGRESS.md
  • TODO.md

Summary:

  • Changed the visiting-scholar date range back to May 2026 -- Now in English and 2026年5月 -- 至今 in Chinese.

Next:

  • Push the updated ongoing appointment dates.

2026-08-07 - Submission-readiness review of English and Chinese CVs

Status: done Branch: main Commit: pending Machine: local Windows workspace Related files:

  • resume/CV.tex
  • resume/CV_zh.tex
  • resume/resume.cls
  • PROGRESS.md
  • TODO.md

Summary:

  • Reviewed source text, cross-language consistency, LaTeX compilation, and rendered page images.
  • Both current CV sources compile successfully to 2-page PDFs with no overflow or clipping; only cosmetic font/icon and PDF-bookmark warnings remain.
  • Identified pre-submission wording/date decisions: English Published Papers heading versus accepted papers, Now versus Present, the grammar of the dynamic-environment bullet, and consistent bandit terminology in Chinese.
  • Noted visible cyan hyperlink boxes and FontAwesome bookmark warnings as optional polish items.

Next:

  • Resolve the fact-sensitive date/status choices and high-priority English wording before final PDF export.

2026-08-07 - Polished English Research Interest ending

Status: done Branch: main Commit: eb6f3a1 Machine: local Windows workspace Related files:

  • resume/CV.tex
  • PROGRESS.md
  • TODO.md

Summary:

  • Reworked the English Research Interest paragraph for smoother CV readability.
  • Replaced the repetitive ending “for reliable online adaptation” with “to support continual adaptation.”

Next:

  • Push the English wording polish.

2026-08-07 - Focused Research Interest on agent-controlled adaptation

Status: done Branch: main Commit: 5aadc43 Machine: local Windows workspace Related files:

  • resume/CV.tex
  • resume/CV_zh.tex
  • PROGRESS.md
  • TODO.md

Summary:

  • Removed the detailed Diffusion LLM, knowledge-connection, and analogy discussion from Research Interest.
  • Reframed the closing sentence around LLM participation in decision-making, memory management, and resource allocation.

Next:

  • Push the focused Research Interest wording.

2026-08-07 - Corrected Chinese class name

Status: done Branch: main Commit: 04e0a51 Machine: local Windows workspace Related files:

  • resume/CV_zh.tex
  • PROGRESS.md
  • TODO.md

Summary:

  • Corrected the Chinese class name to “信息类数理提高班” while preserving the 1/30 ranking.

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  • Push the corrected class name.

2026-08-07 - Refined Research Interest with reliable online self-improvement

Status: done Branch: main Commit: 5015df4 Machine: local Windows workspace Related files:

  • resume/CV.tex
  • resume/CV_zh.tex
  • PROGRESS.md
  • TODO.md

Summary:

  • Lightly incorporated the reliable online self-improvement framing from the supplied research note.
  • The Research Interest now highlights retaining existing capabilities, filtering unreliable feedback, and verifiable updates.

Next:

  • Push the refined Research Interest wording.

2026-08-07 - Moved continuous online self-improvement to Research Interest

Status: done Branch: main Commit: 384e427 Machine: local Windows workspace Related files:

  • resume/CV.tex
  • resume/CV_zh.tex
  • PROGRESS.md
  • TODO.md

Summary:

  • Restored the Research Work bullet to focus on adaptive social alignment and preventing unsafe generalization.
  • Added continuous online self-improvement as the explicit objective in the Research Interest section of both CVs.

Next:

  • Push the corrected placement of the objective.

2026-08-07 - Clarified continuous online self-improvement objective

Status: done Branch: main Commit: 9b9f0c5 Machine: local Windows workspace Related files:

  • resume/CV.tex
  • resume/CV_zh.tex
  • PROGRESS.md
  • TODO.md

Summary:

  • Clarified in both CVs that the inference-time system-prompt routing framework targets continuous online self-improvement of frozen LLMs.
  • Retained adaptive social alignment and prevention of unsafe generalization as the supporting objectives.

Next:

  • Push the clarified objective.

2026-08-07 - Synchronized Chinese CV with current English wording

Status: done Branch: main Commit: b226b8d Machine: local Windows workspace Related files:

  • resume/CV_zh.tex
  • PROGRESS.md
  • TODO.md

Summary:

  • Updated the Chinese Research Work section to match the English CV’s inference-time system-prompt routing and unsafe-generalization wording.
  • Aligned the online-learning description with the English dynamic-environment and edge-cloud formulation.
  • Synchronized the visiting-scholar date and added the English CV’s online-learning/multi-armed-bandit keywords.

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  • Push the Chinese CV synchronization.

2026-08-07 - Refined Diffusion LLM wording to improved decoding strategies

Status: done Branch: main Commit: 768f02f Machine: local Windows workspace Related files:

  • resume/CV.tex
  • resume/CV_zh.tex
  • PROGRESS.md
  • TODO.md

Summary:

  • Replaced “decoding acceleration” with the broader and more accurate “improved decoding strategies” wording in both CVs.
  • Retained the focus on dependency relationships across iterative generation steps.

Next:

  • Push the wording refinement.

2026-08-07 - Reframed Research Work toward Diffusion LLMs

Status: done Branch: main Commit: 8f91d1e Machine: local Windows workspace Related files:

  • resume/CV.tex
  • resume/CV_zh.tex
  • PROGRESS.md
  • TODO.md

Summary:

  • Replaced the English and Chinese Research Work bullet about hierarchical LoRA routing with a more accurate Diffusion LLM focus.
  • The new wording describes decoding acceleration through analysis and exploitation of dependency relationships across iterative generation steps.

Next:

  • Push the Research Work wording update.

2026-08-07 - Placed IEEE JSAC revision before arXiv entries

Status: done Branch: main Commit: db37cd7 Machine: local Windows workspace Related files:

  • resume/CV.tex
  • resume/CV_zh.tex
  • PROGRESS.md
  • TODO.md

Summary:

  • Moved the IEEE JSAC major-revision paper to the first position in the preprints/under-review section in both CVs.
  • Kept the three arXiv entries immediately below it in matching order.

Next:

  • Push the reordered CV entries.

2026-08-07 - Added arXiv identifier for Steering Frozen LLMs

Status: done Branch: main Commit: 06aa721 Machine: local Windows workspace Related files:

  • resume/CV.tex
  • resume/CV_zh.tex
  • PROGRESS.md
  • TODO.md

Summary:

  • Added arXiv:2603.15647 to the corresponding English and Chinese CV entries for Steering Frozen LLMs: Adaptive Social Alignment via Online Prompt Routing.
  • Kept the existing author/title formatting and all other publication statuses unchanged.

Next:

  • Push the arXiv metadata update.

2026-08-07 - Removed English submission-status labels from CV

Status: done Branch: main Commit: 9783cab Machine: local Windows workspace Related files:

  • resume/CV.tex
  • PROGRESS.md
  • TODO.md

Summary:

  • Removed the English CV’s submitted to NeurIPS and submitted to KDD labels from publication and research-work entries.
  • Kept the major revision at IEEE JSAC status, matching the Chinese CV.
  • Confirmed no active submitted to KDD or submitted to NeurIPS text remains in resume/CV.tex.

Next:

  • Push the English CV status cleanup.

2026-08-07 - Made LaTeX Workshop configuration portable

Status: done Branch: main Commit: 7676c5a Machine: local Windows workspace Related files:

  • .vscode/settings.json
  • PROGRESS.md
  • TODO.md

Summary:

  • Kept the XeLaTeX/latexmk recipe, SyncTeX, nonstop mode, file-line errors, -cd, and %OUTDIR% behavior.
  • Replaced the macOS-only /Library/TeX/texbin/latexmk command and hardcoded PATH with latexmk, allowing VS Code to use the active Windows TeX installation from PATH.
  • Validated the settings file as JSON with Node.js.

Next:

  • Push the portable VS Code configuration.

2026-07-28 - AxiomVision code link added to both CVs

Status: done Branch: main Commit: this commit Machine: local Windows workspace Related files:

  • resume/CV.tex
  • resume/CV_zh.tex
  • resume/CV.pdf
  • resume/CV_zh.pdf
  • PROGRESS.md
  • TODO.md

Summary:

  • Added only a clickable [Code] link to the AxiomVision publication entry in both the English and Chinese CVs, pointing to https://github.com/zeyuzhangzyz/AxiomVision.
  • Recompiled the final English and Chinese PDFs with XeLaTeX; each remains 3 pages.
  • Verified with pdfinfo -url that both final PDFs contain the AxiomVision GitHub URL annotation on page 1 and no added publication URL.

Next:

  • Commit and push the resume update.

2026-07-24 - Resume kept off the deployed site and CV content updated

Status: done Branch: main Commit: this commit Machine: local Windows workspace Related files:

  • _config.yml
  • resume/CV.tex, resume/CV_zh.tex, resume/CV.pdf, resume/CV_zh.pdf, resume/resume_2024.pdf
  • _pages/resume.pdf (moved to resume/resume_2024.pdf)
  • PROGRESS.md
  • TODO.md

Summary:

  • Added resume to the Jekyll exclude list so the CV/resume assets are NOT deployed to GitHub Pages, while still staying in the git repo for syncing.
  • Moved the old committed _pages/resume.pdf into the excluded resume/ dir (now resume/resume_2024.pdf) so it is no longer served on the site.
  • Updated CV.tex and CV_zh.tex to match the homepage: TMC paper accepted (IEEE TMC, 2026); “submitted to ICML” -> NeurIPS; JSAC -> major revision; ended HKAI Lab (Sep. 2025 - Apr. 2026); added UMass Amherst SOLAR Lab visiting scholar (May 2026 - present); refreshed the research-interest wording.
  • Recompiled CV.pdf and CV_zh.pdf with XeLaTeX (3 pages each).

Next:

  • Commit and push only the files related to this task. resume/ stays in git for syncing but is excluded from the deployed site.
  • Caveat: if the GitHub repo is public, the resume files remain viewable on github.com even though they are not on the website; a private repo is required to fully prevent access by others.
  • Resolved the HKAI Lab leader discrepancy by removing the supervisor line from both CVs (the entry no longer names a leader; English keeps a “Keywords: Diffusion Large Language Model.” line, Chinese keeps its research-topic line).

2026-07-14 - LLM research statement simplified

Status: done Branch: main Commit: this commit Machine: local Windows workspace Related files:

  • _pages/about.md
  • PROGRESS.md
  • TODO.md

Summary:

  • Shortened the LLM research-interest paragraph to three direct sentences.
  • Preserved the focus on online adaptation, iterative Diffusion LLM refinement, and knowledge connection and analogy for rapid agent learning.

Next:

  • Commit and push only the files related to this task.

2026-07-14 - LLM research interests refined

Status: done Branch: main Commit: this commit Machine: local Windows workspace Related files:

  • _pages/about.md
  • PROGRESS.md
  • TODO.md

Summary:

  • Reframed Diffusion LLMs as a framework for iteratively refining responses toward an idealized, mutually consistent answer.
  • Clarified the broader research interest in how LLMs connect knowledge, draw analogies, and support rapid agent updates through interaction.

Next:

  • Commit and push only the files related to this task.

2026-07-14 - Academic status and graduation year updated

Status: done Branch: main Commit: this commit Machine: local Windows workspace Related files:

  • _config.yml
  • _pages/about.md
  • PROGRESS.md
  • TODO.md

Summary:

  • Changed the sidebar bio from “Ph.D. Student at CUHK” to “PhD Candidate at CUHK”.
  • Added 2024 as the year the B.Eng. degree was earned.

Next:

  • Commit and push only the files related to this task.

2026-07-14 - Homepage biography reordered

Status: done Branch: main Commit: this commit Machine: local Windows workspace Related files:

  • _pages/about.md
  • PROGRESS.md
  • TODO.md

Summary:

  • Kept the Ph.D. candidacy and prior B.Eng. background together in the opening biography paragraph.
  • Moved the current SOLAR Lab visiting-scholar appointment into a separate paragraph below it.

Next:

  • Commit and push only the files related to this task.

2026-07-07 15:43 - Homepage visitor widget set to all-time

Status: done Branch: main Commit: this commit Machine: local Windows workspace Related files:

  • _pages/about.md
  • AGENTS.md
  • ROADMAP.md
  • TODO.md
  • RUNS.md

Summary:

  • Changed the homepage MapMyVisitors widget from the default monthly visitor range to all-time total pageviews by adding t=tt.
  • Updated the widget heading from Popular Visitors Map to All-time Visitors Map.
  • Added minimal project state files so future homepage work has recoverable project context.
  • Ran git diff --check successfully.
  • Could not run bundle exec jekyll build because Ruby/Gem/Bundler are not installed or not on PATH in the current local Windows shell.

Next:

  • Commit and push only the files related to this task.