Haotian Ren 任浩天

Incoming Master’s Student in Computer Technology

Tsinghua University

Advisor: Prof. Jingtao Zhan · FAITH Lab

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About me

I am an incoming master’s student in Computer Technology at Tsinghua University, where I will join FAITH Lab under the supervision of Prof. Jingtao Zhan. I am currently an undergraduate in Artificial Intelligence at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT).

I study how LLM agents can learn from experience. My interests center on agent memory and self-evolving systems: how to turn past interactions into useful knowledge, when to retrieve it, and how to improve the system that manages it. I also enjoy building tools that connect research ideas with everyday use.

Selected research

First author

S2Forge: Co-Evolving Skill and Selection Spaces for Long-Horizon Agents

Haotian Ren, Jingtao Zhan

S²Forge studies the mismatch between what an agent remembers and how it chooses to use that knowledge. It jointly evolves a skill space of reusable experience and a selection space that determines when to activate, suppress or exclude a skill. State-transition evidence updates both spaces as the agent interacts with its environment. I led problem formulation, method design and evaluation during my research internship at THUIR.

ICML 2026 Co-first author

MemEvolve: Meta-Evolution of Agent Memory Systems

Guibin Zhang, Haotian Ren, Chong Zhan, Zhenhong Zhou, Junhao Wang, He Zhu, Wangchunshu Zhou, Shuicheng Yan

MemEvolve improves both an agent’s stored experience and its memory architecture. EvolveLab provides a shared implementation of twelve memory systems, organized around encoding, storage, retrieval and management. I worked on experimental design and implementation, and developed much of the open-source codebase.

Research experience

2026.04 – 2026.07

THUIR Lab, Tsinghua University

Research internship on memory and skill selection for long-horizon agents.

2026.02 – 2026.03

ValueByte Lab, Peking University

Extended Meta Context Engineering to long-horizon dialogue scenarios. Built an AppWorld-based evaluation pipeline and adapted the original setup to new tasks.

Related project

2025.07 – 2025.12

Collaboration with NUS and OPPO AI Lab

Developed MemEvolve and EvolveLab, studying how agent memory architectures can improve through experience.

Education

Incoming

Tsinghua University

Master’s program in Computer Technology

Undergraduate

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Artificial Intelligence

Graduate recommendation ranking: 1/184

Selected honors

  • National Scholarship, 2023–2024 and 2024–2025 (Top 1%)
  • First Prize, China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (Top 0.5%)
  • Gold Award, China International College Students’ Innovation Competition, Beijing Region (2025)
  • Beijing Merit Student, 2024–2025 (1/463, 0.22%)

Beyond research

I have been building personal blogs since 2017. This one is where I keep course notes, work through ideas, and occasionally write about life. I enjoy programming, writing, and exploring new tools.

Outside research, I enjoy playing pool and table tennis. I also play video games, including Overwatch, PUBG, and Elden Ring.

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