Licheng Liu
Agentic RL · post-training

Licheng Liu

I graduated from Imperial College London with a BSc in Mathematics in 2026, and I'm an incoming CS PhD student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (Fall 2027). I study agentic RL. Previously, I worked on learning theory, with a focus on online selective prediction.

StepFun · post-training incoming PhD · Fall 2027 Imperial College London

I'm always open to collaboration and would love to chat—don't hesitate to shoot me an email!

Licheng Liu

Selected papers

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RAGEN-2: Reasoning Collapse in Agentic RL
Zihan Wang†*, Chi Gui†, Xing Jin†, Qineng Wang†, Licheng Liu†, … , Manling Li
ICML 2026 Oral top 0.7% of 23,918 · † core contributors, * project lead
Online Prediction with Limited Selectivity
Licheng Liu, Mingda Qiao
NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight top 3.2% of 21,575
Let's Try Again: Eliciting Multi-Turn Reasoning in Language Models via Simplistic Feedback
Licheng Liu, Zihan Wang, Linjie Li, … , Manling Li
AI4Math@ICML 2025 multi-turn RL from minimal feedback

Writing

How I Prepare a Research Talk: Notes on Slides, Scripts, and Delivery

Slides shape structure, scripts shape language, delivery shapes pacing.

Nov 17, 2025