Hongming Zhang

Research Scientist at FAIR, Meta

I am a Research Scientist at FAIR, Meta. My research interests lie in structured reasoning models and self-evolving agents. Recently, I have been working on the agentic capabilities of the Muse Spark model.

Before joining Meta, I was a senior researcher and research lead at Tencent AI Lab. I was also a research scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, working with Prof. Dan Roth. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from HKUST in 2021, advised by Prof. Yangqiu Song, and previously earned my M.Phil. and Bachelor's degrees from HKUST.

Projects

News

2026: Joined FAIR, Meta as a Research Scientist.
Jan. 2025: Two papers were accepted to ICLR 2025, including work on MLE agents and code agents.
Sep. 2024: Five papers were accepted to EMNLP 2024 and Findings, spanning theory of mind, RAG, and reasoning.
May 2024: Five papers were accepted to ACL 2024 and Findings, with a strong focus on LLM reasoning and agents.
Dec. 2023: Work on sentence representation received the EMNLP 2023 Outstanding Paper Award.

Representative Publications

For a more complete list, see the publications page, or my Google Scholar page.

Cognitive Kernel: An Open-source Agent System towards Generalist Autopilots. Hongming Zhang, Xiaoman Pan, Hongwei Wang, Kaixin Ma, Wenhao Yu, and Dong Yu. NAACL 2025 Demo. paper code
R-Zero: Self-Evolving Reasoning LLM from Zero Data. Chengsong Huang, Wenhao Yu, Xiaoyang Wang, Hongming Zhang, Zongxia Li, Ruosen Li, Jiaxin Huang, Haitao Mi, and Dong Yu. ICLR 2026. paper
Parallel-R1: Towards Parallel Thinking via Reinforcement Learning. Tong Zheng, Hongming Zhang, Wenhao Yu, Xiaoyang Wang, Xinyu Yang, Runpeng Dai, Rui Liu, Huiwen Bao, Chengsong Huang, Heng Huang, and Dong Yu. ICLR 2026. paper code
ASER: A Large-scale Eventuality Knowledge Graph. Hongming Zhang*, Xin Liu*, Haojie Pan*, Yangqiu Song, and Cane Wing-Ki Leung. WWW 2020. paper code data

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