Zhengxu Yu

AI Researcher, Huawei London Research Centre (ex-Alibaba)

Email: yuzxfred AT gmail.com

About Me

I am an AI Researcher at Huawei London Research Centre. Previously, I was at the Apsara Lab (formerly City Brain Lab, DAMO Academy), Alibaba Cloud, Alibaba Group. I received my Ph.D. from Zhejiang University, under the supervision of Prof. Deng Cai and Prof. Xiaofei He.
My research interests mainly lie in Autonomous AI Agents, Agentic RL, and Large Language Models. Here is my DBLP page.

Dec 10, 2025	New publication in AAAI'26.
Sep 19, 2025	New publication in NeurIPS'25.
Sep 18, 2025	New publication in IEEE T-ITS.
Dec 31, 2023	New publication in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
Dec 31, 2021	New publication in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.

ChainPrune: Evaluating and Reducing Redundancy in Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Weihang Pan, Zhengxu Yu, Yuxiang Zhang, Zhongming Jin, Binbin Lin, Xiaofei He, Jieping Ye

AAAI'26

Progressive Transfer Learning

Zhengxu Yu, Zhongming Jin, Long Wei, Jianqiang Huang, Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, Xian-Sheng Hua

IEEE Trans. Image Processing (TIP), vol. 31, pp. 1340-1348, 2022

Urban Traffic Light Control via Active Multi-agent Communication and Supply-Demand Modeling

Xing Guo*, Zhengxu Yu, Pengfei Wang, Zhongming Jin, Jianqiang Huang, Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, Xian-shen Hua (* Co-first author)

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2021

MaCAR: Urban Traffic Light Control via Active Multi-agent Communication and Action Rectification

Zhengxu Yu, Shuxian Liang, Long Wei, Zhongming Jin, Jianqiang Huang, Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, Xian-Sheng Hua

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-PRICAI'2020)