Xiaowei Yin | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Introduction

I am a graduate student in Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I received my bachelor’s degree in Statistics from Renmin University of China.

My research focuses on efficient LLM reasoning, test-time computation, and adaptive multi-agent systems, with an emphasis on decision-making under limited computational budgets.

Publications

ICML 2026

PETS: A Principled Framework Towards Optimal Trajectory Allocation for Efficient Test-Time Self-Consistency

Zhangyi Liu*, Huaizhi Qu*, Xiaowei Yin*, He Sun, Yanjun Han, Tianlong Chen, Zhun Deng

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026.

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Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — Graduate Student in Computer Science, 2025 - Present; Expected M.S., June 2027
Renmin University of China — Bachelor’s in Statistics, 2021 - 2025

Honors & Awards

Academic Excellence Award, Renmin University of China, 2022 and 2023