Ting Sun (孙挺)

I'm currently at Wizard Quant, working on recursive self-improvement (RSI) for foundation models. My focus is on training and evaluation reliability and efficiency, maximizing iteration velocity across self-improving loops.

My research appears in Nature, NeurIPS, and EMNLP, and has been adopted across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI. Previously with UIUC MLSys, awarded the David R. Cheriton Fellowship at UWaterloo, and graduated summa cum laude from SUSTech.

My work spans distributed training, inference, evaluation, and data infrastructure. I am an open-source enthusiast and have contributed to projects including vLLM, SGLang, Transformers, Megatron-LM, PyTorch, and RisingWave.

I write about tech on Zhihu and share travel photos on Instagram to document life outside the terminal. Feel free to email me for research discussions, collaborations, or whatever else.

Publications

arXiv 2026

Agents’ Last Exam

ALE Consortium (including Ting Sun)

The headline benchmark evaluating autonomous coding and reasoning agents across 55 professional subdomains with ground-truth execution checks.

arXiv 2025

L0: Reinforcement Learning to Become General Agents

Junjie Zhang, Jingyi Xi, Zhuoyang Song, Junyu Lu, Yuhua Ke, Ting Sun, Yukun Yang, Jiaxing Zhang, Songxin Zhang, Zejian Xie

End-to-end RL training framework for autonomous agents executing in persistent Python loops (NB-Agent), boosting SimpleQA factuality from 30% to 80%.