Zhihong Pan

Master's student at USTC

2667459138 (at) qq (dot) com

About Me

I am currently a second-year Master's student (since September 2024) at the School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), advised by A/Res. Kai Zhang (张凯). Before that, I received my Bachelor's degree in Data Science and Big Data Technology from Northeastern University.

My current research interests mainly lie in terminal coding agents, agent harness, efficient LLM inference, and recommender systems / generative recommendation. I am fortunate to collaborate with wonderful researchers, and I am always open to discussion and collaboration. If you are interested, feel free to reach out via email. 😃

Education

• University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
  M.S. in Computer Technology, School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
  Sept. 2024 - Present

• Northeastern University
  B.E. in Data Science and Big Data Technology
  Sept. 2020 - June 2024

Experience

• Meituan, LongCat Team  ·  Research Intern
  Coding Agent Post-training
  Nov. 2025 - Present

Publications

• Meta-Task: Turning Terminal Task Synthesis into a Terminal Task for Scalable Agent Training
  Zhihong Pan, Jiyuan He, Kai Zhang, Yupeng Han, Ze Liu, Yuze Zhao, Yongcong Ye, Zhaohua Yang
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.27929, 2026
  [arXiv]

• Adaptive Model and Strategy Routing for Cost-Efficient LLM Services
  Zhihong Pan, Kai Zhang, Yuze Zhao, Yupeng Han
  ACM Web Conference (WWW), 2026
  [PDF] [Code]

• SimCDR: Preserving Intra-Domain Similarities of Users for Cross-Domain Recommendation
  Kai Zhang, Zhihong Pan, Lei Yu, Qi Liu, Hongke Zhao, Chaochao Chen, Enhong Chen
  ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
  [PDF]

• Trust, but Verify: Uncertainty-Driven Evidential Multimodal Representation Learning
  Yupeng Han, Kai Zhang, Xianquan Wang, Zhihong Pan, Ze Liu, Jiyuan He
  International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2026
  [PDF]