I am currently working toward an M.S. degree in Computer Technology at the School of Computer Science,Peking University. My research interests lie in the fields of
- LLM Reasoning
- Post-Training
- Reward Modeling.
🔥 News
- 2025.01: 🎉🎉 rStar-Math is released on arXiv
📝 Publications
Arxiv

rStar-Math: Small LLMs Can Master Math Reasoning with Self-Evolved Deep Thinking
Xinyu Guan∗, Li Lyna Zhang∗, Yifei Liu, Ning Shang, Youran Sun, Yi Zhu, Fan Yang, Mao Yang
- We present rStar-Math to demonstrate that small language models (SLMs) can rival or even surpass the math reasoning capability of OpenAI o1-mini, without distillation from superior models.
📖 Educations
- 2023.06 - 2026.06 (expected), Master, The School of Computer Science, Peking University.
- 2019.06 - 2023.06, Undergraduate, Software Institute, Nanjing University.
💻 Internships
- 2024.01 - now, Microsoft Research Asia
- 2022.09 - 2023.06, ByteDance