Yipeng Kang 坑易澎

I am currently a researcher at Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI), under the leadership of Prof. Songchun Zhu. I earned my PhD as an Outstanding Graduate from the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) at Tsinghua University, which is led by Prof. Andrew Chi-Chih Yao. Additionally, I was a visiting scholar at CCLS, Columbia University and received my bachelor’s degree from the University of Science and Technology of China.

Email: kangyipeng[at]bigai[dot]ai

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Research Interests

My main research interests lie at the intersection of natural language processing (NLP) and multiagent systems (MAS), with a particular focus on:

• AI value system and social governance
• Interactive speech agent

Recent Works

(†: equal contribution)

• Make an Offer They Can’t Refuse: Grounding Bayesian Persuasion in Real-World Dialogues without Pre-Commitment
  Buwei He, Yang Liu, Zhaowei Zhang, Zixia Jia, Huijia Wu, Zhaofeng He, Zilong Zheng, Yipeng Kang.

• PoliCon: Evaluating LLMs on Achieving Diverse Political Consensus Objectives
  Zhaowei Zhang, Minghua Yi, Mengmeng Wang, Fengshuo Bai, Zilong Zheng, Yipeng Kang, Yaodong Yang.
  Website

• Evaluating Generalization Capabilities of LLM-Based Agents in Mixed-Motive Scenarios Using Concordia
  Cooperate with the DeepMind Concordia Team
  NeurIPS DB Track 2025 (CCF-A).

• Are the Values of LLMs Structurally Aligned with Humans? A Causal Perspective
  Yipeng Kang, Junqi Wang, Yexin Li, Mengmeng Wang, Wenming Tu, Quansen Wang, Hengli Li, Tingjun Wu, Xue Feng, Fangwei Zhong, Zilong Zheng
  ACL 2025 Findings (CCF-A).

• IBGP: Imperfect Byzantine Generals Problem for Zero-Shot Robustness in Communicative Multi-Agent Systems
  Yihuan Mao†, Yipeng Kang†, Peilun Li, Ning Zhang, Wei Xu, Chongjie Zhang.
  AAMAS 2025 (Extended Abstract) & AGI2025 (Oral).

• Multi-Agent Policy Transfer via Task Relationship Modeling
  Rongjun Qin, Feng Chen, Tonghan Wang, Lei Yuan, Xiaoran Wu, Yipeng Kang, Zongzhang Zhang, Chongjie Zhang, Yang Yu.
  SCIS 2023 (CCF-A).

• Multi-Agent Policy Transfer via Task Relationship Modeling
  Rongjun Qin, Feng Chen, Tonghan Wang, Lei Yuan, Xiaoran Wu, Yipeng Kang, Zongzhang Zhang, Chongjie Zhang, Yang Yu.
  NeurIPS 2022 Deep Reinforcement Learning Workshop.

• Non-Linear Coordination Graphs
  Yipeng Kang†, Tonghan Wang†, Qianlan Yang†, Xiaoran Wu, Chongjie Zhang
  NeurIPS 2022 (CCF-A). Spotlight Paper.

• Incorporating Pragmatic Reasoning Communication into Emergent Language
  Yipeng Kang, Tonghan Wang, Gerard de Melo
  NeurIPS 2020 (CCF-A). Spotlight Paper.

  
  

Other works.

• RAM: Towards an Ever-Improving Memory System by Learning from Communications
  Jiaqi Li, Xiaobo Wang, Wentao Ding, Zihao Wang, Yipeng Kang, Zixia Jia, Zilong Zheng.
  Reported by 麻省理工科技评论.

• Reinforced Natural Language Interfaces via Entropy Decomposition
  Xiaoran Wu, Yipeng Kang
  

Professional Services

Conference reviewer for NeurIPS 2023-2025, ICLR 2024-2025, ICML2025.

Program Committee AGI-25.

Other Experiences

• I was a co-founder of a start-up Yishi-Tech. (Some Awards 12).

• I was a freelance writer for 得到.

Students

• PhD Students: 何菀滢(BIGAI & WHU), 涂文明 (BIGAI & SJTU), 陈国球 (BIGAI & BNU)，何布帷(BIGAI & BUPT)

• Other Students with Collaboration: –PKU: 张钊为 –IIIS, Tsinghua： 毛怡欢，杨乾澜 –Tong Class, Tsinghua： 吴廷钧，高晗晴，汪上砚，陈天奕

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Update: 22 Sep 2025