Kaixing Zhang 张凯星

Hi there! I am a Master's student in Computer Science at ShanghaiTech University, where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Kan Ren.

My research focuses on LLM interpretability: understanding what large language models encode in their internal representations and how those representations give rise to their behavior.

Building on this understanding, I am particularly interested in leveraging representations to empower LLMs in agentic scenarios, from steering and enhancing their reasoning to guiding the self-evolution of agent skills.

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Rep2Skill pipeline overview

Rep2Skill: Representation-Guided Skill Self-Evolution for LLM Agents

Kaixing Zhang, Changming Li, Yingdong Shi, Zheng Zhang, Kaitao Song, Wenjie Shi, Jingang Wang, Kan Ren

arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.39149, 2026

Moves skill evolution beyond the text space by using the agent's internal representations to guide how reusable textual skills are diagnosed and revised.

Education

ShanghaiTech University

M.S. in Computer Science

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ShanghaiTech University

B.S. in Computer Science

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