Alan Zhu

University of California

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Reasoning & Chain-of-Thought (2)Tool Use & Agents (2)Recommendation & Information Retrieval (1)Natural Language Processing (1)

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Mihran Miroyan (2)Narges Norouzi (2)Joseph E. Gonzalez (2)Carolyn Wang (1)

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May 26, 2026

University of CaliforniaMay 26, 2026

Recon: Reconstruction-Guided Reasoning Synthesis for User Modeling

Stop generating reasoning traces that merely justify actions; instead, generate traces that actually *predict* them, and watch your user modeling performance soar.

Alan Zhu, Mihran Miroyan, Carolyn Wang +4

Reasoning & Chain-of-Thought Recommendation & Information Retrieval Tool Use & Agents

Apr 28, 2026

Abby O'Neill +8Apr 28, 2026·also University of California

Cooperate to Compete: Strategic Coordination in Multi-Agent Conquest

Humans are softies: AI agents can learn to win more by being more aggressive in negotiations, outperforming human players in a mixed-motive game.

Abby O'Neill, Abigail O'Neill, Alan Zhu +6

Natural Language Processing Reasoning & Chain-of-Thought Tool Use & Agents

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Alan Zhu

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