Hanlin Zhu

PhD student, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department, University of California Berkeley

2 papers at NeurIPS 2025

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Poster Session 1

1 paper

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 · 11:00 AM → 2:00 PM

Exhibit Hall C,D,E

Reasoning by Superposition: A Theoretical Perspective on Chain of Continuous Thought

#3306 · Hanlin Zhu, Shibo Hao, Zhiting Hu, Jiantao Jiao, Stuart Russell, Yuandong Tian

We study the mechanism of chain of continuous thought on the graph reachability problem, and show it can reason by maintaining a superposition of multiple search traces both theoretically and empirically.

Poster Session 5

1 paper

Friday, December 5, 2025 · 11:00 AM → 2:00 PM

Exhibit Hall C,D,E

Generalization or Hallucination? Understanding Out-of-Context Reasoning in Transformers

#1516 · Yixiao Huang, Hanlin Zhu, Tianyu Guo, Jiantao Jiao, Somayeh Sojoudi, Michael I. Jordan, Stuart Russell, Song Mei