Breaking the Reward Barrier: Accelerating Tree-of-Thought Reasoning via Speculative Exploration

Shuzhang Zhong, Haochen Huang, Shengxuan Qiu, Pengfei Zuo, Runsheng Wang, Meng Li
March, 2026
Type
Conference paper
Publication
In USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI)
Efficient AI
Meng Li
Meng Li
Assistant Professor

I am currently a tenure-track assistant professor jointly affiliated with the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and School of Integrated Circuits in Peking University. My research interests focus on efficient and secure multi-modality AI acceleration algorithms and hardwares.