Bo Liu - UT Austin

I am a Senior Research Scientist at Meta, focusing on reasoning and large-scale reinforcement learning. I received my Ph.D. from UT Austin, where I was fortunately co-advised by Prof. Peter Stone and Prof. Qiang Liu. My research interest lies in continual learning and reinforcement learning. Specifically, I am interested in designing theoretically sound algorithms and neural architectures for training large-scale multi-purpose agents. Before that I completed my master's at Stanford and my undergraduate at JHU.

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Experience

Nov 2024 - Present

Meta, Menlo Park – Senior Research Scientist (FAIR)
Reasoning, Scaling RL; Manager: Yuandong Tian

Jun - Oct 2023

DeepMind, London – Research Intern
Mentor: Arthur Szlam, Marc'aurelio Ranzato

Jun - Sept 2020

Nvidia, Sunnyvale – Research Intern
Mentor: Animashree Anandkumar, Yuke Zhu

Jun - Sept 2018/2019

Baidu, Sunnyvale – Research Intern
Mentor: Ping Li

May - Aug 2015/2016

Google, Los Angeles – Software Engineer Intern

Selected Publications (* ⇒ equal contribution)

Longhorn: State Space Models Are Amortized Online Learners

Bo Liu, Rui Wang, Lemeng Wu, Yihao Feng, Peter Stone, Qiang Liu

Oral presentation at ENLSP@NeurIPS 2024

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AdaFlow: Imitation Learning with Variance-Adaptive Flow-Based Policies

Xixi Hu, Bo Liu, Xingchao Liu, Qiang Liu

NeurIPS 2024

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Memory-Efficient LLM Training with Online Subspace Descent

Kaizhao Liang, Bo Liu, Lizhang Chen, Qiang Liu

NeurIPS 2024

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Communication Efficient Distributed Training with Distributed Lion

*Bo Liu, *Lemeng Wu, *Lizhang Chen, Kaizhao Liang, Jiaxu Zhu, Chen Liang, Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi, Qiang Liu

NeurIPS 2024

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Asynchronous Local-SGD Training for Language Modeling

Bo Liu, Rachita Chhaparia, Arthur Douillard, Satyen Kale, Andrei A. Rusu, Jiajun Shen, Arthur Szlam, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato

Oral presentation at WANT@ICML 2024

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Lion Secretly Solves Constrained Optimization: As Lyapunov Predicts

*Lizhang Chen, *Bo Liu, *Kaizhao Liang, Qiang Liu

ICLR 2024 (Spotlight)

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LLM+P: Empowering Large Language Models with Optimal Planning Proficiency

*Bo Liu, *Yuqian Jiang, Xiaohan Zhang, Qiang Liu, Shiqi Zhang, Joydeep Biswas, Peter Stone

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LIBERO: Benchmarking Knowledge Transfer for Lifelong Robot Learning

*Bo Liu, *Yifeng Zhu, *Chongkai Gao, Yihao Feng, Qiang Liu, Yuke Zhu, Peter Stone

NeurIPS 2023 (oral presentation at RAP4Robots, ICRA 2023, and TGR, CoRL 2023)

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FAMO: Fast Adaptive Multitask Optimization

Bo Liu, Yihao Feng, Peter Stone, Qiang Liu

NeurIPS 2023

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Metric Residual Networks for Sample Efficient Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

Bo Liu, Yihao Feng, Qiang Liu, Peter Stone

AAAI 2023 (oral presentation)

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BOME! Bilevel Optimization Made Easy: A Simple First-Order Approach

*Bo Liu, *Mao Ye, Peter Stone, Steve Wright, Qiang Liu

NeurIPS 2022

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Continual Learning and Private Unlearning

Bo Liu, Qiang Liu, Peter Stone

CoLLAs 2022

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Conflict-Averse Gradient Descent for Multi-task Learning

Bo Liu, Xingchao Liu, Xiaojie Jin, Peter Stone, Qiang Liu

NeurIPS 2021

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Coach-Player Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Team Composition

Bo Liu, Qiang Liu, Peter Stone, Animesh Garg, Yuke Zhu, Animashree Anandkumar

ICML 2021 (oral presentation)

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A lifelong learning approach to mobile robot navigation

*Bo Liu, *Xuesu Xiao, Peter Stone

RA-L / ICRA 2021

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Firefly neural architecture descent: a general approach for growing neural networks

*Lemeng Wu, *Bo Liu, Peter Stone, Qiang Liu

NeurIPS 2020

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Teaching

Fall 2019	University of Texas at Austin – Teaching Assistant CS 394: Reinforcement Learning
Winter 2019	Stanford University – Teaching Assistant CS 234: Reinforcement Learning
Fall 2016	Johns Hopkins University – Teaching Assistant EN 601.665: Natural Language Processing
Fall 2015	Johns Hopkins University – Teaching Assistant EN 600.463: Algorithms