Hi! I’m Yuyang Song, a first-year PhD student in Computer Science at University of Texas at Austin, where I feel fortunate to be advised by Prof. Yizhong Wang. I earned my B.S. in Computer Science at the Wu Yuzhang Honors College, Sichuan University, under the supervision of Prof. Mingjie Tang. From October 2025 to July 2026, I was a member of the Foundation Model Group at IQuest AI Lab, Ubiquant.
My research explores how architecture and training shape the learning and capabilities of language models. I study efficient and reliable training methods across pretraining and reinforcement learning, with a particular interest in how these methods scale to frontier models and support long-horizon agentic behavior. My goal is to advance the foundations of scalable intelligence.
📝 Selected Publications

IQuest-Q1: Advancing Foundation Capabilities for Agentic CLI Systems | Code
IQuest-Q1 is an open-source agentic foundation model for CLI systems. A sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 320B total parameters and 15B activated, it combines general and coding agent capabilities with efficient compute for medium- and long-horizon tasks. During development, it also takes part in its own improvement under human supervision.

Large-Scale Terminal Agentic Trajectory Generation from Dockerized Environments | Code
Siwei Wu*, Yizhi Li*, Yuyang Song*, Wei Zhang, Riza Batista-Navarro, Xian yang, Mingjie Tang, Bryan Dai, Jian Yang, Chenghua Lin.
We study how large-scale, execution-grounded terminal trajectories reshape the agentic capabilities of code LLMs. Trained on this data, TerminalTraj-32B achieves state-of-the-art results among models under 100B parameters and matches models more than 10× larger, while showing markedly steeper test-time scaling—evidence that the right training data, not just scale, drives terminal agent capability.

IQuest-Coder-V1 Technical Report | Code
Jian Yang, Wei Zhang, Shawn Guo, Zhengmao Ye, Lin Jing, Shark Liu, Yizhi Li, Jiajun Wu, Cening Liu, X. Ma, Yuyang Song, et al.
IQuest-Coder-V1 is a Looped-Transformer-based code large language models (LLMs) designed to advance autonomous software engineering and code intelligence. Built on the innovative code-flow multi-stage training paradigm, IQuest-Coder-V1 captures the dynamic evolution of software logic, delivering state-of-the-art performance across critical dimensions.

QUITE: A Query Rewrite System Beyond Rules with LLM Agents | Code
Yuyang Song, Hanxu Yan, Jiale Lao, Yibo Wang, Yufei Li, Yuanchun Zhou, Jianguo Wang, Mingjie Tang
QUITE is a training-free and feedback-aware system based on LLM agents that rewrites SQL queries into semantically equivalent forms with significantly better performance, covering a broader range of query patterns and rewrite strategies compared to rule-based methods.
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2026.05, Outstanding Undergraduate Graduate, Sichuan Province.
- 2023.11, First Prize, China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling.
- 2023.10, National Scholarship, Ministry of Education, China (Top 1%).
- 2023.10, First-Class Scholarship, Sichuan University (Top 1%).
- 2023.08, First Prize, China Undergraduate Internet of Things Design Competition.
📖 Educations

2026.08 - Present, Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin.

2022.09 - 2026.06, B.S. in Computer Science, Wuyuzhang College (Honours Programme), Sichuan University.
💻 Internships
- 2025.10 - 2026.07, Internship, IQuest AI Lab, Ubiquant, China.