Outside of his academic life, he enjoys playing badminton, and especially loves Nolan's films. He grew up in Jingzhou, Hubei, a city renowned for its talented people and auspicious land.

Sunbowen Lee is about to be admitted to Beijing Institute of Technology as a doctoral student in computer science. He has a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in science, thus having a broad perspective in scientific research. His main research interests lie in large language models, reinforcement learning, etc.

Education

09/2023 ~ Present (06/2026): College of Science, Wuhan University of Science and Technology
- Science master student, system science
**09/2018 ~ 06/2022: School of Finance, Hubei University of Economics
- Economics bachelor, finance

Publication

Sunbowen Lee, Qingyu Yin, Chak Tou Leong, Jialiang Zhang, Yicheng Gong, Xiaoyu Shen. “Probing the Difficulty Perception Mechanism of Large Language Models”, arXiv, October 7, 2025. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05969.
Sunbowen Lee, Shiwen Ni, Chi Wei, Shuaimin Li, Liyang Fan, Ahmadreza Argha, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Ruifeng Xu, Yicheng Gong, and Min Yang. “xJailbreak: Representation Space Guided Reinforcement Learning for Interpretable LLM Jailbreaking”, arXiv, January 30, 2025. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.16727.
Sunbowen Lee, Junting Zhou, Chang Ao, Kaige Li, Xinrun Du, Sirui He, Jiaheng Liu, Min Yang, Zhoufutu Wen, and Shiwen Ni. “Quantification of Large Language Model Distillation”, Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.248
Sunbowen Lee, Hongqin Lyu, Yicheng Gong, Yingying Sun, and Chao Deng. “MacLight: Multi-Scene Aggregation Convolutional Learning for Traffic Signal Control”, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, May 19, 2025. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3709347.3743758.
Sunbowen Lee, Yicheng Gong, Chao Deng. “Counterfactual experience augmented off-policy reinforcement learning”, Neurocomputing, Mar 16, 2025.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2025.130017.

Honors and Awards

China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, First Prize in Hubei Province, November 2020
National College Students Statistics Modeling Competition, Third Prize in Hubei Province, June 2024

Others

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