📝 Publications

Classified by main research concern (Partial)

🎯 Chain-of-Thought & Reasoning

• 🔥 Arxiv 2026 The Molecular Structure of Thought: Mapping the Topology of Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning, Qiguang Chen, Yantao Du, Ziniu Li, Jinhao Liu, Songyao Duan, Jiarui Guo, Minghao Liu, Jiaheng Liu, Tong Yang, Ge Zhang, Libo Qin, Wanxiang Che, Wenhao Huang. Reasoning
• 🔥 Arxiv 2025 The Universal Landscape of Human Reasoning, Qiguang Chen*, Jinhao Liu*, Libo Qin, Yimeng Zhang, Yihao Liang, Shangxu Ren, Chengyu Luan, Dengyun Peng, Hanjing Li, Jiannan Guan, Zheng Yan, Jiaqi Wang, Mengkang Hu, Yantao Du, Zhi Chen, Xie Chen, Wanxiang Che. Reasoning
• 🏆 NeurIPS 2024 (Oral, Top 0.5% submitted paper, Top 1.8% accepted paper) Unlocking the Capabilities of Thought: A Reasoning Boundary Framework to Quantify and Optimize Chain-of-Thought, Qiguang Chen, Libo Qin, Jiaqi Wang, Jinxuan Zhou, Wanxiang Che. (Overall Score: 8, 7, 7, 7, 6) Reasoning
• 🏆 SCIS 2026 (Commission & Invited, LMG Best Poster, Citation: 650+, Most Influential Arxiv AI Papers Top-6) Towards Reasoning Era: A Survey of Long Chain-of-Thought for Reasoning Large Language Models, Qiguang Chen, Libo Qin, Jinhao Liu, Dengyun Peng, Jiannan Guan, Peng Wang, Mengkang Hu, Yuhang Zhou, Te Gao, Wanxiang Che. Paper Digest Reasoning
• 🏆 TPAMI 2026 RBF++: Quantifying and Optimizing Reasoning Boundaries across Measurable and Unmeasurable Capabilities for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning, Qiguang Chen, Libo Qin, Jinhao Liu, Yue Liao, Jiaqi Wang, Jingxuan Zhou, Wanxiang Che. Reasoning
• Preprint 2026 Rethinking Benchmark Comparability: A Survey of Reasoning Benchmarks for Large Language Models, Chenyuan Zhang, Simin Liu, Hanjing Li, Te Gao, Yidi Wang, Qiguang Chen, Xiachong Feng, Li Cai, Mengnan Du, Zhuotao Tian, Libo Qin, Philip S. Yu, Min Zhang. Reasoning
• EMNLP 2026 (Findings) Learning the Boundary of Solvability: Aligning LLMs to Detect Unsolvable Problems, Dengyun Peng*, Qiguang Chen*, Bofei Liu, Jiannan Guan, Libo Qin, Zheng Yan, Jinhao Liu, Jianshu Zhang, Wanxiang Che. Reasoning
• AAAI 2026 Aware First, Think Less: Dynamic Boundary Self-Awareness Drives Extreme Reasoning Efficiency in Large Language Models, Qiguang Chen*, Dengyun Peng*, Jinhao Liu, HuiKang Su, Jiannan Guan, Libo Qin, Wanxiang Che. Reasoning
• AAAI 2026 Beware of Reasoning Overconfidence: Pitfalls in the Reasoning Process for Multi-solution Tasks, Jiannan Guan*, Qiguang Chen*, Libo Qin, Dengyun Peng, Jinhao Liu, Liangyu Huo, Jian Xie, Wanxiang Che. Reasoning
• Arxiv 2025 Electronic Circuit Principles of Large Language Models, Qiguang Chen, Libo Qin, Jinhao Liu, Dengyun Peng, Jiaqi Wang, Mengkang Hu, Zhi Chen, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu. Reasoning
• EMNLP 2024 (Findings) Wrong-of-Thought: An Integrated Reasoning Framework with Multi-Perspective Verification and Wrong Information, Yongheng Zhang, Qiguang Chen, Jingxuan Zhou, Peng Wang, Jiasheng Si, Jin Wang, Wenpeng Lu, Libo Qin. Reasoning

🕹️ Agents

• 🔥 NeurIPS 2026 The Scaling Laws of Skills in LLM Agent Systems, Qiguang Chen, Qiming Yu, Yuhang Gu, Zhuoye Huang, Hanjing Li, Hongyu Liu, Simin Liu, Jinhao Liu, Dengyun Peng, Jiangyi Wang, Zheng Yan, Fanqing Meng, Ethan Qin, Carl Che, Mengkang Hu. Agent
• 🔥 NeurIPS 2026 Agent2World: Learning to Generate Symbolic World Models via Adaptive Multi-Agent Feedback, Mengkang Hu, Bowei Xia, Yuran Wu, Ailing Yu, Yude Zou, Qiguang Chen, Shijian Wang, Jiarui Jin, Kexin Li, Wenxiang Jiao, Yuan Lu, Ping Luo. Agent
• 🔥 Arxiv 2026 VibeLifeBench: Can Your Life Agent Be Proactive and Persistent in a Living World?, Xiaohongshu-Inc, et al. Agent
• Arxiv 2026 Do Coding Agents Understand Least-Privilege Authorization?, Zheng Yan*, Jingxiang Weng*, Qiguang Chen*, Dengyun Peng, Ethan Qin, Jiannan Guan, Jinhao Liu, Qiming Yu, Yixin Yuan, Fanqing Meng, Carl Che, Mengkang Hu. Agent Safety
• Arxiv 2026 ClawMark: A Living-World Benchmark for Multi-Turn, Multi-Day, Multimodal Coworker Agents, Fanqing Meng, Lingxiao Du, Zijian Wu, …, Qiguang Chen, Cihang Xie, Yuyin Zhou, Jiaheng Zhang, Zeyu Zheng, Mengkang Hu, Michael Qizhe Shieh. Agent Multimodal
• Arxiv 2025 AutoPR: Let’s Automate Your Academic Promotion!, Qiguang Chen*, Zheng Yan*, Mingda Yang, Libo Qin, Yixin Yuan, Hanjing Li, Jinhao Liu, Yiyan Ji, Dengyun Peng, Jiannan Guan, Mengkang Hu, Yantao Du, Wanxiang Che. Agent
• EMNLP 2026 OffSeeker: Online Reinforcement Learning Is Not All You Need for Deep Research Agents, Yuhang Zhou, Kai Zheng, Qiguang Chen, Mengkang Hu, Qingfeng Sun, Can Xu, Jingjing Chen. Agent
• NeurIPS 2025 OWL: Optimized Workforce Learning for General Multi-Agent Assistance in Real-World Task Automation, Mengkang Hu, Yuhang Zhou, Wendong Fan, Yuzhou Nie, Bowei Xia, Tao Sun, Ziyu Ye, Zhaoxuan Jin, Yingru Li, Qiguang Chen, Zeyu Zhang, Yifeng Wang, Qianshuo Ye, Bernard Ghanem, Ping Luo, Guohao Li. Agent Reasoning
• ACL 2025 What are the Essential Factors in Crafting Effective Long Context Multi-Hop Instruction Datasets? Insights and Best Practices, Zhi Chen*, Qiguang Chen*, Libo Qin, Qipeng Guo, Haijun Lv, Yicheng Zou, Hang Yan, Kai Chen, Dahua Lin. Agent Long-Context
• ACL 2025 HiAgent: Hierarchical Working Memory Management for Solving Long-Horizon Agent Tasks with Large Language Model, Mengkang Hu, Tianxing Chen, Qiguang Chen, Yao Mu, Wenqi Shao, Ping Luo. Agent
• ACL 2025 (Findings) Text2World: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Symbolic World Model Generation, Mengkang Hu, Tianxing Chen, Yude Zou, Yuheng Lei, Qiguang Chen, Ming Li, Yao Mu, Hongyuan Zhang, Wenqi Shao, Ping Luo. Agent
• ICLR 2024 Tree-Planner: Efficient Close-loop Task Planning with Large Language Models, Mengkang Hu, Yao Mu, Xinmiao Yu, Mingyu Ding, Shiguang Wu, Wenqi Shao, Qiguang Chen, Bin Wang, Yu Qiao, Ping Luo. Agent

AI4Research

• 🔥 Arxiv 2026 RSIBench-Data: Benchmarking Data-Centric Research for Recursive Self-Improvement, Fanqing Meng*, Lingxiao Du*, Qiguang Chen*, Ziqi Zhao, Hao Lu, Mengkang Hu, Michael Qizhe Shieh. AI4Research
• Arxiv 2026 AI Can Learn Scientific Taste, Jingqi Tong, Mingzhe Li, Hangcheng Li, Yongzhuo Yang, Yurong Mou, Weijie Ma, Zhiheng Xi, Hongji Chen, Xiaoran Liu, Qinyuan Cheng, Ming Zhang, Qiguang Chen, Weifeng Ge, Qipeng Guo, Tianlei Ying, Tianxiang Sun, Yining Zheng, Xinchi Chen, Jun Zhao, Ning Ding, Xuanjing Huang, Yugang Jiang, Xipeng Qiu. AI4Research
• 🏆 NLPCC 2025 MvDDI: A Multi-view Interaction Framework for Few-shot Drug-Drug Interaction (Best Poster Award), Zihao Mao, Qiguang Chen, Yongheng Zhang, Ruoxi Zhou, Peng Wang, Yao Li, Sheng Wang, Libo Qin. AI4Research
• SCIS 2026 AI4Research: A Survey of Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Research, Qiguang Chen*, Mingda Yang*, Libo Qin, Jinhao Liu, Zheng Yan, Jiannan Guan, Dengyun Peng, Yiyan Ji, Hanjing Li, Mengkang Hu, Yimeng Zhang, Yihao Liang, Yuhang Zhou, Jiaqi Wang, Zhi Chen, Wanxiang Che. AI4Research Agent

👀 Multi-Modal Modelling & Reasoning

• 🔥 Arxiv 2026 Thinking in Video: Can Video Generators Really Reason About the Real World?, Yongheng Zhang, Guang Yang, Ruihan Hou, Qiguang Chen, Ziang Liu, Xiaolong Liu, Manman Zhang, Yanchao Hao, Zheng Wei, Hao Wu, Libo Qin, Peishan Dai, Yinghui Li, Di Yin, Xing Sun. Multimodal Reasoning
• 🏆 ACL 2026 (Oral) OMIBench: Benchmarking Olympiad-Level Multi-Image Reasoning in Large Vision-Language Model, Qiguang Chen, Chengyu Luan, Jiajun Wu, Qiming Yu, Yi Yang, Yizhuo Li, Jingqi Tong, Xiachong Feng, Libo Qin, Wanxiang Che. Multimodal Reasoning
• 🏆 ACL 2026 (Oral) Dashboard2Code: Evaluating Multimodal Models on Reconstructing Interactive Dashboards, Tianhao Niu, Ziyu Han, Qiguang Chen, Shiqi Zhou, Baocai Shan, Hengjie Fang, Qingfu Zhu, Wanxiang Che. Multimodal
• 🏆 AAAI 2025 (Oral, Top 4.6% accepted paper) CoMT: A Novel Benchmark for Chain of Multi-modal Thought on Large Vision-Language Models, Zihui Cheng*, Qiguang Chen*, Jin Zhang, Hao Fei, Xiaocheng Feng, Wanxiang Che, Min Li, Libo Qin. Multimodal Reasoning
• 🏆 ACL 2024 (Oral, Top 2.3% submitted paper, Top 10% accepted paper) M3CoT: A Novel Benchmark for Multi-Domain Multi-step Multi-modal Chain-of-Thought, Qiguang Chen, Libo Qin, Jin Zhang, Zhi Chen, Xiao Xu, Wanxiang Che. (Overall Score: 4, 4, 4, 4) Multimodal Reasoning
• 🏆 ACM MM 2025 (Oral) MPCC: A Novel Benchmark for Multimodal Planning with Complex Constraints in Multimodal Large Language Models, Yiyan Ji, Haoran Chen, Qiguang Chen, Chengyue Wu, Libo Qin, Wanxiang Che. Multimodal Reasoning
• 🏆 ACM MM 2025 (Oral) ViTCoT: Video-Text Interleaved Chain-of-Thought for Boosting Video Understanding in Large Language Models, Yongheng Zhang, Xu Liu, Ruihan Tao, Qiguang Chen, Hao Fei, Wanxiang Che, Libo Qin. Multimodal Reasoning
• CVPR 2026 Thinking with video: Video generation as a promising multimodal reasoning paradigm, Jingqi Tong, Yurong Mou, Hangcheng Li, Mingzhe Li, Yongzhuo Yang, Ming Zhang, Qiguang Chen, Tianyi Liang, Xiaomeng Hu, Yining Zheng, Xinchi Chen, Jun Zhao, Xuanjing Huang, Xipeng Qiu. Multimodal Reasoning
• AAAI 2026 Let’s Think with Images Efficiently! An Interleaved-Modal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Framework with Dynamic and Precise Visual Thoughts, Xu Liu, Yongheng Zhang, Qiguang Chen, Yao Li, Sheng Wang, Libo Qin. Multimodal Reasoning
• NeurIPS 2025 Visual Thoughts: A Unified Perspective of Understanding Multimodal Chain-of-Thought, Zihui Cheng*, Qiguang Chen*, Xiao Xu, Jiaqi WANG, Weiyun Wang, Hao Fei, Yidong Wang, Alex Jinpeng Wang, Zhi Chen, Wanxiang Che, Libo Qin. Multimodal Reasoning
• NeurIPS 2024 What Factors Affect Multi-modal In-Context Learning? An In-Depth Exploration, Libo Qin*, Qiguang Chen*, Hao Fei, Zhi Chen, Min Li, Wanxiang Che. Multimodal
• ACL 2025 CCHall: A Novel Benchmark for Joint Cross-Lingual and Cross-Modal Hallucinations Detection in Large Language Models, Yongheng Zhang, Xu Liu, Ruoxi Zhou, Qiguang Chen, Hao Fei, Wenpeng Lu, Libo Qin. Multimodal Multilingual
• ToMM 2024 S3Agent: Unlocking the Power of VLLM for Zero-Shot Multi-modal Sarcasm Detection, Peng Wang, Yongheng Zhang, Hao Fei, Qiguang Chen, Yukai Wang, Jiasheng Si, Wenpeng Lu, Min Li, Libo Qin. Multimodal Reasoning
• ICASSP 2024 LabCLIP: Label-Enhanced Clip for Improving Zero-Shot Text Classification, Yongheng Zhang, Peng Wang, Qiguang Chen, Jingxuan Zhou, Yongmei Wang, Min Li, Libo Qin. Multimodal
• ACL 2023 (Findings) CLIPText: A New Paradigm for Zero-shot Text Classification, Libo Qin, Weiyun Wang, Qiguang Chen, Wanxiang Che. Multimodal
• ACL 2023 (Findings) MMSD2.0: Towards a Reliable Multi-modal Sarcasm Detection System, Libo Qin, Shijue Huang, Qiguang Chen, Chenran Cai, Yudi Zhang, Bin Liang, Wanxiang Che, Ruifeng Xu. Multimodal

🏳️‍🌈 Multilingual Modelling & Reasoning

• 🏆 Patterns (2025) (Commission & Invited, Cell Sub-Journal, Citation: 200+) A survey of multilingual large language models, Libo Qin*, Qiguang Chen*, Yuhang Zhou, Zhi Chen, Yinghui Li, Lizi Liao, Min Li, Wanxiang Che, Philip S. Yu. Multilingual
• 🏆 EMNLP 2023 (Oral) Cross-lingual Prompting: Improving Zero-shot Chain-of-Thought Reasoning across Languages, Libo Qin*, Qiguang Chen*, Fuxuan Wei, Shijue Huang, Wanxiang Che. Multilingual Reasoning
• ACL 2026 Less Languages, Less Tokens: An Efficient Unified Logic Cross-lingual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Framework, Chenyuan Zhang, Qiguang Chen, Xie Chen, Zhuotao Tian, Bowen Xing, Meishan Zhang, Libo Qin, Baotian Hu, Min Zhang. Multilingual Reasoning
• ACL 2025 (Findings) X-WebAgent: A Multilingual Interactive Web Benchmark for Evaluating Global Agentic System, Peng Wang, Ruihan Tao, Qiguang Chen, Mengkang Hu, Libo Qin. Multilingual Reasoning
• ACL 2024 (Findings) AutoCAP: Towards Automatic Cross-lingual Alignment Planning for Zero-shot Chain-of-Thought, Yongheng Zhang*, Qiguang Chen*, Min Li, Wanxiang Che, Libo Qin. Multilingual Reasoning
• ACL 2022 GL-CLeF: A Global-Local Contrastive Learning Framework for Cross-lingual Spoken Language, Libo Qin, Qiguang Chen, Tianbao Xie, Qixin Li, Jian-Guang Lou, Wanxiang Che, Min-Yen Kan. Multilingual Dialogue System

🎙️ Dialogue System

• 🏆 EMNLP 2022 Workshop (Best Paper) HIT-SCIR at MMNLU-22: Consistency Regularization for Multilingual Spoken Language Understanding, Bo Zheng, Zhouyang Li, Fuxuan Wei, Qiguang Chen, Libo Qin, Wanxiang Che. Multilingual Dialogue System
• Data Intelligence 2026 Single-to-Multiple: Learning Multiple Intent Detection with Only Single Intent Data, Jingxuan Zhou*, Shijue Huang*, Weiyun Wang*, Qiguang Chen, Yongheng Zhang, Tianbao Xie, Libo Qin. Dialogue System
• IJCAI 2024 (Oral) Decoupling breaks data barriers: A Decoupled Pre-training Framework for Multi-Intent Spoken Language Understanding, Libo Qin*, Qiguang Chen*, Fuxuan Wei, Shijue Huang, Wanxiang Che. Dialogue System
• IJCAI 2025 Improving Consistency Identification in Task-oriented Dialogue through Multi-Agent Collaboration, Peng Wang, Shuo Li, Ruoxi Zhou, Qiguang Chen, Xiao Xu, Hao Fei, Dagang Li, Wanxiang Che, Libo Qin. Dialogue System Reasoning
• AAAI 2025 Divide-Solve-Combine: An Interpretable and Accurate Prompting Framework for Zero-shot Multi-Intent Detection, Libo Qin*, Qiguang Chen*, Jingxuan Zhou, Jin Wang, Hao Fei, Wanxiang Che, Min Li. Dialogue System Reasoning
• FCS 2025 MPFToD: a modularized pre-training framework for consistency identification in task-oriented dialogue, Libo Qin, Shijue Huang, Qiguang Chen, Qian Liu, Wanxiang Che, Ruifeng Xu. Dialogue System
• ICASSP 2025 CroPrompt: Cross-task Interactive Prompting for Zero-shot Spoken Language Understanding, Libo Qin, Fuxuan Wei, Qiguang Chen, Jingxuan Zhou, Shijue Huang, Jiasheng Si, Wenpeng Lu, Wanxiang Che. Dialogue System
• Arxiv 2024 A preliminary evaluation of chatgpt for zero-shot dialogue understanding, Wenbo Pan, Qiguang Chen, Xiao Xu, Wanxiang Che, Libo Qin. Dialogue System
• EMNLP 2023 End-to-end Task-oriented Dialogue: A Survey of Tasks, Methods, and Future Directions, Libo Qin, Wenbo Pan, Qiguang Chen, Lizi Liao, Zhou Yu, Yue Zhang, Wanxiang Che, Min Li. Dialogue System
• ACL 2023 (Demo) OpenSLU: A Unified, Modularized, and Extensible Toolkit for Spoken Language Understanding, Libo Qin*, Qiguang Chen*, Xiao Xu, Yunlong Feng, Wanxiang Che. Dialogue System
• COLING 2022 CGIM: A Cycle Guided Interactive Learning Model for Consistency Identification in Task-oriented Dialogue, Libo Qin, Qiguang Chen, Tianbao Xie, Qian Liu, Shijue Huang, Wanxiang Che, Zhou Yu. Dialogue System
• EMNLP 2021 Don’t be Contradicted with Anything! CI-ToD: Towards Benchmarking Consistency for Task-oriented Dialogue System., Libo Qin, Tianbao Xie, Shijue Huang, Qiguang Chen, Xiao Xu, Wanxiang Che. Dialogue System

Others

• ICLR 2026 Can LLMs Refuse Questions They Do Not Know? Measuring Knowledge-Aware Refusal in Factual Tasks, Wenbo Pan, Jie Xu, Qiguang Chen, Junhao Dong, Libo Qin, Xinfeng Li, Haining Yu, Xiaohua Jia. Safety
• ACL 2025 (Findings) MLDebugging: Towards Benchmarking Code Debugging Across Multi-Library Scenarios, Jinyang Huang, Xiachong Feng, Qiguang Chen, Hanjie Zhao, Zihui Cheng, Jiesong Bai, Jingxuan Zhou, Min Li, Libo Qin. Code
• ICML 2025 The Hidden Dimensions of LLM Alignment: A Multi-Dimensional Safety Analysis, Wenbo Pan, Zhichao Liu, Qiguang Chen, Xiangyang Zhou, Haining Yu, Xiaohua Jia. Safety
• TMLR 2025 DivIL: Unveiling and Addressing Over-Invariance for Out-of-Distribution Generalization, Jiaqi Wang, Yuhang Zhou, Zhixiong Zhang, Qiguang Chen, Yongqiang Chen, James Cheng. Graph
• COLING 2025 Can Large Language Models Understand You Better? An MBTI Personality Detection Dataset Aligned with Population Traits Bohan Li, Jiannan Guan, Longxu Dou, Yunlong Feng, Dingzirui Wang, Yang Xu, Enbo Wang, Qiguang Chen, Bichen Wang, Xiao Xu, Yimeng Zhang, Libo Qin, Yanyan Zhao, Qingfu Zhu, Wanxiang Che. Psychology
• Arxiv 2024 KVSharer: Efficient Inference via Layer-Wise Dissimilar KV Cache Sharing, Yifei Yang, Zouying Cao, Qiguang Chen, Libo Qin, Dongjie Yang, Hai Zhao, Zhi Chen. Efficiency
• FCS 2026 Large Language Models Meet NLP: A Survey, Libo Qin, Qiguang Chen, Xiachong Feng, Yang Wu, Yongheng Zhang, Yinghui Li, Min Li, Wanxiang Che, Philip S Yu. Other
• CCL 2023 Through the Lens of Core Competency: Survey on Evaluation of Large Language Models, Ziyu Zhuang, Qiguang Chen, Longxuan Ma, Mingda Li, Yi Han, Yushan Qian, Haopeng Bai, Weinan Zhang, Ting Liu. Other