Publications

(# indicates work supervised by me)

Preprints

ARM2: Adaptive Reasoning Model with Vision Understanding and Executable Code

Jian Xie,Zhendong Chu, Aoxiao Zhong, Kai Zhang, Mingzhe Han, Xing Fan, Jialie Shen, Qingsong Wen arXiv Preprint

Agent Learning via Early Experience

Kai Zhang, Xiangchao Chen, Bo Liu, Tianci Xue, Zeyi Liao, Zhihan Liu, Xiyao Wang, Yuting Ning, Zhaorun Chen, Xiaohan Fu, Jian Xie, Yuxuan Sun, Boyu Gou, Qi Qi, Zihang Meng, Jianwei Yang, Ning Zhang, Xian Li, Ashish Shah, Dat Huynh, Hengduo Li, Zi Yang, Sara Cao, Lawrence Jang, Shuyan Zhou, Jiacheng Zhu, Huan Sun, Jason Weston, Yu Su, Yifan Wu arXiv Preprint

2025

Mind2Web 2: Evaluating Agentic Search with Agent-as-a-Judge

Boyu Gou, Zanming Huang, Yuting Ning, Yu Gu, Michael Lin, Weijian Qi, Andrei Kopanev, Botao Yu, Bernal Jiménez Gutiérrez, Yiheng Shu, Chan Hee Song, Jiaman Wu, Shijie Chen, Hanane Nour Moussa, Tianshu Zhang, Jian Xie, Yifei Li, Tianci Xue, Zeyi Liao, Kai Zhang, Boyuan Zheng, Zhaowei Cai, Viktor Rozgic, Morteza Ziyadi, Huan Sun, Yu Su NeurIPS 2025

# ARM: Adaptive Reasoning Model

Siye Wu, Jian Xie, Yikai Zhang, Aili Chen, Kai Zhang, Yu Su, Yanghua Xiao NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight (3%)

# Implicit Reasoning in Transformers is Reasoning through Shortcuts

Tianhe Lin, Jian Xie, Siyu Yuan, Deqing Yang ACL 2025 Findings

AAAR-1.0: Assessing AI's Potential to Assist Research

Renze Lou, Hanzi Xu, Sijia Wang, Jiangshu Du, Ryo Kamoi, Xiaoxin Lu, Jian Xie, Yuxuan Sun, Yusen Zhang, Jihyun Janice Ahn, Hongchao Fang, Zhuoyang Zou, Wenchao Ma, Xi Li, Kai Zhang, Congying Xia, Lifu Huang, Wenpeng Yin ICML 2025

Revealing the Barriers of Language Agents in Planning

Jian Xie, Kexun Zhang, Jiangjie Chen, Siyu Yuan, Kai Zhang, Yikai Zhang, Lei Li, Yanghua Xiao NAACL 2025

2024

From Persona to Personalization: A Survey on Role-Playing Language Agents

Jiangjie Chen, Xintao Wang, Rui Xu, Siyu Yuan, Yikai Zhang, Wei Shi, Jian Xie,
Shuang Li, Ruihan Yang, Tinghui Zhu, Aili Chen, Nianqi Li, Lida Chen, Caiyu Hu, Siye Wu, Scott Ren, Ziquan Fu, Yanghua Xiao
TMLR

# How Easily do Irrelevant Inputs Skew the Responses of Large Language Models?

Siye Wu, Jian Xie, Jiangjie Chen, Tinghui Zhu, Kai Zhang, Yanghua Xiao COLM 2024 & KnowledgeNLP@ACL 2024 (Oral)

Deductive Beam Search: Decoding Deducible Rationale for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Tinghui Zhu, Kai Zhang, Jian Xie, Yu Su COLM 2024

TravelPlanner: A Benchmark for Real-World Planning with Language Agents

Jian Xie, Kai Zhang, Jiangjie Chen, Tinghui Zhu, Renze Lou, Yuandong Tian, Yanghua Xiao, Yu Su ICML 2024 Spotlight (3.5%)

Chameleon or Stubborn Sloth: Revealing the Behavior of Large Language Models in Knowledge Conflicts

Jian Xie, Kai Zhang, Jiangjie Chen, Renze Lou, Yu Su ICLR 2024 Spotlight (5%)

MUFFIN: Curating Multi-Faceted Instructions for Improving Instruction-Following

Renze Lou, Kai Zhang, Jian Xie, Yuxuan Sun, Janice Ahn, Hanzi Xu, Yu Su, Wenpeng Yin ICLR 2024

2023

QUERT: Continual Pre-training of Language Model for Query Understanding in Travel Domain Search

Jian Xie, Yidan Liang, Jingping Liu, Yanghua Xiao, Baohua Wu, Shenghua Ni KDD 2023

2021

Improving NER in Social Media via Entity Type-Compatible Unknown Word Substitution

Jian Xie, Kai Zhang, Lin Sun, Yindu Su, Chenxiang Xu ICASSP 2021