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Cheng Qian 0008
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- affiliation: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
- affiliation (former): Tsinghua University, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing, China
Other persons with the same name
- Cheng Qian — disambiguation page
- Cheng Qian 0001
— IQVIA, Cambridge, MA, USA (and 3 more)
- Cheng Qian 0002 — University of Birmingham, School of Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UK
- Cheng Qian 0003
— Beihang University, School of Reliability and Systems Engineering, Beijing, China (and 2 more)
- Cheng Qian 0004
— Texas A&M University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College Station, TX, USA
- Cheng Qian 0005
— Northwestern Polytechnical University, Ningbo Institute, China (and 1 more)
- Cheng Qian 0006 — National University of Defense Technology, School of Computer, Changsha, Hunan, China
- Cheng Qian 0007
— Towson University, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Towson, MD, USA (and 1 more)
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2020 – today
- 2025
- [j1]Yujia Qin, Shengding Hu, Yankai Lin, Weize Chen, Ning Ding, Ganqu Cui, Zheni Zeng, Xuanhe Zhou, Yufei Huang, Chaojun Xiao, Chi Han, Yi R. Fung, Yusheng Su, Huadong Wang, Cheng Qian, Runchu Tian, Kunlun Zhu, Shihao Liang, Xingyu Shen, Bokai Xu, Zhen Zhang, Yining Ye, Bowen Li, Ziwei Tang, Jing Yi, Yuzhang Zhu, Zhenning Dai, Lan Yan, Xin Cong, Yaxi Lu, Weilin Zhao, Yuxiang Huang, Junxi Yan, Xu Han, Xian Sun, Dahai Li, Jason Phang, Cheng Yang, Tongshuang Wu, Heng Ji, Guoliang Li, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun:
Tool Learning with Foundation Models. ACM Comput. Surv. 57(4): 101:1-101:40 (2025) - [c13]Bingxiang He, Ning Ding, Cheng Qian, Jia Deng, Ganqu Cui, Lifan Yuan, Haiwen Hong, Huan-ang Gao, Longtao Huang, Hui Xue, Huimin Chen, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun:
The Right Time Matters: Data Arrangement Affects Zero-Shot Generalization in Instruction Tuning. ACL (Findings) 2025: 222-243 - [c12]Cheng Qian, Peixuan Han, Qinyu Luo, Bingxiang He, Xiusi Chen, Yuji Zhang, Hongyi Du, Jiarui Yao, Xiaocheng Yang, Denghui Zhang, Yunzhu Li, Heng Ji:
EscapeBench: Towards Advancing Creative Intelligence of Language Model Agents. ACL (1) 2025: 798-820 - [c11]Cheng Qian, Emre Can Acikgoz, Hongru Wang, Xiusi Chen, Avirup Sil, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Heng Ji:
SMART: Self-Aware Agent for Tool Overuse Mitigation. ACL (Findings) 2025: 4604-4621 - [c10]Kunlun Zhu, Hongyi Du, Zhaochen Hong, Xiaocheng Yang, Shuyi Guo, Zhe Wang, Zhenhailong Wang, Cheng Qian, Robert Tang, Heng Ji, Jiaxuan You:
MultiAgentBench : Evaluating the Collaboration and Competition of LLM agents. ACL (1) 2025: 8580-8622 - [c9]Bohan Lyu, Xin Cong, Heyang Yu, Pan Yang, Cheng Qian, Zihe Wang, Yujia Qin, Yining Ye, Yaxi Lu, Chen Qian, Zhong Zhang, Yukun Yan, Yankai Lin, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun:
Enhancing Open-Domain Task-Solving Capability of LLMs via Autonomous Tool Integration from GitHub. ACL (1) 2025: 17257-17277 - [c8]Yuji Zhang, Sha Li, Cheng Qian, Jiateng Liu, Pengfei Yu, Chi Han, Yi R. Fung, Kathleen McKeown, ChengXiang Zhai, Manling Li, Heng Ji:
The Law of Knowledge Overshadowing: Towards Understanding, Predicting and Preventing LLM Hallucination. ACL (Findings) 2025: 23340-23358 - [c7]Shujin Wu, Yi R. Fung, Cheng Qian, Jeonghwan Kim, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Heng Ji:
Aligning LLMs with Individual Preferences via Interaction. COLING 2025: 7648-7662 - [c6]Yaxi Lu, Shenzhi Yang, Cheng Qian, Guirong Chen, Qinyu Luo, Yesai Wu, Huadong Wang, Xin Cong, Zhong Zhang, Yankai Lin, Weiwen Liu, Yasheng Wang, Zhiyuan Liu, Fangming Liu, Maosong Sun:
Proactive Agent: Shifting LLM Agents from Reactive Responses to Active Assistance. ICLR 2025 - [i31]Peixuan Han, Cheng Qian, Xiusi Chen, Yuji Zhang, Denghui Zhang, Heng Ji:
Internal Activation as the Polar Star for Steering Unsafe LLM Behavior. CoRR abs/2502.01042 (2025) - [i30]Rui Yang, Hanyang Chen, Junyu Zhang, Mark Zhao, Cheng Qian, Kangrui Wang, Qineng Wang, Teja Venkat Koripella, Marziyeh Movahedi, Manling Li, Heng Ji, Huan Zhang, Tong Zhang:
EmbodiedBench: Comprehensive Benchmarking Multi-modal Large Language Models for Vision-Driven Embodied Agents. CoRR abs/2502.09560 (2025) - [i29]Cheng Qian, Emre Can Acikgoz, Hongru Wang, Xiusi Chen, Avirup Sil, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
, Heng Ji:
SMART: Self-Aware Agent for Tool Overuse Mitigation. CoRR abs/2502.11435 (2025) - [i28]Yuji Zhang, Sha Li, Cheng Qian, Jiateng Liu, Pengfei Yu, Chi Han, Yi R. Fung, Kathleen McKeown, Chengxiang Zhai, Manling Li, Heng Ji:
The Law of Knowledge Overshadowing: Towards Understanding, Predicting, and Preventing LLM Hallucination. CoRR abs/2502.16143 (2025) - [i27]Kunlun Zhu, Hongyi Du, Zhaochen Hong, Xiaocheng Yang, Shuyi Guo, Zhe Wang, Zhenhailong Wang, Cheng Qian, Xiangru Tang, Heng Ji, Jiaxuan You:
MultiAgentBench: Evaluating the Collaboration and Competition of LLM agents. CoRR abs/2503.01935 (2025) - [i26]Bingxiang He, Wenbin Zhang, Jiaxi Song, Cheng Qian, Zixuan Fu, Bowen Sun, Ning Ding, Haiwen Hong, Longtao Huang, Hui Xue, Ganqu Cui, Wanxiang Che, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun:
AIR: A Systematic Analysis of Annotations, Instructions, and Response Pairs in Preference Dataset. CoRR abs/2504.03612 (2025) - [i25]Shujin Wu, Cheng Qian, Yi R. Fung, Paul Pu Liang, Heng Ji:
Alice: Proactive Learning with Teacher's Demonstrations for Weak-to-Strong Generalization. CoRR abs/2504.07316 (2025) - [i24]Cheng Qian, Emre Can Acikgoz, Qi He, Hongru Wang, Xiusi Chen, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Heng Ji:
ToolRL: Reward is All Tool Learning Needs. CoRR abs/2504.13958 (2025) - [i23]Hongru Wang, Cheng Qian, Wanjun Zhong, Xiusi Chen, Jiahao Qiu, Shijue Huang, Bowen Jin, Mengdi Wang, Kam-Fai Wong, Heng Ji:
OTC: Optimal Tool Calls via Reinforcement Learning. CoRR abs/2504.14870 (2025) - [i22]Emre Can Acikgoz, Cheng Qian, Hongru Wang, Vardhan Dongre, Xiusi Chen, Heng Ji, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur:
A Desideratum for Conversational Agents: Capabilities, Challenges, and Future Directions. CoRR abs/2504.16939 (2025) - [i21]Xiusi Chen, Gaotang Li, Ziqi Wang, Bowen Jin, Cheng Qian, Yu Wang, Hongru Wang, Yu Zhang, Denghui Zhang, Tong Zhang, Hanghang Tong, Heng Ji:
RM-R1: Reward Modeling as Reasoning. CoRR abs/2505.02387 (2025) - [i20]Cheng Qian, Hongyi Du, Hongru Wang, Xiusi Chen, Yuji Zhang, Avirup Sil, Chengxiang Zhai, Kathleen McKeown, Heng Ji:
ModelingAgent: Bridging LLMs and Mathematical Modeling for Real-World Challenges. CoRR abs/2505.15068 (2025) - [i19]Xiusi Chen, Shanyong Wang, Cheng Qian, Hongru Wang, Peixuan Han, Heng Ji:
DecisionFlow: Advancing Large Language Model as Principled Decision Maker. CoRR abs/2505.21397 (2025) - [i18]Hongru Wang, Cheng Qian, Manling Li, Jiahao Qiu, Boyang Xue, Mengdi Wang, Heng Ji, Kam-Fai Wong:
Toward a Theory of Agents as Tool-Use Decision-Makers. CoRR abs/2506.00886 (2025) - [i17]Yuji Zhang, Qingyun Wang
, Cheng Qian, Jiateng Liu, Chenkai Sun, Denghui Zhang, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Chengxiang Zhai, Preslav Nakov, Heng Ji:
Atomic Reasoning for Scientific Table Claim Verification. CoRR abs/2506.06972 (2025) - [i16]Huan-ang Gao, Jiayi Geng, Wenyue Hua, Mengkang Hu, Xinzhe Juan, Hongzhang Liu, Shilong Liu, Jiahao Qiu, Xuan Qi, Yiran Wu, Hongru Wang, Han Xiao, Yuhang Zhou, Shaokun Zhang, Jiayi Zhang, Jinyu Xiang, Yixiong Fang, Qiwen Zhao, Dongrui Liu, Qihan Ren, Cheng Qian, Zhenhailong Wang, Minda Hu, Huazheng Wang, Qingyun Wu, Heng Ji, Mengdi Wang:
A Survey of Self-Evolving Agents: On Path to Artificial Super Intelligence. CoRR abs/2507.21046 (2025) - [i15]Cheng Qian, Zuxin Liu, Akshara Prabhakar, Zhiwei Liu, Jianguo Zhang, Haolin Chen, Heng Ji, Weiran Yao, Shelby Heinecke, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong, Huan Wang:
UserBench: An Interactive Gym Environment for User-Centric Agents. CoRR abs/2507.22034 (2025) - [i14]Revanth Gangi Reddy, Tanay Dixit, Jiaxin Qin, Cheng Qian, Daniel Lee, Jiawei Han, Kevin Small, Xing Fan, Ruhi Sarikaya, Heng Ji:
WINELL: Wikipedia Never-Ending Updating with LLM Agents. CoRR abs/2508.03728 (2025) - 2024
- [c5]Cheng Qian, Bingxiang He, Zhong Zhuang, Jia Deng, Yujia Qin, Xin Cong, Zhong Zhang, Jie Zhou, Yankai Lin, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun:
Tell Me More! Towards Implicit User Intention Understanding of Language Model Driven Agents. ACL (1) 2024: 1088-1113 - [c4]Cheng Qian, Chenyan Xiong, Zhenghao Liu, Zhiyuan Liu:
Toolink: Linking Toolkit Creation and Using through Chain-of-Solving on Open-Source Model. NAACL-HLT 2024: 831-854 - [i13]Cheng Qian, Shihao Liang, Yujia Qin, Yining Ye, Xin Cong, Yankai Lin, Yesai Wu, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun:
Investigate-Consolidate-Exploit: A General Strategy for Inter-Task Agent Self-Evolution. CoRR abs/2401.13996 (2024) - [i12]Cheng Qian, Bingxiang He, Zhong Zhuang, Jia Deng, Yujia Qin, Xin Cong, Zhong Zhang, Jie Zhou, Yankai Lin, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun:
Tell Me More! Towards Implicit User Intention Understanding of Language Model Driven Agents. CoRR abs/2402.09205 (2024) - [i11]Bingxiang He, Ning Ding, Cheng Qian, Jia Deng, Ganqu Cui, Lifan Yuan, Huan-ang Gao
, Huimin Chen, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun:
Zero-Shot Generalization during Instruction Tuning: Insights from Similarity and Granularity. CoRR abs/2406.11721 (2024) - [i10]Shujin Wu, May Fung, Cheng Qian, Jeonghwan Kim, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Heng Ji:
Aligning LLMs with Individual Preferences via Interaction. CoRR abs/2410.03642 (2024) - [i9]Yaxi Lu, Shenzhi Yang, Cheng Qian, Guirong Chen, Qinyu Luo, Yesai Wu, Huadong Wang, Xin Cong, Zhong Zhang, Yankai Lin, Weiwen Liu, Yasheng Wang, Zhiyuan Liu, Fangming Liu, Maosong Sun:
Proactive Agent: Shifting LLM Agents from Reactive Responses to Active Assistance. CoRR abs/2410.12361 (2024) - [i8]Runchu Tian, Yanghao Li, Yuepeng Fu, Siyang Deng, Qinyu Luo, Cheng Qian, Shuo Wang, Xin Cong, Zhong Zhang, Yesai Wu, Yankai Lin, Huadong Wang, Xiaojiang Liu:
Distance between Relevant Information Pieces Causes Bias in Long-Context LLMs. CoRR abs/2410.14641 (2024) - [i7]Cheng Qian, Peixuan Han, Qinyu Luo, Bingxiang He, Xiusi Chen, Yuji Zhang, Hongyi Du, Jiarui Yao, Xiaocheng Yang, Denghui Zhang, Yunzhu Li, Heng Ji:
EscapeBench: Pushing Language Models to Think Outside the Box. CoRR abs/2412.13549 (2024) - 2023
- [c3]Yujia Qin, Cheng Qian, Xu Han, Yankai Lin, Huadong Wang, Ruobing Xie, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun, Jie Zhou:
Recyclable Tuning for Continual Pre-training. ACL (Findings) 2023: 11403-11426 - [c2]Cheng Qian, Chi Han, Yi Ren Fung, Yujia Qin, Zhiyuan Liu, Heng Ji:
CREATOR: Tool Creation for Disentangling Abstract and Concrete Reasoning of Large Language Models. EMNLP (Findings) 2023: 6922-6939 - [i6]Yujia Qin, Shengding Hu, Yankai Lin, Weize Chen, Ning Ding, Ganqu Cui, Zheni Zeng, Yufei Huang, Chaojun Xiao, Chi Han, Yi Ren Fung, Yusheng Su, Huadong Wang, Cheng Qian, Runchu Tian, Kunlun Zhu, Shihao Liang, Xingyu Shen, Bokai Xu, Zhen Zhang, Yining Ye, Bowen Li, Ziwei Tang, Jing Yi, Yuzhang Zhu, Zhenning Dai, Lan Yan, Xin Cong, Yaxi Lu, Weilin Zhao, Yuxiang Huang, Junxi Yan, Xu Han, Xian Sun, Dahai Li, Jason Phang, Cheng Yang, Tongshuang Wu, Heng Ji, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun:
Tool Learning with Foundation Models. CoRR abs/2304.08354 (2023) - [i5]Yujia Qin, Cheng Qian, Xu Han, Yankai Lin, Huadong Wang, Ruobing Xie, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun, Jie Zhou:
Recyclable Tuning for Continual Pre-training. CoRR abs/2305.08702 (2023) - [i4]Cheng Qian, Chi Han, Yi R. Fung, Yujia Qin, Zhiyuan Liu, Heng Ji:
CREATOR: Disentangling Abstract and Concrete Reasonings of Large Language Models through Tool Creation. CoRR abs/2305.14318 (2023) - [i3]Cheng Qian, Xinran Zhao, Sherry Tongshuang Wu:
"Merge Conflicts!" Exploring the Impacts of External Distractors to Parametric Knowledge Graphs. CoRR abs/2309.08594 (2023) - [i2]Cheng Qian, Chenyan Xiong, Zhenghao Liu, Zhiyuan Liu:
Toolink: Linking Toolkit Creation and Using through Chain-of-Solving on Open-Source Model. CoRR abs/2310.05155 (2023) - 2022
- [c1]Yujia Qin, Cheng Qian, Jing Yi, Weize Chen, Yankai Lin, Xu Han, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun, Jie Zhou:
Exploring Mode Connectivity for Pre-trained Language Models. EMNLP 2022: 6726-6746 - [i1]Yujia Qin, Cheng Qian, Jing Yi, Weize Chen, Yankai Lin, Xu Han, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun, Jie Zhou:
Exploring Mode Connectivity for Pre-trained Language Models. CoRR abs/2210.14102 (2022)
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