Publications

★ClawBench: Can AI Agents Complete Everyday Online Tasks?

Yuxuan Zhang, Yubo Wang, Yipeng Zhu, Penghui Du, Junwen Miao, Xuan Lu, Zhuofeng Li, Xingwei Qu, Zhengkang Guo, Yuanzhe Shen, Dingjie Song, Han Zhou, Tuney Zheng, Xian Wu, Hao Yu, Songcheng Cai, Yi Lu, Yunzhuo Hao, Minyi Lei, Liang Chen, Kai Zou, Huifeng Yin, Wendong Xu, Dongfu Jiang, Ping Nie, Jiaheng Liu, Wenhu Chen, Kelsey R. Allen

EMNLP 2026 Findings

Adopted by ByteDance Seed

Blog Project arXiv Code Dataset HuggingFace X BibTeX

@article{zhang2026clawbench,
  title={ClawBench: Can AI Agents Complete Everyday Online Tasks?},
  author={Zhang, Yuxuan and Wang, Yubo and Zhu, Yipeng and Du, Penghui and Miao, Junwen and Lu, Xuan and Li, Zhuofeng and Qu, Xingwei and Guo, Zhengkang and Shen, Yuanzhe and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.08523},
  year={2026}
}

★Watch Before You Answer: Learning from Visually Grounded Post-Training

Yuxuan Zhang, EunJeong Hwang, Huaisong Zhang, Penghui Du, Yiming Jia, Dongfu Jiang, Xuan He, Shenhui Zhang, Ping Nie, Peter West, Kelsey R. Allen

Under Review

Project arXiv Code HuggingFace X BibTeX

@article{zhang2026watch,
  title={Watch before you answer: Learning from visually grounded post-training},
  author={Zhang, Yuxuan and Hwang, EunJeong and Zhang, Huaisong and Du, Penghui and Jia, Yiming and Jiang, Dongfu and He, Xuan and Zhang, Shenhui and Nie, Ping and West, Peter and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.05117},
  year={2026}
}

★VGI-BENCH: Probing Visual Intelligence in Video Generation Models

Xuan He^†§, Cong Wei^†, Yuhao Cheng^†, Linrui Ma^†, Yuxuan Zhang^†, Zuojun Li, Yuhao Wen, Zeyi Liu, Yuren Hao, Songcheng Cai, Keming Wu, Penghui Du, Kai Zou, Rui Yang, Chenkai Sun, Ke Yang, Ping Nie, Kelsey R Allen, Chenglong Wang, Michel Galley, Jianfeng Gao, ChengXiang Zhai (^† Main Contributor. ^§ Project Lead.)

EMNLP 2026

arXiv HuggingFace BibTeX

@article{he2026vgi,
  title={VGI-BENCH: Probing Visual Intelligence in Video Generation Models},
  author={He, Xuan and Wei, Cong and Cheng, Yuhao and Ma, Linrui and Zhang, Yuxuan and Li, Zuojun and Wen, Yuhao and Liu, Zeyi and Hao, Yuren and Cai, Songcheng and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.19583},
  year={2026}
}

Function-Aware Fill-in-the-Middle as Mid-Training for Coding Agent Foundation Models

Yubo Wang, Jiarong Liang, Yuxuan Zhang, Xuye Liu, Cong Wei, Yuyu Zhang, Ping Nie, Wenhu Chen

Under Review

arXiv Code Dataset Model HuggingFace BibTeX

@article{wang2026function,
  title={Function-Aware Fill-in-the-Middle as Mid-Training for Coding Agent Foundation Models},
  author={Wang, Yubo and Liang, Jiarong and Zhang, Yuxuan and Liu, Xuye and Wei, Cong and Zhang, Yuyu and Nie, Ping and Chen, Wenhu},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.12463},
  year={2026}
}

Learning from the Self-future: On-policy Self-distillation for dLLMs

Yifu Luo, Zeyu Chen, Haoyu Wang, Xinhao Hu, Yuxuan Zhang, Zhizhou Sha, Shiwei Liu

Under Review

arXiv Code HuggingFace BibTeX

@article{luo2026learning,
  title={Learning from the Self-future: On-policy Self-distillation for dLLMs},
  author={Luo, Yifu and Chen, Zeyu and Wang, Haoyu and Hu, Xinhao and Zhang, Yuxuan and Sha, Zhizhou and Liu, Shiwei},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.18195},
  year={2026}
}

CompRank: Efficient LLM Reranking via Token-Level Compression and Decoding-Free Scoring

Xuan Lu, Haohang Huang, Yingqi Fan, Junlong Tong, Yuxuan Zhang, Ping Nie, Rui Meng, Xiaoyu Shen

Under Review

arXiv BibTeX

@article{lu2026comprank,
  title={CompRank: Efficient LLM Reranking via Token-Level Compression and Decoding-Free Scoring},
  author={Lu, Xuan and Huang, Haohang and Fan, Yingqi and Tong, Junlong and Zhang, Yuxuan and Nie, Ping and Meng, Rui and Shen, Xiaoyu},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.11700},
  year={2026}
}

OpenSkill: Open-World Self-Evolution for LLM Agents

Zhiling Yan, Dingjie Song, Hanrong Zhang, Wei Liang, Yuxuan Zhang, Yutong Dai, Lifang He, Philip S. Yu, Ran Xu, Xiang Li, Lichao Sun

EMNLP 2026

arXiv Code HuggingFace BibTeX

@article{yan2026openskill,
  title={OpenSkill: Open-World Self-Evolution for LLM Agents},
  author={Yan, Zhiling and Song, Dingjie and Zhang, Hanrong and Liang, Wei and Zhang, Yuxuan and Dai, Yutong and He, Lifang and Yu, Philip S and Xu, Ran and Li, Xiang and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.06741},
  year={2026}
}

Where, What, Why, and Importance: Structured Defect Grounding for Text-to-Image Feedback

Huaisong Zhang, Hao Yu, Yuxuan Zhang, Jiahe Wang, Xinrui Chen, Haoxiang Cao, Feng Lu, Wendong Zhang, Changqian Yu, Chun Yuan

Under Review

arXiv HuggingFace BibTeX

@article{zhang2026and,
  title={Where, What, Why, and Importance: Structured Defect Grounding for Text-to-Image Feedback},
  author={Zhang, Huaisong and Yu, Hao and Zhang, Yuxuan and Wang, Jiahe and Chen, Xinrui and Cao, Haoxiang and Lu, Feng and Zhang, Wendong and Yu, Changqian and Yuan, Chun},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.06113},
  year={2026}
}

MIRA: Mid-training Rubric Anchoring for Source-Aware Data Selection

Haowen Wang, Yaxin Du, Jian Yang, Jiajun Wu, Shukai Liu, Yuxuan Zhang, Pingjie Wang, Siheng Chen, Tuney Zheng, Ming Zhou, Xianglong Liu, Bryan Dai

Under Review

arXiv HuggingFace BibTeX

@article{wang2026mira,
  title={MIRA: Mid-training Rubric Anchoring for Source-Aware Data Selection},
  author={Wang, Haowen and Du, Yaxin and Yang, Jian and Wu, Jiajun and Liu, Shukai and Zhang, Yuxuan and Wang, Pingjie and Chen, Siheng and Zheng, Tuney and Zhou, Ming and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.30288},
  year={2026}
}

ScholarCopilot: Training Large Language Models for Academic Writing with Accurate Citations

Yubo Wang, Xueguang Ma, Ping Nie, Huaye Zeng, Zhiheng Lyu, Yuxuan Zhang, Benjamin Schneider, Yi Lu, Xiang Yue, Wenhu Chen

COLM 2025

Project Paper Code Dataset Model Demo BibTeX

@article{wang2025scholarcopilot,
  title={Scholarcopilot: Training large language models for academic writing with accurate citations},
  author={Wang, Yubo and Ma, Xueguang and Nie, Ping and Zeng, Huaye and Lyu, Zhiheng and Zhang, Yuxuan and Schneider, Benjamin and Lu, Yi and Yue, Xiang and Chen, Wenhu},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.00824},
  year={2025}
}

Retri3D: 3D Neural Graphics Representation Retrieval

Yushi Guan, Daniel Kwan, Jean Sebastien Dandurand, Xi Yan, Ruofan Liang, Yuxuan Zhang, Nilesh Jain, Nilesh Ahuja, Selvakumar Panneer, Nandita Vijaykumar

ICLR 2025 Spotlight

Project Paper Code BibTeX

@inproceedings{guan2025retri3d,
  title={Retri3D: 3D Neural Graphics Representation Retrieval},
  author={Guan, Yushi and Kwan, Daniel and Dandurand, Jean and Yan, Xi and Liang, Ruofan and Zhang, Yuxuan and Jain, Nilesh and Ahuja, Nilesh and Panneer, Selvakumar and Vijaykumar, Nandita},
  booktitle={International Conference on Learning Representations},
  volume={2025},
  pages={31771--31813},
  year={2025}
}

VideoScore2: Think before You Score in Generative Video Evaluation

TMLR 2026

Project Paper Code Dataset Model HF Space Twitter BibTeX

@article{he2025videoscore2,
  title={Videoscore2: Think before you score in generative video evaluation},
  author={He, Xuan and Jiang, Dongfu and Nie, Ping and Liu, Minghao and Jiang, Zhengxuan and Su, Mingyi and Ma, Wentao and Lin, Junru and Ye, Chun and Lu, Yi and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.22799},
  year={2025}
}

StructEval: Benchmarking LLMs' Capabilities to Generate Structural Outputs

Jialin Yang, Dongfu Jiang, Lipeng He, Sherman Siu, Yuxuan Zhang, Disen Liao, Zhuofeng Li, Huaye Zeng, Yiming Jia, Haozhe Wang, Benjamin Schneider, Chi Ruan, Wentao Ma, Zhiheng Lyu, Yifei Wang, Yi Lu, Quy Duc Do, Ziyan Jiang, Ping Nie, Wenhu Chen

TMLR 2025

Project Paper Code Dataset BibTeX

@article{yang2025structeval,
  title={StructEval: Benchmarking LLMs' Capabilities to Generate Structural Outputs},
  author={Yang, Jialin and Jiang, Dongfu and He, Lipeng and Siu, Sherman and Zhang, Yuxuan and Liao, Disen and Li, Zhuofeng and Zeng, Huaye and Jia, Yiming and Wang, Haozhe and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.20139},
  year={2025}
}

WikiGap: Promoting Epistemic Equity by Surfacing Knowledge Gaps Between English Wikipedia and other Language Editions

Zining Wang, Yuxuan Zhang, Dongwook Yoon, Nicholas Vincent, Farhan Samir, Vered Shwartz

Under Review

Paper Code BibTeX

@article{wang2025wikigap,
  title={WikiGap: Promoting epistemic equity by surfacing knowledge gaps between English Wikipedia and other language editions},
  author={Wang, Zining and Zhang, Yuxuan and Yoon, Dongwook and Vincent, Nicholas and Samir, Farhan and Shwartz, Vered},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.24195},
  year={2025}
}

PLAICraft: Large-Scale Time-Aligned Vision-Speech-Action Dataset for Embodied AI

Yingchen He, Christian D. Weilbach, Martyna E. Wojciechowska, Yuxuan Zhang, Frank Wood

Under Review

Paper BibTeX

@article{he2025plaicraft,
  title={Plaicraft: Large-scale time-aligned vision-speech-action dataset for embodied ai},
  author={He, Yingchen and Weilbach, Christian D and Wojciechowska, Martyna E and Zhang, Yuxuan and Wood, Frank},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.12707},
  year={2025}
}