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

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@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 Xu, Wendong and Hao, Yunzhuo and Cai, Songcheng and Wang, Xiaochen 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

Technical Report

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@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}
}

HarnessDev: Can LLMs Create and Evolve Their Own Agent Harness?

Yuhao Wu, Jingyuan Zhang, Jiajun Shi, Xinping Lei, Qingshui Gu, Yuxuan Zhang, Zexuan Wang, Chen He, Chen Huang, Maojia Song, Zhiyuan Zeng, Shaowen Wang, Jinkai Liu, Yunfeng Shi, Jiaheng Liu, Shen Yan, Wenhao Huang, Ge Zhang, Wenxuan Zhang

Technical Report

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@article{wu2026harnessdev,
  title={HarnessDev: Can LLMs Create and Evolve Their Own Agent Harness?},
  author={Wu, Yuhao and Zhang, Jingyuan and Shi, Jiajun and Lei, Xinping and Gu, Qingshui and Zhang, Yuxuan and Wang, Zexuan and He, Chen and Huang, Chen and Song, Maojia and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.01437},
  year={2026}
}

Dr. Claw: An AI Scientist Workspace for Vibe Research

Dingjie Song, Hanrong Zhang, Dawei Liu, Yixin Liu, Zongxia Li, Zhengqing Yuan, Siqi Zhang, Henry Peng Zou, Zhiling Yan, Yuxuan Zhang, Yanfang Ye, Philip S. Yu, Lichao Sun

EMNLP 2026 System Demonstrations

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@article{song2026dr,
  title={Dr. Claw: An AI Scientist Workspace for Vibe Research},
  author={Song, Dingjie and Zhang, Hanrong and Liu, Dawei and Liu, Yixin and Li, Zongxia and Yuan, Zhengqing and Zhang, Siqi and Zou, Henry Peng and Yan, Zhiling and Zhang, Yuxuan and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.00365},
  year={2026}
}

Aspire: Can Models Self-Evolve from Vague Goals?

Yuhao Wu, Jingyuan Zhang, Jiajun Shi, Yuxuan Zhang, Xinping Lei, Junting Zhou, Zexuan Wang, Yuchen Wu, Huan Zhou, Duo Wang, Yinzhu Piao, Yongchang Peng, Yunfeng Shi, Jin Chen, Zuo Wang, Jinkai Liu, Jiaheng Liu, Wenxuan Zhang, Shen Yan, Wenhao Huang, Ge Zhang

Technical Report

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@article{wu2026aspire,
  title={Aspire: Can Models Self-Evolve from Vague Goals?},
  author={Wu, Yuhao and Zhang, Jingyuan and Shi, Jiajun and Zhang, Yuxuan and Lei, Xinping and Zhou, Junting and Wang, Zexuan and Wu, Yuchen and Zhou, Huan and Wang, Duo and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.31111},
  year={2026}
}

S3Gym: Can LLMs Turn Self-Testing and Self-Judging into Self-Improvement?

Jiajun Shi, Siyuan Tao, Yuhao Wu, Zexuan Wang, Jingyuan Zhang, Jiaheng Liu, Xinping Lei, Xinrong Zhang, Siyuan Fang, Zhewen Tan, Tianle Cai, Junhao Fang, Jiameng Huang, Yueyang Wang, Jinkai Liu, Yuxuan Zhang, Jian Yang, Zhoujun Li, Shen Yan, Wenhao Huang, Ge Zhang

Technical Report

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@article{shi2026s3gym,
  title={S3Gym: Can LLMs Turn Self-Testing and Self-Judging into Self-Improvement?},
  author={Shi, Jiajun and Tao, Siyuan and Wu, Yuhao and Wang, Zexuan and Zhang, Jingyuan and Liu, Jiaheng and Lei, Xinping and Zhang, Xinrong and Fang, Siyuan and Tan, Zhewen and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.31100},
  year={2026}
}

WebWorld: The Browser as a World Model for Self-Improving Web Code

Jiajun Wu, Jian Yang, Yaxin Du, Wei Zhang, Haowen Wang, Junhang Cheng, Yuxuan Zhang, Tuney Zheng, Xianglong Liu, Ming Zhou

EMNLP 2026

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@article{wu2026webworld,
  title={WebWorld: The Browser as a World Model for Self-Improving Web Code},
  author={Wu, Jiajun and Yang, Jian and Du, Yaxin and Zhang, Wei and Wang, Haowen and Cheng, Junhang and Zhang, Yuxuan and Zheng, Tuney and Liu, Xianglong and Zhou, Ming},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.30530},
  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, Jize Jiang, 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

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@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}
}

MedClaw: Heuristic Agent Harness for Long-Horizon Surgical Video Reasoning

Yingying Fan, Penghui Du, Leyan Zhu, Runze He, Zimeng Wu, Yuxuan Zhang, Liang Chen, Jiahao Xie, Jiangtang Wang, Shuai Shao, Anchao Yang, Yutong Bai, Yan Wang

Technical Report

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@article{fan2026medclaw,
  title={MedClaw: Heuristic Agent Harness for Long-Horizon Surgical Video Reasoning},
  author={Fan, Yingying and Du, Penghui and Zhu, Leyan and He, Runze and Wu, Zimeng and Zhang, Yuxuan and Chen, Liang and Xie, Jiahao and Wang, Jiangtang and Shao, Shuai and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.14015},
  year={2026}
}

Distributional Matching for Vector Quantization: A Unified Theoretical and Empirical Framework

Xianghong Fang, Litao Guo, Hengchao Chen, Yuxuan Zhang, XiaofanXia, Dingjie Song, Yexin Liu, Hao Wang, Harry Yang, Qiang Sun, Yuan Yuan

Technical Report

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@article{fang2026distributional,
  title={Distributional Matching for Vector Quantization: A Unified Theoretical and Empirical Framework},
  author={Fang, Xianghong and Guo, Litao and Chen, Hengchao and Zhang, Yuxuan and Song, Dingjie and Liu, Yexin and Wang, Hao and Yang, Harry and Sun, Qiang and Yuan, Yuan and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.15933},
  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

Technical Report

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@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

NeurIPS 2026

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@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

Technical Report

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@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

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@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

NeurIPS 2026

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@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}
}

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

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@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

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@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

Xuan He, Dongfu Jiang, Ping Nie, Minghao Liu, Zhengxuan Jiang, Mingyi Su, Wentao Ma, Junru Lin, Chun Ye, Yi Lu, Keming Wu, Benjamin Schneider, Quy Duc Do, Zhuofeng Li, Yiming Jia, Yuxuan Zhang, Guo Cheng, Haozhe Wang, Wangchunshu Zhou, Qunshu Lin, Yuanxing Zhang, Ge Zhang, Wenhao Huang, Wenhu Chen

TMLR 2026

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@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 2026

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@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

Technical Report

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@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

Technical Report

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@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}
}