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Chao Zhang

Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

32 papers at tracked venues · 20 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

NeurIPS ×6EMNLP ×5ACL ×4ICLR ×3ICML ×3NAACL ×3AISTATS ×2SIGKDD ×2AAAI ×1IJCAI ×1UAI ×1WWW ×1

Frequent coauthors

Yuchen Zhuang
×13
Lingkai Kong
×8
Rongzhi Zhang
×7
Haorui Wang
×7
Yinghao Li
×6
Bo Dai
×5
Yue Yu
×5
Wenhao Mu
×4
Haoming Jiang
×4
Bing Yin
×4
Yuanqi Du
×4
Haotian Sun
×4

Papers

  1. Do LLMs Catch Their Own Mistakes? A Comprehensive Benchmark for Reflective Tool Use LLMs
    ACL 2026 ·
    Zheyuan Liu
    ,
    Liqiang Xiao
    ,
    Yang Li
    ,
    Hyokun Yun
    ,
    Lihong Li
    , Chao Zhang,
    Meng Jiang
  2. OpenDecoder: Open Large Language Model Decoding to Incorporate Document Quality in RAG
    WWW 2026 ·
    Fengran Mo
    ,
    Zhan Su
    ,
    Yuchen Hui
    ,
    Jinghan Zhang
    ,
    Jia Ao Sun
    ,
    Zheyuan Liu
    , Chao Zhang,
    Tetsuya Sakai
    ,
    Jian-Yun Nie
  3. Calibrating Pre-trained Language Classifiers on LLM-generated Noisy Labels via Iterative Refinement
    SIGKDD 2025 ·
    Liqin Ye
    ,
    Agam Shah
    , Chao Zhang,
    Sudheer Chava
  4. DF2: Distribution-Free Decision-Focused Learning
    UAI 2025 ·
    Lingkai Kong
    ,
    Wenhao Mu
    ,
    Jiaming Cui
    ,
    Yuchen Zhuang
    ,
    B. Aditya Prakash
    ,
    Bo Dai
    , Chao Zhang
  5. DORM: Preference Data Weights Optimization for Reward Modeling in LLM Alignment
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Rongzhi Zhang
    ,
    Chenwei Zhang
    ,
    Xinyang Zhang
    ,
    Liang Qiu
    ,
    Haoming Jiang
    ,
    Yuchen Zhuang
    ,
    Qingru Zhang
    ,
    Hyokun Yun
    ,
    Xian Li
    ,
    Bing Yin
    ,
    Tuo Zhao
    , Chao Zhang
  6. Diffusion Models as Constrained Samplers for Optimization with Unknown Constraints
    AISTATS 2025 ·
    Lingkai Kong
    ,
    Yuanqi Du
    ,
    Wenhao Mu
    ,
    Kirill Neklyudov
    ,
    Valentin De Bortoli
    ,
    Dongxia Wu
    ,
    Haorui Wang
    ,
    Aaron M. Ferber
    ,
    Yian Ma
    ,
    Carla P. Gomes
    , Chao Zhang
  7. Efficient Evolutionary Search Over Chemical Space with Large Language Models
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Haorui Wang
    ,
    Marta Skreta
    ,
    Cher Tian Ser
    ,
    Wenhao Gao
    ,
    Lingkai Kong
    ,
    Felix Strieth-Kalthoff
    ,
    Chenru Duan
    ,
    Yuchen Zhuang
    ,
    Yue Yu
    ,
    Yanqiao Zhu
    ,
    Yuanqi Du
    ,
    Alán Aspuru-Guzik
    ,
    Kirill Neklyudov
    , Chao Zhang
  8. Ensembles of Low-Rank Expert Adapters
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Yinghao Li
    ,
    Vianne R. Gao
    , Chao Zhang,
    MohamadAli Torkamani
  9. Hephaestus: Improving Fundamental Agent Capabilities of Large Language Models through Continual Pre-Training
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Yuchen Zhuang
    ,
    Jingfeng Yang
    ,
    Haoming Jiang
    ,
    Xin Liu
    ,
    Kewei Cheng
    ,
    Sanket Lokegaonkar
    ,
    Yifan Gao
    ,
    Qing Ping
    ,
    Tianyi Liu
    ,
    Binxuan Huang
    ,
    Zheng Li
    ,
    Zhengyang Wang
    ,
    Pei Chen
    ,
    Ruijie Wang
    ,
    Rongzhi Zhang
    ,
    Nasser Zalmout
    ,
    Priyanka Nigam
    ,
    Bing Yin
    , Chao Zhang
  10. LLM-Augmented Chemical Synthesis and Design Decision Programs
    ICML 2025 ·
    Haorui Wang
    ,
    Jeff Guo
    ,
    Lingkai Kong
    ,
    Rampi Ramprasad
    ,
    Philippe Schwaller
    ,
    Yuanqi Du
    , Chao Zhang
  11. MLE-Dojo: Interactive Environments for Empowering LLM Agents in Machine Learning Engineering
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Rushi Qiang
    ,
    Yuchen Zhuang
    ,
    Yinghao Li
    ,
    Dingu Sagar V. K
    ,
    Rongzhi Zhang
    ,
    Changhao Li
    ,
    Ian Wong
    ,
    Sherry Yang
    ,
    Percy Liang
    , Chao Zhang,
    Bo Dai
  12. Matryoshka Pilot: Learning to Drive Black-Box LLMs with LLMs
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Changhao Li
    ,
    Yuchen Zhuang
    ,
    Rushi Qiang
    ,
    Haotian Sun
    ,
    Hanjun Dai
    , Chao Zhang,
    Bo Dai
  13. RenderBender: A Survey on Adversarial Attacks Using Differentiable Rendering
    IJCAI 2025 ·
    Matthew Hull
    ,
    Haoran Wang
    ,
    Matthew Lau
    ,
    Alec Helbling
    ,
    Mansi Phute
    , Chao Zhang,
    Zsolt Kira
    ,
    Willian T. Lunardi
    ,
    Martin Andreoni
    ,
    Wenke Lee
    ,
    Duen Horng Chau
  14. Think-RM: Enabling Long-Horizon Reasoning in Generative Reward Models
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Ilgee Hong
    ,
    Changlong Yu
    ,
    Liang Qiu
    ,
    Weixiang Yan
    ,
    Zhenghao Xu
    ,
    Haoming Jiang
    ,
    Qingru Zhang
    ,
    Qin Lu
    ,
    Xin Liu
    , Chao Zhang,
    Tuo Zhao
  15. WebAgent-R1: Training Web Agents via End-to-End Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Zhepei Wei
    ,
    Wenlin Yao
    ,
    Yao Liu
    ,
    Weizhi Zhang
    ,
    Qin Lu
    ,
    Liang Qiu
    ,
    Changlong Yu
    ,
    Puyang Xu
    , Chao Zhang,
    Bing Yin
    ,
    Hyokun Yun
    ,
    Lihong Li
  16. A Simple but Effective Approach to Improve Structured Language Model Output for Information Extraction
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Yinghao Li
    ,
    Rampi Ramprasad
    , Chao Zhang
  17. Aligning Large Language Models with Representation Editing: A Control Perspective
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Lingkai Kong
    ,
    Haorui Wang
    ,
    Wenhao Mu
    ,
    Yuanqi Du
    ,
    Yuchen Zhuang
    ,
    Yifei Zhou
    ,
    Yue Song
    ,
    Rongzhi Zhang
    ,
    Kai Wang
    , Chao Zhang
  18. Assessing Logical Puzzle Solving in Large Language Models: Insights from a Minesweeper Case Study
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Yinghao Li
    ,
    Haorui Wang
    , Chao Zhang
  19. BBox-Adapter: Lightweight Adapting for Black-Box Large Language Models
    ICML 2024 ·
    Haotian Sun
    ,
    Yuchen Zhuang
    ,
    Wei Wei
    , Chao Zhang,
    Bo Dai
  20. BMRetriever: Tuning Large Language Models as Better Biomedical Text Retrievers
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Ran Xu
    ,
    Wenqi Shi
    ,
    Yue Yu
    ,
    Yuchen Zhuang
    ,
    Yanqiao Zhu
    ,
    May Dongmei Wang
    ,
    Joyce C. Ho
    , Chao Zhang,
    Carl Yang
  21. Data Diversity Matters for Robust Instruction Tuning
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Alexander Bukharin
    ,
    Shiyang Li
    ,
    Zhengyang Wang
    ,
    Jingfeng Yang
    ,
    Bing Yin
    ,
    Xian Li
    , Chao Zhang,
    Tuo Zhao
    ,
    Haoming Jiang
  22. Explanation-aware Soft Ensemble Empowers Large Language Model In-context Learning
    ACL 2024 ·
    Yue Yu
    ,
    Jiaming Shen
    ,
    Tianqi Liu
    ,
    Zhen Qin
    ,
    Jing Nathan Yan
    ,
    Jialu Liu
    , Chao Zhang,
    Michael Bendersky
  23. HYDRA: Model Factorization Framework for Black-Box LLM Personalization
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Yuchen Zhuang
    ,
    Haotian Sun
    ,
    Yue Yu
    ,
    Rushi Qiang
    ,
    Qifan Wang
    , Chao Zhang,
    Bo Dai
  24. Knowledge Distillation with Perturbed Loss: From a Vanilla Teacher to a Proxy Teacher
    SIGKDD 2024 ·
    Rongzhi Zhang
    ,
    Jiaming Shen
    ,
    Tianqi Liu
    ,
    Jialu Liu
    ,
    Michael Bendersky
    ,
    Marc Najork
    , Chao Zhang
  25. PLaD: Preference-based Large Language Model Distillation with Pseudo-Preference Pairs
    ACL 2024 ·
    Rongzhi Zhang
    ,
    Jiaming Shen
    ,
    Tianqi Liu
    ,
    Haorui Wang
    ,
    Zhen Qin
    ,
    Feng Han
    ,
    Jialu Liu
    ,
    Simon Baumgartner
    ,
    Michael Bendersky
    , Chao Zhang
  26. POLYIE: A Dataset of Information Extraction from Polymer Material Scientific Literature
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Jerry Junyang Cheung
    ,
    Yuchen Zhuang
    ,
    Yinghao Li
    ,
    Pranav Shetty
    ,
    Wantian Zhao
    ,
    Sanjeev Grampurohit
    ,
    Rampi Ramprasad
    , Chao Zhang
  27. ProgGen: Generating Named Entity Recognition Datasets Step-by-step with Self-Reflexive Large Language Models
    ACL 2024 ·
    Yuzhao Heng
    ,
    Chunyuan Deng
    ,
    Yitong Li
    ,
    Yue Yu
    ,
    Yinghao Li
    ,
    Rongzhi Zhang
    , Chao Zhang
  28. Time-MMD: Multi-Domain Multimodal Dataset for Time Series Analysis
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Haoxin Liu
    ,
    Shangqing Xu
    ,
    Zhiyuan Zhao
    ,
    Lingkai Kong
    ,
    Harshavardhan Kamarthi
    ,
    Aditya B. Sasanur
    ,
    Megha Sharma
    ,
    Jiaming Cui
    ,
    Qingsong Wen
    , Chao Zhang,
    B. Aditya Prakash
  29. Time-Series Forecasting for Out-of-Distribution Generalization Using Invariant Learning
    ICML 2024 ·
    Haoxin Liu
    ,
    Harshavardhan Kamarthi
    ,
    Lingkai Kong
    ,
    Zhiyuan Zhao
    , Chao Zhang,
    B. Aditya Prakash
  30. ToolChain*: Efficient Action Space Navigation in Large Language Models with A* Search
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Yuchen Zhuang
    ,
    Xiang Chen
    ,
    Tong Yu
    ,
    Saayan Mitra
    ,
    Victor S. Bursztyn
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    ,
    Somdeb Sarkhel
    , Chao Zhang
  31. Towards Modeling Uncertainties of Self-Explaining Neural Networks via Conformal Prediction
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Wei Qian
    ,
    Chenxu Zhao
    ,
    Yangyi Li
    ,
    Fenglong Ma
    , Chao Zhang,
    Mengdi Huai
  32. Two Birds with One Stone: Enhancing Uncertainty Quantification and Interpretability with Graph Functional Neural Process
    AISTATS 2024 ·
    Lingkai Kong
    ,
    Haotian Sun
    ,
    Yuchen Zhuang
    ,
    Haorui Wang
    ,
    Wenhao Mu
    , Chao Zhang