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Cheng Qian

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA

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

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Venues

ACL ×15EMNLP ×5AAAI ×1ICLR ×1ICML ×1NAACL ×1NeurIPS ×1WWW ×1

Frequent coauthors

Heng Ji
×17
Xiusi Chen
×9
Bingxiang He
×6
Yuji Zhang
×6
Denghui Zhang
×5
Zhiyuan Liu
×5
Emre Can Acikgoz
×4
Qinyu Luo
×4
Gokhan Tur
×4
Dilek Hakkani-Tur
×4
Hongru Wang
×4
Xin Cong
×4

Papers

  1. Copyright Detective: A Forensic System to Evidence LLMs Flickering Copyright Leakage Risks
    ACL 2026 ·
    Guangwei Zhang
    ,
    Jianing Zhu
    , Cheng Qian,
    Neil Zhenqiang Gong
    ,
    Rada Mihalcea
    ,
    Zhaozhuo Xu
    ,
    Jingrui He
    ,
    Jiaqi W. Ma
    ,
    Chaowei Xiao
    ,
    Bo Li
    ,
    Ahmed Abbasi
    ,
    Dongwon Lee
    ,
    Heng Ji
    ,
    Denghui Zhang
  2. CostBench: Evaluating Multi-Turn Cost-Optimal Planning and Adaptation in Dynamic Environments for LLM Tool-Use Agents
    ACL 2026 ·
    Jiayu Liu
    , Cheng Qian,
    Zhaochen Su
    ,
    Qing Zong
    ,
    Shijue Huang
    ,
    Bingxiang He
    ,
    Yi R. Fung
  3. Current Agents Fail to Leverage World Model as Tool for Foresight
    ACL 2026 · Cheng Qian,
    Emre Can Acikgoz
    ,
    Bingxuan Li
    ,
    Xiusi Chen
    ,
    Yuji Zhang
    ,
    Bingxiang He
    ,
    Qinyu Luo
    ,
    Gokhan Tur
    ,
    Dilek Hakkani-Tür
    ,
    Yunzhu Li
    ,
    Heng Ji
  4. From Word to World: Can Large Language Models be Implicit Text-based World Models?
    ACL 2026 ·
    Yixia Li
    ,
    Hongru Wang
    ,
    Jiahao Qiu
    ,
    Zhenfei Yin
    ,
    Dongdong Zhang
    , Cheng Qian,
    Zeping Li
    ,
    Xiaoteng Ma
    ,
    Guanhua Chen
    ,
    Heng Ji
  5. PEARL: Self-Evolving Assistant for Time Management with Reinforcement Learning
    ACL 2026 ·
    Bingxuan Li
    ,
    Jeonghwan Kim
    , Cheng Qian,
    Xiusi Chen
    ,
    Eitan Anzenberg
    ,
    Niran Kundapur
    ,
    Heng Ji
  6. ShortageSim: Simulating Drug Shortages Under Information Asymmetry
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Mingxuan Cui
    ,
    Yilan Jiang
    ,
    Duo Zhou
    , Cheng Qian,
    Yuji Zhang
    ,
    Qiong Wang
  7. TT-SI: Self-Improving LLM Agents with Test-Time Training
    ACL 2026 ·
    Emre Can Acikgoz
    , Cheng Qian,
    Heng Ji
    ,
    Dilek Hakkani-Tür
    ,
    Gokhan Tur
  8. Veri-R1: Toward Precise and Faithful Claim Verification via Online Reinforcement Learning
    ACL 2026 ·
    Qi He
    , Cheng Qian,
    Xiusi Chen
    ,
    Bingxiang He
    ,
    Yi R. Fung
    ,
    Heng Ji
  9. WiNELL: Wikipedia Never-Ending Updating with LLM Agents
    WWW 2026 ·
    Revanth Gangi Reddy
    ,
    Tanay Dixit
    ,
    Jiaxin Qin
    , Cheng Qian,
    Daniel Lee
    ,
    Jiawei Han
    ,
    Kevin Small
    ,
    Xing Fan
    ,
    Ruhi Sarikaya
    ,
    Heng Ji
  10. DecisionFlow: Advancing Large Language Model as Principled Decision Maker
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Xiusi Chen
    ,
    Shanyong Wang
    , Cheng Qian,
    Hongru Wang
    ,
    Peixuan Han
    ,
    Heng Ji
  11. Distance between Relevant Information Pieces Causes Bias in Long-Context LLMs
    ACL 2025 ·
    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
  12. EmbodiedBench: Comprehensive Benchmarking Multi-modal Large Language Models for Vision-Driven Embodied Agents
    ICML 2025 ·
    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
  13. Enhancing Open-Domain Task-Solving Capability of LLMs via Autonomous Tool Integration from GitHub
    ACL 2025 ·
    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
  14. EscapeBench: Towards Advancing Creative Intelligence of Language Model Agents
    ACL 2025 · Cheng Qian,
    Peixuan Han
    ,
    Qinyu Luo
    ,
    Bingxiang He
    ,
    Xiusi Chen
    ,
    Yuji Zhang
    ,
    Hongyi Du
    ,
    Jiarui Yao
    ,
    Xiaocheng Yang
    ,
    Denghui Zhang
    ,
    Yunzhu Li
    ,
    Heng Ji
  15. ISACL: Internal State Analyzer for Copyrighted Training Data Leakage
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Guangwei Zhang
    ,
    Qisheng Su
    ,
    Jiateng Liu
    , Cheng Qian,
    Yanzhou Pan
    ,
    Yanjie Fu
    ,
    Denghui Zhang
  16. ModelingAgent: Bridging LLMs and Mathematical Modeling for Real-World Challenges
    EMNLP 2025 · Cheng Qian,
    Hongyi Du
    ,
    Hongru Wang
    ,
    Xiusi Chen
    ,
    Yuji Zhang
    ,
    Avirup Sil
    ,
    ChengXiang Zhai
    ,
    Kathleen McKeown
    ,
    Heng Ji
  17. MultiAgentBench : Evaluating the Collaboration and Competition of LLM agents
    ACL 2025 ·
    Kunlun Zhu
    ,
    Hongyi Du
    ,
    Zhaochen Hong
    ,
    Xiaocheng Yang
    ,
    Shuyi Guo
    ,
    Zhe Wang
    ,
    Zhenhailong Wang
    , Cheng Qian,
    Robert Tang
    ,
    Heng Ji
    ,
    Jiaxuan You
  18. Proactive Agent: Shifting LLM Agents from Reactive Responses to Active Assistance
    ICLR 2025 ·
    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
  19. Rescorla-Wagner Steering of LLMs for Undesired Behaviors over Disproportionate Inappropriate Context
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Rushi Wang
    ,
    Jiateng Liu
    , Cheng Qian,
    Yifan Shen
    ,
    Yanzhou Pan
    ,
    Zhaozhuo Xu
    ,
    Ahmed Abbasi
    ,
    Heng Ji
    ,
    Denghui Zhang
  20. SMART: Self-Aware Agent for Tool Overuse Mitigation
    ACL 2025 · Cheng Qian,
    Emre Can Acikgoz
    ,
    Hongru Wang
    ,
    Xiusi Chen
    ,
    Avirup Sil
    ,
    Dilek Hakkani-Tür
    ,
    Gokhan Tur
    ,
    Heng Ji
  21. SafeSwitch: Steering Unsafe LLM Behavior via Internal Activation Signals
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Peixuan Han
    , Cheng Qian,
    Xiusi Chen
    ,
    Yuji Zhang
    ,
    Heng Ji
    ,
    Denghui Zhang
  22. The Law of Knowledge Overshadowing: Towards Understanding, Predicting and Preventing LLM Hallucination
    ACL 2025 ·
    Yuji Zhang
    ,
    Sha Li
    , Cheng Qian,
    Jiateng Liu
    ,
    Pengfei Yu
    ,
    Chi Han
    ,
    Yi R. Fung
    ,
    Kathleen McKeown
    ,
    ChengXiang Zhai
    ,
    Manling Li
    ,
    Heng Ji
  23. The Right Time Matters: Data Arrangement Affects Zero-Shot Generalization in Instruction Tuning
    ACL 2025 ·
    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
  24. ToolRL: Reward is All Tool Learning Needs
    NeurIPS 2025 · Cheng Qian,
    Emre Can Acikgoz
    ,
    Qi He
    ,
    Hongru Wang
    ,
    Xiusi Chen
    ,
    Dilek Hakkani-Tur
    ,
    Gokhan Tur
    ,
    Heng Ji
  25. Tell Me More! Towards Implicit User Intention Understanding of Language Model Driven Agents
    ACL 2024 · Cheng Qian,
    Bingxiang He
    ,
    Zhong Zhuang
    ,
    Jia Deng
    ,
    Yujia Qin
    ,
    Xin Cong
    ,
    Zhong Zhang
    ,
    Jie Zhou
    ,
    Yankai Lin
    ,
    Zhiyuan Liu
    ,
    Maosong Sun
  26. Toolink: Linking Toolkit Creation and Using through Chain-of-Solving on Open-Source Model
    NAACL 2024 · Cheng Qian,
    Chenyan Xiong
    ,
    Zhenghao Liu
    ,
    Zhiyuan Liu