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ChengXiang Zhai

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA

21 papers at tracked venues · 17 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

SIGIR ×7ACL ×4EMNLP ×3AAAI ×2ICML ×1NeurIPS ×1SIGKDD ×1WSDM ×1WWW ×1

Frequent coauthors

Ke Yang
×3
Heng Ji
×3
Yiran Liu
×2
Yang Yu
×2
Chenkai Sun
×2
Mingyuan Wu
×2
Jize Jiang
×2
Haozhen Zheng
×2
Beitong Tian
×2
Klara Nahrstedt
×2
Kevin Ros
×2
Cheng Qian
×2

Papers

  1. BiasGRPO: Stabilizing Bias Mitigation in High-Variance Reward Landscapes via Group-Relative Policy Optimization
    ACL 2026 ·
    Saket Reddy
    ,
    Ke Yang
    , ChengXiang Zhai
  2. HEV Generative Sandbox: A Framework for Assessing Domain-Specific Social Risks Through Human-LLM Simulation
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Yiran Liu
    ,
    Zhiyi Hou
    ,
    Xiaoang Xu
    ,
    Shuo Wang
    ,
    Huijia Wu
    ,
    Kaicheng Yu
    ,
    Yang Yu
    , ChengXiang Zhai
  3. Towards a General Intelligent Information Agent: Framework, Models, and Evaluation
    SIGIR 2026 · Chengxiang Zhai
  4. Beyond Reactive Safety: Risk-Aware LLM Alignment via Long-Horizon Simulation
    ACL 2025 ·
    Chenkai Sun
    ,
    Denghui Zhang
    , ChengXiang Zhai,
    Heng Ji
  5. Cache-of-Thought: Master-Apprentice Framework for Cost-Effective Vision Language Model Reasoning
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Mingyuan Wu
    ,
    Jize Jiang
    ,
    Haozhen Zheng
    ,
    Meitang Li
    ,
    Zhaoheng Li
    ,
    Beitong Tian
    ,
    Bo Chen
    ,
    Yongjoo Park
    ,
    Minjia Zhang
    , ChengXiang Zhai,
    Klara Nahrstedt
  6. Information Retrieval for Artificial General Intelligence: A New Perspective of Information Retrieval Research
    SIGIR 2025 · ChengXiang Zhai
  7. InstInfo: A Just-in-Time Literature Recommendation System for Presentations
    SIGIR 2025 ·
    Kevin Ros
    ,
    Rahul Suresh
    , ChengXiang Zhai
  8. Learning to Slice: Self-Supervised Interpretable Hierarchical Representation Learning with Graph Auto-Encoder Tree
    SIGKDD 2025 ·
    Jinning Li
    ,
    Ruipeng Han
    ,
    Jingying Zeng
    ,
    Dachun Sun
    ,
    Chenkai Sun
    ,
    Hanghang Tong
    , ChengXiang Zhai,
    Boleslaw K. Szymanski
    ,
    Tarek F. Abdelzaher
  9. 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
  10. ORBIT: Cost-Effective Dataset Curation for Large Language Model Domain Adaptation with an Astronomy Case Study
    ACL 2025 ·
    Eric Modesitt
    ,
    Ke Yang
    ,
    Spencer Hulsey
    ,
    Xin Liu
    , ChengXiang Zhai,
    Volodymyr V. Kindratenko
  11. TINK: Text Information Navigation Kit
    SIGIR 2025 ·
    Dean E. Alvarez
    , ChengXiang Zhai
  12. 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
  13. Theory and Toolkits for User Simulation in the Era of Generative AI: User Modeling, Synthetic Data Generation, and System Evaluation
    SIGIR 2025 ·
    Krisztian Balog
    ,
    Nolwenn Bernard
    ,
    Saber Zerhoudi
    , ChengXiang Zhai
  14. What Makes In-context Learning Effective for Mathematical Reasoning
    ICML 2025 ·
    Jiayu Liu
    ,
    Zhenya Huang
    ,
    Chaokun Wang
    ,
    Xunpeng Huang
    , ChengXiang Zhai,
    Enhong Chen
  15. Bias and Volatility: A Statistical Framework for Evaluating Large Language Model's Stereotypes and the Associated Generation Inconsistency
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Yiran Liu
    ,
    Ke Yang
    ,
    Zehan Qi
    ,
    Xiao Liu
    ,
    Yang Yu
    , Cheng Xiang Zhai
  16. CharmBana: Progressive Responses with Real-Time Internet Search for Knowledge-Powered Conversations
    WSDM 2024 ·
    Revanth Gangi Reddy
    ,
    Sharath Chandra Etagi Suresh
    ,
    Hao Bai
    ,
    Wentao Yao
    ,
    Mankeerat Sidhu
    ,
    Karan Aggarwal
    ,
    Prathamesh Sonawane
    , ChengXiang Zhai
  17. Large Language Models and Future of Information Retrieval: Opportunities and Challenges
    SIGIR 2024 · ChengXiang Zhai
  18. Seed-Guided Fine-Grained Entity Typing in Science and Engineering Domains
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Yu Zhang
    ,
    Yunyi Zhang
    ,
    Yanzhen Shen
    ,
    Yu Deng
    ,
    Lucian Popa
    ,
    Larisa Shwartz
    , ChengXiang Zhai,
    Jiawei Han
  19. TextData: Save What You Know and Find What You Don't
    SIGIR 2024 ·
    Kevin Ros
    ,
    Kedar Takwane
    ,
    Ashwin Patil
    ,
    Rakshana Jayaprakash
    , ChengXiang Zhai
  20. Tutorial on User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems on the Web
    WWW 2024 ·
    Krisztian Balog
    , ChengXiang Zhai
  21. UOUO: Uncontextualized Uncommon Objects for Measuring Knowledge Horizons of Vision Language Models
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Xinyu Pi
    ,
    Mingyuan Wu
    ,
    Jize Jiang
    ,
    Haozhen Zheng
    ,
    Beitong Tian
    , ChengXiang Zhai,
    Klara Nahrstedt
    ,
    Zhiting Hu