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Hongning Wang

Tsinghua University, Department of Computer Science, Beijing, China

55 papers at tracked venues · 48 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

ACL ×18ICLR ×7AAAI ×5EMNLP ×5NeurIPS ×4SIGIR ×4WWW ×3ACM MM ×2ICML ×2SIGKDD ×2AISTATS ×1ICCV ×1WSDM ×1

Frequent coauthors

Minlie Huang
×35
Jie Tang
×17
Pei Ke
×15
Jiale Cheng
×11
Xiaotao Gu
×10
Zhexin Zhang
×10
Yuxiao Dong
×9
Xiao Liu
×8
Bosi Wen
×8
Shiyao Cui
×7
Jinfeng Zhou
×7
Cunxiang Wang
×6

Papers

  1. Data Efficient RLVR via Off-Policy Influence Guidance
    ACL 2026 ·
    Erle Zhu
    ,
    Dazhi Jiang
    ,
    Yuan Wang
    ,
    Xujun Li
    ,
    Jiale Cheng
    ,
    Yuxian Gu
    ,
    Yilin Niu
    ,
    Aohan Zeng
    ,
    Jie Tang
    ,
    Minlie Huang
    , Hongning Wang
  2. Glyph: Scaling Context Windows via Visual-Text Compression
    ACL 2026 ·
    Jiale Cheng
    ,
    Yusen Liu
    ,
    Xinyu Zhang
    ,
    Yulin Fei
    ,
    Wenyi Hong
    ,
    Ruiliang Lyu
    ,
    Weihan Wang
    ,
    Zhe Su
    ,
    Xiaotao Gu
    ,
    Xiao Liu
    ,
    Yushi Bai
    ,
    Jie Tang
    , Hongning Wang,
    Minlie Huang
  3. HoWToBench: Holistic Evaluation for LLM's Capability in Human-level Writing using Tree of Writing
    ACL 2026 ·
    Andrew Zhuoer Feng
    ,
    Cunxiang Wang
    ,
    Yu Luo
    ,
    Lin Fan
    ,
    Irene Zhou
    ,
    Zikang Wang
    ,
    Xiaotao Gu
    ,
    Jie Tang
    , Hongning Wang,
    Minlie Huang
  4. How Should We Enhance the Safety of Large Reasoning Models: An Empirical Study
    ACL 2026 ·
    Zhexin Zhang
    ,
    Xian Qi Loye
    ,
    Victor Shea-Jay Huang
    ,
    Junxiao Yang
    ,
    Qi Zhu
    ,
    Shiyao Cui
    ,
    Fei Mi
    ,
    Lifeng Shang
    ,
    Yingkang Wang
    , Hongning Wang,
    Minlie Huang
  5. IF-CRITIC: Towards a Fine-Grained LLM Critic for Instruction-Following Evaluation
    ACL 2026 ·
    Bosi Wen
    ,
    Yilin Niu
    ,
    Cunxiang Wang
    ,
    Pei Ke
    ,
    Xiaoying Ling
    ,
    Ying Zhang
    ,
    Aohan Zeng
    , Hongning Wang,
    Minlie Huang
  6. IF-RewardBench: Benchmarking Judge Models for Instruction-Following Evaluation
    ACL 2026 ·
    Bosi Wen
    ,
    Yilin Niu
    ,
    Cunxiang Wang
    ,
    Xiaoying Ling
    ,
    Ying Zhang
    ,
    Pei Ke
    , Hongning Wang,
    Minlie Huang
  7. LASA: Language-Agnostic Semantic Alignment at the Semantic Bottleneck for LLM Safety
    ACL 2026 ·
    Junxiao Yang
    ,
    Haoran Liu
    ,
    Jinzhe Tu
    ,
    Jiale Cheng
    ,
    Zhexin Zhang
    ,
    Shiyao Cui
    ,
    Jiaqi Weng
    ,
    Jialing Tao
    ,
    Hui Xue
    , Hongning Wang,
    Han Qiu
    ,
    Minlie Huang
  8. When Smiley Turns Hostile: Interpreting How Emojis Trigger LLMs' Toxicity
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Shiyao Cui
    ,
    Xijia Feng
    ,
    Yingkang Wang
    ,
    Junxiao Yang
    ,
    Zhexin Zhang
    ,
    Biplab Sikdar
    , Hongning Wang,
    Han Qiu
    ,
    Minlie Huang
  9. CharacterBench: Benchmarking Character Customization of Large Language Models
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Jinfeng Zhou
    ,
    Yongkang Huang
    ,
    Bosi Wen
    ,
    Guanqun Bi
    ,
    Yuxuan Chen
    ,
    Pei Ke
    ,
    Zhuang Chen
    ,
    Xiyao Xiao
    ,
    Libiao Peng
    ,
    Kuntian Tang
    ,
    Rongsheng Zhang
    ,
    Le Zhang
    ,
    Tangjie Lv
    ,
    Zhipeng Hu
    , Hongning Wang,
    Minlie Huang
  10. CodePlan: Unlocking Reasoning Potential in Large Language Models by Scaling Code-form Planning
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Jiaxin Wen
    ,
    Jian Guan
    , Hongning Wang,
    Wei Wu
    ,
    Minlie Huang
  11. Crisp: Cognitive Restructuring of Negative Thoughts through Multi-turn Supportive Dialogues
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Jinfeng Zhou
    ,
    Yuxuan Chen
    ,
    Jianing Yin
    ,
    Yongkang Huang
    ,
    Yihan Shi
    ,
    Xikun Zhang
    ,
    Libiao Peng
    ,
    Rongsheng Zhang
    ,
    Tangjie Lv
    ,
    Zhipeng Hu
    , Hongning Wang,
    Minlie Huang
  12. Data Selection via Optimal Control for Language Models
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Yuxian Gu
    ,
    Li Dong
    , Hongning Wang,
    Yaru Hao
    ,
    Qingxiu Dong
    ,
    Furu Wei
    ,
    Minlie Huang
  13. Decoupling Knowledge and Context: An Efficient and Effective Retrieval Augmented Generation Framework via Cross Attention
    WWW 2025 ·
    Qian Dong
    ,
    Qingyao Ai
    , Hongning Wang,
    Yiding Liu
    ,
    Haitao Li
    ,
    Weihang Su
    ,
    Yiqun Liu
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
    ,
    Shaoping Ma
  14. Guiding not Forcing: Enhancing the Transferability of Jailbreaking Attacks on LLMs via Removing Superfluous Constraints
    ACL 2025 ·
    Junxiao Yang
    ,
    Zhexin Zhang
    ,
    Shiyao Cui
    , Hongning Wang,
    Minlie Huang
  15. HPSS: Heuristic Prompting Strategy Search for LLM Evaluators
    ACL 2025 ·
    Bosi Wen
    ,
    Pei Ke
    ,
    Yufei Sun
    ,
    Cunxiang Wang
    ,
    Xiaotao Gu
    ,
    Jinfeng Zhou
    ,
    Jie Tang
    , Hongning Wang,
    Minlie Huang
  16. JPS: Jailbreak Multimodal Large Language Models with Collaborative Visual Perturbation and Textual Steering
    ACM MM 2025 ·
    Renmiao Chen
    ,
    Shiyao Cui
    ,
    Xuancheng Huang
    ,
    Chengwei Pan
    ,
    Victor Shea-Jay Huang
    ,
    Qinglin Zhang
    ,
    Xuan Ouyang
    ,
    Zhexin Zhang
    , Hongning Wang,
    Minlie Huang
  17. Knowledge-to-Jailbreak: Investigating Knowledge-driven Jailbreaking Attacks for Large Language Models
    SIGKDD 2025 ·
    Shangqing Tu
    ,
    Zhuoran Pan
    ,
    Wenxuan Wang
    ,
    Zhexin Zhang
    ,
    Yuliang Sun
    ,
    Jifan Yu
    , Hongning Wang,
    Lei Hou
    ,
    Juanzi Li
  18. LogicGame: Benchmarking Rule-Based Reasoning Abilities of Large Language Models
    ACL 2025 ·
    Jiayi Gui
    ,
    Yiming Liu
    ,
    Jiale Cheng
    ,
    Xiaotao Gu
    ,
    Xiao Liu
    , Hongning Wang,
    Yuxiao Dong
    ,
    Jie Tang
    ,
    Minlie Huang
  19. LongSafety: Evaluating Long-Context Safety of Large Language Models
    ACL 2025 ·
    Yida Lu
    ,
    Jiale Cheng
    ,
    Zhexin Zhang
    ,
    Shiyao Cui
    ,
    Cunxiang Wang
    ,
    Xiaotao Gu
    ,
    Yuxiao Dong
    ,
    Jie Tang
    , Hongning Wang,
    Minlie Huang
  20. MAPS: Advancing Multi-Modal Reasoning in Expert-Level Physical Science
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Erle Zhu
    ,
    Yadi Liu
    ,
    Zhe Zhang
    ,
    Xujun Li
    ,
    Jin Zhou
    ,
    Xinjie Yu
    ,
    Minlie Huang
    , Hongning Wang
  21. Parametric Retrieval Augmented Generation
    SIGIR 2025 ·
    Weihang Su
    ,
    Yichen Tang
    ,
    Qingyao Ai
    ,
    Junxi Yan
    ,
    Changyue Wang
    , Hongning Wang,
    Ziyi Ye
    ,
    Yujia Zhou
    ,
    Yiqun Liu
  22. RecFlow: An Industrial Full Flow Recommendation Dataset
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Qi Liu
    ,
    Kai Zheng
    ,
    Rui Huang
    ,
    Wuchao Li
    ,
    Kuo Cai
    ,
    Yuan Chai
    ,
    Yanan Niu
    ,
    Yiqun Hui
    ,
    Bing Han
    ,
    Na Mou
    , Hongning Wang,
    Wentian Bao
    ,
    Yunen Yu
    ,
    Guorui Zhou
    ,
    Han Li
    ,
    Yang Song
    ,
    Defu Lian
    ,
    Kun Gai
  23. SPaR: Self-Play with Tree-Search Refinement to Improve Instruction-Following in Large Language Models
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Jiale Cheng
    ,
    Xiao Liu
    ,
    Cunxiang Wang
    ,
    Xiaotao Gu
    ,
    Yida Lu
    ,
    Dan Zhang
    ,
    Yuxiao Dong
    ,
    Jie Tang
    , Hongning Wang,
    Minlie Huang
  24. SelfRACG: Enabling LLMs to Self-Express and Retrieve for Code Generation
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Qian Dong
    ,
    Jia Chen
    ,
    Qingyao Ai
    , Hongning Wang,
    Haitao Li
    ,
    Yi Wu
    ,
    Yao Hu
    ,
    Yiqun Liu
    ,
    Shaoping Ma
  25. ShieldVLM: Safeguarding the Multimodal Implicit Toxicity via Deliberative Reasoning with LVLMs: ShieldVLM
    ACM MM 2025 ·
    Shiyao Cui
    ,
    Qinglin Zhang
    ,
    Xuan Ouyang
    ,
    Renmiao Chen
    ,
    Zhexin Zhang
    ,
    Yida Lu
    , Hongning Wang,
    Han Qiu
    ,
    Minlie Huang
  26. SocialEval: Evaluating Social Intelligence of Large Language Models
    ACL 2025 ·
    Jinfeng Zhou
    ,
    Yuxuan Chen
    ,
    Yihan Shi
    ,
    Xuanming Zhang
    ,
    Leqi Lei
    ,
    Yi Feng
    ,
    Zexuan Xiong
    ,
    Miao Yan
    ,
    Xunzhi Wang
    ,
    Yaru Cao
    ,
    Jianing Yin
    ,
    Shuai Wang
    ,
    Quanyu Dai
    ,
    Zhenhua Dong
    , Hongning Wang,
    Minlie Huang
  27. SocialSim: Towards Socialized Simulation of Emotional Support Conversation
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Zhuang Chen
    ,
    Yaru Cao
    ,
    Guanqun Bi
    ,
    Jincenzi Wu
    ,
    Jinfeng Zhou
    ,
    Xiyao Xiao
    ,
    Si Chen
    , Hongning Wang,
    Minlie Huang
  28. Tree-KG: An Expandable Knowledge Graph Construction Framework for Knowledge-intensive Domains
    ACL 2025 ·
    Songjie Niu
    ,
    Kaisen Yang
    ,
    Rui Zhao
    ,
    Yichao Liu
    ,
    Zonglin Li
    , Hongning Wang,
    Wenguang Chen
  29. VPO: Aligning Text-to-Video Generation Models with Prompt Optimization
    ICCV 2025 ·
    Jiale Cheng
    ,
    Ruiliang Lyu
    ,
    Xiaotao Gu
    ,
    Xiao Liu
    ,
    Jiazheng Xu
    ,
    Yida Lu
    ,
    Jiayan Teng
    ,
    Zhuoyi Yang
    ,
    Yuxiao Dong
    ,
    Jie Tang
    , Hongning Wang,
    Minlie Huang
  30. AMOR: A Recipe for Building Adaptable Modular Knowledge Agents Through Process Feedback
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Jian Guan
    ,
    Wei Wu
    ,
    Zujie Wen
    ,
    Peng Xu
    , Hongning Wang,
    Minlie Huang
  31. AlignBench: Benchmarking Chinese Alignment of Large Language Models
    ACL 2024 ·
    Xiao Liu
    ,
    Xuanyu Lei
    ,
    Shengyuan Wang
    ,
    Yue Huang
    ,
    Andrew Feng
    ,
    Bosi Wen
    ,
    Jiale Cheng
    ,
    Pei Ke
    ,
    Yifan Xu
    ,
    Weng Lam Tam
    ,
    Xiaohan Zhang
    ,
    Lichao Sun
    ,
    Xiaotao Gu
    , Hongning Wang,
    Jing Zhang
    ,
    Minlie Huang
    ,
    Yuxiao Dong
    ,
    Jie Tang
  32. AutoDetect: Towards a Unified Framework for Automated Weakness Detection in Large Language Models
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Jiale Cheng
    ,
    Yida Lu
    ,
    Xiaotao Gu
    ,
    Pei Ke
    ,
    Xiao Liu
    ,
    Yuxiao Dong
    , Hongning Wang,
    Jie Tang
    ,
    Minlie Huang
  33. Benchmarking Complex Instruction-Following with Multiple Constraints Composition
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Bosi Wen
    ,
    Pei Ke
    ,
    Xiaotao Gu
    ,
    Lindong Wu
    ,
    Hao Huang
    ,
    Jinfeng Zhou
    ,
    Wenchuang Li
    ,
    Binxin Hu
    ,
    Wendy Gao
    ,
    Jiaxing Xu
    ,
    Yiming Liu
    ,
    Jie Tang
    , Hongning Wang,
    Minlie Huang
  34. Black-Box Prompt Optimization: Aligning Large Language Models without Model Training
    ACL 2024 ·
    Jiale Cheng
    ,
    Xiao Liu
    ,
    Kehan Zheng
    ,
    Pei Ke
    , Hongning Wang,
    Yuxiao Dong
    ,
    Jie Tang
    ,
    Minlie Huang
  35. CharacterGLM: Customizing Social Characters with Large Language Models
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Jinfeng Zhou
    ,
    Zhuang Chen
    ,
    Dazhen Wan
    ,
    Bosi Wen
    ,
    Yi Song
    ,
    Jifan Yu
    ,
    Yongkang Huang
    ,
    Pei Ke
    ,
    Guanqun Bi
    ,
    Libiao Peng
    ,
    Jiaming Yang
    ,
    Xiyao Xiao
    ,
    Sahand Sabour
    ,
    Xiaohan Zhang
    ,
    Wenjing Hou
    ,
    Yijia Zhang
    ,
    Yuxiao Dong
    , Hongning Wang,
    Jie Tang
    ,
    Minlie Huang
  36. CritiqueLLM: Towards an Informative Critique Generation Model for Evaluation of Large Language Model Generation
    ACL 2024 ·
    Pei Ke
    ,
    Bosi Wen
    ,
    Andrew Feng
    ,
    Xiao Liu
    ,
    Xuanyu Lei
    ,
    Jiale Cheng
    ,
    Shengyuan Wang
    ,
    Aohan Zeng
    ,
    Yuxiao Dong
    , Hongning Wang,
    Jie Tang
    ,
    Minlie Huang
  37. Defending Large Language Models Against Jailbreaking Attacks Through Goal Prioritization
    ACL 2024 ·
    Zhexin Zhang
    ,
    Junxiao Yang
    ,
    Pei Ke
    ,
    Fei Mi
    , Hongning Wang,
    Minlie Huang
  38. Federated Linear Contextual Bandits with Heterogeneous Clients
    AISTATS 2024 ·
    Ethan Blaser
    ,
    Chuanhao Li
    , Hongning Wang
  39. Full Stage Learning to Rank: A Unified Framework for Multi-Stage Systems
    WWW 2024 ·
    Kai Zheng
    ,
    Haijun Zhao
    ,
    Rui Huang
    ,
    Beichuan Zhang
    ,
    Na Mou
    ,
    Yanan Niu
    ,
    Yang Song
    , Hongning Wang,
    Kun Gai
  40. Human vs. Generative AI in Content Creation Competition: Symbiosis or Conflict?
    ICML 2024 ·
    Fan Yao
    ,
    Chuanhao Li
    ,
    Denis Nekipelov
    , Hongning Wang,
    Haifeng Xu
  41. Incentivized Truthful Communication for Federated Bandits
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Zhepei Wei
    ,
    Chuanhao Li
    ,
    Tianze Ren
    ,
    Haifeng Xu
    , Hongning Wang
  42. Language Model Decoding as Direct Metrics Optimization
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Haozhe Ji
    ,
    Pei Ke
    , Hongning Wang,
    Minlie Huang
  43. Learning Task Decomposition to Assist Humans in Competitive Programming
    ACL 2024 ·
    Jiaxin Wen
    ,
    Ruiqi Zhong
    ,
    Pei Ke
    ,
    Zhihong Shao
    , Hongning Wang,
    Minlie Huang
  44. Meta-Reinforcement Learning via Exploratory Task Clustering
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Zhendong Chu
    ,
    Renqin Cai
    , Hongning Wang
  45. Mitigating Reward Overoptimization via Lightweight Uncertainty Estimation
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Xiaoying Zhang
    ,
    Jean-Francois Ton
    ,
    Wei Shen
    , Hongning Wang,
    Yang Liu
  46. Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2024, Washington DC, USA, July 14-18, 2024
    SIGIR 2024 ·
    Grace Hui Yang
    , Hongning Wang,
    Sam Han
    ,
    Claudia Hauff
    ,
    Guido Zuccon
    ,
    Yi Zhang
  47. Retention Depolarization in Recommender System
    WWW 2024 ·
    Xiaoying Zhang
    , Hongning Wang,
    Yang Liu
  48. ShieldLM: Empowering LLMs as Aligned, Customizable and Explainable Safety Detectors
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Zhexin Zhang
    ,
    Yida Lu
    ,
    Jingyuan Ma
    ,
    Di Zhang
    ,
    Rui Li
    ,
    Pei Ke
    ,
    Hao Sun
    ,
    Lei Sha
    ,
    Zhifang Sui
    , Hongning Wang,
    Minlie Huang
  49. Stealthy Adversarial Attacks on Stochastic Multi-Armed Bandits
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Zhiwei Wang
    ,
    Huazheng Wang
    , Hongning Wang
  50. The Second Workshop on Large Language Models for Individuals, Groups, and Society
    SIGIR 2024 ·
    Michael Bendersky
    ,
    Cheng Li
    ,
    Qiaozhu Mei
    ,
    Vanessa Murdock
    ,
    Jie Tang
    , Hongning Wang,
    Hamed Zamani
    ,
    Mingyang Zhang
    ,
    Xingjian Zhang
  51. Third Workshop on Personalization and Recommendations in Search (PaRiS)
    SIGIR 2024 ·
    Sudarshan Lamkhede
    ,
    Hamed Zamani
    ,
    Moumita Bhattacharya
    , Hongning Wang
  52. Towards Efficient Exact Optimization of Language Model Alignment
    ICML 2024 ·
    Haozhe Ji
    ,
    Cheng Lu
    ,
    Yilin Niu
    ,
    Pei Ke
    , Hongning Wang,
    Jun Zhu
    ,
    Jie Tang
    ,
    Minlie Huang
  53. Unveiling User Satisfaction and Creator Productivity Trade-Offs in Recommendation Platforms
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Fan Yao
    ,
    Yiming Liao
    ,
    Jingzhou Liu
    ,
    Shaoliang Nie
    ,
    Qifan Wang
    ,
    Haifeng Xu
    , Hongning Wang
  54. User Welfare Optimization in Recommender Systems with Competing Content Creators
    SIGKDD 2024 ·
    Fan Yao
    ,
    Yiming Liao
    ,
    Mingzhe Wu
    ,
    Chuanhao Li
    ,
    Yan Zhu
    ,
    James Yang
    ,
    Jingzhou Liu
    ,
    Qifan Wang
    ,
    Haifeng Xu
    , Hongning Wang
  55. WSDM 2024 Workshop on Large Language Models for Individuals, Groups, and Society
    WSDM 2024 ·
    Michael Bendersky
    ,
    Cheng Li
    ,
    Qiaozhu Mei
    ,
    Vanessa Murdock
    ,
    Jie Tang
    , Hongning Wang,
    Hamed Zamani
    ,
    Mingyang Zhang