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Jun Wang

University College London, Department of Computer Science, UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence, London, UK

56 papers at tracked venues · 42 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

NeurIPS ×16ICLR ×9AAMAS ×6ICML ×5AAAI ×4EMNLP ×4ACL ×3SIGKDD ×2WWW ×2EACL ×1ECAI ×1ICRA ×1NAACL ×1SIGIR ×1

Frequent coauthors

Weinan Zhang
×13
Haifeng Zhang
×12
Mengyue Yang
×8
Kun Shao
×7
Ying Wen
×7
Qirui Mi
×6
Meng Fang
×5
Yong Yu
×5
Linyi Yang
×5
Jianye Hao
×5
Yan Song
×5
Yali Du
×5

Papers

  1. Dual Activation-Weight Sparsity: A Training-Free Framework for Efficient Large Language Model Compression
    ACL 2026 ·
    Luoyang Sun
    ,
    Guangyan Li
    ,
    Cheng Deng
    ,
    Haifeng Zhang
    ,
    Jian Zhao
    ,
    Yongqiang Tang
    ,
    Wensheng Zhang
    , Jun Wang
  2. Proactive Constrained Policy Optimization with Preemptive Penalty
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Ning Yang
    ,
    Pengyu Wang
    ,
    Guoqing Liu
    ,
    Haifeng Zhang
    ,
    Pin Lyu
    , Jun Wang
  3. Probe-and-Fetch: Dynamic KV Cache Pruning for Accelerated Long-Context Inference in Web-Scale AI Search
    WWW 2026 ·
    Yuchen Li
    ,
    Rui Kong
    ,
    Xinran Chen
    ,
    Chengzhe Zhang
    ,
    Jiamin Chen
    ,
    Cheng Deng
    ,
    Xinyu Ma
    ,
    Haojie Zhang
    ,
    Tianhao Peng
    ,
    Hengyi Cai
    ,
    Shuaiqiang Wang
    ,
    Jiashu Zhao
    ,
    Yongqi Zhang
    ,
    Haoyi Xiong
    ,
    Jimmy Xiangji Huang
    ,
    Lei Chen
    , Jun Wang,
    Dawei Yin
  4. Process Evaluation for Agentic Systems
    EACL 2026 ·
    Milan Gritta
    ,
    Debjit Paul
    ,
    Xiaoguang Li
    ,
    Lifeng Shang
    , Jun Wang,
    Gerasimos Lampouras
  5. Towards Unified Affective Reasoning via In-Context Reinforcement Learning
    SIGIR 2026 ·
    Feng Xiong
    , Jun Wang,
    Ruifeng Xu
  6. Vision-Language Reasoning for Geolocalization: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Biao Wu
    ,
    Meng Fang
    ,
    Ling Chen
    ,
    Ke Xu
    ,
    Tao Cheng
    , Jun Wang
  7. A Principle of Targeted Intervention for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Anjie Liu
    ,
    Jianhong Wang
    ,
    Samuel Kaski
    , Jun Wang,
    Mengyue Yang
  8. Boost, Disentangle, and Customize: A Robust System2-to-System1 Pipeline for Code Generation
    ACL 2025 ·
    Kounianhua Du
    ,
    Hanjing Wang
    ,
    Jianxing Liu
    ,
    Jizheng Chen
    ,
    Xinyi Dai
    ,
    Yasheng Wang
    ,
    Ruiming Tang
    ,
    Yong Yu
    , Jun Wang,
    Weinan Zhang
  9. CMoB: Modality Valuation via Causal Effect for Balanced Multimodal Learning
    NeurIPS 2025 · Jun Wang,
    Fuyuan Cao
    ,
    Zhixin Xue
    ,
    Xingwang Zhao
    ,
    Jiye Liang
  10. Causal Sufficiency and Necessity Improves Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Xiangning Yu
    ,
    Zhuohan Wang
    ,
    Linyi Yang
    ,
    Haoxuan Li
    ,
    Anjie Liu
    ,
    Xiao Xue
    , Jun Wang,
    Mengyue Yang
  11. Circuit Transformer: A Transformer That Preserves Logical Equivalence
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Xihan Li
    ,
    Xing Li
    ,
    Lei Chen
    ,
    Xing Zhang
    ,
    Mingxuan Yuan
    , Jun Wang
  12. Constrain Alignment with Sparse Autoencoders
    ICML 2025 ·
    Qingyu Yin
    ,
    Chak Tou Leong
    ,
    Hongbo Zhang
    ,
    Minjun Zhu
    ,
    Hanqi Yan
    ,
    Qiang Zhang
    ,
    Yulan He
    ,
    Wenjie Li
    , Jun Wang,
    Yue Zhang
    ,
    Linyi Yang
  13. Curious Causality-Seeking Agents in Open-ended Worlds
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Zhiyu Zhao
    ,
    Haoxuan Li
    ,
    Haifeng Zhang
    , Jun Wang,
    Francesco Faccio
    ,
    Jürgen Schmidhuber
    ,
    Mengyue Yang
  14. Direct Value Optimization: Improving Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LLMs with Refined Values
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Hongbo Zhang
    ,
    Han Cui
    ,
    Guangsheng Bao
    ,
    Linyi Yang
    , Jun Wang,
    Yue Zhang
  15. DistRL: An Asynchronous Distributed Reinforcement Learning Framework for On-Device Control Agent
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Taiyi Wang
    ,
    Zhihao Wu
    ,
    Jianheng Liu
    ,
    Jianye Hao
    , Jun Wang,
    Kun Shao
  16. EconGym: A Scalable AI Testbed with Diverse Economic Tasks
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Qirui Mi
    ,
    Qipeng Yang
    ,
    Zijun Fan
    ,
    Wentian Fan
    ,
    Heyang Ma
    ,
    Chengdong Ma
    ,
    Siyu Xia
    ,
    Bo An
    , Jun Wang,
    Haifeng Zhang
  17. GenSim: A General Social Simulation Platform with Large Language Model based Agents
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Jiakai Tang
    ,
    Heyang Gao
    ,
    Xuchen Pan
    ,
    Lei Wang
    ,
    Haoran Tan
    ,
    Dawei Gao
    ,
    Yushuo Chen
    ,
    Xu Chen
    ,
    Yankai Lin
    ,
    Yaliang Li
    ,
    Bolin Ding
    ,
    Jingren Zhou
    , Jun Wang,
    Ji-Rong Wen
  18. Human-inspired Episodic Memory for Infinite Context LLMs
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Zafeirios Fountas
    ,
    Martin Benfeghoul
    ,
    Adnan Oomerjee
    ,
    Fenia Christopoulou
    ,
    Gerasimos Lampouras
    ,
    Haitham Bou-Ammar
    , Jun Wang
  19. Large Language Models are Demonstration Pre-Selectors for Themselves
    ICML 2025 ·
    Jiarui Jin
    ,
    Yuwei Wu
    ,
    Haoxuan Li
    ,
    Xiaoting He
    ,
    Weinan Zhang
    ,
    Yiming Yang
    ,
    Yong Yu
    , Jun Wang,
    Mengyue Yang
  20. Learning Macroeconomic Policies Through Dynamic Stackelberg Mean-Field Games
    ECAI 2025 ·
    Qirui Mi
    ,
    Zhiyu Zhao
    ,
    Chengdong Ma
    ,
    Siyu Xia
    ,
    Yan Song
    ,
    Mengyue Yang
    , Jun Wang,
    Haifeng Zhang
  21. Lightweight Neural App Control
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Filippos Christianos
    ,
    Georgios Papoudakis
    ,
    Thomas Coste
    ,
    Jianye Hao
    , Jun Wang,
    Kun Shao
  22. MF-LLM: Simulating Population Decision Dynamics via a Mean-Field Large Language Model Framework
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Qirui Mi
    ,
    Mengyue Yang
    ,
    Xiangning Yu
    ,
    Zhiyu Zhao
    ,
    Cheng Deng
    ,
    Bo An
    ,
    Haifeng Zhang
    ,
    Xu Chen
    , Jun Wang
  23. Mean Field Correlated Imitation Learning
    AAMAS 2025 ·
    Zhiyu Zhao
    ,
    Chengdong Ma
    ,
    Qirui Mi
    ,
    Ning Yang
    ,
    Xue Yan
    ,
    Mengyue Yang
    ,
    Haifeng Zhang
    , Jun Wang,
    Yaodong Yang
  24. Mixture of Attentions For Speculative Decoding
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Matthieu Zimmer
    ,
    Milan Gritta
    ,
    Gerasimos Lampouras
    ,
    Haitham Bou-Ammar
    , Jun Wang
  25. MobileUse: A Hierarchical Reflection-Driven GUI Agent for Autonomous Mobile Operation
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Ning Li
    ,
    Xiangmou Qu
    ,
    Jiamu Zhou
    ,
    Muning Wen
    ,
    Kounianhua Du
    ,
    Xingyu Lou
    ,
    Qiuying Peng
    , Jun Wang,
    Weinan Zhang
  26. On the Optimization Landscape of Low Rank Adaptation Methods for Large Language Models
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Xu-Hui Liu
    ,
    Yali Du
    , Jun Wang,
    Yang Yu
  27. Optimizing Case-Based Reasoning System for Functional Test Script Generation with Large Language Models
    SIGKDD 2025 ·
    Siyuan Guo
    ,
    Huiwu Liu
    ,
    Xiaolong Chen
    ,
    Yuming Xie
    ,
    Liang Zhang
    ,
    Tao Han
    ,
    Hechang Chen
    ,
    Yi Chang
    , Jun Wang
  28. ReMA: Learning to Meta-Think for LLMs with Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Ziyu Wan
    ,
    Yunxiang Li
    ,
    Xiaoyu Wen
    ,
    Yan Song
    ,
    Hanjing Wang
    ,
    Linyi Yang
    ,
    Mark Schmidt
    , Jun Wang,
    Weinan Zhang
    ,
    Shuyue Hu
    ,
    Ying Wen
  29. Retrieval-Augmented Process Reward Model for Generalizable Mathematical Reasoning
    ACL 2025 ·
    Jiachen Zhu
    ,
    Congmin Zheng
    ,
    Jianghao Lin
    ,
    Kounianhua Du
    ,
    Ying Wen
    ,
    Yong Yu
    , Jun Wang,
    Weinan Zhang
  30. Risk-aware Direct Preference Optimization under Nested Risk Measure
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Lijun Zhang
    ,
    Lin Li
    ,
    Yajie Qi
    ,
    Huizhong Song
    ,
    Yaodong Yang
    , Jun Wang,
    Wei Wei
  31. Robust Function-Calling for On-Device Language Model via Function Masking
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Qiqiang Lin
    ,
    Muning Wen
    ,
    Qiuying Peng
    ,
    Guanyu Nie
    ,
    Junwei Liao
    , Jun Wang,
    Xiaoyun Mo
    ,
    Jiamu Zhou
    ,
    Cheng Cheng
    ,
    Yin Zhao
    ,
    Weinan Zhang
  32. Self-Verifying Reflection Helps Transformers with CoT Reasoning
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Zhongwei Yu
    ,
    Wannian Xia
    ,
    Xue Yan
    ,
    Bo Xu
    ,
    Haifeng Zhang
    ,
    Yali Du
    , Jun Wang
  33. Spa-Bench: a comprehensive Benchmark for Smartphone Agent Evaluation
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Jingxuan Chen
    ,
    Derek Yuen
    ,
    Bin Xie
    ,
    Yuhao Yang
    ,
    Gongwei Chen
    ,
    Zhihao Wu
    ,
    Li Yixing
    ,
    Xurui Zhou
    ,
    Weiwen Liu
    ,
    Shuai Wang
    ,
    Kaiwen Zhou
    ,
    Rui Shao
    ,
    Liqiang Nie
    ,
    Yasheng Wang
    ,
    Jianye Hao
    , Jun Wang,
    Kun Shao
  34. SparsePO: Controlling Preference Alignment of LLMs via Sparse Token Masks
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Fenia Christopoulou
    ,
    Ronald Cardenas
    ,
    Gerasimos Lampouras
    ,
    Haitham Bou-Ammar
    , Jun Wang
  35. Spiral of Silence in Large Language Model Agents
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Mingze Zhong
    ,
    Meng Fang
    ,
    Zijing Shi
    ,
    Yuxuan Huang
    ,
    Shunfeng Zheng
    ,
    Yali Du
    ,
    Ling Chen
    , Jun Wang
  36. Succeed or Learn Slowly: Sample Efficient Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for Mobile App Control
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Georgios Papoudakis
    ,
    Thomas Coste
    ,
    Jianye Hao
    , Jun Wang,
    Kun Shao
  37. Taming Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Estimator Variance Reduction
    AAMAS 2025 ·
    Taher Jafferjee
    ,
    Juliusz Ziomek
    ,
    Tianpei Yang
    ,
    Zipeng Dai
    ,
    Jianhong Wang
    ,
    Matthew E. Taylor
    ,
    Kun Shao
    , Jun Wang,
    David Mguni
  38. ThinkBench: Dynamic Out-of-Distribution Evaluation for Robust LLM Reasoning
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Shulin Huang
    ,
    Linyi Yang
    ,
    Yan Song
    ,
    Shawn Chen
    ,
    Leyang Cui
    ,
    Ziyu Wan
    ,
    Qingcheng Zeng
    ,
    Ying Wen
    ,
    Kun Shao
    ,
    Weinan Zhang
    , Jun Wang,
    Yue Zhang
  39. Uncertainty-quantified Rollout Policy Adaptation for Unlabelled Cross-domain Video Temporal Grounding
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Jian Hu
    ,
    Zixu Cheng
    ,
    Shaogang Gong
    ,
    Isabel Guan
    ,
    Jianye Hao
    , Jun Wang,
    Kun Shao
  40. Unlocking the Potential of Decentralized LLM-based MAS: Privacy Preservation and Monetization in Collective Intelligence
    AAMAS 2025 ·
    Yingxuan Yang
    ,
    Qiuying Peng
    , Jun Wang,
    Ying Wen
    ,
    Weinan Zhang
  41. Why Not Together? A Multiple-Round Recommender System for Queries and Items
    SIGKDD 2025 ·
    Jiarui Jin
    ,
    Xianyu Chen
    ,
    Weinan Zhang
    ,
    Yong Yu
    , Jun Wang
  42. A Summary of Online Markov Decision Processes with Non-oblivious Strategic Adversary
    AAMAS 2024 ·
    Le Cong Dinh
    ,
    David Henry Mguni
    ,
    Long Tran-Thanh
    , Jun Wang,
    Yaodong Yang
  43. AlphaZero-Like Tree-Search can Guide Large Language Model Decoding and Training
    ICML 2024 ·
    Ziyu Wan
    ,
    Xidong Feng
    ,
    Muning Wen
    ,
    Stephen Marcus McAleer
    ,
    Ying Wen
    ,
    Weinan Zhang
    , Jun Wang
  44. Boosting Studies of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning on Google Research Football Environment: The Past, Present, and Future
    AAMAS 2024 ·
    Yan Song
    ,
    He Jiang
    ,
    Haifeng Zhang
    ,
    Zheng Tian
    ,
    Weinan Zhang
    , Jun Wang
  45. DS-Agent: Automated Data Science by Empowering Large Language Models with Case-Based Reasoning
    ICML 2024 ·
    Siyuan Guo
    ,
    Cheng Deng
    ,
    Ying Wen
    ,
    Hechang Chen
    ,
    Yi Chang
    , Jun Wang
  46. Human-Guided Moral Decision Making in Text-Based Games
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Zijing Shi
    ,
    Meng Fang
    ,
    Ling Chen
    ,
    Yali Du
    , Jun Wang
  47. InfoRank: Unbiased Learning-to-Rank via Conditional Mutual Information Minimization
    WWW 2024 ·
    Jiarui Jin
    ,
    Zexue He
    ,
    Mengyue Yang
    ,
    Weinan Zhang
    ,
    Yong Yu
    , Jun Wang,
    Julian J. McAuley
  48. Language and Sketching: An LLM-driven Interactive Multimodal Multitask Robot Navigation Framework
    ICRA 2024 ·
    Weiqin Zu
    ,
    Wenbin Song
    ,
    Ruiqing Chen
    ,
    Ze Guo
    ,
    Fanglei Sun
    ,
    Zheng Tian
    ,
    Wei Pan
    , Jun Wang
  49. Large Language Models Are Neurosymbolic Reasoners
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Meng Fang
    ,
    Shilong Deng
    ,
    Yudi Zhang
    ,
    Zijing Shi
    ,
    Ling Chen
    ,
    Mykola Pechenizkiy
    , Jun Wang
  50. Large Language Models Play StarCraft II: Benchmarks and A Chain of Summarization Approach
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Weiyu Ma
    ,
    Qirui Mi
    ,
    Yongcheng Zeng
    ,
    Xue Yan
    ,
    Runji Lin
    ,
    Yuqiao Wu
    , Jun Wang,
    Haifeng Zhang
  51. Multiple Knowledge-Enhanced Interactive Graph Network for Multimodal Conversational Emotion Recognition
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Geng Tu
    , Jun Wang,
    Zhenyu Li
    ,
    Shiwei Chen
    ,
    Bin Liang
    ,
    Xi Zeng
    ,
    Min Yang
    ,
    Ruifeng Xu
  52. Policy Learning from Tutorial Books via Understanding, Rehearsing and Introspecting
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Xiong-Hui Chen
    ,
    Ziyan Wang
    ,
    Yali Du
    ,
    Shengyi Jiang
    ,
    Meng Fang
    ,
    Yang Yu
    , Jun Wang
  53. Reinforcing LLM Agents via Policy Optimization with Action Decomposition
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Muning Wen
    ,
    Ziyu Wan
    , Jun Wang,
    Weinan Zhang
    ,
    Ying Wen
  54. TaxAI: A Dynamic Economic Simulator and Benchmark for Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
    AAMAS 2024 ·
    Qirui Mi
    ,
    Siyu Xia
    ,
    Yan Song
    ,
    Haifeng Zhang
    ,
    Shenghao Zhu
    , Jun Wang
  55. Token-level Direct Preference Optimization
    ICML 2024 ·
    Yongcheng Zeng
    ,
    Guoqing Liu
    ,
    Weiyu Ma
    ,
    Ning Yang
    ,
    Haifeng Zhang
    , Jun Wang