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Lei Hou

Tsinghua University, Department of Computer Science and Technology, BDCST, BNRist, KIRC, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Beijing, China

52 papers at tracked venues · 36 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

ACL ×20EMNLP ×9CIKM ×6SIGKDD ×5ICLR ×4NeurIPS ×3WWW ×2AAAI ×1ACM MM ×1NAACL ×1

Frequent coauthors

Juanzi Li
×51
Bin Xu
×16
Xiaozhi Wang
×15
Yushi Bai
×14
Zijun Yao
×14
Hao Peng
×14
Shangqing Tu
×13
Jifan Yu
×13
Jiajie Zhang
×11
Yunjia Qi
×10
Xin Lv
×9
Daniel Zhang-Li
×8

Papers

  1. Boundary-Guided Policy Optimization for Memory-efficient RL of Diffusion Large Language Models
    ACL 2026 ·
    Nianyi Lin
    ,
    Jiajie Zhang
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
  2. Can Large Language Models Effectively Support Decision-Making in Sudden Emergencies?
    ACL 2026 ·
    Mengna Zhu
    ,
    Jibing Wu
    ,
    Lihua Liu
    ,
    Yuran Gong
    ,
    Yang Hao
    ,
    Yachao Fu
    ,
    Mao Wang
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
  3. Chaining the Evidence: Robust Reinforcement Learning for Deep Search Agents with Citation-Aware Rubric Rewards
    ACL 2026 ·
    Jiajie Zhang
    ,
    Xin Lv
    ,
    Ling Feng
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
  4. DeepPrune: Parallel Scaling without Inter-trace Redundancy
    ACL 2026 ·
    Shangqing Tu
    ,
    Yaxuan Li
    ,
    Yushi Bai
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
  5. From Knowing to Teaching: Scaffolding Pedagogical Decisions for LLM Agent
    ACL 2026 ·
    Yucheng Wang
    ,
    Shen Yang
    ,
    Jifan Yu
    ,
    Haoxuan Li
    ,
    Joy Lim Jia Yin
    ,
    Daniel Zhang-Li
    ,
    Huiqin Liu
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
    ,
    Bin Xu
  6. Personalized Learning Path Planning through Goal-Driven Learner State Modeling
    WWW 2026 ·
    Joy Lim Jia Yin
    ,
    Ye He
    ,
    Jifan Yu
    ,
    Xin Cong
    ,
    Daniel Zhang-Li
    ,
    Zhiyuan Liu
    ,
    Huiqin Liu
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
    ,
    Bin Xu
  7. RPC-Bench: A Fine-grained Benchmark for Research Paper Comprehension
    ACL 2026 ·
    Yelin Chen
    ,
    Fanjin Zhang
    ,
    Suping Sun
    ,
    Yunhe Pang
    ,
    Yuanchun Wang
    ,
    Jian Song
    ,
    Xiaoyan Li
    , Lei Hou,
    Shu Zhao
    ,
    Jie Tang
    ,
    Juanzi Li
  8. SimPBL: A Multi-Agent Framework for Project-Based Learning
    ACL 2026 ·
    Daniel Zhang-Li
    ,
    Joy Lim Jia Yin
    ,
    Binglin Liu
    ,
    Shangqing Tu
    ,
    Zijun Yao
    ,
    Hao Peng
    ,
    Jifan Yu
    ,
    Haoxuan Li
    ,
    Zhanxin Hao
    ,
    Ye He
    ,
    Zekun Li
    ,
    Jiangyi Wang
    , Lei Hou,
    Bin Xu
    ,
    Xin Cong
    ,
    Zhiyuan Liu
    ,
    Huiqin Liu
    ,
    Yu Zhang
    ,
    Juanzi Li
  9. WildReward: Learning Reward Models from In-the-Wild Human Interactions
    ACL 2026 ·
    Hao Peng
    ,
    Yunjia Qi
    ,
    Xiaozhi Wang
    ,
    Zijun Yao
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
  10. AGENTIF: Benchmarking Large Language Models Instruction Following Ability in Agentic Scenarios
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Yunjia Qi
    ,
    Hao Peng
    ,
    Xiaozhi Wang
    ,
    Amy Xin
    ,
    Youfeng Liu
    ,
    Bin Xu
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
  11. AdaptThink: Reasoning Models Can Learn When to Think
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Jiajie Zhang
    ,
    Nianyi Lin
    , Lei Hou,
    Ling Feng
    ,
    Juanzi Li
  12. Agentic Reward Modeling: Integrating Human Preferences with Verifiable Correctness Signals for Reliable Reward Systems
    ACL 2025 ·
    Hao Peng
    ,
    Yunjia Qi
    ,
    Xiaozhi Wang
    ,
    Zijun Yao
    ,
    Bin Xu
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
  13. AtomR: Atomic Operator-Empowered Large Language Models for Heterogeneous Knowledge Reasoning
    SIGKDD 2025 ·
    Amy Xin
    ,
    Jinxin Liu
    ,
    Zijun Yao
    ,
    Zhicheng Lee
    ,
    Shulin Cao
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
  14. Awaking the Slides: A Tuning-free and Knowledge-regulated AI Tutoring System via Language Model Coordination
    SIGKDD 2025 ·
    Daniel Zhang-Li
    ,
    Zheyuan Zhang
    ,
    Jifan Yu
    ,
    Joy Lim Jia Yin
    ,
    Shangqing Tu
    ,
    Linlu Gong
    ,
    Haohua Wang
    ,
    Zhiyuan Liu
    ,
    Huiqin Liu
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
  15. CogCoM: A Visual Language Model with Chain-of-Manipulations Reasoning
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Ji Qi
    ,
    Ming Ding
    ,
    Weihan Wang
    ,
    Yushi Bai
    ,
    Qingsong Lv
    ,
    Wenyi Hong
    ,
    Bin Xu
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
    ,
    Yuxiao Dong
    ,
    Jie Tang
  16. Constraint Back-translation Improves Complex Instruction Following of Large Language Models
    CIKM 2025 ·
    Yunjia Qi
    ,
    Hao Peng
    ,
    Xiaozhi Wang
    ,
    Bin Xu
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
  17. EduCraft: A System for Generating Pedagogical Lecture Scripts from Long-Context Multimodal Presentations
    CIKM 2025 ·
    Yucheng Wang
    ,
    Jifan Yu
    ,
    Daniel Zhang-Li
    ,
    Joy Lim Jia Yin
    ,
    Shangqing Tu
    ,
    Haoxuan Li
    ,
    Zhiyuan Liu
    ,
    Huiqin Liu
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
    ,
    Bin Xu
  18. Establishing Trustworthy LLM Evaluation via Shortcut Neuron Analysis
    ACL 2025 ·
    Kejian Zhu
    ,
    Shangqing Tu
    ,
    Zhuoran Jin
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  19. EventSum: A Large-Scale Event-Centric Summarization Dataset for Chinese Multi-News Documents
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Mengna Zhu
    ,
    Kaisheng Zeng
    ,
    Mao Wang
    ,
    Kaiming Xiao
    , Lei Hou,
    Hongbin Huang
    ,
    Juanzi Li
  20. How do Transformers Learn Implicit Reasoning?
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Jiaran Ye
    ,
    Zijun Yao
    ,
    Zhidian Huang
    ,
    Liangming Pan
    ,
    Jinxin Liu
    ,
    Yushi Bai
    ,
    Amy Xin
    ,
    Weichuan Liu
    ,
    Xiaoyin Che
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
  21. 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
  22. LLMAEL: Large Language Models are Good Context Augmenters for Entity Linking
    CIKM 2025 ·
    Amy Xin
    ,
    Yunjia Qi
    ,
    Zijun Yao
    ,
    Fangwei Zhu
    ,
    Kaisheng Zeng
    ,
    Bin Xu
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
  23. LinguaLens: Towards Interpreting Linguistic Mechanisms of Large Language Models via Sparse Auto-Encoder
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Yi Jing
    ,
    Zijun Yao
    ,
    Hongzhu Guo
    ,
    Lingxu Ran
    ,
    Xiaozhi Wang
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
  24. LongBench v2: Towards Deeper Understanding and Reasoning on Realistic Long-context Multitasks
    ACL 2025 ·
    Yushi Bai
    ,
    Shangqing Tu
    ,
    Jiajie Zhang
    ,
    Hao Peng
    ,
    Xiaozhi Wang
    ,
    Xin Lv
    ,
    Shulin Cao
    ,
    Jiazheng Xu
    , Lei Hou,
    Yuxiao Dong
    ,
    Jie Tang
    ,
    Juanzi Li
  25. LongCite: Enabling LLMs to Generate Fine-grained Citations in Long-Context QA
    ACL 2025 ·
    Jiajie Zhang
    ,
    Yushi Bai
    ,
    Xin Lv
    ,
    Wanjun Gu
    ,
    Danqing Liu
    ,
    Minhao Zou
    ,
    Shulin Cao
    , Lei Hou,
    Yuxiao Dong
    ,
    Ling Feng
    ,
    Juanzi Li
  26. LongReward: Improving Long-context Large Language Models with AI Feedback
    ACL 2025 ·
    Jiajie Zhang
    ,
    Zhongni Hou
    ,
    Xin Lv
    ,
    Shulin Cao
    ,
    Zhenyu Hou
    ,
    Yilin Niu
    , Lei Hou,
    Yuxiao Dong
    ,
    Ling Feng
    ,
    Juanzi Li
  27. LongWriter-V: Enabling Ultra-Long and High-Fidelity Generation in Vision-Language Models
    ACM MM 2025 ·
    Shangqing Tu
    ,
    Yucheng Wang
    ,
    Daniel Zhang-Li
    ,
    Yushi Bai
    ,
    Jifan Yu
    ,
    Yuhao Wu
    , Lei Hou,
    Huiqin Liu
    ,
    Zhiyuan Liu
    ,
    Bin Xu
    ,
    Juanzi Li
  28. LongWriter: Unleashing 10, 000+ Word Generation from Long Context LLMs
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Yushi Bai
    ,
    Jiajie Zhang
    ,
    Xin Lv
    ,
    Linzhi Zheng
    ,
    Siqi Zhu
    , Lei Hou,
    Yuxiao Dong
    ,
    Jie Tang
    ,
    Juanzi Li
  29. Pre-training Distillation for Large Language Models: A Design Space Exploration
    ACL 2025 ·
    Hao Peng
    ,
    Xin Lv
    ,
    Yushi Bai
    ,
    Zijun Yao
    ,
    Jiajie Zhang
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
  30. RM-Bench: Benchmarking Reward Models of Language Models with Subtlety and Style
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Yantao Liu
    ,
    Zijun Yao
    ,
    Rui Min
    ,
    Yixin Cao
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
  31. SeaKR: Self-aware Knowledge Retrieval for Adaptive Retrieval Augmented Generation
    ACL 2025 ·
    Zijun Yao
    ,
    Weijian Qi
    ,
    Liangming Pan
    ,
    Shulin Cao
    ,
    Linmei Hu
    ,
    Weichuan Liu
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
  32. Simulating Classroom Education with LLM-Empowered Agents
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Zheyuan Zhang
    ,
    Daniel Zhang-Li
    ,
    Jifan Yu
    ,
    Linlu Gong
    ,
    Jinchang Zhou
    ,
    Zhanxin Hao
    ,
    Jianxiao Jiang
    ,
    Jie Cao
    ,
    Huiqin Liu
    ,
    Zhiyuan Liu
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
  33. SoAy: A Solution-based LLM API-using Methodology for Academic Information Seeking
    SIGKDD 2025 ·
    Yuanchun Wang
    ,
    Jifan Yu
    ,
    Zijun Yao
    ,
    Jing Zhang
    ,
    Yuyang Xie
    ,
    Shangqing Tu
    ,
    Yiyang Fu
    ,
    Youhe Feng
    ,
    Jinkai Zhang
    ,
    Jingyao Zhang
    ,
    Bowen Huang
    ,
    Yuanyao Li
    ,
    Huihui Yuan
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
    ,
    Jie Tang
  34. StoryWriter: A Multi-Agent Framework for Long Story Generation
    CIKM 2025 ·
    Haotian Xia
    ,
    Hao Peng
    ,
    Yunjia Qi
    ,
    Bin Xu
    ,
    Juanzi Li
    , Lei Hou,
    Xiaozhi Wang
  35. Towards Understanding Safety Alignment: A Mechanistic Perspective from Safety Neurons
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Jianhui Chen
    ,
    Xiaozhi Wang
    ,
    Zijun Yao
    ,
    Yushi Bai
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
  36. VerIF: Verification Engineering for Reinforcement Learning in Instruction Following
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Hao Peng
    ,
    Yunjia Qi
    ,
    Xiaozhi Wang
    ,
    Bin Xu
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
  37. VocQuiz: Vocabulary Question Generation for English Language Education
    CIKM 2025 ·
    Yongqi Li
    ,
    Jiajun Wu
    ,
    Shangqing Tu
    ,
    Jifan Yu
    ,
    Huiqin Liu
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
  38. ADELIE: Aligning Large Language Models on Information Extraction
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Yunjia Qi
    ,
    Hao Peng
    ,
    Xiaozhi Wang
    ,
    Bin Xu
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
  39. DiaKoP: Dialogue-based Knowledge-oriented Programming for Neural-symbolic Knowledge Base Question Answering
    CIKM 2024 ·
    Zhicheng Lee
    ,
    Zhidian Huang
    ,
    Zijun Yao
    ,
    Jinxin Liu
    ,
    Amy Xin
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
  40. DocEE-zh: A Fine-grained Benchmark for Chinese Document-level Event Extraction
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Minghui Liu
    ,
    Meihan Tong
    ,
    Yangda Peng
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
    ,
    Bin Xu
  41. Event GDR: Event-Centric Generative Document Retrieval
    WWW 2024 ·
    Yong Guan
    ,
    Dingxiao Liu
    ,
    Jinchen Ma
    ,
    Hao Peng
    ,
    Xiaozhi Wang
    , Lei Hou,
    Ru Li
  42. How Proficient Are Large Language Models in Formal Languages? An In-Depth Insight for Knowledge Base Question Answering
    ACL 2024 ·
    Jinxin Liu
    ,
    Shulin Cao
    ,
    Jiaxin Shi
    ,
    Tingjian Zhang
    ,
    Lunyiu Nie
    ,
    Linmei Hu
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
  43. KB-Plugin: A Plug-and-play Framework for Large Language Models to Induce Programs over Low-resourced Knowledge Bases
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Jiajie Zhang
    ,
    Shulin Cao
    ,
    Linmei Hu
    ,
    Ling Feng
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
  44. KoLA: Carefully Benchmarking World Knowledge of Large Language Models
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Jifan Yu
    ,
    Xiaozhi Wang
    ,
    Shangqing Tu
    ,
    Shulin Cao
    ,
    Daniel Zhang-Li
    ,
    Xin Lv
    ,
    Hao Peng
    ,
    Zijun Yao
    ,
    Xiaohan Zhang
    ,
    Hanming Li
    ,
    Chunyang Li
    ,
    Zheyuan Zhang
    ,
    Yushi Bai
    ,
    Yantao Liu
    ,
    Amy Xin
    ,
    Kaifeng Yun
    ,
    Linlu Gong
    ,
    Nianyi Lin
    ,
    Jianhui Chen
    ,
    Zhili Wu
    ,
    Yunjia Qi
    ,
    Weikai Li
    ,
    Yong Guan
    ,
    Kaisheng Zeng
    ,
    Ji Qi
    ,
    Hailong Jin
    ,
    Jinxin Liu
    ,
    Yu Gu
    ,
    Yuan Yao
    ,
    Ning Ding
    , Lei Hou,
    Zhiyuan Liu
    ,
    Bin Xu
    ,
    Jie Tang
    ,
    Juanzi Li
  45. LC4EE: LLMs as Good Corrector for Event Extraction
    ACL 2024 ·
    Mengna Zhu
    ,
    Kaisheng Zeng
    ,
    Jibing Wu
    ,
    Lihua Liu
    ,
    Hongbin Huang
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
  46. LongAlign: A Recipe for Long Context Alignment of Large Language Models
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Yushi Bai
    ,
    Xin Lv
    ,
    Jiajie Zhang
    ,
    Yuze He
    ,
    Ji Qi
    , Lei Hou,
    Jie Tang
    ,
    Yuxiao Dong
    ,
    Juanzi Li
  47. LongBench: A Bilingual, Multitask Benchmark for Long Context Understanding
    ACL 2024 ·
    Yushi Bai
    ,
    Xin Lv
    ,
    Jiajie Zhang
    ,
    Hongchang Lyu
    ,
    Jiankai Tang
    ,
    Zhidian Huang
    ,
    Zhengxiao Du
    ,
    Xiao Liu
    ,
    Aohan Zeng
    , Lei Hou,
    Yuxiao Dong
    ,
    Jie Tang
    ,
    Juanzi Li
  48. MAVEN-ARG: Completing the Puzzle of All-in-One Event Understanding Dataset with Event Argument Annotation
    ACL 2024 ·
    Xiaozhi Wang
    ,
    Hao Peng
    ,
    Yong Guan
    ,
    Kaisheng Zeng
    ,
    Jianhui Chen
    , Lei Hou,
    Xu Han
    ,
    Yankai Lin
    ,
    Zhiyuan Liu
    ,
    Ruobing Xie
    ,
    Jie Zhou
    ,
    Juanzi Li
  49. MAVEN-FACT: A Large-scale Event Factuality Detection Dataset
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Chunyang Li
    ,
    Hao Peng
    ,
    Xiaozhi Wang
    ,
    Yunjia Qi
    , Lei Hou,
    Bin Xu
    ,
    Juanzi Li
  50. MM-MATH: Advancing Multimodal Math Evaluation with Process Evaluation and Fine-grained Classification
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Kai Sun
    ,
    Yushi Bai
    ,
    Ji Qi
    , Lei Hou,
    Juan-Zi Li
  51. R-Eval: A Unified Toolkit for Evaluating Domain Knowledge of Retrieval Augmented Large Language Models
    SIGKDD 2024 ·
    Shangqing Tu
    ,
    Yuanchun Wang
    ,
    Jifan Yu
    ,
    Yuyang Xie
    ,
    Yaran Shi
    ,
    Xiaozhi Wang
    ,
    Jing Zhang
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li
  52. WaterBench: Towards Holistic Evaluation of Watermarks for Large Language Models
    ACL 2024 ·
    Shangqing Tu
    ,
    Yuliang Sun
    ,
    Yushi Bai
    ,
    Jifan Yu
    , Lei Hou,
    Juanzi Li