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Pengfei Cao

37 papers at tracked venues · 28 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

Venues

Frequent coauthors

Kang Liu
×36
Jun Zhao
×35
Yubo Chen
×29
Zhuoran Jin
×19
Hongbang Yuan
×7
Tianyi Men
×5
Jiachun Li
×5
Jiexin Xu
×5
Chenhao Wang
×5
Yuheng Chen
×4
Huaijun Li
×4
Xiaojian Jiang
×4

Papers

  1. Bias-Restrained Prefix Representation Finetuning for Mathematical Reasoning
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Sirui Liang
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Jian Zhao
    ,
    Cong Huang
    ,
    Jun Zhao
    ,
    Kang Liu
  2. Do LLMs Know Tool Irrelevance? Demystifying Structural Alignment Bias in Tool Invocations
    ACL 2026 ·
    Yilong Liu
    ,
    Xixun Lin
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Ge Zhang
    ,
    Fang Fang
    ,
    Yanan Cao
  3. Empowering GUI Agents via Autonomous Experience Exploration and Hindsight Experience Utilization for Task Planning
    ACL 2026 ·
    Tianyi Men
    ,
    Zhuoran Jin
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Yubo Chen
    ,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  4. From Signal Degradation to Computation Collapse: Uncovering the Two Failure Modes of LLM Quantization
    ACL 2026 ·
    Chenxi Zhou
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Jiang Li
    ,
    Bohan Yu
    ,
    Jinyu Ye
    ,
    Jun Zhao
    ,
    Kang Liu
  5. Learning How to Remember: A Meta-Cognitive Management Method for Structured and Transferable Agent Memory
    ACL 2026 ·
    Sirui Liang
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Jian Zhao
    ,
    Wenhao Teng
    ,
    Xiangwen Liao
    ,
    Jun Zhao
    ,
    Kang Liu
  6. Lightweight Haar Wavelet Subband Pruning for LLMs
    ACL 2026 ·
    Jiang Li
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Chenxi Zhou
    ,
    Tian Lan
    ,
    Xiangdong Su
    ,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
    ,
    Guanglai Gao
  7. Look Light, Think Heavy: What Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Can and Cannot Do
    ACL 2026 ·
    Zhuoran Jin
    ,
    Kejian Zhu
    ,
    Hongbang Yuan
    ,
    Yupu Hao
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Yubo Chen
    ,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  8. Task-Stratified Knowledge Scaling Laws for Post-Training Quantized Large Language Models
    ACL 2026 ·
    Chenxi Zhou
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Jiang Li
    ,
    Bohan Yu
    ,
    Jinyu Ye
    ,
    Jun Zhao
    ,
    Kang Liu
  9. A Troublemaker with Contagious Jailbreak Makes Chaos in Honest Towns
    ACL 2025 ·
    Tianyi Men
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Zhuoran Jin
    ,
    Yubo Chen
    ,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  10. Agent-RewardBench: Towards a Unified Benchmark for Reward Modeling across Perception, Planning, and Safety in Real-World Multimodal Agents
    ACL 2025 ·
    Tianyi Men
    ,
    Zhuoran Jin
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Yubo Chen
    ,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  11. Beyond Under-Alignment: Atomic Preference Enhanced Factuality Tuning for Large Language Models
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Hongbang Yuan
    ,
    Yubo Chen
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Zhuoran Jin
    ,
    Kang Liu
  12. CITI: Enhancing Tool Utilizing Ability in Large Language Models Without Sacrificing General Performance
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Yupu Hao
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Zhuoran Jin
    ,
    Huanxuan Liao
    ,
    Yubo Chen
    ,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  13. Cracking Factual Knowledge: A Comprehensive Analysis of Degenerate Knowledge Neurons in Large Language Models
    ACL 2025 ·
    Yuheng Chen
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Yubo Chen
    ,
    Yining Wang
    ,
    Shengping Liu
    ,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  14. DTELS: Towards Dynamic Granularity of Timeline Summarization
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Chenlong Zhang
    ,
    Tong Zhou
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Zhuoran Jin
    ,
    Yubo Chen
    ,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  15. Evaluating Personalized Tool-Augmented LLMs from the Perspectives of Personalization and Proactivity
    ACL 2025 ·
    Yupu Hao
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Zhuoran Jin
    ,
    Huanxuan Liao
    ,
    Yubo Chen
    ,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  16. Know-MRI: A Knowledge Mechanisms Revealer&Interpreter for Large Language Models
    ACL 2025 ·
    Jiaxiang Liu
    ,
    Boxuan Xing
    ,
    Chenhao Yuan
    ,
    Chenxiang Zhang
    ,
    Di Wu
    ,
    Xiusheng Huang
    ,
    Haida Yu
    ,
    Chuhan Lang
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Jun Zhao
    ,
    Kang Liu
  17. Knowledge Localization: Mission Not Accomplished? Enter Query Localization!
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Yuheng Chen
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Yubo Chen
    ,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  18. Knowledge in Superposition: Unveiling the Failures of Lifelong Knowledge Editing for Large Language Models
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Chenhui Hu
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Yubo Chen
    ,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  19. M2Edit: Locate and Edit Multi-Granularity Knowledge in Multimodal Large Language Model
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Yang Zhou
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Yubo Chen
    ,
    Qingbin Liu
    ,
    Dianbo Sui
    ,
    Xi Chen
    ,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  20. MIRAGE: Evaluating and Explaining Inductive Reasoning Process in Language Models
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Jiachun Li
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Zhuoran Jin
    ,
    Yubo Chen
    ,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  21. RAG-RewardBench: Benchmarking Reward Models in Retrieval Augmented Generation for Preference Alignment
    ACL 2025 ·
    Zhuoran Jin
    ,
    Hongbang Yuan
    ,
    Tianyi Men
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Yubo Chen
    ,
    Jiexin Xu
    ,
    Huaijun Li
    ,
    Xiaojian Jiang
    ,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  22. Revealing the Deceptiveness of Knowledge Editing: A Mechanistic Analysis of Superficial Editing
    ACL 2025 ·
    Jiakuan Xie
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Yubo Chen
    ,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  23. The Knowledge Microscope: Features as Better Analytical Lenses than Neurons
    ACL 2025 ·
    Yuheng Chen
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  24. Towards Better Chain-of-Thought: A Reflection on Effectiveness and Faithfulness
    ACL 2025 ·
    Jiachun Li
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Yubo Chen
    ,
    Jiexin Xu
    ,
    Huaijun Li
    ,
    Xiaojian Jiang
    ,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  25. Towards Robust Knowledge Unlearning: An Adversarial Framework for Assessing and Improving Unlearning Robustness in Large Language Models
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Hongbang Yuan
    ,
    Zhuoran Jin
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Yubo Chen
    ,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  26. AgentsCourt: Building Judicial Decision-Making Agents with Court Debate Simulation and Legal Knowledge Augmentation
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Zhitao He
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Chenhao Wang
    ,
    Zhuoran Jin
    ,
    Yubo Chen
    ,
    Jiexin Xu
    ,
    Huaijun Li
    ,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  27. Cutting Off the Head Ends the Conflict: A Mechanism for Interpreting and Mitigating Knowledge Conflicts in Language Models
    ACL 2024 ·
    Zhuoran Jin
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Hongbang Yuan
    ,
    Yubo Chen
    ,
    Jiexin Xu
    ,
    Huaijun Li
    ,
    Xiaojian Jiang
    ,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  28. Focus on Your Question! Interpreting and Mitigating Toxic CoT Problems in Commonsense Reasoning
    ACL 2024 ·
    Jiachun Li
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Chenhao Wang
    ,
    Zhuoran Jin
    ,
    Yubo Chen
    ,
    Daojian Zeng
    ,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  29. Journey to the Center of the Knowledge Neurons: Discoveries of Language-Independent Knowledge Neurons and Degenerate Knowledge Neurons
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Yuheng Chen
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Yubo Chen
    ,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  30. LINKED: Eliciting, Filtering and Integrating Knowledge in Large Language Model for Commonsense Reasoning
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Jiachun Li
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Chenhao Wang
    ,
    Zhuoran Jin
    ,
    Yubo Chen
    ,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Xiaojian Jiang
    ,
    Jiexin Xu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  31. MULFE: A Multi-Level Benchmark for Free Text Model Editing
    ACL 2024 ·
    Chenhao Wang
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Zhuoran Jin
    ,
    Yubo Chen
    ,
    Daojian Zeng
    ,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  32. Oasis: Data Curation and Assessment System for Pretraining of Large Language Models
    IJCAI 2024 ·
    Tong Zhou
    ,
    Yubo Chen
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Shengping Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  33. RWKU: Benchmarking Real-World Knowledge Unlearning for Large Language Models
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Zhuoran Jin
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Chenhao Wang
    ,
    Zhitao He
    ,
    Hongbang Yuan
    ,
    Jiachun Li
    ,
    Yubo Chen
    ,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  34. Unlocking the Future: Exploring Look-Ahead Planning Mechanistic Interpretability in Large Language Models
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Tianyi Men
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Zhuoran Jin
    ,
    Yubo Chen
    ,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  35. Whispers that Shake Foundations: Analyzing and Mitigating False Premise Hallucinations in Large Language Models
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Hongbang Yuan
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Zhuoran Jin
    ,
    Yubo Chen
    ,
    Daojian Zeng
    ,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  36. WilKE: Wise-Layer Knowledge Editor for Lifelong Knowledge Editing
    ACL 2024 ·
    Chenhui Hu
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Yubo Chen
    ,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao
  37. ZhuJiu-Knowledge: A Fairer Platform for Evaluating Multiple Knowledge Types in Large Language Models
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Pengfan Du
    ,
    Sirui Liang
    ,
    Baoli Zhang
    , Pengfei Cao,
    Yubo Chen
    ,
    Kang Liu
    ,
    Jun Zhao