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Wenjie Li

Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Department of Computing

62 papers at tracked venues · 50 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

ACL ×30EMNLP ×8AAAI ×4SIGIR ×4NeurIPS ×3ACM MM ×2CVPR ×2ICLR ×2WWW ×2EACL ×1ECAI ×1ICML ×1ICRA ×1NAACL ×1

Frequent coauthors

Yongqi Li
×23
Chak Tou Leong
×14
Jian Wang
×11
Heming Xia
×10
Wenjie Wang
×10
Liqiang Nie
×8
Pengfei Liu
×7
Yi Cheng
×6
Chunpu Xu
×5
Qiancheng Xu
×5
Min Zhang
×5
Hongru Cai
×5

Papers

  1. AgencyBench: Benchmarking the Frontiers of Autonomous Agents in 1M-Token Real-World Contexts
    ACL 2026 ·
    Keyu Li
    ,
    Junhao Shi
    ,
    Yang Xiao
    ,
    Mohan Jiang
    ,
    Jie Sun
    ,
    Yunze Wu
    ,
    Dayuan Fu
    ,
    Shijie Xia
    ,
    Xiaojie Cai
    ,
    Tianze Xu
    ,
    Weiye Si
    , Wenjie Li,
    Dequan Wang
    ,
    Pengfei Liu
  2. Finding RELIEF: Shaping Reasoning Behavior without Reasoning Supervision via Belief Engineering
    ACL 2026 ·
    Chak Tou Leong
    ,
    Dingwei Chen
    ,
    Heming Xia
    ,
    Qingyu Yin
    ,
    Sunbowen Lee
    ,
    Jian Wang
    , Wenjie Li
  3. Foresight Optimization for Strategic Reasoning in Large Language Models
    ACL 2026 ·
    Jessie Wang
    ,
    Jiawen Duan
    ,
    Jian Wang
    ,
    Kaitao Song
    ,
    Chunpu Xu
    ,
    Johnny K. W. Ho
    ,
    Fenggang Yu
    ,
    Johan F. Hoorn
    , Wenjie Li
  4. KNN-SSD: Enabling Dynamic Self-Speculative Decoding via Nearest Neighbor Layer Set Optimization
    EACL 2026 ·
    Mingbo Song
    ,
    Heming Xia
    ,
    Jun Zhang
    ,
    Chak Tou Leong
    ,
    Qiancheng Xu
    , Wenjie Li,
    Sujian Li
  5. MIND Your Reasoning: A Meta-Cognitive Intuitive-Reflective Network for Dual-Reasoning in Multimodal Stance Detection
    ACL 2026 ·
    Bingbing Wang
    ,
    Zhengda Jin
    ,
    Bin Liang
    , Wenjie Li,
    Jing Li
    ,
    Ruifeng Xu
    ,
    Min Zhang
  6. Merlin's Whisper: Enabling Efficient Reasoning in Large Language Models via Black-box Persuasive Prompting
    ACL 2026 ·
    Heming Xia
    ,
    Cunxiao Du
    ,
    Rui Li
    ,
    Chak Tou Leong
    ,
    Yongqi Li
    , Wenjie Li
  7. Omni-R1: Towards the Unified Generative Paradigm for Multimodal Reasoning
    ACL 2026 ·
    Dongjie Cheng
    ,
    Yongqi Li
    ,
    Zhixin Ma
    ,
    Hongru Cai
    ,
    Yupeng Hu
    ,
    Wenjie Wang
    ,
    Liqiang Nie
    , Wenjie Li
  8. One Adapts to Any: Meta Reward Modeling for Personalized LLM Alignment
    SIGIR 2026 ·
    Hongru Cai
    ,
    Yongqi Li
    ,
    Tiezheng Yu
    ,
    Fengbin Zhu
    ,
    Wenjie Wang
    ,
    Fuli Feng
    , Wenjie Li
  9. Parallel Test-Time Scaling for Latent Reasoning Models
    ACL 2026 ·
    Runyang You
    ,
    Yongqi Li
    ,
    Meng Liu
    ,
    Wenjie Wang
    ,
    Liqiang Nie
    , Wenjie Li
  10. Reasoning in the Dark: Interleaved Vision-Text Reasoning in Latent Space
    ACL 2026 ·
    Chao Chen
    ,
    Zhixin Ma
    ,
    Yongqi Li
    ,
    Yupeng Hu
    ,
    Yinwei Wei
    , Wenjie Li,
    Liqiang Nie
  11. SCALE: Selective Resource Allocation for Overcoming Performance Bottlenecks in Mathematical Test-time Scaling
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Yang Xiao
    ,
    Chunpu Xu
    ,
    Ruifeng Yuan
    ,
    Jessie Wang
    , Wenjie Li,
    Pengfei Liu
  12. Seeing Isn't Believing: Mitigating Belief Inertia via Active Intervention in Embodied Agents
    ACL 2026 ·
    Hanlin Wang
    ,
    Chak Tou Leong
    ,
    Jian Wang
    , Wenjie Li
  13. TInR: Exploring Tool-Internalized Reasoning in Large Language Models
    ACL 2026 ·
    Qiancheng Xu
    ,
    Yongqi Li
    ,
    Fan Liu
    ,
    Hongru Wang
    ,
    Min Yang
    , Wenjie Li
  14. Where and What: Reasoning Dynamic and Implicit Preferences in Situated Conversational Recommendation
    ACL 2026 ·
    Dongding Lin
    ,
    Jian Wang
    ,
    Yongqi Li
    , Wenjie Li
  15. AIM: Let Any Multimodal Large Language Models Embrace Efficient In-Context Learning
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Jun Gao
    ,
    Qian Qiao
    ,
    Tianxiang Wu
    ,
    Zili Wang
    ,
    Ziqiang Cao
    , Wenjie Li
  16. Beyond Single Frames: Can LMMs Comprehend Implicit Narratives in Comic Strip?
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Xiaochen Wang
    ,
    Heming Xia
    ,
    Jialin Song
    ,
    Longyu Guan
    ,
    Qingxiu Dong
    ,
    Rui Li
    ,
    Yixin Yang
    ,
    Yifan Pu
    ,
    Weiyao Luo
    ,
    Yiru Wang
    ,
    Xiangdi Meng
    , Wenjie Li,
    Zhifang Sui
  17. Bridging Modalities: Improving Universal Multimodal Retrieval by Multimodal Large Language Models
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Xin Zhang
    ,
    Yanzhao Zhang
    ,
    Wen Xie
    ,
    Mingxin Li
    ,
    Ziqi Dai
    ,
    Dingkun Long
    ,
    Pengjun Xie
    ,
    Meishan Zhang
    , Wenjie Li,
    Min Zhang
  18. 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
  19. Exploring Training and Inference Scaling Laws in Generative Retrieval
    SIGIR 2025 ·
    Hongru Cai
    ,
    Yongqi Li
    ,
    Ruifeng Yuan
    ,
    Wenjie Wang
    ,
    Zhen Zhang
    , Wenjie Li,
    Tat-Seng Chua
  20. How Far are LLMs from Being Our Digital Twins? A Benchmark for Persona-Based Behavior Chain Simulation
    ACL 2025 ·
    Rui Li
    ,
    Heming Xia
    ,
    Xinfeng Yuan
    ,
    Qingxiu Dong
    ,
    Lei Sha
    , Wenjie Li,
    Zhifang Sui
  21. Integrative Decoding: Improving Factuality via Implicit Self-consistency
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Yi Cheng
    ,
    Xiao Liang
    ,
    Yeyun Gong
    ,
    Wen Xiao
    ,
    Song Wang
    ,
    Yuji Zhang
    ,
    Wenjun Hou
    ,
    Kaishuai Xu
    ,
    Wenge Liu
    , Wenjie Li,
    Jian Jiao
    ,
    Qi Chen
    ,
    Peng Cheng
    ,
    Wayne Xiong
  22. Interleaved-Modal Chain-of-Thought
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Jun Gao
    ,
    Yongqi Li
    ,
    Ziqiang Cao
    , Wenjie Li
  23. LIMOPro: Reasoning Refinement for Efficient and Effective Test-time Scaling
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Yang Xiao
    ,
    Jiashuo Wang
    ,
    Ruifeng Yuan
    ,
    Chunpu Xu
    ,
    Kaishuai Xu
    , Wenjie Li,
    Pengfei Liu
  24. Large Language Models Empowered Personalized Web Agents
    WWW 2025 ·
    Hongru Cai
    ,
    Yongqi Li
    ,
    Wenjie Wang
    ,
    Fengbin Zhu
    ,
    Xiaoyu Shen
    , Wenjie Li,
    Tat-Seng Chua
  25. Learning to Align Multi-Faceted Evaluation: A Unified and Robust Framework
    ACL 2025 ·
    Kaishuai Xu
    ,
    Tiezheng Yu
    ,
    Yi Cheng
    ,
    Wenjun Hou
    ,
    Liangyou Li
    ,
    Xin Jiang
    ,
    Lifeng Shang
    ,
    Qun Liu
    , Wenjie Li
  26. Meta-Learning for Incomplete Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
    SIGIR 2025 ·
    Geng Tu
    ,
    Tianhao Wu
    ,
    Xuan Luo
    ,
    Xi Zeng
    , Wenjie Li,
    Ruifeng Xu
  27. PEToolLLM: Towards Personalized Tool Learning in Large Language Models
    ACL 2025 ·
    Qiancheng Xu
    ,
    Yongqi Li
    ,
    Heming Xia
    ,
    Fan Liu
    ,
    Min Yang
    , Wenjie Li
  28. R$2$ec: Towards Large Recommender Models with Reasoning
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Runyang You
    ,
    Yongqi Li
    ,
    Xinyu Lin
    ,
    Xin Zhang
    ,
    Wenjie Wang
    , Wenjie Li,
    Liqiang Nie
  29. RAR²: Retrieval-Augmented Medical Reasoning via Thought-Driven Retrieval
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Kaishuai Xu
    ,
    Wenjun Hou
    ,
    Yi Cheng
    , Wenjie Li
  30. Revolutionizing Text-to-Image Retrieval as Autoregressive Token-to-Voken Generation
    SIGIR 2025 ·
    Yongqi Li
    ,
    Hongru Cai
    ,
    Wenjie Wang
    ,
    Leigang Qu
    ,
    Yinwei Wei
    , Wenjie Li,
    Liqiang Nie
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
  31. SSRB: Direct Natural Language Querying to Massive Heterogeneous Semi-Structured Data
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Xin Zhang
    ,
    Mingxin Li
    ,
    Yanzhao Zhang
    ,
    Dingkun Long
    ,
    Yongqi Li
    ,
    Yinghui Li
    ,
    Pengjun Xie
    ,
    Meishan Zhang
    , Wenjie Li,
    Min Zhang
    ,
    Philip S. Yu
  32. STeCa: Step-level Trajectory Calibration for LLM Agent Learning
    ACL 2025 ·
    Hanlin Wang
    ,
    Jian Wang
    ,
    Chak Tou Leong
    , Wenjie Li
  33. SWIFT: On-the-Fly Self-Speculative Decoding for LLM Inference Acceleration
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Heming Xia
    ,
    Yongqi Li
    ,
    Jun Zhang
    ,
    Cunxiao Du
    , Wenjie Li
  34. Subtle Errors in Reasoning: Preference Learning via Error-injected Self-editing
    ACL 2025 ·
    Kaishuai Xu
    ,
    Tiezheng Yu
    ,
    Wenjun Hou
    ,
    Yi Cheng
    ,
    Chak Tou Leong
    ,
    Liangyou Li
    ,
    Xin Jiang
    ,
    Lifeng Shang
    ,
    Qun Liu
    , Wenjie Li
  35. SupportPlay: A Multi-Agent Role-Playing System for Personalized and Sustained Multimodal Emotional Support Conversation
    WWW 2025 ·
    Geng Tu
    ,
    Bingbing Wang
    ,
    Erik Cambria
    , Wenjie Li,
    Ruifeng Xu
  36. TokenSkip: Controllable Chain-of-Thought Compression in LLMs
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Heming Xia
    ,
    Chak Tou Leong
    ,
    Wenjie Wang
    ,
    Yongqi Li
    , Wenjie Li
  37. Towards Dynamic Theory of Mind: Evaluating LLM Adaptation to Temporal Evolution of Human States
    ACL 2025 ·
    Yang Xiao
    ,
    Jiashuo Wang
    ,
    Qiancheng Xu
    ,
    Changhe Song
    ,
    Chunpu Xu
    ,
    Yi Cheng
    , Wenjie Li,
    Pengfei Liu
  38. Towards Harmless Multimodal Assistants with Blind Preference Optimization
    ACM MM 2025 ·
    Yongqi Li
    ,
    Lu Yang
    ,
    Jian Wang
    ,
    Runyang You
    , Wenjie Li,
    Liqiang Nie
  39. Towards Text-Image Interleaved Retrieval
    ACL 2025 ·
    Xin Zhang
    ,
    Ziqi Dai
    ,
    Yongqi Li
    ,
    Yanzhao Zhang
    ,
    Dingkun Long
    ,
    Pengjun Xie
    ,
    Meishan Zhang
    ,
    Jun Yu
    , Wenjie Li,
    Min Zhang
  40. UniICL: An Efficient ICL Framework Unifying Compression, Selection, and Generation
    ACL 2025 ·
    Jun Gao
    ,
    Qi Lv
    ,
    Zili Wang
    ,
    Tianxiang Wu
    ,
    Ziqiang Cao
    , Wenjie Li
  41. Unveiling the Key Factors for Distilling Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
    ACL 2025 ·
    Xinghao Chen
    ,
    Zhijing Sun
    ,
    Wenjin Guo
    ,
    Miaoran Zhang
    ,
    Yanjun Chen
    ,
    Yirong Sun
    ,
    Hui Su
    ,
    Yijie Pan
    ,
    Dietrich Klakow
    , Wenjie Li,
    Xiaoyu Shen
  42. Why Safeguarded Ships Run Aground? Aligned Large Language Models' Safety Mechanisms Tend to Be Anchored in The Template Region
    ACL 2025 ·
    Chak Tou Leong
    ,
    Qingyu Yin
    ,
    Jian Wang
    , Wenjie Li
  43. A Causal Approach for Counterfactual Reasoning in Narratives
    ACL 2024 ·
    Feiteng Mu
    , Wenjie Li
  44. Contrastive Preference Learning for Neural Machine Translation
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Jianfei He
    ,
    Shichao Sun
    ,
    Sen Peng
    ,
    Jie Xu
    ,
    Xiaohua Jia
    , Wenjie Li
  45. Cooper: Coordinating Specialized Agents towards a Complex Dialogue Goal
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Yi Cheng
    ,
    Wenge Liu
    ,
    Jian Wang
    ,
    Chak Tou Leong
    ,
    Yi Ouyang
    , Wenjie Li,
    Xian Wu
    ,
    Yefeng Zheng
  46. DL-PoseNet: A Differential Lightweight Network for Pose Regression over SE(3)
    ICRA 2024 · Wenjie Li,
    Jia Liu
    ,
    Yanyan Wang
    ,
    Wei Hao
    ,
    Dayong Ren
    ,
    Lijun Chen
  47. Distillation Enhanced Generative Retrieval
    ACL 2024 ·
    Yongqi Li
    ,
    Zhen Zhang
    ,
    Wenjie Wang
    ,
    Liqiang Nie
    , Wenjie Li,
    Tat-Seng Chua
  48. Enhancing Tool Retrieval with Iterative Feedback from Large Language Models
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Qiancheng Xu
    ,
    Yongqi Li
    ,
    Heming Xia
    , Wenjie Li
  49. E²CL: Exploration-based Error Correction Learning for Embodied Agents
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Hanlin Wang
    ,
    Chak Tou Leong
    ,
    Jian Wang
    , Wenjie Li
  50. Generating Contrastive Narratives Using the Brownian Bridge Process for Narrative Coherence Learning
    ACL 2024 ·
    Feiteng Mu
    , Wenjie Li
  51. Generative Cross-Modal Retrieval: Memorizing Images in Multimodal Language Models for Retrieval and Beyond
    ACL 2024 ·
    Yongqi Li
    ,
    Wenjie Wang
    ,
    Leigang Qu
    ,
    Liqiang Nie
    , Wenjie Li,
    Tat-Seng Chua
  52. Instruct Once, Chat Consistently in Multiple Rounds: An Efficient Tuning Framework for Dialogue
    ACL 2024 ·
    Jian Wang
    ,
    Chak Tou Leong
    ,
    Jiashuo Wang
    ,
    Dongding Lin
    , Wenjie Li,
    Xiaoyong Wei
  53. Learning to Rank in Generative Retrieval
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Yongqi Li
    ,
    Nan Yang
    ,
    Liang Wang
    ,
    Furu Wei
    , Wenjie Li
  54. Muffin: Mitigating Unhelpfulness in Emotional Support Conversations with Multifaceted AI Feedback
    ACL 2024 ·
    Jiashuo Wang
    ,
    Chunpu Xu
    ,
    Chak Tou Leong
    , Wenjie Li,
    Jing Li
  55. OpenResearcher: Unleashing AI for Accelerated Scientific Research
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Yuxiang Zheng
    ,
    Shichao Sun
    ,
    Lin Qiu
    ,
    Dongyu Ru
    ,
    Cheng Jiayang
    ,
    Xuefeng Li
    ,
    Jifan Lin
    ,
    Binjie Wang
    ,
    Yun Luo
    ,
    Renjie Pan
    ,
    Yang Xu
    ,
    Qingkai Min
    ,
    Zizhao Zhang
    ,
    Yiwen Wang
    , Wenjie Li,
    Pengfei Liu
  56. Prompt Chaining or Stepwise Prompt? Refinement in Text Summarization
    ACL 2024 ·
    Shichao Sun
    ,
    Ruifeng Yuan
    ,
    Ziqiang Cao
    , Wenjie Li,
    Pengfei Liu
  57. Query Routing for Homogeneous Tools: An Instantiation in the RAG Scenario
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Feiteng Mu
    ,
    Yong Jiang
    ,
    Liwen Zhang
    ,
    Chu Liu
    , Wenjie Li,
    Pengjun Xie
    ,
    Fei Huang
  58. SCREEN: A Benchmark for Situated Conversational Recommendation
    ACM MM 2024 ·
    Dongding Lin
    ,
    Jian Wang
    ,
    Chak Tou Leong
    , Wenjie Li
  59. TabMedBERT: A Tabular Knowledge Enhanced Biomedical Pretrained Language Model
    ECAI 2024 ·
    Xu Yan
    ,
    Lei Geng
    ,
    Ziqiang Cao
    ,
    Juntao Li
    , Wenjie Li,
    Sujian Li
    ,
    Xinjie Zhou
    ,
    Yang Yang
    ,
    Jun Zhang
  60. The Critique of Critique
    ACL 2024 ·
    Shichao Sun
    ,
    Junlong Li
    ,
    Weizhe Yuan
    ,
    Ruifeng Yuan
    , Wenjie Li,
    Pengfei Liu
  61. Unlocking Efficiency in Large Language Model Inference: A Comprehensive Survey of Speculative Decoding
    ACL 2024 ·
    Heming Xia
    ,
    Zhe Yang
    ,
    Qingxiu Dong
    ,
    Peiyi Wang
    ,
    Yongqi Li
    ,
    Tao Ge
    ,
    Tianyu Liu
    , Wenjie Li,
    Zhifang Sui
  62. mGTE: Generalized Long-Context Text Representation and Reranking Models for Multilingual Text Retrieval
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Xin Zhang
    ,
    Yanzhao Zhang
    ,
    Dingkun Long
    ,
    Wen Xie
    ,
    Ziqi Dai
    ,
    Jialong Tang
    ,
    Huan Lin
    ,
    Baosong Yang
    ,
    Pengjun Xie
    ,
    Fei Huang
    ,
    Meishan Zhang
    , Wenjie Li,
    Min Zhang