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Yi Zhang

University of California Santa Cruz, CA, USA

20 papers at tracked venues · 18 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

ACL ×6NeurIPS ×4SIGIR ×3VLDB ×2AAAI ×1EMNLP ×1ICLR ×1NAACL ×1WWW ×1

Frequent coauthors

Diji Yang
×6
Monica Sunkara
×3
Peter Baile Chen
×3
Dan Roth
×3
Jinmeng Rao
×3
Leheng Sheng
×3
An Zhang
×3
Etsuko Ishii
×2
Katerina Margatina
×2
Divya Bhargavi
×2
Tamer Alkhouli
×2
Mike Cafarella
×2

Papers

  1. E-ViC: Reasoning Beyond Text via Embodied Visual Chain for Spatial Intelligence
    ACL 2026 ·
    Junbo Qi
    , Yi Zhang,
    Hanchu Ni
    ,
    Che Liu
    ,
    Zhimin Yao
    ,
    Ruilin Yang
    ,
    Xiancong Ren
    ,
    Liangjian Wen
    ,
    Wei Ge
    ,
    Yuya Ieiri
    ,
    Osamu Yoshie
    ,
    Yong Dai
    ,
    Xiaozhu Ju
  2. Explicit Trait Inference for Multi-Agent Coordination
    ACL 2026 ·
    Suhaib Abdurahman
    ,
    Etsuko Ishii
    ,
    Katerina Margatina
    ,
    Divya Bhargavi
    ,
    Monica Sunkara
    , Yi Zhang
  3. Supplement Generation Training for Enhancing Agentic Task Performance
    ACL 2026 ·
    Young Min Cho
    ,
    Daniele Bonadiman
    ,
    Divya Bhargavi
    ,
    Tamer Alkhouli
    ,
    Salvatore Romeo
    ,
    Dongwei Jiang
    ,
    Khushbu Pahwa
    ,
    Yubin Ge
    ,
    Etsuko Ishii
    ,
    Monica Sunkara
    , Yi Zhang
  4. CONFETTI: Conversational Function-Calling Evaluation Through Turn-Level Interactions
    ACL 2025 ·
    Tamer Alkhouli
    ,
    Katerina Margatina
    ,
    James Gung
    ,
    Raphael Shu
    ,
    Claudia Zaghi
    ,
    Monica Sunkara
    , Yi Zhang
  5. Can we Retrieve Everything All at Once? ARM: An Alignment-Oriented LLM-based Retrieval Method
    ACL 2025 ·
    Peter Baile Chen
    , Yi Zhang,
    Mike Cafarella
    ,
    Dan Roth
  6. GenIR: Generative Visual Feedback for Mental Image Retrieval
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Diji Yang
    ,
    Minghao Liu
    ,
    Chung-Hsiang Lo
    , Yi Zhang,
    James Davis
  7. Knowing You Don't Know: Learning When to Continue Search in Multi-round RAG through Self-Practicing
    SIGIR 2025 ·
    Diji Yang
    ,
    Linda Zeng
    ,
    Jinmeng Rao
    , Yi Zhang
  8. Language Representations Can be What Recommenders Need: Findings and Potentials
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Leheng Sheng
    ,
    An Zhang
    , Yi Zhang,
    Yuxin Chen
    ,
    Xiang Wang
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
  9. On Reasoning Strength Planning in Large Reasoning Models
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Leheng Sheng
    ,
    An Zhang
    ,
    Zijian Wu
    ,
    Weixiang Zhao
    ,
    Changshuo Shen
    , Yi Zhang,
    Xiang Wang
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
  10. Open Domain Question Answering with Conflicting Contexts
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Siyi Liu
    ,
    Qiang Ning
    ,
    Kishaloy Halder
    ,
    Zheng Qi
    ,
    Wei Xiao
    ,
    Phu Mon Htut
    , Yi Zhang,
    Neha Anna John
    ,
    Bonan Min
    ,
    Yassine Benajiba
    ,
    Dan Roth
  11. Personalized Recommendation Agents with Self-Consistency
    WWW 2025 ·
    Zijing Wu
    ,
    Leheng Sheng
    ,
    Yuanlin Xia
    , Yi Zhang,
    Yuxin Chen
    ,
    An Zhang
  12. Worse than Zero-shot? A Fact-Checking Dataset for Evaluating the Robustness of RAG Against Misleading Retrievals
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Linda Zeng
    ,
    Rithwik Gupta
    ,
    Divij Motwani
    , Yi Zhang,
    Diji Yang
  13. IM-RAG: Multi-Round Retrieval-Augmented Generation Through Learning Inner Monologues
    SIGIR 2024 ·
    Diji Yang
    ,
    Jinmeng Rao
    ,
    Kezhen Chen
    ,
    Xiaoyuan Guo
    ,
    Yawen Zhang
    ,
    Jie Yang
    , Yi Zhang
  14. Is Table Retrieval a Solved Problem? Exploring Join-Aware Multi-Table Retrieval
    ACL 2024 ·
    Peter Baile Chen
    , Yi Zhang,
    Dan Roth
  15. MDCR: A Dataset for Multi-Document Conditional Reasoning
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Peter Baile Chen
    , Yi Zhang,
    Chunwei Liu
    ,
    Sejal Gupta
    ,
    Yoon Kim
    ,
    Mike Cafarella
  16. 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
  17. QuoteInspector: Gaining Insight about Social Media Discussions
    VLDB 2024 ·
    Peizhi Wu
    , Yi Zhang,
    Wang-Chiew Tan
    ,
    Zachary G. Ives
  18. Right this way: Can VLMs Guide Us to See More to Answer Questions?
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Li Liu
    ,
    Diji Yang
    ,
    Sijia Zhong
    ,
    Kalyana Suma Sree Tholeti
    ,
    Lei Ding
    , Yi Zhang,
    Leilani Gilpin
  19. Searching Data Lakes for Nested and Joined Data
    VLDB 2024 · Yi Zhang,
    Peter Chen
    ,
    Zack Ives
  20. Tackling Vision Language Tasks through Learning Inner Monologues
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Diji Yang
    ,
    Kezhen Chen
    ,
    Jinmeng Rao
    ,
    Xiaoyuan Guo
    ,
    Yawen Zhang
    ,
    Jie Yang
    , Yi Zhang