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Zirui Liu

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

27 papers at tracked venues · 17 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

EMNLP ×8ICML ×7NeurIPS ×4AAAI ×2ICLR ×2ACL ×1CVPR ×1ICDM ×1NAACL ×1

Frequent coauthors

Xia Ben Hu
×13
Shaochen Zhong
×10
Zhaozhuo Xu
×10
Kaixiong Zhou
×7
Vipin Chaudhary
×7
Jiayi Yuan
×6
Hongye Jin
×6
Zhimeng Jiang
×5
Yu-Neng Chuang
×5
Guanchu Wang
×4
Shuai Xu
×4
Mengnan Du
×4

Papers

  1. How Memory Management Impacts LLM Agents: An Empirical Study of Experience-Following Behavior
    ACL 2026 ·
    Zidi Xiong
    ,
    Yuping Lin
    ,
    Wenya Xie
    ,
    Pengfei He
    , Zirui Liu,
    Jiliang Tang
    ,
    Himabindu Lakkaraju
    ,
    Zhen Xiang
  2. Accelerating LLM Reasoning via Early Rejection with Partial Reward Modeling
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Seyyed Saeid Cheshmi
    ,
    Azal Ahmad Khan
    ,
    Xinran Wang
    , Zirui Liu,
    Ali Anwar
  3. AssistedDS: Benchmarking How External Domain Knowledge Assists LLMs in Automated Data Science
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    An Luo
    ,
    Xun Xian
    ,
    Jin Du
    ,
    Fangqiao Tian
    ,
    Ganghua Wang
    ,
    Ming Zhong
    ,
    Shengchun Zhao
    ,
    Xuan Bi
    , Zirui Liu,
    Jiawei Zhou
    ,
    Jayanth Srinivasa
    ,
    Ashish Kundu
    ,
    Charles Fleming
    ,
    Mingyi Hong
    ,
    Jie Ding
  4. Breaking the Frozen Subspace: Importance Sampling for Low-Rank Optimization in LLM Pretraining
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Haochen Zhang
    ,
    Junze Yin
    ,
    Guanchu Wang
    , Zirui Liu,
    Lin F. Yang
    ,
    Tianyi Zhang
    ,
    Anshumali Shrivastava
    ,
    Vladimir Braverman
  5. Flexible Group Count Enables Hassle-Free Structured Pruning
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Jiamu Zhang
    ,
    Shaochen Zhong
    ,
    Andrew Ye
    , Zirui Liu,
    Sebastian Zhao
    ,
    Kaixiong Zhou
    ,
    Li Li
    ,
    Soo-Hyun Choi
    ,
    Rui Chen
    ,
    Xia Hu
    ,
    Shuai Xu
    ,
    Vipin Chaudhary
  6. From Commands to Prompts: LLM-based Semantic File System for AIOS
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Zeru Shi
    ,
    Kai Mei
    ,
    Mingyu Jin
    ,
    Yongye Su
    ,
    Chaoji Zuo
    ,
    Wenyue Hua
    ,
    Wujiang Xu
    ,
    Yujie Ren
    , Zirui Liu,
    Mengnan Du
    ,
    Dong Deng
    ,
    Yongfeng Zhang
  7. Language Ranker: A Metric for Quantifying LLM Performance Across High and Low-Resource Languages
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Zihao Li
    ,
    Yucheng Shi
    , Zirui Liu,
    Fan Yang
    ,
    Ali Payani
    ,
    Ninghao Liu
    ,
    Mengnan Du
  8. LoRATK: LoRA Once, Backdoor Everywhere in the Share-and-Play Ecosystem
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Hongyi Liu
    ,
    Shaochen Zhong
    ,
    Xintong Sun
    ,
    Minghao Tian
    ,
    Mohsen Hariri
    , Zirui Liu,
    Ruixiang Tang
    ,
    Zhimeng Jiang
    ,
    Jiayi Yuan
    ,
    Yu-Neng Chuang
    ,
    Li Li
    ,
    Soo-Hyun Choi
    ,
    Rui Chen
    ,
    Vipin Chaudhary
    ,
    Xia Hu
  9. Longer Context, Deeper Thinking: Uncovering the Role of Long-Context Ability in Reasoning
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Wang Yang
    , Zirui Liu,
    Hongye Jin
    ,
    Qingyu Yin
    ,
    Vipin Chaudhary
    ,
    Xiaotian Han
  10. Massive Values in Self-Attention Modules are the Key to Contextual Knowledge Understanding
    ICML 2025 ·
    Mingyu Jin
    ,
    Kai Mei
    ,
    Wujiang Xu
    ,
    Mingjie Sun
    ,
    Ruixiang Tang
    ,
    Mengnan Du
    , Zirui Liu,
    Yongfeng Zhang
  11. Spireeval: Transforming Gameplay into Sequential Datasets for LLM Decision-Making Analysis
    ICDM 2025 ·
    Maxim Suslov
    ,
    Shivashish Khanna
    , Zirui Liu
  12. Understanding and Mitigating Numerical Sources of Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Jiayi Yuan
    ,
    Hao Li
    ,
    Xinheng Ding
    ,
    Wenya Xie
    ,
    Yu-Jhe Li
    ,
    Wentian Zhao
    ,
    Kun Wan
    ,
    Jing Shi
    ,
    Xia Hu
    , Zirui Liu
  13. Word Salad Chopper: Reasoning Models Waste A Ton Of Decoding Budget On Useless Repetitions, Self-Knowingly
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Wenya Xie
    ,
    Shaochen Zhong
    ,
    Hoang Anh Duy Le
    ,
    Zhaozhuo Xu
    ,
    Jianwen Xie
    , Zirui Liu
  14. Zeroth-Order Fine-Tuning of LLMs with Transferable Static Sparsity
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Wentao Guo
    ,
    Jikai Long
    ,
    Yimeng Zeng
    , Zirui Liu,
    Xinyu Yang
    ,
    Yide Ran
    ,
    Jacob R. Gardner
    ,
    Osbert Bastani
    ,
    Christopher De Sa
    ,
    Xiaodong Yu
    ,
    Beidi Chen
    ,
    Zhaozhuo Xu
  15. Chasing Fairness in Graphs: A GNN Architecture Perspective
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Zhimeng Jiang
    ,
    Xiaotian Han
    ,
    Chao Fan
    , Zirui Liu,
    Na Zou
    ,
    Ali Mostafavi
    ,
    Xia Hu
  16. GNNs Also Deserve Editing, and They Need It More Than Once
    ICML 2024 ·
    Shaochen (Henry) Zhong
    ,
    Duy Le
    , Zirui Liu,
    Zhimeng Jiang
    ,
    Andrew Ye
    ,
    Jiamu Zhang
    ,
    Jiayi Yuan
    ,
    Kaixiong Zhou
    ,
    Zhaozhuo Xu
    ,
    Jing Ma
    ,
    Shuai Xu
    ,
    Vipin Chaudhary
    ,
    Xia Hu
  17. Gradient Rewiring for Editable Graph Neural Network Training
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Zhimeng Jiang
    , Zirui Liu,
    Xiaotian Han
    ,
    Qizhang Feng
    ,
    Hongye Jin
    ,
    Qiaoyu Tan
    ,
    Kaixiong Zhou
    ,
    Na Zou
    ,
    Xia Ben Hu
  18. In Defense of Structural Sparse Adapters for Concurrent LLM Serving
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Junda Su
    , Zirui Liu,
    Zeju Qiu
    ,
    Weiyang Liu
    ,
    Zhaozhuo Xu
  19. KIVI: A Tuning-Free Asymmetric 2bit Quantization for KV Cache
    ICML 2024 · Zirui Liu,
    Jiayi Yuan
    ,
    Hongye Jin
    ,
    Shaochen (Henry) Zhong
    ,
    Zhaozhuo Xu
    ,
    Vladimir Braverman
    ,
    Beidi Chen
    ,
    Xia Hu
  20. KV Cache Compression, But What Must We Give in Return? A Comprehensive Benchmark of Long Context Capable Approaches
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Jiayi Yuan
    ,
    Hongyi Liu
    ,
    Shaochen (Henry) Zhong
    ,
    Yu-Neng Chuang
    ,
    Songchen Li
    ,
    Guanchu Wang
    ,
    Duy Le
    ,
    Hongye Jin
    ,
    Vipin Chaudhary
    ,
    Zhaozhuo Xu
    , Zirui Liu,
    Xia Ben Hu
  21. Knowledge Graphs Can be Learned with Just Intersection Features
    ICML 2024 ·
    Duy Le
    ,
    Shaochen (Henry) Zhong
    , Zirui Liu,
    Shuai Xu
    ,
    Vipin Chaudhary
    ,
    Kaixiong Zhou
    ,
    Zhaozhuo Xu
  22. LLM Maybe LongLM: SelfExtend LLM Context Window Without Tuning
    ICML 2024 ·
    Hongye Jin
    ,
    Xiaotian Han
    ,
    Jingfeng Yang
    ,
    Zhimeng Jiang
    , Zirui Liu,
    Chia-Yuan Chang
    ,
    Huiyuan Chen
    ,
    Xia Hu
  23. Learning to Compress Prompt in Natural Language Formats
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Yu-Neng Chuang
    ,
    Tianwei Xing
    ,
    Chia-Yuan Chang
    , Zirui Liu,
    Xun Chen
    ,
    Xia Ben Hu
  24. QUEST: Efficient Extreme Multi-Label Text Classification with Large Language Models on Commodity Hardware
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Chuang Zhou
    ,
    Junnan Dong
    ,
    Xiao Huang
    , Zirui Liu,
    Kaixiong Zhou
    ,
    Zhaozhuo Xu
  25. Soft Prompt Recovers Compressed LLMs, Transferably
    ICML 2024 ·
    Zhaozhuo Xu
    , Zirui Liu,
    Beidi Chen
    ,
    Shaochen (Henry) Zhong
    ,
    Yuxin Tang
    ,
    Jue Wang
    ,
    Kaixiong Zhou
    ,
    Xia Hu
    ,
    Anshumali Shrivastava
  26. TVE: Learning Meta-attribution for Transferable Vision Explainer
    ICML 2024 ·
    Guanchu Wang
    ,
    Yu-Neng Chuang
    ,
    Fan Yang
    ,
    Mengnan Du
    ,
    Chia-Yuan Chang
    ,
    Shaochen Zhong
    , Zirui Liu,
    Zhaozhuo Xu
    ,
    Kaixiong Zhou
    ,
    Xuanting Cai
    ,
    Xia Hu
  27. Taylor Unswift: Secured Weight Release for Large Language Models via Taylor Expansion
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Guanchu Wang
    ,
    Yu-Neng Chuang
    ,
    Ruixiang Tang
    ,
    Shaochen Zhong
    ,
    Jiayi Yuan
    ,
    Hongye Jin
    , Zirui Liu,
    Vipin Chaudhary
    ,
    Shuai Xu
    ,
    James Caverlee
    ,
    Xia Ben Hu