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Publications (60)

cs.CL2024

Emerging Safety Attack and Defense in Federated Instruction Tuning of Large Language Models

Rui Ye, Jingyi Chai, Xiangrui Liu +3

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple parties to collaboratively fine-tune an large language model (LLM) without the need of direct data sharing. Ideally, by training on decentr…

cs.CV2023

GPA-Net:No-Reference Point Cloud Quality Assessment with Multi-task Graph Convolutional Network

Ziyu Shan, Qi Yang, Rui Ye +4

With the rapid development of 3D vision, point cloud has become an increasingly popular 3D visual media content. Due to the irregular structure, point cloud has posed novel challen…

cs.AI2025

X-MAS: Towards Building Multi-Agent Systems with Heterogeneous LLMs

Rui Ye, Xiangrui Liu, Qimin Wu +4

LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) extend the capabilities of single LLMs by enabling cooperation among multiple specialized agents. However, most existing MAS frameworks rely on…

cs.CV2024

AMSNet: Netlist Dataset for AMS Circuits

Zhuofu Tao, Yichen Shi, Yiru Huo +8

Today's analog/mixed-signal (AMS) integrated circuit (IC) designs demand substantial manual intervention. The advent of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has unveiled signif…

cs.LG2022

FedFM: Anchor-based Feature Matching for Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning

Rui Ye, Zhenyang Ni, Chenxin Xu +3

One of the key challenges in federated learning (FL) is local data distribution heterogeneity across clients, which may cause inconsistent feature spaces across clients. To address…

cs.CL2024

Leveraging Unstructured Text Data for Federated Instruction Tuning of Large Language Models

Rui Ye, Rui Ge, Yuchi Fengting +3

Federated instruction tuning enables multiple clients to collaboratively fine-tune a shared large language model (LLM) that can follow humans' instructions without directly sharing…

cs.CR2024

KnowledgeSG: Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Text Generation with Knowledge Distillation from Server

Wenhao Wang, Xiaoyu Liang, Rui Ye +3

The success of large language models (LLMs) facilitate many parties to fine-tune LLMs on their own private data. However, this practice raises privacy concerns due to the memorizat…

physics.acc-ph2023

High Q and high gradient performance of the first medium-temperature baking 1.3 GHz cryomodule

Jiyuan Zhai, Weimin Pan, Feisi He +36

World's first 1.3 GHz cryomodule containing eight 9-cell superconducting radio-frequency (RF) cavities treated by medium-temperature furnace baking (mid-T bake) was developed, asse…

cs.CL2025

WebLeaper: Empowering Efficiency and Efficacy in WebAgent via Enabling Info-Rich Seeking

Zhengwei Tao, Haiyang Shen, Baixuan Li +11

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents have emerged as a transformative approach for open-ended problem solving, with information seeking (IS) being a core capability that enables…

cs.CV2025

CloudMamba: Grouped Selective State Spaces for Point Cloud Analysis

Kanglin Qu, Pan Gao, Qun Dai +3

Due to the long-range modeling ability and linear complexity property, Mamba has attracted considerable attention in point cloud analysis. Despite some interesting progress, relate…

physics.optics2021

Observation of flat-band and band transition in the synthetic space

Guangzhen Li, Luojia Wang, Rui Ye +4

Constructions of synthetic lattices in photonics attract growingly attentions for exploring interesting physics beyond the geometric dimensionality, among which modulated ring reso…

cs.CL2026

MASLab: A Unified and Comprehensive Codebase for LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems

Rui Ye, Keduan Huang, Qimin Wu +17

LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) have demonstrated significant potential in enhancing single LLMs to address complex and diverse tasks in practical applications. Despite conside…

cs.CL2024

Are We There Yet? Revealing the Risks of Utilizing Large Language Models in Scholarly Peer Review

Rui Ye, Xianghe Pang, Jingyi Chai +6

Scholarly peer review is a cornerstone of scientific advancement, but the system is under strain due to increasing manuscript submissions and the labor-intensive nature of the proc…

cs.LG2023

Fake It Till Make It: Federated Learning with Consensus-Oriented Generation

Rui Ye, Yaxin Du, Zhenyang Ni +2

In federated learning (FL), data heterogeneity is one key bottleneck that causes model divergence and limits performance. Addressing this, existing methods often regard data hetero…

cs.AI2025

SciMaster: Towards General-Purpose Scientific AI Agents, Part I. X-Master as Foundation: Can We Lead on Humanity's Last Exam?

Jingyi Chai, Shuo Tang, Rui Ye +8

The rapid advancements of AI agents have ignited the long-held ambition of leveraging them to accelerate scientific discovery. Achieving this goal requires a deep understanding of…

cs.LG2024

Learn What You Need in Personalized Federated Learning

Kexin Lv, Rui Ye, Xiaolin Huang +2

Personalized federated learning aims to address data heterogeneity across local clients in federated learning. However, current methods blindly incorporate either full model parame…

cs.SE2025

Structure-Aware Corpus Construction and User-Perception-Aligned Metrics for Large-Language-Model Code Completion

Dengfeng Liu, Jucai Zhai, Xiaoguang Jiang +8

Code completion technology based on large language model has significantly improved the development efficiency of programmers. However, in practical applications, there remains a g…

cs.CV2021

MetaNODE: Prototype Optimization as a Neural ODE for Few-Shot Learning

Baoquan Zhang, Xutao Li, Shanshan Feng +2

Few-Shot Learning (FSL) is a challenging task, \emph{i.e.}, how to recognize novel classes with few examples? Pre-training based methods effectively tackle the problem by pre-train…

cs.AI2026

OpenSeeker-v2: Pushing the Limits of Search Agents with Informative and High-Difficulty Trajectories

Yuwen Du, Rui Ye, Shuo Tang +4

Deep search capabilities have become an indispensable competency for frontier Large Language Model (LLM) agents, yet their development remains dominated by industrial giants. The t…

cs.LG2025

Data Quality Control in Federated Instruction-tuning of Large Language Models

Yaxin Du, Rui Ye, Fengting Yuchi +4

Federated Learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving collaborative instruction tuning of large language models (LLMs) by leveraging massively distributed data. However, the decentral…

cs.HC2026

Learning behavior accounts for background-related advantage in AI-assisted education

Jingwei Yi, Yueqi Xie, Jiyan He +7

Generative AI has been found, and will likely be found increasingly, useful in education. However, existing AI-for-education studies provide inconsistent evidence on its average ef…

cs.CL2026

Tongyi DeepResearch Technical Report

Tongyi DeepResearch Team, Baixuan Li, Bo Zhang +54

We present Tongyi DeepResearch, an agentic large language model, which is specifically designed for long-horizon, deep information-seeking research tasks. To incentivize autonomous…

cs.CL2025

BrowseConf: Confidence-Guided Test-Time Scaling for Web Agents

Litu Ou, Kuan Li, Huifeng Yin +8

Confidence in LLMs is a useful indicator of model uncertainty and answer reliability. Existing work mainly focused on single-turn scenarios, while research on confidence in complex…

cs.CL2024

FedLLM-Bench: Realistic Benchmarks for Federated Learning of Large Language Models

Rui Ye, Rui Ge, Xinyu Zhu +5

Federated learning has enabled multiple parties to collaboratively train large language models without directly sharing their data (FedLLM). Following this training paradigm, the c…

cs.AI2026

Toward Efficient Agents: Memory, Tool learning, and Planning

Xiaofang Yang, Lijun Li, Heng Zhou +12

Recent years have witnessed increasing interest in extending large language models into agentic systems. While the effectiveness of agents has continued to improve, efficiency, whi…

physics.optics2024

Construction of various time-dependent Hamiltonians on a single photonic chip

Rui Ye, Guangzhen Li, Shuai Wan +12

Integrated photonics provides an important platform for simulating physical models with high-performance chip-scale devices, where the lattice size and the time-dependence of a mod…

cs.CV2024

FedRSU: Federated Learning for Scene Flow Estimation on Roadside Units

Shaoheng Fang, Rui Ye, Wenhao Wang +5

Roadside unit (RSU) can significantly improve the safety and robustness of autonomous vehicles through Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication. Currently, the usage of a single R…

physics.soc-ph2024

Nonreciprocal interactions in crowd dynamics: investigating the impact of moving threats on pedestrian speed preferences

Shaocong Xie, Rui Ye, Xiaolian Li +8

Nonreciprocal interaction crowd systems, such as human-human, human-vehicle, and human-robot systems, often have serious impacts on pedestrian safety and social order. A more compr…

cs.CL2025

MAS-GPT: Training LLMs to Build LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems

Rui Ye, Shuo Tang, Rui Ge +4

LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) have shown significant potential in tackling diverse tasks. However, to design effective MAS, existing approaches heavily rely on manual configu…

cs.AI2026

ABSeeker: Training Long-Horizon Search Agents via Answer-Backtracked Credit Assignment

Yijun Lu, Rui Ye, Jiajun Wang +4

Long-horizon search agents must make multiple sequential actions (steps) to search, retrieve, verify, and integrate evidence to reach a final answer. However, existing methods for…

cs.AI2025

Synthesizing Post-Training Data for LLMs through Multi-Agent Simulation

Shuo Tang, Xianghe Pang, Zexi Liu +6

Post-training is essential for enabling large language models (LLMs) to follow human instructions. However, its effectiveness depends on high-quality instruction data, which is cha…

cs.AI2025

MobileA3gent: Training Mobile GUI Agents Using Decentralized Self-Sourced Data from Diverse Users

Wenhao Wang, Mengying Yuan, Zijie Yu +5

The advancement of mobile GUI agents has opened new opportunities for automating tasks on mobile devices. Training these agents requires large-scale high-quality data, which is pro…

cs.AI2025

Incentivizing Inclusive Contributions in Model Sharing Markets

Enpei Zhang, Jingyi Chai, Rui Ye +2

While data plays a crucial role in training contemporary AI models, it is acknowledged that valuable public data will be exhausted in a few years, directing the world's attention t…

cs.LG2024

Decentralized and Lifelong-Adaptive Multi-Agent Collaborative Learning

Shuo Tang, Rui Ye, Chenxin Xu +3

Decentralized and lifelong-adaptive multi-agent collaborative learning aims to enhance collaboration among multiple agents without a central server, with each agent solving varied…

cs.CL2026

AgentSwing: Adaptive Parallel Context Management Routing for Long-Horizon Web Agents

Zhaopeng Feng, Liangcai Su, Zhen Zhang +16

As large language models (LLMs) evolve into autonomous agents for long-horizon information-seeking, managing finite context capacity has become a critical bottleneck. Existing cont…

cs.AI2025

BrowseMaster: Towards Scalable Web Browsing via Tool-Augmented Programmatic Agent Pair

Xianghe Pang, Shuo Tang, Rui Ye +3

Effective information seeking in the vast and ever-growing digital landscape requires balancing expansive search with strategic reasoning. Current large language model (LLM)-based…

cs.AI2026

LongSeeker: Elastic Context Orchestration for Long-Horizon Search Agents

Yijun Lu, Rui Ye, Yuwen Du +3

Long-horizon search agents must manage a rapidly growing working context as they reason, call tools, and observe information. Naively accumulating all intermediate content can over…

cs.AI2025

Bohrium + SciMaster: Building the Infrastructure and Ecosystem for Agentic Science at Scale

Linfeng Zhang, Siheng Chen, Yuzhu Cai +46

AI agents are emerging as a practical way to run multi-step scientific workflows that interleave reasoning with tool use and verification, pointing to a shift from isolated AI-assi…

cs.CL2025

AgentFold: Long-Horizon Web Agents with Proactive Context Management

Rui Ye, Zhongwang Zhang, Kuan Li +12

LLM-based web agents show immense promise for information seeking, yet their effectiveness on long-horizon tasks is hindered by a fundamental trade-off in context management. Preva…

cs.LG2023

MetaDT: Meta Decision Tree with Class Hierarchy for Interpretable Few-Shot Learning

Baoquan Zhang, Hao Jiang, Xutao Li +3

Few-Shot Learning (FSL) is a challenging task, which aims to recognize novel classes with few examples. Recently, lots of methods have been proposed from the perspective of meta-le…

cs.AI2026

Toward Ultra-Long-Horizon Agentic Science: Cognitive Accumulation for Machine Learning Engineering

Xinyu Zhu, Yuzhu Cai, Zexi Liu +8

The advancement of artificial intelligence toward agentic science is currently bottlenecked by the challenge of ultra-long-horizon autonomy, the ability to sustain strategic cohere…

cs.CL2024

Self-Alignment of Large Language Models via Monopolylogue-based Social Scene Simulation

Xianghe Pang, Shuo Tang, Rui Ye +4

Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human values is imperative to mitigate potential adverse effects resulting from their misuse. Drawing from the sociological insight that…

cs.CR2024

Physical Backdoor Attack can Jeopardize Driving with Vision-Large-Language Models

Zhenyang Ni, Rui Ye, Yuxi Wei +3

Vision-Large-Language-models(VLMs) have great application prospects in autonomous driving. Despite the ability of VLMs to comprehend and make decisions in complex scenarios, their…

physics.acc-ph2017

Commissioning of te China-ADS injector-I testing facility

Fang Yan, Huiping Geng, Cai Meng +58

The 10 MeV accelerator-driven subcritical system (ADS) Injector-I test stand at Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) is a testing facility dedicated to demonstrate one of the tw…

cs.LG2024

OpenFedLLM: Training Large Language Models on Decentralized Private Data via Federated Learning

Rui Ye, Wenhao Wang, Jingyi Chai +6

Trained on massive publicly available data, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated tremendous success across various fields. While more data contributes to better performan…

physics.optics2024

High-performance thin-film lithium niobate Mach-Zehnder modulator on thick silica buffering layer

Xiaotian Xue, Yingdong Xu, Wenjun Ding +9

High-speed photonic integrated circuits leveraging the thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) platform present a promising approach to address the burgeoning global data traffic demands.…

cs.LG2023

Federated Learning Empowered by Generative Content

Rui Ye, Xinyu Zhu, Jingyi Chai +2

Federated learning (FL) enables leveraging distributed private data for model training in a privacy-preserving way. However, data heterogeneity significantly limits the performance…

cs.AI2026

EvoMaster: A Foundational Evolving Agent Framework for Agentic Science at Scale

Xinyu Zhu, Yuzhu Cai, Zexi Liu +20

The convergence of large language models and agents is catalyzing a new era of scientific discovery: Agentic Science. While the scientific method is inherently iterative, existing…

eess.IV2025

CT Radiomics-Based Explainable Machine Learning Model for Accurate Differentiation of Malignant and Benign Endometrial Tumors: A Two-Center Study

Tingrui Zhang, Honglin Wu, Zekun Jiang +9

Aimed to develop and validate a CT radiomics-based explainable machine learning model for precise diagnosing malignancy and benignity specifically in endometrial cancer (EC) patien…

cs.LG2023

FedDisco: Federated Learning with Discrepancy-Aware Collaboration

Rui Ye, Mingkai Xu, Jianyu Wang +3

This work considers the category distribution heterogeneity in federated learning. This issue is due to biased labeling preferences at multiple clients and is a typical setting of…

cs.CL2026

ML-Agent: Reinforcing LLM Agents for Autonomous Machine Learning Engineering

Zexi Liu, Jingyi Chai, Xinyu Zhu +5

The emergence of large language model (LLM)-based agents has significantly advanced the development of autonomous machine learning (ML) engineering. However, the dominant prompt-ba…

cs.AI2025

FedMABench: Benchmarking Mobile Agents on Decentralized Heterogeneous User Data

Wenhao Wang, Zijie Yu, Rui Ye +3

Mobile agents have attracted tremendous research participation recently. Traditional approaches to mobile agent training rely on centralized data collection, leading to high cost a…

cs.AI2026

OpenSeeker: Democratizing Frontier Search Agents by Fully Open-Sourcing Training Data

Yuwen Du, Rui Ye, Shuo Tang +4

Deep search capabilities have become an indispensable competency for frontier Large Language Model (LLM) agents, yet the development of high-performance search agents remains domin…

cs.CR2026

ConfusionPrompt: Practical Private Inference for Online Large Language Models

Peihua Mai, Youjia Yang, Ran Yan +2

State-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) are typically deployed as online services, requiring users to transmit detailed prompts to cloud servers. This raises significant priv…

cs.LG2021

RAP-Net: Region Attention Predictive Network for Precipitation Nowcasting

Chuyao Luo, ZhengZhang, Rui Ye +2

Natural disasters caused by heavy rainfall often cost huge loss of life and property. To avoid it, the task of precipitation nowcasting is imminent. To solve the problem, increasin…

physics.soc-ph2021

Investigating the effect of expected travel distance on individual descent speed in the stairwell with super long distance

Xingpeng Xu, Zhiming Fang, Rui Ye +2

Currently, there is an increasing number of super high-rise buildings in urban cities, the issue of evacuation in emergencies from such buildings comes to the fore. An evacuation e…

cs.LG2025

WebSailor-V2: Bridging the Chasm to Proprietary Agents via Synthetic Data and Scalable Reinforcement Learning

Kuan Li, Zhongwang Zhang, Huifeng Yin +14

Transcending human cognitive limitations represents a critical frontier in LLM training. Proprietary agentic systems like DeepResearch have demonstrated superhuman capabilities on…

physics.optics2023

Observation of non-Hermitian antichiral edge currents

Rui Ye, Yanyan He, Guangzhen Li +8

Non-Hermitian topological photonics is of great interest in bridging topological matter with gain/dissipation engineering in optics. A key problem in this direction is the interpla…

cs.CV2021

SGMNet: Scene Graph Matching Network for Few-Shot Remote Sensing Scene Classification

Baoquan Zhang, Shanshan Feng, Xutao Li +2

Few-Shot Remote Sensing Scene Classification (FSRSSC) is an important task, which aims to recognize novel scene classes with few examples. Recently, several studies attempt to addr…

cs.AI2025

PhysMaster: Building an Autonomous AI Physicist for Theoretical and Computational Physics Research

Tingjia Miao, Jiawen Dai, Jingkun Liu +18

Advances in LLMs have produced agents with knowledge and operational capabilities comparable to human scientists, suggesting potential to assist, accelerate, and automate research.…