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Publications (18)

cs.AI2025

CoDA: Agentic Systems for Collaborative Data Visualization

Zichen Chen, Jiefeng Chen, Sercan Ö. Arik +3

Deep research has revolutionized data analysis, yet data scientists still devote substantial time to manually crafting visualizations, highlighting the need for robust automation f…

q-fin.GN2025

Standard Benchmarks Fail -- Auditing LLM Agents in Finance Must Prioritize Risk

Zichen Chen, Jiaao Chen, Jianda Chen +1

Standard benchmarks fixate on how well large language model (LLM) agents perform in finance, yet say little about whether they are safe to deploy. We argue that accuracy metrics an…

cs.AI2025

GraphEval36K: Benchmarking Coding and Reasoning Capabilities of Large Language Models on Graph Datasets

Qiming Wu, Zichen Chen, Will Corcoran +2

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in natural language processing (NLP), demonstrating significant capabilities in processing and understanding text data…

cs.RO2026

IndustryNav: Exploring Spatial Reasoning of Embodied Agents in Dynamic Industrial Navigation

Yifan Li, Lichi Li, Anh Dao +15

While Visual Large Language Models (VLLMs) show great promise as embodied agents, they continue to face substantial challenges in spatial reasoning. Existing embodied benchmarks la…

cs.CL2024

LMExplainer: Grounding Knowledge and Explaining Language Models

Zichen Chen, Jianda Chen, Yuanyuan Chen +3

Language models (LMs) like GPT-4 are important in AI applications, but their opaque decision-making process reduces user trust, especially in safety-critical areas. We introduce LM…

cs.CL2026

NARRA-Gym for Evaluating Interactive Narrative Agents

Yue Huang, Yuchen Ma, Jiayi Ye +14

Interactive narrative tasks require LLMs to sustain a coherent, evolving story while adapting to a user over multiple turns. However, suitable benchmarks for this setting are limit…

cs.HC2025

Engaging with AI: How Interface Design Shapes Human-AI Collaboration in High-Stakes Decision-Making

Zichen Chen, Yunhao Luo, Misha Sra

As reliance on AI systems for decision-making grows, it becomes critical to ensure that human users can appropriately balance trust in AI suggestions with their own judgment, espec…

cs.LG2023

Efficient Training of Large-scale Industrial Fault Diagnostic Models through Federated Opportunistic Block Dropout

Yuanyuan Chen, Zichen Chen, Sheng Guo +6

Artificial intelligence (AI)-empowered industrial fault diagnostics is important in ensuring the safe operation of industrial applications. Since complex industrial systems often i…

cs.LG2025

FedOBD: Opportunistic Block Dropout for Efficiently Training Large-scale Neural Networks through Federated Learning

Yuanyuan Chen, Zichen Chen, Pengcheng Wu +1

Large-scale neural networks possess considerable expressive power. They are well-suited for complex learning tasks in industrial applications. However, large-scale models pose sign…

cs.AI2026

JobBench: Aligning Agent Work With Human Will

Yuetai Li, Yichen Feng, Zhangchen Xu +21

Current benchmarks for occupational AI agents are scoped primarily by economic values, telling a replacement story. We introduce JobBench, which evaluates AI agents on the workflow…

cs.CL2025

PersonaMem-v2: Towards Personalized Intelligence via Learning Implicit User Personas and Agentic Memory

Bowen Jiang, Yuan Yuan, Maohao Shen +13

Personalization is one of the next milestones in advancing AI capability and alignment. We introduce PersonaMem-v2, the state-of-the-art dataset for LLM personalization that simula…

cs.CL2024

XplainLLM: A Knowledge-Augmented Dataset for Reliable Grounded Explanations in LLMs

Zichen Chen, Jianda Chen, Ambuj Singh +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in natural language tasks, yet understanding their reasoning processes remains a significant challenge. We address thi…

cs.MA2026

Emergent Social Intelligence Risks in Generative Multi-Agent Systems

Yue Huang, Yu Jiang, Wenjie Wang +12

Multi-agent systems composed of large generative models are rapidly moving from laboratory prototypes to real-world deployments, where they jointly plan, negotiate, and allocate sh…

cs.AI2026

AutoLab: Can Frontier Models Solve Long-Horizon Auto Research and Engineering Tasks?

Zhangchen Xu, Junda Chen, Yue Huang +16

Scientific and engineering progress is fundamentally a long-horizon iterative process: proposing changes, running experiments, measuring outcomes, and continuously refining artifac…

cs.CV2026

Visual Aesthetic Benchmark: Can Frontier Models Judge Beauty?

Yichen Feng, Yuetai Li, Chunjiang Liu +14

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are now routinely deployed for visual understanding, generation, and curation. A substantial fraction of these applications require an expl…

cs.CV2021

Towards Toxic and Narcotic Medication Detection with Rotated Object Detector

Jiao Peng, Feifan Wang, Zhongqiang Fu +4

Recent years have witnessed the advancement of deep learning vision technologies and applications in the medical industry. Intelligent devices for special medication management are…

cs.HC2025

Agentic Workflows for Conversational Human-AI Interaction Design

Arthur Caetano, Kavya Verma, Atieh Taheri +5

Conversational human-AI interaction (CHAI) have recently driven mainstream adoption of AI. However, CHAI poses two key challenges for designers and researchers: users frequently ha…

cs.LG2024

State Chrono Representation for Enhancing Generalization in Reinforcement Learning

Jianda Chen, Wen Zheng Terence Ng, Zichen Chen +2

In reinforcement learning with image-based inputs, it is crucial to establish a robust and generalizable state representation. Recent advancements in metric learning, such as deep…