collaborators

7 papers

cs.AI2026

AlphaOPT: Formulating Optimization Programs with Self-Improving LLM Experience Library

Minwei Kong, Ao Qu, Xiaotong Guo +12

Optimization modeling underlies critical decision-making across industries, yet remains difficult to automate: natural-language problem descriptions must be translated into precise…

cs.AI2026

CORAL: Towards Autonomous Multi-Agent Evolution for Open-Ended Discovery

Ao Qu, Han Zheng, Zijian Zhou +14

Large language model (LLM)-based evolution is a promising approach for open-ended discovery, where progress requires sustained search and knowledge accumulation. Existing methods s…

cs.AI2025

HugAgent: Benchmarking LLMs for Simulation of Individualized Human Reasoning

Chance Jiajie Li, Zhenze Mo, Yuhan Tang +11

Simulating human reasoning in open-ended tasks has long been a central aspiration in AI and cognitive science. While large language models now approximate human responses at scale,…

cs.CY2025

Simulating Society Requires Simulating Thought

Chance Jiajie Li, Jiayi Wu, Zhenze Mo +10

Simulating society with large language models (LLMs), we argue, requires more than generating plausible behavior; it demands cognitively grounded reasoning that is structured, revi…

cs.HC2025

ClassMind: Scaling Classroom Observation and Instructional Feedback with Multimodal AI

Ao Qu, Yuxi Wen, Jiayi Zhang +6

Classroom observation -- one of the most effective methods for teacher development -- remains limited due to high costs and a shortage of expert coaches. We present ClassMind, an A…

cs.CL2025

MEM1: Learning to Synergize Memory and Reasoning for Efficient Long-Horizon Agents

Zijian Zhou, Ao Qu, Zhaoxuan Wu +6

Modern language agents must operate over long-horizon, multi-turn interactions, where they retrieve external information, adapt to observations, and answer interdependent queries.…