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Liwen Zhang

34 accepted papers

2026

AgentFold: Long-Horizon Web Agents with Proactive Context Folding

ICLR 2026poster

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. Prevailing ReAct-based agents suffer from context saturation as they accumulate noisy, raw histories, while methods that fixe…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

BizFinBench.v2: Towards Reliable LLMs in Finance via Real-User Data and Offline/Online Bilingual Evaluation

ICML 2026poster

Large language models are becoming increasingly significant in financial applications. Nevertheless, prevailing benchmarks are largely dependent on simulated or generic data, which leads to a significant gap between reported performance and actual efficacy in real-world scenarios. To tackle this cha…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

IterResearch: Rethinking Long-Horizon Agents via Markovian State Reconstruction

ICLR 2026poster

Recent advances in deep-research agents have shown promise for autonomous knowledge construction through dynamic reasoning over external sources. However, existing approaches rely on a mono-contextual paradigm that accumulates all information in a single, expanding context window, leading to context…

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2026

MPI-Mamba: Latent Feature Fusion Mamba for Anisotropic Image Calibration and Deblurring in Magnetic Particle Imaging

AAAI 2026technical

Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) is an innovative medical modality, providing nanomolar-scale in vivo sensitivity and radiation-free dynamic real-time detection for precision medicine. However, MPI faces a challenging problem in accurately visualizing nanoparticle distributions, where the reconstruct

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2026

Repurposing Synthetic Data for Fine-grained Search Agent Supervision

ICLR 2026poster

LLM-based search agents are increasingly trained on entity-centric synthetic data to solve complex, knowledge-intensive tasks. However, prevailing training methods like Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) discard this rich entity information, relying instead on sparse, outcome-based rewards. T…

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2026

VideoBrain: Learning Adaptive Frame Sampling for Long Video Understanding

ICML 2026poster

Long-form video understanding remains challenging for Vision-Language Models (VLMs) due to the inherent tension between computational constraints and the need to capture information distributed across thousands of frames. Existing approaches either sample frames uniformly (risking information loss) …

Cited by 5SourceScholar
2026

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

ICLR 2026poster

To significantly advance the capabilities of open-source web agents, we present WebSailor-V2, a complete post-training pipeline encompassing data construction, Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), and Reinforcement Learning (RL). Our methodology features two key innovations: (1) On the data front, we devel…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

WebShaper: Agentically Data Synthesizing via Information-Seeking Formalization

ICLR 2026poster

The advent of Large Language Model (LLM)-powered agents has revolutionized artificial intelligence by enabling solutions to complex, open-ended tasks through web-based information-seeking (IS) capabilities. The scarcity of high-quality training data has limited the development of IS agents. Existin…

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2025

AUV-WTN: AUV Water Tunnel Navigation Framework with Acoustic Perturbations and Narrow Space Constraints

IROS 2025

In water tunnels, autonomous navigation of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) is challenging under accumulated localization errors and severe acoustic perturbations constraints. An AUV water tunnel navigation (AUV-WTN) framework is proposed to address these challenges. AUV-WTN integrates a forwar

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

ECBANet: Exploiting Complementary Information for Efficient Burst Super-Resolution

ICASSP 2025accepted

Multi-frame Super-Resolution (MFSR) aims to reconstruct a high-resolution (HR) image from a sequence of burst images, thereby overcoming the information scarcity limitations inherent in Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR). In this paper, we propose ECBANet, unlike most existing approaches, we emplo…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Edge-aware Laplacian Pyramid Network for Efficient Image Deblurring

ICASSP 2025accepted

Image deblurring is dedicated to restoring blurry images resulting from camera shake or target motion into high-quality sharp images. Recent work has made notable progress in image deblurring, but few studies have focused on the role of high-frequency information in this task. Hence, an efficient Ed…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

EvolveSearch: An Iterative Self-Evolving Search Agent

EMNLP 2025

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has transformed the landscape of agentic information seeking capabilities through the integration of tools such as search engines and web browsers. However, current mainstream approaches for enabling LLM web search proficiency face significant ch

Cited by 42SourcePDFScholar
2025

Few-Shot Object Detection in Satellite Imagery with Feature Fusion Pyramid and Adaptive Region Proposal Networks

ICASSP 2025accepted

Object detection in satellite imagery presents unique challenges due to the wide variation in object sizes, shapes, and orientations, as well as the limited availability of labeled data for training models. Few-Shot Object Detection (FSOD) aims to address these challenges by enabling models to detec…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

FinEval: A Chinese Financial Domain Knowledge Evaluation Benchmark for Large Language Models

NAACL 2025long

Large language models have demonstrated outstanding performance in various natural language processing tasks, but their security capabilities in the financial domain have not been explored, and their performance on complex tasks like financial agent remains unknown. This paper presents FinEval, a be…

2025

InfoMin-based Query Embedding Optimization For Query-based Universal Sound Separation

ICASSP 2025accepted

The query-based universal sound separation (QUSS) has been addressed, aiming to perform the separation of specific sound sources based on a given query. Most of existed methods focus on the improvement of separation models, ignoring the influence of category-conditioned query embedding distribution…

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2025

LaRA: Benchmarking Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Long-Context LLMs – No Silver Bullet for LC or RAG Routing

ICML 2025poster

As Large Language Model (LLM) context windows expand, the necessity of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for integrating external knowledge is debated. Existing RAG vs. long-context (LC) LLM comparisons are often inconclusive due to benchmark limitations. We introduce LaRA, a novel benchmark with…

2025

VisFinEval: A Scenario-Driven Chinese Multimodal Benchmark for Holistic Financial Understanding

EMNLP 2025

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) hold great promise for automating complex financial analysis. To comprehensively evaluate their capabilities, we introduce VisFinEval, the first large-scale Chinese benchmark that spans the full front-middle-back office lifecycle of financial tasks. VisFinEva

2025

WebDancer: Towards Autonomous Information Seeking Agency

NeurIPS 2025poster

Addressing intricate real-world problems necessitates in-depth information seeking and multi-step reasoning. Recent progress in agentic systems, exemplified by Deep Research, underscores the potential for autonomous multi-step research. In this work, we present a cohesive paradigm for building end…

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2024

AdaPKC: PeakConv with Adaptive Peak Receptive Field for Radar Semantic Segmentation

NeurIPS 2024poster

Deep learning-based radar detection technology is receiving increasing attention in areas such as autonomous driving, UAV surveillance, and marine monitoring. Among recent efforts, PeakConv (PKC) provides a solution that can retain the peak response characteristics of radar signals and play the char…

2024

Query Routing for Homogeneous Tools: An Instantiation in the RAG Scenario

EMNLP 2024finding

Current research on tool learning primarily focuses on selecting the most effective tool from a wide array of options, often overlooking cost-effectiveness, a crucial factor in human problem-solving. In this paper, we address query routing for homogeneous tools by predicting both their performance a…

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2024

SpecAR-Net: Spectrogram Analysis and Representation Network for Time Series

IJCAI 2024poster

Representing temporal-structured samples is essential for effective time series analysis tasks. So far, recurrent networks, convolution networks and transformer-style models have been successively applied in temporal data representation, yielding notable results. However, most existing methods prima…

2024

TARSS-Net: Temporal-Aware Radar Semantic Segmentation Network

NeurIPS 2024poster

Radar signal interpretation plays a crucial role in remote detection and ranging. With the gradual display of the advantages of neural network technology in signal processing, learning-based radar signal interpretation is becoming a research hot-spot and made great progress. And since radar semantic…

2023

Improving Zero-shot Multilingual Neural Machine Translation by Leveraging Cross-lingual Consistency Regularization

ACL 2023findings

The multilingual neural machine translation (NMT) model has a promising capability of zero-shot translation, where it could directly translate between language pairs unseen during training. For good transfer performance from supervised directions to zero-shot directions, the multilingual NMT model i…

2023

Membrane Potential Batch Normalization for Spiking Neural Networks

ICCV 2023poster

As one of the energy-efficient alternatives of conventional neural networks (CNNs), spiking neural networks (SNNs) have gained more and more interest recently. To train the deep models, some effective batch normalization (BN) techniques are proposed in SNNs. All these BNs are suggested to be used af…

Cited by 49PDFcodeScholar
2023

PeakConv: Learning Peak Receptive Field for Radar Semantic Segmentation

CVPR 2023poster

The modern machine learning-based technologies have shown considerable potential in automatic radar scene understanding. Among these efforts, radar semantic segmentation (RSS) can provide more refined and detailed information including the moving objects and background clutters within the effective…

2023

RMP-Loss: Regularizing Membrane Potential Distribution for Spiking Neural Networks

ICCV 2023poster

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) as one of the biology-inspired models have received much attention recently. It can significantly reduce energy consumption since they quantize the real-valued membrane potentials to 0/1 spikes to transmit information thus the multiplications of activations and weights…

Cited by 34PDFScholar
2022

IM-Loss: Information Maximization Loss for Spiking Neural Networks

NeurIPS 2022accept

Spiking Neural Network (SNN), recognized as a type of biologically plausible architecture, has recently drawn much research attention. It transmits information by $0/1$ spikes. This bio-mimetic mechanism of SNN demonstrates extreme energy efficiency since it avoids any multiplications on neuromorphi…

Cited by 99SourcePDFScholar
2022

Real Spike: Learning Real-Valued Spikes for Spiking Neural Networks

ECCV 2022poster

"Brain-inspired spiking neural networks (SNNs) have recently drawn more and more attention due to their event-driven and energy efficient characteristics. The integration of storage and computation paradigm on neuromorphic hardwares makes SNNs much different from Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). In this…

2022

Reducing Information Loss for Spiking Neural Networks

ECCV 2022poster

"The Spiking Neural Network (SNN) has attracted more and more attention recently. It adopts binary spike signals to transmit information. Benefitting from the information passing paradigm of SNNs, the multiplications of activations and weights can be replaced by additions, which are more energy-effi…

Cited by 43SourcePDFScholar
2022

SHARP: Search-Based Adversarial Attack for Structured Prediction

NAACL 2022findings

Adversarial attack of structured prediction models faces various challenges such as the difficulty of perturbing discrete words, the sentence quality issue, and the sensitivity of outputs to small perturbations. In this work, we introduce SHARP, a new attack method that formulates the black-box adve…

2021

Adapting Unsupervised Syntactic Parsing Methodology for Discourse Dependency Parsing

ACL 2021long

One of the main bottlenecks in developing discourse dependency parsers is the lack of annotated training data. A potential solution is to utilize abundant unlabeled data by using unsupervised techniques, but there is so far little research in unsupervised discourse dependency parsing. Fortunately, u…

2021

Non-decreasing Quantile Function Network with Efficient Exploration for Distributional Reinforcement Learning

IJCAI 2021poster

Although distributional reinforcement learning (DRL) has been widely examined in the past few years, there are two open questions people are still trying to address. One is how to ensure the validity of the learned quantile function, the other is how to efficiently utilize the distribution informati…

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