Publications in 2026

Pengfei He, Zhenwei Dai, Xianfeng Tang, Yue Xing, Hui Liu, Jingying Zeng, Qiankun Peng, Shrivats Agrawal, Samarth Varshney, Suhang Wang, Jiliang Tang, Qi He
To trust or not to trust: Attention-based Trust Management for LLM Multi-Agent Systems
 In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2026

Shenglai Zeng, Tianqi Zheng, Chuan Tian, Dante Everaert, Yau-Shian Wang, Yupin Huang, Michael J. Morais, Rohit Patki, Jinjin Tian, Xinnan Dai, Kai Guo, Monica Xiao Cheng, Hui Liu
Attn-GS: Attention-Guided Context Compression for Efficient Personalized LLMs
 `✪ Oral` In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2026

Yuping Lin, Zitao Li, Yue Xing, Pengfei He, Yingqian Cui, Yaliang Li, Bolin Ding, Jingren Zhou, Jiliang Tang
Retrieval Heads are Dynamic
 In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2026

Zidi Xiong*, Yuping Lin*, Wenya Xie*, Pengfei He, Zirui Liu, Jiliang Tang, Himabindu Lakkaraju, Zhen Xiang
How Memory Management Impacts LLM Agents: An Empirical Study of Experience-Following Behavior
 In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2026

Yuxiang Wang, Xinnan Dai, Wenqi Fan, Yao Ma 
Exploring Graph Learning Tasks with Pure LLMs: A Comprehensive Benchmark and Investigation
 In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2026

Yingqian Cui, Zhenwei Dai, Pengfei He, Bing He, Hui Liu, Xianfeng Tang, Jingying Zeng, Suhang Wang, Yue Xing, Jiliang Tang, Benoit Dumoulin
A Reward-Guided Dual-Phase Framework for Adaptive Inference-Time Reasoning
 In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2026

Yucheng Chu, Haoyu Han, Shen Dong, Hang Li, Kaiqi Yang, Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, Joseph Krajcik, Namsoo Shin, Hui Liu
From Flat to Structural: Enhancing Automated Short Answer Grading with GraphRAG
 In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM), 2026

Yucheng Chu, Hang Li, Kaiqi Yang, Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, Joseph Krajcik, Namsoo Shin, Jiliang Tang
Confusion-Aware Rubric Optimization for LLM-based Automated Grading
 In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM), 2026

Yucheng Chu, Hang Li, Kaiqi Yang, Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, Kevin Haudek, Joseph Krajcik, Jiliang Tang
Optimizing In-Context Demonstrations for LLM-based Automated Grading
 In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), 2026

Kaiqi Yang*, Hang Li*, Yucheng Chu, Ahreum Han, Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, Hui Liu
A LLM-Driven Multi-Agent Systems for Professional Development of Mathematics Teachers
 In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), 2026

Namsoo Shin, Xunlei Qian, Hang Li, Yucheng Chu, Cory Miller, Joseph Krajcik, Jiliang Tang, Yue Xing
An AI-Enhanced Assessment Framework for Analyzing Middle School Science Students' Written Responses
 Journal of Educational Measurement, 2026

Tai-Quan Peng, Kaiqi Yang, Sanguk Lee, Hang Li, Yucheng Chu, Yuping Lin, Hui Liu
Beyond Partisan Leaning: A Comparative Analysis of Political Bias in Large Language Models
 In Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 2026

Zhikai Chen, Han Xie, Jian Zhang, Jiliang Tang, Xiang song, Huzefa Rangwala
Relatron: Automating Relational Machine Learning over Relational Databases
 In Proceedings of International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026

Pengfei He, Zhenwei Dai, Bing He, Hui Liu, Xianfeng Tang, Hanqing Lu, Juanhui Li, Jiayuan Ding, Subhabrata Mukherjee, Suhang Wang, Yue Xing, Jiliang Tang, Benoit Dumoulin
TRAJECT-Bench:A Trajectory-Aware Benchmark for Evaluating Agentic Tool Use
 In Proceedings of International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026

Haoyu Han, Kai Guo, Harry Shomer, Yu Wang, Yucheng Chu, Hang Li, Li Ma, Jiliang Tang
Reasoning by Exploration: A Unified Approach to Retrieval and Generation over Graphs
 In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM Web Conference (WWW), 2026

Shen Dong*, Mingxuan Zhang*, Pengfei He*, Li Ma, Bhavani Thuraisingham, Hui Liu, Yue Xing
PEAR: Planner-Executor Agent Robustness Benchmark
 In Proceedings of the Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 2026

Yu Song, Zhigang Hua, Yan Xie, Bingheng Li, Jingzhe Liu, Bo Long, Jiliang Tang, Hui Liu
Learning the Latent Structure: A Feature-Centric Approach to Graph Data Augmentation
 `✪ Oral` In Proceedings of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026



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