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Xiao-Wen Yang杨骁文

Xiaohongshu · AllSpark
Research Intern · Agent post-training · Jun 2026–present
Ph.D. Student · Nanjing University
LAMDA · Advisor: Yu-Feng Li

  • AI for Math
  • LLM Reasoning
  • Neuro-Symbolic Learning
纪元总览
NANJING, CHINA↓ PUBLICATIONS

News

Our knowledge augmentation paper is published at KDD 2026.

FormalImG accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2026.

Earlier news +

Our IJCAI Travel Planning Challenge review is published in Frontiers of Computer Science.

STARS and Pianist Transformer accepted to ICML 2026.

FormalML and ChinaTravel accepted to ICLR 2026.

Self-Backtracking accepted to AAAI 2026.

Our neuro-symbolic reasoning survey accepted to IJCAI 2025.

CARTS accepted to ICLR 2025.

Publications.

纪元总览

文明档案
25 PUBLICATIONS
ICLR 2026

ChinaTravel: An Open-Ended Benchmark for Language Agents in Chinese Travel Planning.

Authors & venue

Jie-Jing Shao*, Bo-Wen Zhang*, Xiao-Wen Yang*, Bai-Zhi Chen, Si-Yu Han, Jing-Hao Pang, Wen-Da Wei, Guohao Cai, Zhenhua Dong, Lan-Zhe Guo†, Yu-Feng Li†.

The 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026).

* Equal contribution† Corresponding author
AAAI 2026

Step Back to Leap Forward: Self-Backtracking for Symbolic Reasoning and Planning in Language Models.

Authors & venue

Xiao-Wen Yang, Xuan-Yi Zhu, Ding-Chu Zhang, Wen-Da Wei, Jie-Jing Shao, Zhi Zhou, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yu-Feng Li.

The 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026).

Preprint 2026

Hindsight Credit Assignment for Long-Horizon LLM Agents.

Authors & venue

Hui-Ze Tan*, Xiao-Wen Yang*, Hao Chen*, Jie-Jing Shao, Yi Wen, Yuteng Shen, Weihong Luo†, Xiku Du, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yu-Feng Li†.

Preprint, 2026.

* Equal contribution† Corresponding author
ICLR 2025

CARTS: Advancing Neural Theorem Proving with Diversified Tactic Calibration and Bias-Resistant Tree Search.

Authors & venue

Xiao-Wen Yang, Zhi Zhou, Haiming Wang, Aoxue Li, Wen-Da Wei, Hui Jin, Zhenguo Li, Yu-Feng Li.

The 13th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025).

EMNLP 2025

AutoEvolve: Automatically Evolving Queries for Applicable and Scalable Retrieval-Augmented Generation Benchmarking.

Authors & venue

Dingchu Zhang, Xiaowen Zhang, Yue Fei, Renjun Hu, Xiaowen Yang, Zhi Zhou, Baixuan Li, Yufeng Li, Xing Shi, Wei Lin.

The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025).

IJCAI 2025

Curriculum Abductive Learning for Mitigating Reasoning Shortcuts.

Authors & venue

Wen-Da Wei, Xiao-Wen Yang, Jie-Jing Shao and Lan-Zhe Guo.

The 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2025).

IJCAI 2025

D3: Diversity, Difficulty, and Dependability-Aware Data Selection for Sample-Efficient LLM Instruction Tuning

Authors & venue

Jia Zhang, Chen-Xi Zhang, Yao Liu, Yi-Xuan Jin, Xiao-Wen Yang, Bo Zheng, Yi Liu and Lan-Zhe Guo.

The 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2025).

More about me +

Ph.D. student at Nanjing University, advised by Yu-Feng Li, in the LAMDA Group led by Zhi-Hua Zhou.

Research Intern at Xiaohongshu AllSpark since June 2026, working on agent post-training.

B.Sc. in Computer Science, Nanjing University, 2023. Research: machine learning and artificial general intelligence.

Software

  • LawGPT: A Large Language Model in the Legal Domain. [GitHub]

Honor

  • National Scholarship, Nanjing University, Oct 2024
  • Outstanding Student, Nanjing University, Nov 2024
  • President’s Scholarship, Nanjing University, Oct 2023
  • Outstanding Graduate, Nanjing University, Jun 2023

Academic Service

Reviewer for:

  • AAAI 2024, 2025, 2026
  • ICLR 2024, 2025, 2026
  • ICML 2024, 2025, 2026
  • NeurIPS 2023, 2024, 2025

Meta Reviewer for IJCAI 2025

Teaching Assistant

  • Matrix Computation. [Link]
    (For Professor Yu-Feng Li; Spring, 2024)
  • Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. [Link]
    (For Assistant Professor Lan-Zhe Guo; Autumn, 2023)