| 2027 | EDBT | C2: Cache-Conscious Succinct Tries with Adaptive Unary Path Compression. | Kepan Zhang, Tiancheng Zhao, Helen Xu |
| 2026 | AAAI | OSVBench: Benchmarking LLMs on Specification Generation Tasks for Operating System Verification. | Shangyu Li, Juyong Jiang, Tiancheng Zhao, Jiasi Shen |
| 2025 | ACL | The Self-Improvement Paradox: Can Language Models Bootstrap Reasoning Capabilities without External Scaffolding? | Yutao Sun, Mingshuai Chen, Tiancheng Zhao, Ruochen Xu, Zilun Zhang, Jianwei Yin |
| 2025 | ACL | Unifying Language Agent Algorithms with Graph-based Orchestration Engine for Reproducible Agent Research. | Qianqian Zhang, Jiajia Liao, Heting Ying, Yibo Ma, Haozhan Shen, Jingcheng Li, Peng Liu, Lu Zhang, Chunxin Fang, Kyusong Lee, Ruochen Xu, Tiancheng Zhao |
| 2025 | EMNLP | ZoomEye: Enhancing Multimodal LLMs with Human-Like Zooming Capabilities through Tree-Based Image Exploration. | Haozhan Shen, Kangjia Zhao, Tiancheng Zhao, Ruochen Xu, Zilun Zhang, Mingwei Zhu, Jianwei Yin |
| 2025 | IJCAI | Horae: A Domain-Agnostic Language for Automated Service Regulation. | Yutao Sun, Mingshuai Chen, Tiancheng Zhao, Kangjia Zhao, He Li, Jintao Chen, Zhongyi Wang, Liqiang Lu, Xinkui Zhao, Shuiguang Deng, Jianwei Yin |
| 2025 | IJCNN | Evaluating and Enhancing LLMs for Multi-turn Text-to-SQL with Multiple Question Types. | Ziming Guo, Chao Ma, Yinggang Sun, Tiancheng Zhao, Guangyao Wang, Hai Huang |
| 2025 | KDD | CLEAR: Addressing Representation Contamination in Multimodal Healthcare Analytics. | Ge Su, Kaiping Zheng, Tiancheng Zhao, Jianwei Yin |
| 2024 | AAAI | GroundVLP: Harnessing Zero-Shot Visual Grounding from Vision-Language Pre-training and Open-Vocabulary Object Detection. | Haozhan Shen, Tiancheng Zhao, Mingwei Zhu, Jianwei Yin |
| 2024 | AAAI | How to Evaluate the Generalization of Detection? A Benchmark for Comprehensive Open-Vocabulary Detection. | Yiyang Yao, Peng Liu, Tiancheng Zhao, Qianqian Zhang, Jiajia Liao, Chunxin Fang, Kyusong Lee, Qing Wang |
| 2024 | EMNLP | OmAgent: A Multi-modal Agent Framework for Complex Video Understanding with Task Divide-and-Conquer. | Lu Zhang, Tiancheng Zhao, Heting Ying, Yibo Ma, Kyusong Lee |
| 2024 | ICWS | Towards Cross-Domain Multimodal Automated Service Regulation Systems. | Jianwei Yin, Tiancheng Zhao, Li Kuang |
| 2022 | EMNLP | An Explainable Toolbox for Evaluating Pre-trained Vision-Language Models. | Tiancheng Zhao, Tianqi Zhang, Mingwei Zhu, Haozhan Shen, Kyusong Lee, Xiaopeng Lu, Jianwei Yin |
| 2022 | ICSOC | Service Regulation: Modeling and Recognition. | Jintao Chen, Jianwei Yin, Shuiguang Deng, Tiancheng Zhao, Meng Xi |
| 2021 | ACL | VisualSparta: An Embarrassingly Simple Approach to Large-scale Text-to-Image Search with Weighted Bag-of-words. | Xiaopeng Lu, Tiancheng Zhao, Kyusong Lee |
| 2021 | EACL | SF-QA: Simple and Fair Evaluation Library for Open-domain Question Answering. | Xiaopeng Lu, Kyusong Lee, Tiancheng Zhao |
| 2021 | NAACL | SPARTA: Efficient Open-Domain Question Answering via Sparse Transformer Matching Retrieval. | Tiancheng Zhao, Xiaopeng Lu, Kyusong Lee |
| 2020 | ACL | "None of the Above": Measure Uncertainty in Dialog Response Retrieval. | Yulan Feng, Shikib Mehri, Maxine Esknazi, Tiancheng Zhao |
| 2020 | ACL | Talk to Papers: Bringing Neural Question Answering to Academic Search. | Tiancheng Zhao, Kyusong Lee |
| 2019 | ACL | Texar: A Modularized, Versatile, and Extensible Toolkit for Text Generation. | Zhiting Hu, Haoran Shi, Bowen Tan, Wentao Wang, Zichao Yang, Tiancheng Zhao, Junxian He, Lianhui Qin, Di Wang, Xuezhe Ma, Zhengzhong Liu, Xiaodan Liang, Wanrong Zhu, Devendra Singh Sachan, Eric P. Xing |
| 2019 | ACL | Pretraining Methods for Dialog Context Representation Learning. | Shikib Mehri, Evgeniia Razumovskaia, Tiancheng Zhao, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2019 | ACL | Target-Guided Open-Domain Conversation. | Jianheng Tang, Tiancheng Zhao, Chenyan Xiong, Xiaodan Liang, Eric P. Xing, Zhiting Hu |
| 2019 | NAACL | Unsupervised Dialog Structure Learning. | Weiyan Shi, Tiancheng Zhao, Zhou Yu |
| 2019 | NAACL | Rethinking Action Spaces for Reinforcement Learning in End-to-end Dialog Agents with Latent Variable Models. | Tiancheng Zhao, Kaige Xie, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2019 | SIGdial | Investigating Evaluation of Open-Domain Dialogue Systems With Human Generated Multiple References. | Prakhar Gupta, Shikib Mehri, Tiancheng Zhao, Amy Pavel, Maxine Esknazi, Jeffrey P. Bigham |
| 2018 | ACL | Unsupervised Discrete Sentence Representation Learning for Interpretable Neural Dialog Generation. | Tiancheng Zhao, Kyusong Lee, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2018 | SIGdial | DialCrowd: A toolkit for easy dialog system assessment. | Kyusong Lee, Tiancheng Zhao, Alan W. Black, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2018 | SIGdial | Multimodal Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Policy for Task-Oriented Visual Dialog. | Jiaping Zhang, Tiancheng Zhao, Zhou Yu |
| 2018 | SIGdial | Zero-Shot Dialog Generation with Cross-Domain Latent Actions. | Tiancheng Zhao, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2017 | ACL | Learning Discourse-level Diversity for Neural Dialog Models using Conditional Variational Autoencoders. | Tiancheng Zhao, Ran Zhao, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2017 | SIGdial | DialPort, Gone Live: An Update After A Year of Development. | Kyusong Lee, Tiancheng Zhao, Yulun Du, Edward Cai, Allen Lu, Eli Pincus, David R. Traum, Stefan Ultes, Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, Milica Gasic, Steve J. Young, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2017 | SIGdial | Generative Encoder-Decoder Models for Task-Oriented Spoken Dialog Systems with Chatting Capability. | Tiancheng Zhao, Allen Lu, Kyusong Lee, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2016 | Interspeech | Deriving Phonetic Transcriptions and Discovering Word Segmentations for Speech-to-Speech Translation in Low-Resource Settings. | Andrew Wilkinson, Tiancheng Zhao, Alan W. Black |
| 2016 | SIGdial | Towards End-to-End Learning for Dialog State Tracking and Management using Deep Reinforcement Learning. | Tiancheng Zhao, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2015 | SIGdial | An Incremental Turn-Taking Model with Active System Barge-in for Spoken Dialog Systems. | Tiancheng Zhao, Alan W. Black, Maxine Esknazi |