| 2026 | ACL | Saber: Efficient Sampling with Adaptive Acceleration and Backtracking Enhanced Remasking for Diffusion Language Model in Code Generation. | Yihong Dong, Zhaoyu Ma, Xue Jiang, Zhiyuan Fan, Jiaru Qian, Yongmin Li, Jianha Xiao, Zhi Jin, Ge Li |
| 2026 | ACL | Learning Diverse Responses with Prefix-Conditioned Supervised Fine-Tuning. | Zhiyuan Fan, Guanqiao Chen, Yanyi Huang, Mingkuan Zhao, Dadi Guo, Yi R. Fung |
| 2026 | ACL | Mathematical Proof as a Litmus Test: Revealing Failure Modes of Advanced Large Reasoning Models. | Dadi Guo, Jiayu Liu, Zhiyuan Fan, Zhitao He, Haoran Li, Yuxin Li, Yumeng Wang, Yi R. Fung |
| 2026 | ACL | Empowering Reliable Visual-Centric Instruction Following in MLLMs. | Weilei He, Feng Ju, Zhiyuan Fan, Rui Min, Minhao Cheng |
| 2025 | ACL | MMBoundary: Advancing MLLM Knowledge Boundary Awareness through Reasoning Step Confidence Calibration. | Zhitao He, Sandeep Polisetty, Zhiyuan Fan, Yuchen Huang, Shujin Wu, Yi R. Fung |
| 2025 | ACL | Unveiling the Lack of LVLM Robustness to Fundamental Visual Variations: Why and Path Forward. | Zhiyuan Fan, Yumeng Wang, Sandeep Polisetty, Yi R. Fung |
| 2025 | ACL | SHARP: Unlocking Interactive Hallucination via Stance Transfer in Role-Playing LLMs. | Chuyi Kong, Ziyang Luo, Hongzhan Lin, Zhiyuan Fan, Yaxin Fan, Yuxi Sun, Jing Ma |
| 2025 | COLT | Efficient Near-Optimal Algorithm for Online Shortest Paths in Directed Acyclic Graphs with Bandit Feedback Against Adaptive Adversaries. | Arnab Maiti, Zhiyuan Fan, Kevin Jamieson, Lillian J. Ratliff, Gabriele Farina |
| 2025 | EMNLP | End-to-End Optimization for Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Reward Backpropagation. | Zhiyuan Fan, Longfei Yun, Ming Yan, Yumeng Wang, Dadi Guo, Brian Mak, James T. Kwok, Yi R. Fung |
| 2025 | EMNLP | MedEBench: Diagnosing Reliability in Text-Guided Medical Image Editing. | Minghao Liu, Zhitao He, Zhiyuan Fan, Qingyun Wang, Yi R. Fung |
| 2025 | MICCAI | Prototype-Guided Cross-Modal Knowledge Enhancement for Adaptive Survival Prediction. | Fengchun Liu, Linghan Cai, Zhikang Wang, Zhiyuan Fan, Jin-gang Yu, Hao Chen, Yongbing Zhang |
| 2025 | NAACL | CALM: Unleashing the Cross-Lingual Self-Aligning Ability of Language Model Question Answering. | Yumeng Wang, Zhiyuan Fan, Qingyun Wang, Yi R. Fung, Heng Ji |
| 2024 | ACL | Exploring the Potential of Dense Information in Multimodal Alignment. | Zhiyuan Fan, Zhihong Chen, Benyou Wang |
| 2024 | EMNLP | SedarEval: Automated Evaluation using Self-Adaptive Rubrics. | Zhiyuan Fan, Weinong Wang, Xing Wu, Debing Zhang |
| 2023 | COLT | Efficient Algorithms for Sparse Moment Problems without Separation. | Zhiyuan Fan, Jian Li |
| 2023 | EMNLP | Efficient Data Learning for Open Information Extraction with Pre-trained Language Models. | Zhiyuan Fan, Shizhu He |
| 2023 | ICML | On the Interplay Between Misspecification and Sub-optimality Gap in Linear Contextual Bandits. | Weitong Zhang, Jiafan He, Zhiyuan Fan, Quanquan Gu |
| 2023 | ICML | OpenFE: Automated Feature Generation with Expert-level Performance. | Tianping Zhang, Zheyu Aqa Zhang, Zhiyuan Fan, Haoyan Luo, Fengyuan Liu, Qian Liu, Wei Cao, Li Jian |
| 2022 | STOC | The exact complexity of pseudorandom functions and the black-box natural proof barrier for bootstrapping results in computational complexity. | Zhiyuan Fan, Jiatu Li, Tianqi Yang |