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Jianguo Zhang 张建国Ph.D in Computer Science
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Publications
Last Update: Aug. 2025
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ActionStudio: A Lightweight Framework for Data and Training of Large Action Models
Jianguo Zhang, Thai Hoang, Ming Zhu, Zuxin Liu, Shiyu Wang, Tulika Awalgaonkar, Akshara Prabhakar, Haolin Chen, Weiran Yao, Zhiwei Liu, Juntao Tan, Juan Carlos Niebles, Shelby Heinecke, Huan Wang, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong
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LATTE: LeArning to Think wiTh Vision SpEcialists
Zixian Ma, Jianguo Zhang, Zhiwei Liu, Jieyu Zhang, Juntao Tan, Manli Shu, Juan Carlos Niebles, Shelby Heinecke, Huan Wang, Caiming Xiong, Ranjay Krishna, Silvio Savarese
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MCPEval: Automatic MCP-based Deep Evaluation for AI Agent Models
Zhiwei Liu, Jielin Qiu, Shiyu Wang, Jianguo Zhang, Zuxin Liu, Roshan Ram, Haolin Chen, Weiran Yao, Shelby Heinecke, Silvio Savarese, Huan Wang, Caiming Xiong
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Apigen-mt: Agentic pipeline for multi-turn data generation via simulated agent-human interplay
Akshara Prabhakar, Zuxin Liu, Ming Zhu, Jianguo Zhang, Tulika Awalgaonkar, Shiyu Wang, Zhiwei Liu, Haolin Chen, Thai Hoang, Juan Carlos Niebles, Shelby Heinecke, Weiran Yao, Huan Wang, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong
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Bridging the Data Provenance Gap Across Text, Speech and Video
Shayne Longpre et al. Jianguo Zhang (Top Contributor)
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xLAM: A Family of Large Action Models to Empower AI Agent Systems
Jianguo Zhang, Tian Lan, Ming Zhu, Zuxin Liu, Thai Hoang, Shirley Kokane, Weiran Yao, Juntao Tan, Akshara Prabhakar, Haolin Chen, Zhiwei Liu, Yihao Feng, Tulika Awalgaonkar, Rithesh Murthy, Eric Hu, Zeyuan Chen, Ran Xu, Juan Carlos Niebles, Shelby Heinecke, Huan Wang, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong
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PRACT: Optimizing Principled Reasoning and Acting of LLM Agent
Zhiwei Liu, Weiran Yao, Jianguo Zhang, Rithesh Murthy, Liangwei Yang, Zuxin Liu, Tian Lan, Ming Zhu, Juntao Tan, Shirley Kokane, Thai Hoang, Juan Carlos Niebles, Shelby Heinecke, Huan Wang, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong
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Apigen: Automated pipeline for generating verifiable and diverse function-calling datasets
Zuxin Liu, Thai Hoang, Jianguo Zhang, Ming Zhu, Tian Lan, Shirley Kokane, Juntao Tan, Weiran Yao, Zhiwei Liu, Yihao Feng, Rithesh Murthy, Liangwei Yang, Silvio Savarese, Juan Carlos Niebles, Huan Wang, Shelby Heinecke, Caiming Xiong
🏆 NeurIPS 2024 Datasets and Benchmarks Track & Featured by Top Media
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Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons
Shayne Longpre et al. Jianguo Zhang (Contributor)
🏆 NeurIPS 2024 Datasets and Benchmarks Track & Featured by Top Media
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MobileAIBench: Benchmarking LLMs and LMMs for On-Device Use Cases
Rithesh Murthy, Liangwei Yang, Juntao Tan, Tulika Manoj Awalgaonkar, Yilun Zhou, Shelby Heinecke, Sachin Desai, Jason Wu, Ran Xu, Sarah Tan, Jianguo Zhang, Zhiwei Liu, Shirley Kokane, Zuxin Liu, Ming Zhu, Huan Wang, Caiming Xiong, Silvio Savarese
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AgentLite: A Lightweight Library for Building and Advancing Task-Oriented LLM Agent System
Zhiwei Liu, Weiran Yao, Jianguo Zhang, Liangwei Yang, Zuxin Liu, Juntao Tan, Prafulla K Choubey, Tian Lan, Jason Wu, Huan Wang, Shelby Heinecke, Caiming Xiong, Silvio Savarese
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AgentOhana: Design Unified Data and Training Pipeline for Effective Agent Learning
Jianguo Zhang, Tian Lan, Rithesh Murthy, Zhiwei Liu, Weiran Yao, Juntao Tan, Thai Hoang, Liangwei Yang, Yihao Feng, Zuxin Liu, Tulika Awalgaonkar, Juan Carlos Niebles, Silvio Savarese, Shelby Heinecke, Huan Wang, Caiming Xiong
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DRDT: Dynamic Reflection with Divergent Thinking for LLM-based Sequential Recommendation
Yu Wang, Zhiwei Liu, Jianguo Zhang, Weiran Yao, Shelby Heinecke, Philip S. Yu
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Deep Learning for Code Intelligence: Survey, Benchmark and Toolkit
Yao Wan, Yang He, Zhangqian Bi, Jianguo Zhang, Hongyu Zhang, Yulei Sui, Guandong Xu, Hai Jin, Philip S. Yu.
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BOLAA: Benchmarking and orchestrating LLM-augmented autonomous agents
Zhiwei Liu, Weiran Yao, Jianguo Zhang, Le Xue, Shelby Heinecke, Rithesh Murthy, Yihao Feng, Zeyuan Chen, Juan Carlos Niebles, Devansh Arpit, Ran Xu, Phil Mui, Huan Wang, Caiming Xiong, Silvio Savarese
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DialogStudio: Towards Richest and Most Diverse Unified Dataset Collection for Conversational AI
Jianguo Zhang*, Kun Qian*, Zhiwei Liu, Shelby Heinecke, Rui Meng, Ye Liu, Zhou Yu, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong
🏆 Top 10 Trending Hugging Face Datasets in Sep. 2023 & Findings of EACL 2024
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Retroformer: Retrospective large language agents with policy gradient optimization
Weiran Yao, Shelby Heinecke, Juan Carlos Niebles, Zhiwei Liu, Yihao Feng, Le Xue, Rithesh Murthy, Zeyuan Chen, Jianguo Zhang, Devansh Arpit, Ran Xu, Phil Mui, Huan Wang, Caiming Xiong, Silvio Savarese
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Enhancing Performance on Seen and Unseen Dialogue Scenarios using Retrieval-Augmented End-to-End Task-Oriented System
Jianguo Zhang, Stephen Roller, Kun Qian, Zhiwei Liu, Rui Meng, Shelby Heinecke, Huan Wang, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong
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Fantastic Rewards and How to Tame Them: A Case Study on Reward Learning for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems
Yihao Feng, Shentao Yang, Shujian Zhang, Jianguo Zhang, Caiming Xiong, Mingyuan Zhou, Huan Wang
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Zero-shot Item-based Recommendation via Multi-task Product Knowledge Graph Pre-Training
Ziwei Fan, Zhiwei Liu, Shelby Heinecke, Jianguo Zhang, Huan Wang, Caiming Xiong, Philip S Yu
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Are Pretrained Transformers Robust in Intent Classification? A Missing Ingredient in Evaluation of Out-of-Scope Intent Detection
Jianguo Zhang, Kazuma Hashimoto, Yao Wan, Zhiwei Liu, Ye Liu, Caiming Xiong, Philip Yu
ACL 2022 Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI
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NaturalCC: An Open-Source Toolkit for Code Intelligence
Yao Wan, Yang He, Zhangqian Bi, Jianguo Zhang, Yulei Sui, Hongyu Zhang, Kazuma Hashimoto, Hai Jin, Guandong Xu, Caiming Xiong and Philip Yu
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Few-Shot Intent Detection via Contrastive Pre-Training and Fine-Tuning
Jianguo Zhang, Trung Bui, Seunghyun Yoon, Xiang Chen, Zhiwei Liu, Congying Xia, Quan Hung Tran, Walter Chang and Philip Yu
EMNLP 2021 (Oral)
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HETFORMER: Heterogeneous Transformer with Sparse Attention for Long-Text Extractive Summarization
Ye Liu, Jianguo Zhang, Yao Wan, Congying Xia, Lifang He and Philip Yu
EMNLP 2021(Oral)
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Enriching Non-Autoregressive Transformer with Syntactic and Semantic Structures for Neural Machine Translation
Ye Liu, Yao Wan, Jianguo Zhang, Wenting Zhao, Philip Yu
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Discriminative Nearest Neighbor Few-Shot Intent Detection by Transferring Natural Language Inference
Jianguo Zhang, Kazuma Hashimoto, Wenhao Liu, Chien-Sheng Wu, Yao Wan, Philip S Yu, Richard Socher, Caiming Xiong
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Find or Classify? Dual Strategy for Slot-Value Predictions on Multi-Domain Dialog State Tracking
Jianguo Zhang, Kazuma Hashimoto, Chien-Sheng Wu, Yao Wan, Philip S Yu, Richard Socher, Caiming Xiong
*SEM 2020(Oral)
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MultiWOZ 2.2 : A Dialogue Dataset with Additional Annotation Corrections and State Tracking Baselines
Xiaoxue Zang, Abhinav Rastogi, Srinivas Sunkara, Raghav Gupta, Jianguo Zhang, Jindong Chen
ACL 2020 Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI
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Multi-Modal Generative Adversarial Network for Short Product Title Generation in Mobile E-Commerce
Jianguo Zhang, Pengcheng Zou, Zhao Li, Yao Wan, Xiuming Pan, Yu Gong, Philip S Yu
NAACL-HLT 2019 (Oral)
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Product Title Refinement via Multi-Modal Generative Adversarial Learning
Jianguo Zhang, Pengcheng Zou, Zhao Li, Yao Wan, Ye Liu, Xiuming Pan, Yu Gong, Philip S Yu
NeurIPS 2018 Workshop on ViGIL
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Layerwise Perturbation-Based Adversarial Training for Hard Drive Health Degree Prediction
Jianguo Zhang*, Ji Wang*, Lifang He, Zhao Li, Philip S Yu (* indicates equal contribution)
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Not just privacy: Improving performance of private deep learning in mobile cloud
Ji Wang*, Jianguo Zhang* , Weidong Bao, Xiaomin Zhu, Bokai Cao, Philip S Yu (* indicates equal contribution)
Experience
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Facebook AI Research (FAIR), New York, US        Research Intern,   June 2021 - Sep. 2021        Mentor: Stephen Roller |
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Adobe Research, San Jose, US        Research Intern,   Mar. 2021 - May 2021        Collaborators: Trung Bui, David Seunghyun Yoon and Walter Chang. |
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Salesforce Research, Palo Alto, US        Research Intern,   Spring 2019 - Summer 2020        Mentors: Kazuma Hashimoto, Caiming Xiong, Chien-Sheng Wu and Richard Socher.        (I become an NLPer from here!) |
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Alibaba Group, Hangzhou, China        Research Intern,   Summer 2018        Mentors: Pengcheng Zou and Zhao Li. |
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