PhD Students

Zhuofeng Li

PhD Student (Fall 2025 - )

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Publications

2026

4 papers

EMNLP 2026 October 2026

OpenResearcher: A Fully Open Pipeline for Long-Horizon Deep Research Trajectory Synthesis

Zhuofeng Li, Dongfu Jiang, Xueguang Ma, Haoxiang Zhang, Ping Nie, Yuyu Zhang, Kai Zou, Jianwen Xie, Yu Zhang, Wenhu Chen

Paper Code Dataset Model
EMNLP 2026 October 2026

Masking Stale Observations Helps Search Agents – Until It Doesn’t: A Regime Map and Its Mechanism

Haoxiang Zhang, Qixin Xu, Zhuofeng Li, Lei Zhang, Pengcheng Jiang, Yu Zhang, Julian McAuley

Paper Code
ACL 2026 July 2026

ReviewGrounder: Improving Review Substantiveness with Rubric-Guided Tool-Integrated Agents

Zhuofeng Li, Yi Lu, Dongfu Jiang, Haoxiang Zhang, Yuyang Bai, Chuan Li, Yu Wang, Shuiwang Ji, Jianwen Xie, Yu Zhang

Paper Code Project
ICLR 2026 April 2026

In-the-Flow Agentic System Optimization for Effective Planning and Tool Use

Zhuofeng Li, Haoxiang Zhang, Seungju Han, Sheng Liu, Jianwen Xie, Yu Zhang, Yejin Choi, James Zou, Pan Lu

Paper Code Project Model