Publications

Peer-reviewed publications and preprints.

(*) Equal Contribution. (†) Corresponding Author.

  1. ICML
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    What Makes Effective Supervision in Latent Chain-of-Thought: An Information-Theoretic Analysis
    Xinghao Chen, C. T. Leong, Wenjin Guo, Jian Wang, Wenjie Li, and Xiaoyu Shen†
    In Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning, 2026
    arXiv Code
  2. EMNLP
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    Reasoning Beyond Language: A Comprehensive Survey on Latent Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
    Xinghao Chen*, Anhao Zhao*, Heming Xia, Xuan Lu, Hanlin Wang, Yanjun Chen, Wei Zhang, Jian Wang†, Wenjie Li, and Xiaoyu Shen†
    In Findings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2026
    arXiv Code
  3. ACL
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    Unveiling the Key Factors for Distilling Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
    Xinghao Chen, Zhijing Sun, Wenjin Guo, Miaoran Zhang, Yanjun Chen, Yirong Sun, Hui Su, Yijie Pan, Dietrich Klakow, Wenjie Li†, and Xiaoyu Shen†
    In Findings of the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025
    arXiv Code
  4. EMNLP
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    When Compression Helps and When It Hurts: Condition-Aware Analysis of Chain-of-Thought Distillation
    S. Lyu*, Xinghao Chen*, Zhijing Sun, Tianle Liu, Dawei Zhu, and Xiaoyu Shen
    In The 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2026
    arXiv
  5. CVPR
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    UTPTrack: Towards Simple and Unified Token Pruning for Visual Tracking
    Hao Wu*, Xudong Wang*, Jialiang Zhang, Junlong Tong, Xinghao Chen, Junyan Lin, Yunpu Ma, and Xiaoyu Shen†
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2026
    arXiv
  6. EMNLP
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    Rethinking Visual Layer Selection in Multimodal LLMs
    Haoran Chen*, Junyan Lin*, Xinghao Chen, Yue Fan, Xin Jin, Hui Su, Jianfeng Dong, Jinlan Fu, and Xiaoyu Shen
    In The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025
    arXiv
  7. EMNLP
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    MultiConIR: Towards Multi-Condition Information Retrieval
    Xuan Lu, Sifan Liu, Bochao Yin, Yongqi Li, Xinghao Chen, Hui Su, Yaohui Jin, Wenjun Zeng, and Xiaoyu Shen
    In Findings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025
    arXiv Code
  8. EMNLP
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    The Accuracy Paradox in RLHF: When Better Reward Models Don’t Yield Better Language Models
    Yanjun Chen, Dawei Zhu, Yirong Sun, Xinghao Chen, Wei Zhang, and Xiaoyu Shen
    In The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024
    arXiv Code
  9. arXiv
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    UniToolCall: Unifying Tool-Use Representation, Data, and Evaluation for LLM Agents
    Yijuan Liang, Xinghao Chen, Yifan Ge, Ziyi Wu, Hao Wu, Changyu Zeng, Wei Xing, and Xiaoyu Shen†
    2026
    arXiv Code
  10. arXiv
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    AutoDataset: A Lightweight System for Continuous Dataset Discovery and Search
    J. Yang, Xinghao Chen, Y. Liu, Z. Sun, W. Guo, and X. Shen
    2026
    arXiv
  11. Safety Sci.
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    Smart Real-Time Evaluation of Tunnel Fire Risk and Evacuation Safety via Computer Vision
    Xiaoning Zhang, Xinghao Chen, Yifei Ding, Yuxin Zhang, Zilong Wang, Jihao Shi, Nils Johansson, and Xinyan Huang
    Safety Science, 2024
  12. EAAI
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    Smart Building Evacuation by Tracking Multi-Camera Network and Explainable Re-Identification Model
    Yifei Ding, Xinghao Chen, Yuxin Zhang, and Xinyan Huang
    Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2025
  13. JSSR
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    Human Behaviour Detection Dataset (HBDset) Using Computer Vision for Evacuation Safety and Emergency Management
    Yifei Ding, Xinghao Chen, Zilong Wang, Yuxin Zhang, and Xinyan Huang
    Journal of Safety Science and Resilience, 2024
  14. SAA
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    Probing 1D Convolutional Neural Network Adapted to Near-Infrared Spectroscopy for Efficient Classification of Mixed Fish
    Xinghao Chen, G. Cheng, S. Liu, S. Meng, Y. Jiao, W. Zhang, J. Liang, and W. Zhang
    Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 2022