📝 Publications

† indicates equal contribution.

First-author

TCOD: Exploring Temporal Curriculum in On-Policy Distillation for Multi-turn Autonomous Agents
Jiaqi Wang, Wenhao Zhang, Weijie Shi, Yaliang Li, James Cheng.

arXiv 2026
[paper] [code] [huggingface paper]

VideoASMR-Bench: Can AI-Generated ASMR Videos Fool VLMs and Humans?
Jiaqi Wang†, Weijia Wu†, Yi Zhan, Rui Zhao, Ming Hu, James Cheng, Wei Liu, Philip Torr, Kevin Qinghong Lin.

CVPR 2026 Workshop VGBE
[paper] [homepage] [code] [dataset] [huggingface paper]

Think or Not? Selective Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language Models
Jiaqi Wang†, Kevin QH. Lin†, James Cheng, Mike Z. Shou.

NeurIPS 2025, ICML 2025 EXAIT Workshop
[paper] [code] [huggingface]

A Signed Graph Approach to Understanding and Mitigating Oversmoothing in GNNs
Jiaqi Wang†, Xinyi Wu†, James Cheng, Yifei Wang.

NeurIPS 2025
[paper]

DivIL: Unveiling and Addressing Over-Invariance for Out-of-Distribution Generalization
Jiaqi Wang†, Yuhang Zhou†, Zhixiong Zhang†, Qiguang Chen, Yongqiang Chen, James Cheng.

TMLR 2025
[paper] [code]

Non-first-author

PROST-LLM: PROGRESSIVELY ENHANCING THE SPEECH-TO-SPEECH TRANSLATION CAPABILITY IN LLMS
Jing Xu, Jiaqi Wang, Daxin Tan, Xiao Chen.

ICASSP 2026
[paper]

Visual Thoughts: A Unified Perspective of Understanding Multimodal Chain-of-Thought
Zihui Cheng, Qiguang Chen, Xiao Xu, Jiaqi Wang, Weiyun Wang, Hao Fei, Yidong Wang, Alex Jinpeng Wang, Zhi Chen, Wanxiang Che, Libo Qin.

NeurIPS 2025
[paper]

Enhancing Multilingual Speech Generation and Recognition Abilities in LLMs with Constructed Code-switched Data
Jing Xu, Daxin Tan, Jiaqi Wang, Xiao Chen.

IEEE ASRU 2025
[paper]

PIGDreamer: Privileged Information Guided World Models for Safe Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning
Dongchi Huang, Jiaqi Wang, Yang Li, Chunhe Xia, Tianle Zhang, Kaige Zhang.

ICML 2025
[paper] [code]

Unlocking the capabilities of thought: A reasoning boundary framework to quantify and optimize chain-of-thought
Qiguang Chen, Libo Qin, Jiaqi Wang, Jingxuan Zhou, Wanxiang Che.

NeurIPS 2024, Oral
[paper] [code]

Enhancing evolving domain generalization through dynamic latent representations
Binghui Xie, Yongqiang Chen, Jiaqi Wang, Kaiwen Zhou, Bo Han, Wei Meng, James Cheng.

AAAI 2024, Oral
[paper]