All Publications

All Agent-ready Systems Human-agent Collaboration Agent Intelligence Automation White & Position Papers
  1. fog: Expressing Motion and Emotion through Function Composition of AI-Generated Code
    Vivian Liu , Lydia B. Chilton
    arXiv 2026
  2. PersonaJudge: Simulating Individual Human Preference Judgments with Evaluator-Specific Demonstration Data
    Zeyu He , Xuan Qi , Subramanian Chidambaram , Zhichao Xu , Vinayak Arannil , Lydia Chilton , Alex C. Williams
    arXiv 2026
  3. Latent Cache Flow: Model-to-Model Communication Without Text
    Maximillian Rossi , Prajwal Raghunath , Eugene Wu
    AdaptFM Workshop at ICML 2026
  4. Outrunning LLM Cutoffs: A Live Kernel Crash Resolution Benchmark for All
    Chenxi Huang , Alex Mathai , Feiyang Yu , Aleksandr Nogikh , Petros Maniatis , Franjo Ivancic , Eugene Wu , Kostis Kaffes , Junfeng Yang , Baishakhi Ray
    ICML 2026
  5. LAKEQA: An Exploratory QA Benchmark over a Million-Scale Data Lake
    Haonan Wang* , Jiaxiang Liu* , Yurong Liu , Austin Senna Wijaya , Tianle Zhou , Eden Wu , Yijia Chen , Wanting You , Reya Vir , Daniela Pinto Veizaga , Grace Fan , Yusen Zhang , Juliana Freire , Eugene Wu
    ICML 2026
  6. BranchBench: An Extensible Benchmark for Agentic Database Branching
    Elaine Ang , Kostis Kaffes , Eugene Wu
    CAIS Workshop 2026
  7. Behavior Cloning is Not All You Need: The Optimality of On-Policy Distillation for Noisy Expert Feedback
    Ved Sriraman , Peihan Liu , Daniel Hsu , Adam Block
    ICML 2026 Workshop on Decision-Making from Offline Datasets to Online Adaptation: Black-Box Optimization to Reinforcement Learning
  8. OSWorld2.0: Benchmarking Computer Use Agents on Long-Horizon Real-World Tasks
    Mengqi Yuan , Zilong Zhou , Xinzhuang Xiong , Weiming Wu , Jiayang Sun , Jiamin Song , Kaiqian Cui , Bowen Wang , Haoyuan Wu , Yitong Li , Dunjie Lu , Haikong Lu , Qi Zhen , Xinyuan Wang , Jiaqi Deng , Yuhao Yang , Cheng Chen , Boyuan Zheng , Alex Su , Xiao Yu , Hao Zou , Saaket Agashe , Xing Han Lu , Manpreet Kaur , Zhengyang Qi , Vincent Sunn Chen , Frederic Sala , Dayiheng Liu , Junyang Lin , Zhou Yu , Yu Su , Siva Reddy , Xin Eric Wang , Peng Qi , Tianbao Xie , Tao Yu
    arXiv 2026
  9. Invisible Impact of Empathy on Behavioral Change: Isolating the Effect of Empathy in Long-term Physical Activity Coaching Chatbot Interactions
    Li Siyan , Kai-Hui Liang , Shopnil Shahriar , Yilin Ye , Shiyoh Goetsu , Wei-Wei Du , Masahiro Yoshida , Tsunayuki Ohwa , Xuhai Xu , Zhou Yu
    arXiv 2026
  10. GIF: Locally Sound Geometric Information Flow Control for LLMs
    Adam Storek , Nikolaus Holzer , Zhuo Zhang , Suman Jana
    arXiv 2026
  11. Skills for the Future Software Profession: Beyond Agentic AI!
    Sungmin Kang , Baishakhi Ray , Abhik Roychoudhury
    arXiv 2026
  12. MortarBench: Evaluating Mortgage Loan Origination Agents
    Matthew Toles , Yunan Lu , Manav Munjal , Bojun Liu , Yuanhao Deng , Stephanie Selig , Derek Rindner , Cheng Li , Zhou Yu
    arXiv 2026
  13. Detect, Remask, Repair: Diffusion Editing for Faithful Summarization of Evolving Contexts
    Hao Zou , Zachary Horvitz , Chandhru Karthick , Zhou Yu , Kathleen McKeown
    arXiv 2026
  14. Fixed Universal Transformer
    Jingwen Liu , Alexandr Andoni , Daniel Hsu
    Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop at ICML 2026
  15. VISTA: A Versatile Interactive User Simulation Toolkit for Agent Evaluation
    Yunan Lu , Ryan Shea , Yusen Zhang , Zhou Yu
    arXiv 2026
  16. Data Flow Control: Data Safety Policies for AI Agents
    Charlie Summers , Eugene Wu
    arXiv 2026
  17. SANA: What Matters for QA Agents over Massive Data Lakes?
    Austin Senna Wijaya , Jiaxiang Liu , Haonan Wang , Eugene Wu
    arXiv 2026
  18. Orchard: An Open-Source Agentic Modeling Framework
    Baolin Peng , Wenlin Yao , Qianhui Wu , Hao Cheng , Xiao Yu , Rui Yang , Tao Ge , Alessandro Sordoni , Xingdi Yuan , Yelong Shen , Pengcheng He , Tong Zhang , Zhou Yu , Jianfeng Gao
    arXiv 2026
  19. AutoRPA: Efficient GUI Automation through LLM-Driven Code Synthesis from Interactions
    Minghao Chen , Xinyi Hu , Zhou Yu , Yufei Yin
    ICML 2026
  20. Detecting Privilege Escalation in Polyglot Microservices via Agentic Program Analysis
    Penghui Li , Hong Yau Chong , Yinzhi Cao , Junfeng Yang
    IEEE S&P 2026
  21. PQR: A Framework to Generate Diverse and Realistic User Queries that Elicit QA Agent Failures
    Yunan Lu , Luigi Liu , Omar Yahia , Arpit Sharma , Zhou Yu
    arXiv 2026
  22. Orchard: An Open-Source Agentic Modeling Framework
    Baolin Peng , Wenlin Yao , Qianhui Wu , Hao Cheng , Xiao Yu , Rui Yang , Tao Ge , Alessandro Sordoni , Xingdi Yuan , Yelong Shen , Pengcheng He , Tong Zhang , Zhou Yu , Jianfeng Gao
    arXiv 2026
  23. SemaTune: Semantic-Aware Online OS Tuning with Large Language Models
    Georgios Liargkovas , Mihir Nitin Joshi , Hubertus Franke , Kostis Kaffes
    arXiv 2026
  24. Conversational Customization of Productivity Systems: A Design Probe of Malleable AI Interfaces
    Karthik Sreedhar , Aryan Kaul , Lydia Chilton
    arXiv 2026
  25. ScarfBench: A Benchmark for Cross-Framework Application Migration in Enterprise Java
    Advait Pavuluri , Bridget McGinn , Ashita Saxena , George Safta , Srikanth Tamilselvam , Raju Pavuluri , Michele Merler , Baishakhi Ray , Rahul Krishna
    arXiv 2026
  26. Panprediction: optimal predictions for any downstream task and loss
    Sivaraman Balakrishnan , Nika Haghtalab , Daniel Hsu , Brian Lee , Eric Zhao
    AISTATS 2026
  27. Prior makes it possible: from sublinear graph algorithms to LLM test-time methods
    Avrim Blum , Daniel Hsu , Cyrus Rashtchian , Donya Saless
    AISTATS 2026
  28. Your Compiler is Backdooring Your Model: Understanding and Exploiting Compilation Inconsistency Vulnerabilities in Deep Learning Compilers
    Simin Chen , Jinjun Peng , Yixin He , Junfeng Yang , Baishakhi Ray
    IEEE S&P 2026
  29. Estimating Tail Risks in Language Model Output Distributions
    Rico Angell , Raghav Singhal , Zachary Horvitz , Zhou Yu , Rajesh Ranganath , Kathleen McKeown , He He
    ICML 2026
  30. BranchBench: Aligning Database Branching with Agentic Demands
    Elaine Ang , Sam Weldon , In Keun Kim , Kevin Durand , Kostis Kaffes , Eugene Wu
    arXiv 2026
  31. MIND: Empowering Mental Health Clinicians with Multimodal Data Insights through a Narrative Dashboard
    Ruishi Zou , Shiyu Xu , Margaret E Morris , Jihan Ryu , Timothy D. Becker , Nicholas Allen , Anne Marie Albano , Randy Auerbach , Dan Adler , Varun Mishra , Lace Padilla , Dakuo Wang , Ryan Sultan , Xuhai Orson Xu
    CHI 2026
  32. More than Decision Support: Exploring Patients' Longitudinal Usage of Large Language Models in Real-World Healthcare-Seeking Journeys
    Yancheng Cao , Yishu Ji , Chris Yue Fu , Sahiti Dharmavaram , Meghan Turchioe , Natalie C Benda , Lena Mamykina , Yuling Sun , Xuhai Orson Xu
    CHI 2026
  33. VineLM: Trie-Based Fine-Grained Control for Agentic Workflows
    Nikos Pagonas , Matthew Lou , Tianyi Peng , Dan Rubenstein , Kostis Kaffes
    arXiv 2026
  34. SYN-DIGITS: A Synthetic Control Framework for Calibrated Digital Twin Simulation
    Grace Jiarui Fan , Chengpiao Huang , Tianyi Peng , Kaizheng Wang , Yuhang Wu
    arXiv 2026
  35. AgentOpt v0.1 Technical Report: Client-Side Optimization for LLM-Based Agents
    Wenyue Hua , Sripad Karne , Qian Xie , Armaan Agrawal , Nikos Pagonas , Kostis Kaffes , Tianyi Peng
    arXiv 2026
  36. Quantifying Trust: Financial Risk Management for Trustworthy AI Agents
    Wenyue Hua , Tianyi Peng , Chi Wang , Jiaxin Pei , Ian Kaufman , Bryan Lim , Chandler Fang
    arXiv 2026
  37. Agentic Data Environments
    Elaine Ang , Chenxi Huang , Georgios Liargkovas , Jerry Liu , Jinhui Liu , Nikos Pagonas , Charlie Summers , Haonan Wang , Jiakai Xu , Tianle Zhou , Yusen Zhang , Zhou Yu , Zhuo Zhang , Tianyi Peng , Kostis Kaffes , Eugene Wu
    IEEE Data Bulletin 2026
  38. Coherence Collapse: Diagnosing Why Code Agents Fail After Reaching the Right Code
    Myeongsoo Kim , Dingmin Wang , Siwei Cui , Farima Farmahinifarahani , Terry Yue Zhuo , Shweta Garg , Baishakhi Ray , Rajdeep Mukherjee , Varun Kumar
    arXiv 2026
  39. Human-Data Interaction, Exploration, and Visualization in the AI Era: Challenges and Opportunities
    Jean-Daniel Fekete , Yifan Hu , Dominik Moritz , Arnab Nandi , Senjuti Basu Roy , Eugene Wu , Nikos Bikakis , George Papastefanatos , Panos K. Chrysanthis , Guoliang Li , Lingyun Yu
    SIGMOD Record 2026
  40. Group-realizable multi-group learning by minimizing empirical risk
    Navid Ardeshir , Samuel Deng , Daniel Hsu , Jingwen Liu
    ALT 2026
  41. Trustworthy AI Software Engineers
    Aldeida Aleti , Baishakhi Ray , Rashina Hoda , Simin Chen
    arXiv 2026
  42. Please Don't Kill My Vibe: Empowering Agents with Data Flow Control
    Charlie Summers , Haneen Mohammed , Eugene Wu
    CIDR 2026 Slides
  43. LLM Generated Persona is a Promise with a Catch
    Ang Li , Haozhe Chen , Hongseok Namkoong , Tianyi Peng
    NeurIPS 2025 Position Paper
  44. Agents for Web Testing: A Case Study in the Wild
    Naimeng Ye , Xiao Yu , Ruize Xu , Tianyi Peng , Zhou Yu
    LAw Workshop at NeurIPS 2025
  45. Data Mixture Optimization: A Multi-Fidelity Multi-Scale Bayesian Framework
    Tzu-Ching Yen , Andrew Wei Tung Siah , Haozhe Chen , C. Daniel Guetta , Tianyi Peng , Hongseok Namkoong
    NeurIPS 2025
  46. Tail-Optimized Caching for LLM Inference
    Wenxin Zhang , Yueying Li , Ciamac C. Moallemi , Tianyi Peng
    NeurIPS 2025
  47. Multi-Agent Markov Entanglement
    Shuze Chen , Tianyi Peng
    NeurIPS 2025 (Spotlight)
  48. Touch in the Wild: Learning Fine-Grained Manipulation with a Portable Visuo-Tactile Gripper
    Xinyue Zhu* , Binghao Huang* , Yunzhu Li
    NeurIPS 2025
  49. Q-learning with Posterior Sampling
    Priyank Agrawal , Shipra Agrawal , Azmat Azati
    NeurIPS 2025
  50. RAISE: Reliable Agent Improvement via Simulated Experience
    Sahar Omidi Shayegan , Joshua Meyer , Victor Shih , Sebastian Sosa , Tianyi Peng , Kostis Kaffes , Eugene Wu , Andi Partovi , Mehdi Jamei
    NeurIPS 2025 (SEA Workshop)
  51. LLM Agents for Always-On Operating System Tuning
    Georgios Liargkovas , Vahab Jabrayilov , Hubertus Franke , Kostis Kaffes
    NeurIPS 2025
  52. Fast attention mechanisms: a tale of parallelism
    Jingwen Liu , Hantao Yu , Clayton Sanford , Alexandr Andoni , Daniel Hsu
    NeurIPS 2025
  53. A Decade of Systems for Human Data Interaction
    Eugene Wu , Yiru Chen , Haneen Mohammed , Zezhou Huang
    ArXiV 2025
  54. SAGE: A Top-Down Bottom-Up Knowledge-Grounded User Simulator for Multi-turn AGent Evaluation
    Ryan Shea , Yunan Lu , Liang Qiu , Zhou Yu
    EACL 2026
  55. Set It and Forget It: Zero-Mod ML Magic for Linux Tuning
    Georgios Liargkovas , Prabhpreet Singh Sodhi , Kostis Kaffes
    PACMI Workshop at SOSP 2025
  56. Cortex: Workflow-Aware Resource Pooling and Scheduling for Agentic Serving
    Nikos Pagonas , Yeounoh Chung , Kostis Kaffes , Arvind Krishnamurthy
    SAA Workshop at SOSP 2025
  57. Toward Systems Foundations for Agentic Exploration
    Jiakai Xu , Tianle Zhou , Eugene Wu , Kostis Kaffes
    SAA Workshop at SOSP 2025
  58. Do Spammers Dream of Electric Sheep? Characterizing the Prevalence of LLM-Generated Malicious Emails
    Wei Hao , Van Tran , Vincent Rideout , Zixi Wang , AnMei Dasbach-Prisk , M. H. Afifi , Junfeng Yang , Ethan Katz-Bassett , Grant Ho , Asaf Cidon
    IMC 2025
  59. PickleBall: Secure Deserialization of Pickle-based Machine Learning Models
    Andreas Kellas , Neophytos Christou , Wenxin Jiang , Penghui Li , Laurent Simon , Yaniv David , Vasileios P. Kemerlis , James C. Davis , Junfeng Yang
    CCS 2025
  60. The Anatomy of a Personal Health Agent
    A. Ali Heydari , Ken Gu , Vidya Srinivas , Hong Yu , Zhihan Zhang , Yuwei Zhang , Akshay Paruchuri , Qian He , Hamid Palangi , Nova Hammerquist , Ahmed A. Metwally , Brent Winslow , Yubin Kim , Kumar Ayush , Yuzhe Yang , Girish Narayanswamy , Maxwell A. Xu , Jake Garrison , Amy Armento Lee , Jenny Vafeiadou , Ben Graef , Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy , Erik Schenck , Andrew Barakat , Javier Perez , Jacqueline Shreibati , John Hernandez , Anthony Z. Faranesh , Javier L. Prieto , Connor Heneghan , Yun Liu , Jiening Zhan , Mark Malhotra , Shwetak Patel , Tim Althoff , Xin Liu , Daniel McDuff , Xuhai Orson Xu
    arXiv 2025
  61. Suna: Scalable Causal Confounder Discovery over Relational Data
    Jiaxiang Liu , Siyuan Xia , Daniel Alabi , Eugene Wu
    VLDB 2025
  62. EditLord: Learning Code Transformation Rules for Code Editing
    Weichen Li , Albert Jan , Baishakhi Ray , Chengzhi Mao , Junfeng Yang , Kexin Pei
    ICML 2025
  63. Learning to Rewrite: Generalized LLM-Generated Text Detection
    Ran Li , Wei Hao , Weiliang Zhao , Junfeng Yang , Chengzhi Mao
    ACL 2025
  64. Performance of LLMs on Stochastic Modeling Operations Research Problems: From Theory to Practice.
    Akshit Kumar , Tianyi Peng , Yuhang Wu , Assaf Zeevi
    Winter Simulation Conference 2025
  65. Prompt Editor: A Taxonomy-driven System for Guided LLM Prompt Development in Enterprise Settings
    Jeffery Cao , Lampros Flokas , Yujian Xu , Eugene Wu , Xu Chu , Cong Yu
    SIGMOD Demo 2025
  66. Towards a Framework for Optimizing Hierarchical Text Segmentation using LLMs
    Lampros Flokas , Jeffrey Cao , Yujian Xu , Eugene Wu , Xu Chu , Cong Yu
    DEEM Workshop at SIGMOD 2025
  67. Position Paper: A System-Centric Approach is Necessary for AI Agents
    Nikos Pagonas , Haonan Wang , Jiaxiang Liu , Tianle Zhou , Deepak Dastrala , Raman Jatkar , Anirudh Sivaraman , Zhou Yu , Kostis Kaffes , Eugene Wu
    arXiv 2025
  68. Twin-2K-500: A dataset for building digital twins of over 2,000 people based on their answers to over 500 questions
    Olivier Toubia , George Z. Gui , Tianyi Peng , Daniel J. Merlau , Ang Li , and Haozhe Chen
    Marketing Science
  69. Diversity Helps Jailbreak Large Language Models
    Weiliang Zhao , Daneil Ben-Levi , Wei Hao , Junfeng Yang , Chengzhi Mao
    NAACL 2025
  70. CrashFixer: A Crash Resolution Agent for the Linux Kernel
    Alex Mathai , Chenxi Huang , Suwei Ma , Jihwan Kim , Hailie Mitchell , Aleksandr Nogikh , Petros Maniatis , Franjo Ivančić , Junfeng Yang , Baishakhi Ray
    Arxiv 2025
  71. FeedQUAC: Quick Unobtrusive Agent-Generated Commentary
    Tao Long , Kendra Wannamaker , Jo Vermeulen , George Fitzmaurice , Justin Matejka
    arXiv 2025
  72. Steering Semantic Data Processing With DocWrangler
    Shreya Shankar , Bhavya Chopra , Mawil Hasan , Stephen Lee , Bjoern Hartmann , Joseph Hellerstein , Aditya Parameswaran , Eugene Wu
    UIST 2025
  73. Throughput-Optimal Scheduling Algorithms for LLM Inference and AI Agents
    Yueying Li , Jim Dai , Tianyi Peng
    Arxiv 2025
  74. AgentDynEx: Nudging the Mechanics and Dynamics of Multi-Agent Simulations
    Jenny Ma , Riya Sahni , Karthik Sreedhar , Lydia Chilton
    Under Submission
  75. DocETL: Agentic Query Rewriting and Evaluation for Complex Document Processing
    Shreya Shankar , Tristan Chambers , Tarak Shah , Aditya G. Parameswaran , Eugene Wu
    VLDB 2025
  76. Program Synthesis Dialog Agents for Interactive Decision-Making
    Matthew Toles , Nikhil Balwani , Rattandeep Singh , Valentina Giulia Sartori Rodriguez , Zhou Yu
    arXiv 2025
  77. How Well do LLMs Compress their Own Chain-of-Thought? A Token Complexity Approach
    Ayeong Lee , Ethan Che , Tianyi Peng
    ICML, Efficient Systems for Foundation Models Workshop 2025
  78. ExACT: Teaching AI Agents to Explore with Reflective-MCTS and Exploratory Learning
    Xiao Yu , Baolin Peng , Vineeth Vajipey , Hao Cheng , Michel Galley , Jianfeng Gao , Zhou Yu
    ICLR 2025
  79. AnimationAgents: A Multi-Modal Team of Agents for Generating, Debugging, and Human Editing of Animation Code
    Vivian Liu , Rubaiat Habib Kazi , Li-Yi Wei , Matthew Fisher , Timothy Langlois , Seth Walker , Lydia Chilton
    CHI 2025
  80. ACE: A LLM Agent-based Negotiation Coaching System
    Ryan Shea , Aymen Kallala , Xin Lucy Liu , Michael W. Morris , Zhou Yu
    EMNLP 2024
  81. Fast Userspace Networking for the Rest of Us
    Alireza Sanaee , Vahab Jabrayilov , Ilias Marinos , Anuj Kalia , Divyanshu Saxena , Prateesh Goyal , Kostis Kaffes , Gianni Antichi
    arXiv 2025
  82. DynEx: Agentic Assistance to Bridge Design and Code
    Jenny Ma , Karthik Sreedhar , Vivian Liu , Pedro Alejandro Perez , Sitong Wang , Riya Sahni , Lydia Chilton
    CHI 2025
  83. DietGlance: dietary monitoring and personalized analysis at a glance with knowledge-empowered AI assistant
    Zhihan Jiang , Running Zhao , Lin Lin , Yue Yu , Handi Chen , Xinchen Zhang , Xuhai Orson Xu , Yifang Wang , Xiaojuan Ma , Edith CH Ngai
    ACM HEALTH
  84. Data Cleaning Using Large Language Models
    Shuo Zhang , Zezhou Huang , Eugene Wu
    DAIS Workshop at ICDE 2025
  85. Alexpaca: Learning Factual Clarification Question Generation Without Examples
    Matthew Toles , Yukun Huang , Zhou Yu , Luis Gravano
    GEM^2 Workshop at ACL 2025
  86. KGym: A Platform and Dataset to Benchmark Large Language Models on Linux Kernel Crash Resolution
    Alex Mathai , Chenxi Huang , Petros Maniatis , Aleksandr Nogikh , Franjo Ivančić , Junfeng Yang , Baishakhi Ray
    NeurIPS 2024
  87. Simulating Cooperative Prosocial Behavior with Multi-Agent LLMs
    Karthik Sreedhar , Alice Cai , Jenny Ma , Jeffrey V. Nickerson , Lydia Chilton
    IUI 2025
  88. Law-Abiding Agents: Demonstrating Safe Tax Preparation with Data Flow Control
    Charlie Summers , Prajwal Raghunath , Zhibin Shen , Hardik Gupta , Eric Choi , Mayur Kulkarni , Sally Go , Peter Yu , Akriti Agarwal , Zhuo Zhang , Oliver Kennedy , Eugene Wu
    Preprint 2026