Selected Publications (* denotes equal contribution)

You can also find all of my articles on [my Google Scholar profile]

2026

• Towards Trustworthy Physical AI: From Theory to Practice Across the Life Cycle
  • Wang Yang^*, Shaobo Wang^*, Hongxuan Liu^*, Xiaoran Cai^*, Yunyu He, Jingzong Zhou, Mengzhong Ma, Yi Yu, Rohit Sharma, Jingjing Fu, Peng Qi
  • Under Review [Paper]
• Path-Lock Expert: Separating Reasoning Mode in Hybrid Thinking via Architecture-Level Separation
  • Shouren Wang^*, Wang Yang^*, Chuang Ma, Debargha Ganguly, Vikash Singh, Chaoda Song, Xinpeng Li, Xianxuan Long, Vipin Chaudhary, Xiaotian Han
  • COLM 2026 [Paper]
• A Survey on Agent Skills for LLMs: A Lifecycle Perspective from Construction to Ecosystems
  • Wang Yang, Chaoda Song, Xinpeng Li, Shouren Wang, Nengbo Wang, Yanyan Zhang, Chuang Ma, Debargha Ganguly, Vikash Singh, Shuai Xu, Jing Ma, Yu Yin, Vipin Chaudhary, Xiaotian Han
  • Under Review [Paper]
• AgentCE-Bench: Agent Configurable Evaluation with Scalable Horizons and Controllable Difficulty under Lightweight Environments
  • Wang Yang, Chaoda Song, Xinpeng Li, Debargha Ganguly, Chuang Ma, Shouren Wang, Zhihao Dou, Yuli Zhou, Vipin Chaudhary, Xiaotian Han
  • Under Review [Paper] [Code]
• When Domains Interact: Asymmetric and Order-Sensitive Cross-Domain Effects in Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning
  • Wang Yang, Shouren Wang, Chaoda Song, Chuang Ma, Xinpeng Li, Nengbo Wang, Kaixiong Zhou, Vipin Chaudhary, Xiaotian Han
  • Under Review [Paper]
• Mid-Think: Training-Free Intermediate-Budget Reasoning via Token-Level Triggers
  • Wang Yang^*, Shouren Wang^*, Debargha Ganguly, Xinpeng Li, Chaoda Song, Vikash Singh, Vipin Chaudhary, Xiaotian Han.
  • ACL 2026 Findings[Paper]

2025

• Demystifying Hybrid Thinking: Can Llms Truly Switch Between Think And No-Think?
  • Shouren Wang^*, Wang Yang^*, Xianxuan Long, Qifan Wang, Vipin Chaudhary, Xiaotian Han.
  • EMNLP 2026 Main [Paper]
• Longer Context, Deeper Thinking: Uncovering the Role of Long-Context Ability in Reasoning
  • Wang Yang, Zirui Liu, Hongye Jin, Qingyu Yin, Vipin Chaudhary, Xiaotian Han.
  • NeurIPS 2025 [Paper]
• Speculative Thinking: Enhancing Small-Model Reasoning with Large Model Guidance at Inference Time
  • Wang Yang, Xiang Yue, Vipin Chaudhary, Xiaotian Han.
  • COLM 2025 [Paper]
• Thinking Preference Optimization
  • Wang Yang, Hongye Jin, Jingfeng Yang, Vipin Chaudhary, Xiaotian Han.
  • Under Review [Paper]
• 100-LongBench: Are de facto Long-Context Benchmarks Literally Evaluating Long-Context Ability?
  • Wang Yang, Hongye Jin, Shaochen Zhong, Song Jiang, Qifan Wang, Vipin Chaudhary, Xiaotian Han.
  • ACL 2025 Findings [Paper]