Yuting Ning

I am a second-year PhD student at The Ohio State University (OSU), advised by Prof. Huan Sun and working closely with Prof. Yu Su. Previously, I obtained my Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), advised by Prof. Enhong Chen.

I am broadly interested in NLP and related fields. My current research focuses on language agents, with the goal of building and trustworthy AI agents that can reliably assist humans by automating complex or tedious tasks. Recently, my work has explored world model–based planning for web agents (WebDreamer), evaluation of agents on long-horizon web search tasks (Mind2Web 2) and scientific discovery tasks (ScienceAgentBench), and agent safety (RedTeamCUA).

Feel free to reach out if you are interested in my research or potential collaborations.

News

Feb 10, 2026	Excited to share our latest work on agent safety about 🛡️misaligned actions and 😈unintended behaviors in computer-use agents!
Sep 22, 2025	Glad to share 💭WebDreamer is accepted to TMLR!
Sep 18, 2025	🔍Mind2Web 2 is accepted to NeurIPS 2025! See you in San Diego 🌊!
Jun 26, 2025	🔍Mind2Web 2 is released! A rigorous agentic search benchmark with long-horizon tasks and Agent-as-a-Judge evaluation.
Apr 10, 2025	Excited to share my first project during my PhD - 💭WebDreamer, using your LLMs as a web world model for model-based planning.

Selected publications

ArXiv

When Actions Go Off-Task: Detecting and Correcting Misaligned Actions in Computer-Use Agents

Yuting Ning, Jaylen Jones, Zhehao Zhang, Chentao Ye, Weitong Ruan, Junyi Li, Rahul Gupta, and Huan Sun

arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.08995, 2026

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NeurIPS

Mind2Web 2: Evaluating Agentic Search with Agent-as-a-Judge

Boyu Gou^*, Zanming Huang^*, Yuting Ning^*, Yu Gu, Michael Lin, Botao Yu, Andrei Kopanev, Weijian Qi, Yiheng Shu, Jiaman Wu, Chan Hee Song, Bernal Jimenez Gutierrez, Yifei Li, Zeyi Liao, Hanane Nour Moussa, Tianshu Zhang, Jian Xie, Tianci Xue, Shijie Chen, Boyuan Zheng, Kai Zhang, Zhaowei Cai, Viktor Rozgic, Morteza Ziyadi, Huan Sun, and Yu Su

In The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track, 2025

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TMLR

Is Your LLM Secretly a World Model of the Internet? Model-Based Planning for Web Agents

Yu Gu^*, Kai Zhang^*, Yuting Ning^*, Boyuan Zheng^*, Boyu Gou, Tianci Xue, Cheng Chang, Sanjari Srivastava, Yanan Xie, Peng Qi, and others

Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2025

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RedTeamCUA: Realistic Adversarial Testing of Computer-Use Agents in Hybrid Web-OS Environments

Zeyi Liao^*, Jaylen Jones^*, Linxi Jiang^*, Yuting Ning, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Yu Su, Zhiqiang Lin, and Huan Sun

arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.21936, 2025

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Agent Learning via Early Experience

Kai Zhang, Xiangchao Chen, Bo Liu, Tianci Xue, Zeyi Liao, Zhihan Liu, Xiyao Wang, Yuting Ning, Zhaorun Chen, Xiaohan Fu, Jian Xie, Yuxuan Sun, Boyu Gou, Qi Qi, Zihang Meng, Jianwei Yang, Ning Zhang, Xian Li, Ashish Shah, Dat Huynh, Hengduo Li, Zi Yang, Sara Cao, Lawrence Jang, Shuyan Zhou, Jiacheng Zhu, Huan Sun, Jason Weston, Yu Su, and Yifan Wu

arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.08558, 2025

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ICLR

ScienceAgentBench: Toward Rigorous Assessment of Language Agents for Data-Driven Scientific Discovery

Ziru Chen, Shijie Chen, Yuting Ning, Qianheng Zhang, Boshi Wang, Botao Yu, Yifei Li, Zeyi Liao, Chen Wei, Zitong Lu, and others

The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025

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Pandora: Towards General World Model with Natural Language Actions and Video States

Jiannan Xiang^*, Guangyi Liu^*, Yi Gu^*, Qiyue Gao, Yuting Ning, Yuheng Zha, Zeyu Feng, Tianhua Tao, Shibo Hao, Yemin Shi, Zhengzhong Liu, Eric P. Xing, and Zhiting Hu

2024

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