Publications

Full list also available on my Google Scholar. (* indicates equal contribution.)

2026

SkillHarm: Lifecycle-Aware Skill-Based Attacks via Automated Construction

Yuting Ning^*, Zhehao Zhang^*, Yash Kumar Lal, Boyu Gou, Junyi Li, Weitong Ruan, Chentao Ye, Rahul Gupta, Diyi Yang, Yu Su, Huan Sun

Preprint 2026 PDF Code Website

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, Huan Sun

ICML 2026 PDF Code Data Website Post

When Benign Inputs Lead to Severe Harms: Eliciting Unsafe Unintended Behaviors of Computer-Use Agents

Jaylen Jones^*, Zhehao Zhang^*, Yuting Ning, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Pierre-Luc St-Charles, Yoshua Bengio, Dawn Song, Yu Su, Huan Sun

ICML 2026 PDF Code Data Website

2025

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, Yu Su

NeurIPS 2025 PDF Code Data Website Post

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, others

TMLR 2025 PDF Code Post

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, Huan Sun

ICLR (Oral) 2025 PDF Code Website

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, Yifan Wu

Preprint 2025 PDF

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, others

ICLR 2025 PDF Code Website

2024

Decompose, analyze and rethink: Solving intricate problems with human-like reasoning cycle

Shangzi Xue, Zhenya Huang, Jiayu Liu, Xin Lin, Yuting Ning, Binbin Jin, Xin Li, Qi Liu

NeurIPS 2024 PDF

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, Zhiting Hu

Preprint 2024 PDF Code Website

EduNLP: Towards a Unified and Modularized Library for Educational Resources

Zhenya Huang, Yuting Ning, Longhu Qin, Shiwei Tong, Shangzi Xue, Tong Xiao, Xin Lin, Jiayu Liu, Qi Liu, Enhong Chen, others

Preprint 2024 PDF Code

In Search of the Long-Tail: Systematic Generation of Long-Tail Knowledge via Logical Rule Guided Search

Huihan Li, Yuting Ning, Zeyi Liao, Siyuan Wang, Xiang Lorraine Li, Ximing Lu, Faeze Brahman, Wenting Zhao, Yejin Choi, Xiang Ren

EMNLP 2024 PDF Code Data

2023

Towards a Holistic Understanding of Mathematical Questions with Contrastive Pre-training

Yuting Ning, Zhenya Huang, Xin Lin, Enhong Chen, Shiwei Tong, Zheng Gong, Shijin Wang

AAAI 2023 PDF Code

A Novel Approach for Auto-Formulation of Optimization Problems

Yuting Ning, Jiayu Liu, Longhu Qin, Tong Xiao, Shangzi Xue, Zhenya Huang, Qi Liu, Enhong Chen, Jinze Wu

Preprint 2023 PDF Code

Efficiently Measuring the Cognitive Ability of LLMs: An Adaptive Testing Perspective

Yan Zhuang, Qi Liu, Yuting Ning, Weizhe Huang, Rui Lv, Zhenya Huang, Guanhao Zhao, Zheng Zhang, Qingyang Mao, Shijin Wang, others

Preprint 2023 PDF

Federated User Modeling from Hierarchical Information

Qi Liu, Jinze Wu, Zhenya Huang, Hao Wang, Yuting Ning, Ming Chen, Enhong Chen, Jinfeng Yi, Bowen Zhou

TOIS 2023 PDF

TechPat: Technical Phrase Extraction for Patent Mining

Ye Liu, Han Wu, Zhenya Huang, Hao Wang, Yuting Ning, Jianhui Ma, Qi Liu, Enhong Chen

TKDD 2023 PDF

Beyond Homophily: Robust Graph Anomaly Detection via Neural Sparsification

Zheng Gong, Guifeng Wang, Ying Sun, Qi Liu, Yuting Ning, Hui Xiong, Jingyu Peng

IJCAI 2023 PDF

2021

Hierarchical personalized federated learning for user modeling

Jinze Wu, Qi Liu, Zhenya Huang, Yuting Ning, Hao Wang, Enhong Chen, Jinfeng Yi, Bowen Zhou

WWW 2021 PDF