Selected Publications

WebShaper: Agentically Data Synthesizing via Information-Seeking Formalization

Zhengwei Tao, Jialong Wu, Wenbiao Yin, Pu Wu, Junkai Zhang, Baixuan Li, Haiyang Shen, Kuan Li, Liwen Zhang, Xinyu Wang, Wentao Zhang, Yong Jiang, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang, Jingren Zhou

ICLR 2026 Poster

WebLeaper: Empowering Efficiency and Efficacy in WebAgent via Enabling Info-Rich Seeking

Zhengwei Tao, Haiyang Shen, Baixuan Li, Wenbiao Yin, Jialong Wu, Kuan Li, Zhongwang Zhang, Huifeng Yin, Rui Ye, Yong Jiang, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang, Jingren Zhou, Wentao Zhang, Yun Ma, Zhiqiang Gao

ICLR 2026 Poster

WizardEvent: Empowering Event Reasoning by Hybrid Event-Aware Data Synthesizing

Zhengwei Tao, Xiancai Chen, Zhi Jin, Xiaoying Bai, Haiyan Zhao, Wenpeng Hu, Chongyang Tao, Shuai Ma

IEEE TKDE 2026 IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 38(2): 1412-1426

RAGShaper: Eliciting Sophisticated Agentic RAG Skills via Automated Data Synthesis

Zhengwei Tao, Bo Li, Jialong Wu, Guochen Yan, Huanyao Zhang, Jiahao Xu, Haitao Mi, Wentao Zhang

arXiv 2026

A Comprehensive Evaluation on Event Reasoning of Large Language Models

Zhengwei Tao, Zhi Jin, Yifan Zhang, Xiancai Chen, Haiyan Zhao, Jia Li, Bin Liang, Chongyang Tao, Qun Liu, Kam-Fai Wong

AAAI 2025 pp. 25273-25281

PROPHET: An Inferable Future Forecasting Benchmark with Causal Intervened Likelihood Estimation

Zhengwei Tao, Zhi Jin, Bincheng Li, Xiaoying Bai, Haiyan Zhao, Chengfeng Dou, Xiancai Chen, Jia Li, Linyu Li, Chongyang Tao

arXiv 2025

A Survey on Self-Evolution of Large Language Models

Zhengwei Tao, Ting-En Lin, Xiancai Chen, Hangyu Li, Yuchuan Wu, Yongbin Li, Zhi Jin, Fei Huang, Dacheng Tao, Jingren Zhou

arXiv 2024

EVIT: Event-Oriented Instruction Tuning for Event Reasoning

Zhengwei Tao, Xiancai Chen, Zhi Jin, Xiaoying Bai, Haiyan Zhao, Yiwei Lou

ACL 2024 Findings pp. 8966-8979

MEEL: Multi-Modal Event Evolution Learning

Zhengwei Tao, Zhi Jin, Junqiang Huang, Xiancai Chen, Xiaoying Bai, Yifan Zhang, Chongyang Tao

ACL 2024 Findings pp. 8912-8925

ODA: Observation-Driven Agent for integrating LLMs and Knowledge Graphs

Lei Sun*, Zhengwei Tao*, Youdi Li, Hiroshi Arakawa

ACL 2024 Findings pp. 7417-7431

* Equal contribution.

UniEvent: Unified Generative Model with Multi-Dimensional Prefix for Zero-Shot Event-Relational Reasoning

Zhengwei Tao, Zhi Jin, Haiyan Zhao, Chengfeng Dou, Yongqiang Zhao, Tao Shen, Chongyang Tao

ACL 2023 Long Papers, pp. 7088-7102

SEAG: Structure-Aware Event Causality Generation

Zhengwei Tao, Zhi Jin, Xiaoying Bai, Haiyan Zhao, Chengfeng Dou, Yongqiang Zhao, Fang Wang, Chongyang Tao

ACL 2023 Findings pp. 4631-4644

EvEval: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Event Semantics for Large Language Models

Zhengwei Tao, Zhi Jin, Xiaoying Bai, Haiyan Zhao, Yanlin Feng, Jia Li, Wenpeng Hu

arXiv 2023