About

I'm Tengxiao Liu, a second-year Ph.D. student at University of California, Santa Barbara, advised by Prof. William Wang.

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Selected Publications #

• Budget-Aware Tool-Use Enables Effective Agent Scaling [paper] [media 📸]
  Tengxiao Liu, Zifeng Wang, Jin Miao, I-Hung Hsu, Jun Yan, Jiefeng Chen, Rujun Han, Fangyuan Xu, Yanfei Chen, Ke Jiang, Samira Daruki, Yi Liang, William Yang Wang, Tomas Pfister, Chen-Yu Lee
  COLM 2026

• WildSci: Advancing Scientific Reasoning from In-the-Wild Literature [paper]
  Tengxiao Liu, Deepak Nathani, Zekun Li, Kevin Yang, William Yang Wang
  NeurIPS AI4Sci Workshop, 2025
  🏆 2nd prize in Reasoning Dataset Competition
  ACL 2026 Findings

• Can Language Models Learn to Skip Steps? [paper]
  Tengxiao Liu, Qipeng Guo, Xiangkun Hu, Jiayang Cheng, Yue Zhang, Xipeng Qiu, Zheng Zhang
  NeurIPS 2024

• Full Parameter Fine-tuning for Large Language Models with Limited Resources [paper]
  Kai Lv, Yuqing Yang, Tengxiao Liu, Qinghui Gao, Qipeng Guo, Xipeng Qiu
  🏆 ACL 2024 (oral)

• Plan, Verify and Switch: Integrated Reasoning with Diverse X-of-Thoughts [paper]
  Tengxiao Liu, Qipeng Guo, Yuqing Yang, Xiangkun Hu, Yue Zhang, Xipeng Qiu, Zheng Zhang
  NeurIPS 2023 MATH-AI Workshop
  EMNLP 2023

• RLET: A Reinforcement Learning Based Approach for Explainable QA with Entailment Trees [paper]
  Tengxiao Liu, Qipeng Guo, Xiangkun Hu, Yue Zhang, Xipeng Qiu, Zheng Zhang
  EMNLP 2022

Awards #

• Reasoning Dataset Competition 2nd Prize, 2025
• NeurIPS Travel Award, 2024
• Academic Excellence Fellowship, UC Santa Barbara, 2024
• Shanghai Outstanding Graduate, Shanghai, 2024

Academic Services #

• Reviewer: NeurIPS (24-26), ICML (25-26), ICLR (25-26), ARR (24-26), COLM (25-26)