Mian Zhang

Hi, I'm a CS PhD in UTD, advised by Zhiyu Zoey Chen. I was a research intern at Zoom Gen AI, Tencent AI Lab and a member of the NLP group at Soochow University.

I am seeking a Research Internship next summer. Please reach out if you have any opportunities!

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Research

I am actively working on post-training and synthetic data generation to equip LLMs with cool and reliable instruction following, reasoning, and agentic abilities.

(* = equal contribution)

Complex Logical Instruction Generation
Mian Zhang, Shujian Liu, Sixun Dong, Ming Yin, Yebowen Hu, Xun Wang, Steven Ma, Song Wang, Sathish Reddy Indurthi, Haoyun Deng, Zhiyu Zoey Chen, Kaiqiang Song
Preprint
code and benchmark
LiveMCP-101: Stress Testing and Diagnosing MCP-enabled Agents on Challenging Queries
Ming Yin, Dinghan Shen, Silei Xu, Jianbing Han, Sixun Dong, Mian Zhang, Yebowen Hu, Shujian Liu, Simin Ma, Song Wang, Sathish Reddy Indurthi, Xun Wang, Yiran Chen, Kaiqiang Song
Preprint
code and benchmark (coming soon)
MMTok: Multimodal Coverage Maximization for Efficient Inference of VLMs
Sixun Dong, Juhua Hu, Mian Zhang, Ming Yin, Yanjie Fu, Qi Qian
Preprint
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Search Wisely: Mitigating Sub-optimal Agentic Searches By Reducing Uncertainty
Peilin Wu*, Mian Zhang*, Xinlu Zhang, Xinya Du, Zhiyu Zoey Chen
EMNLP 2025
code
LMR-Bench: Evaluating LLM Agent's Ability on Reproducing Language Modeling Research
Shuo Yan, Ziming Luo, Zimu Wang, Ruochen Li, Daoyang Li, Liqiang Jing, Kaiyu He, Peilin Wu, Juntong Ni, George Michalopoulos, Yue Zhang, Ziyang Zhang, Mian Zhang, Zhiyu Chen, Xinya Du
EMNLP 2025
dataset and code
Preference Learning Unlocks LLMs' Psycho-Counseling Skills
Mian Zhang, Shaun M. Eack, Zhiyu Zoey Chen
Preprint
code/   dataset and models
Large Language Models for Disease Diagnosis: A Scoping Review
Shuang Zhou*, Zidu Xu*, Mian Zhang*, Chunpu Xu*, Yawen Guo, Zaifu Zhan, Sirui Ding, Jiashuo Wang, Kaishuai Xu, Yi Fang, Liqiao Xia, Jeremy Yeung, Daochen Zha, Mingquan Lin, Rui Zhang
npj Artificial Intelligence 2025
CBT-Bench: Evaluating Large Language Models on Assisting Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Mian Zhang*, Xianjun Yang*, Xinlu Zhang, Travis Labrum, Jamie C. Chiu, Shaun M. Eack, Fei Fang, William Yang Wang, Zhiyu Zoey Chen
NAACL 2025
dataset
IDEA: Enhancing the Rule Learning Ability of Large Language Model Agent through Induction, Deduction, and Abduction
Kaiyu He, Mian Zhang, Shuo Yan, Peilin Wu, Zhiyu Zoey Chen
ACL 2025
code and data
Inconsistent dialogue responses and how to recover from them
Mian Zhang, Lifeng Jin, Linfeng Song, Haitao Mi, Dong Yu
EACL 2024
code and dataset
SafeConv: Explaining and Correcting Conversational Unsafe Bahavior
Mian Zhang, Lifeng Jin, Linfeng Song, Haitao Mi, Wenliang Chen, Dong Yu
ACL 2023 (Oral Presentation)
dataset
Friend-training: Learning from Different but Related Tasks
Mian Zhang, Lifeng Jin, Linfeng Song, Haitao Mi, Dong Yu
EACL 2023
A Pairing Enhancement Approach for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction
Fang Yang, Mian Zhang, Gongzhen Hu, Xiabing Zhou
KSEM 2023
Emotion Recognition in Conversation from Variable-Length Context
Mian Zhang, Xiabing Zhou, Wenliang Chen, Min Zhang
ICASSP 2023