Mian Zhang

Hi, I'm a PhD Candidate in UTD, working with Zhiyu Zoey Chen. I was a research intern at Scale Labs, Zoom Gen AI, and Tencent AI Lab.

Open to work I am seeking a Research/Applied Scientist position starting in 2027. Feel free to reach out if there is a match!

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Research

I work on LLM Agents.

Papers

* equal contribution

Spine-Branch Coordination for Multi-agent Computer Use
Mian Zhang, Manasi Sharma, Sheng Zhang, Minlai Yang, Kejian Shi, Ying Liu, Zhiyu Zoey Chen, Daniel Yue Zhang
Preprint
Project Page
Mitigating Exploration Bias in RL for Multi-Instruction Following
Mian Zhang, Yueqin Yin, Kaiyu He, Peilin Wu, Xinlu Zhang, Mingyuan Zhou, Zhiyu Zoey Chen
EMNLP 2026
code
LogicIF: Towards Complex Logic Instruction Following
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
COLM 2026
code and benchmark
MMTok: Multimodal Coverage Maximization for Efficient Inference of VLMs
Sixun Dong, Juhua Hu, Mian Zhang, Ming Yin, Yanjie Fu, Qi Qian
ICLR 2026
Project Page
HiPRAG: Hierarchical Process Rewards for Efficient Agentic Retrieval Augmented Generation
Peilin Wu, Mian Zhang, Kun Wan, Wentian Zhao, Kaiyu He, Xinya Du, Zhiyu Chen
ICLR 2026
code
Search Wisely: Mitigating Sub-optimal Agentic Searches By Reducing Uncertainty
Mian Zhang*, Peilin Wu*, Xinlu Zhang, Xinya Du, Zhiyu Zoey Chen
EMNLP 2025
code
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
Preference Learning Unlocks LLMs' Psycho-Counseling Skills
Mian Zhang, Shaun M. Eack, Zhiyu Zoey Chen
ACL 2026
code/   dataset and models
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
SafeConv: Explaining and Correcting Conversational Unsafe Bahavior
Mian Zhang, Lifeng Jin, Linfeng Song, Haitao Mi, Wenliang Chen, Dong Yu
ACL 2023 (Oral Presentation)
dataset
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)
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
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