📝 Publications

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Arxiv
CertBind from Multimodal Connectivity to Certifiable Retrieval Decisions

CertBind from Multimodal Connectivity to Certifiable Retrieval Decisions

Shuheng Cao*, Zhenhao Zhang*, Ruiqi Chen*, Renjie Cao, Weijia Zhang, Siyu Zhang, Jiaxin Liu, Xiangyu Zeng, Haotian Geng, Fan Gu

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Paper

Arxiv
Every Act Has Its Price: Compressed Moral Composition in Frontier LLMs

Every Act Has Its Price: Compressed Moral Composition in Frontier LLMs

Weijia Zhang*, Ruiqi Chen*, Yunze Xiao*, Weihao Xuan

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Arxiv
Beyond Agreement: Scoring Panel-Surfaced Biomedical Entity Candidates for Curator Triage

Beyond Agreement: Scoring Panel-Surfaced Biomedical Entity Candidates for Curator Triage

Shuheng Cao*, Ruiqi Chen*, Renjie Cao, Zhenhao Zhang, Siyu Zhang, Tingting Dan

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Paper

EMNLP 2026
Can AI Agents Answer Your Data Questions? A Benchmark for Data Agents

Can AI Agents Answer Your Data Questions? A Benchmark for Data Agents

Ruiying Ma*, Shreya Shankar*, Ruiqi Chen, Yiming Lin, Sepanta Zeighami, Rajoshi Ghosh, Abhinav Gupta, Anushrut Gupta, Tanmai Gopal, Aditya G. Parameswaran

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2026 (EMNLP2026) Acceptance Rate: 15.4% (2719 / 17669)

Paper | Github | Website

CVPR 2026
CapNav: Benchmarking Vision Language Models on Capability-conditioned Indoor Navigation

CapNav: Benchmarking Vision Language Models on Capability-conditioned Indoor Navigation

Xia Su*, Ruiqi Chen*, Benlin Liu, Jingwei Ma, Zonglin Di, Ranjay Krishna, Jon E. Froehlich

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026 (CVPR2026) Acceptance Rate: 25.4% (4090 / 16092)

Paper | Github | Hugging Face | Website

Arxiv
Who Responds When the Driver Is Gone? A Framework for Human Intent Understanding

Who Responds When the Driver Is Gone? A Framework for Human Intent Understanding

Xuewen Luo, Ding Fan, Ruiqi Chen, Ye Cao, Xiujin Liu, Bo Yu, Fengze Yang, Chenxi Liu

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Arxiv
How Much Vision Does Multimodal Reasoning Need? Vision-Stripping for Multimodal Benchmarks

How Much Vision Does Multimodal Reasoning Need? Vision-Stripping for Multimodal Benchmarks

Weijia Zhang, Zijia Liu, Tianyi Zhang, Ruiqi Chen, Lian Zhang, Haoru Li, Haoqi Chen, Jiaxuan You

Preprint

Paper coming soon.

Arxiv
Event-VLA: Action-Conditioned Event Fusion for Robust Vision-Language-Action Model

Event-VLA: Action-Conditioned Event Fusion for Robust Vision-Language-Action Model

Jiaxin Liu*, Xun Xu*, Zhenhao Zhang*, Hanqing Wang, Ruiqi Chen, Shi Chang, Weiyu Guo, Laurent Kneip

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Arxiv
NüshuVoice: Reviving the Voice of Endangered Nüshu with Pitch-Aware Text-to-Speech

NüshuVoice: Reviving the Voice of Endangered Nüshu with Pitch-Aware Text-to-Speech

Hongkun Yang*, Xinhui Yi*, Xiyan Zhao*, Yibo Meng*, Lionel Z. Wang, Lixu Wang, Yaqi Zhang, Ruiqi Chen, Xuanyue Zhao, Lanxin Zhang, Yu Zeng, Weijia Chu, Yiming Ma, Chenyu Liu, Jianghao Lin, Xin Xu

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CIDR 2026
Supporting Our AI Overlords: Redesigning Data Systems to be Agent-First

Supporting Our AI Overlords: Redesigning Data Systems to be Agent-First

Shu Liu, Soujanya Ponnapalli, Shreya Shankar, Sepanta Zeighami, Alan Zhu, Shubham Agarwal, Ruiqi Chen, Samion Suwito, Shuo Yuan, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia, Alvin Cheung, Natacha Crooks, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Aditya G. Parameswaran

The Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR2026)

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UIST 2025
FlyMeThrough: Human-AI Collaborative 3D Indoor Mapping with Commodity Drones

FlyMeThrough: Human-AI Collaborative 3D Indoor Mapping with Commodity Drones

Xia Su*, Ruiqi Chen*, Jingwei Ma, Chu Li, Jon E. Froehlich

ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST2025) Acceptance Rate: 22.2% (210 / 947)

Paper (PDF) | Github | Website

UIST 2025
SlideAudit: A Dataset and Taxonomy for Automated Evaluation of Presentation Slides

SlideAudit: A Dataset and Taxonomy for Automated Evaluation of Presentation Slides

Zhuohao Zhang, Ruiqi Chen, Mingyuan Zhong, Jacob O. Wobbrock

ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST2025) Acceptance Rate: 22.2% (210 / 947)

Paper (PDF) | Github