Zhenwei (Joseph) Tang
Ph.D. Candidate Department of Computer Science University of Toronto
josephtang [at] cs [dot] toronto [dot] edu
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2026
[ICLR 2026] Chessformer: A Unified Architecture for Chess Modeling [Code ] [Models ] [Website ]
D Monroe, G Eilender, P Chalmers, Z Tang , A Anderson
International Conference on Learning Representations
Human Behavior Modeling Chess
[KDD 2026] SWE-Bench Mobile: Can Large Language Model Agents Develop Industry-Level Mobile Applications? [Code ] [Website ]
M Tian, Z Wang, B Yang, Z Tang , K Zhu, H Dong, H Li, X Xie, G Wang, J You
ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Large Language Models Evaluation
[ACL 2026] LLM Safety From Within: Detecting Harmful Content with Internal Representations [Code ] [Models ]
D Jiao, Y Liu, Y Yuan, Z Tang , L Du, H Wu, A Anderson
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Large Language Models Internal Representations Safety
[In Submission] Grounded Chess Reasoning in Language Models via Master Distillation [Code ] [Model ] [Data ]
Z Tang , Q Wen, S Grief-Albert, Y Elgabra, B Yang, H Dong, A Anderson
arXiv preprint
Chess Large Language Models Post-training
[In Submission] Level Up: Defining and Exploiting Transitional Problems for Curriculum Learning
Z Tang *, A Inamdar*, A Anderson, R Zemel (* equal contribution)
arXiv preprint
Chess Large Language Models Post-training
[In Submission] ThinkTwice: Jointly Optimizing Large Language Models for Reasoning and Self-Refinement [Code ] [Model ]
D Jiao, Q Wen, B Yang, Z Tang , A Anderson
arXiv preprint
Large Language Models Post-training
[In Submission] RankJudge: A Multi-Turn LLM-as-a-Judge Synthetic Benchmark Generator [Code ] [Data ] [Leaderboard ]
Z Tang , Z Liu, R Hosseinzadeh, T Wu, K Golestan, JC Cresswell
arXiv preprint
Large Language Models Evaluation
[In Submission] Generate, Filter, Control, Replay: A Comprehensive Survey of Rollout Strategies for LLM Reinforcement Learning
R Surana, G Mundada, X Jiang, C Wang, Z Tang , D Jiao, Z Huang, Y Xiong, J Wu, S Yu, X Li, R Jain, N Kuang, S Zhou, B Jin, Z Chu, T Yu, R Rossi, KH Huang, J Shang, J Han, J McAuley
arXiv preprint
Large Language Models Post-training
[In Submission] MINER: Mining Multimodal Internal Representation for Efficient Retrieval
W Li, R Song, Z Li, H Liu, G Zhang, D Jiao, Z Tang , B He, H Wu, X Liu, Y Yuan
arXiv preprint
Vision-Language Models Internal Representations
[In Submission] SafeGEO: Understanding Generative Engine Optimization Risks in Recommendation Agents [Code ] [Data ] [Website ]
Q Wen, YS Liu, X Liu, D Jiao, B Yang, J Wu, Z Tang
arXiv preprint
Large Language Models Recommender Systems Safety
2025
[COLM 2025] SEAM: Semantically Equivalent Across Modalities Benchmark for Vision-Language Models [Code ] [Data ] [Website ]
Z Tang , D Jiao, B Yang, A Anderson
Conference on Language Modeling
Vision-Language Models Large Language Models Evaluation
[TMLR] Learning to Imitate with Less: Efficient Individual Behavior Modeling in Chess and LLMs
Z Tang , D Jiao, E Xue, R McIlroy-Young, J Kleinberg, S Sen, A Anderson
Transactions on Machine Learning Research
Human Behavior Modeling Chess
[In Submission] ChessQA: Evaluating Large Language Models for Chess Understanding [Code ]
Q Wen, Z Tang , A Anderson
arXiv preprint
Chess Large Language Models Evaluation
2024
[NeurIPS 2024] Maia-2: A Unified Model for Human-AI Alignment in Chess [Code ] [Blitz Model ] [Rapid Model ] [Website ]
Z Tang , D Jiao, R McIlroy-Young, J Kleinberg, S Sen, A Anderson
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
Human Behavior Modeling Chess
[ACL 2024 Findings] SPIN: Sparsifying and Integrating Internal Neurons in Large Language Models for Text Classification [Code ] [Demo ]
D Jiao, Y Liu, Z Tang , D Matter, J Pfeffer, A Anderson
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Large Language Models Internal Representations
[ISMB 2024] Predicting Protein Functions Using Positive-Unlabeled Ranking with Ontology-based Priors [Code ] [Data ]
F Zhapa-Camacho, Z Tang , M Kulmanov, R Hoehndorf
Bioinformatics (ISMB 2024 Proceedings)
Knowledge Representation Learning
2023
[ISWC 2023] Neural Multi-hop Logical Query Answering with Concept-level Answers [Code ]
Z Tang , S Pei, X Peng, F Zhuang, X Zhang, R Hoehndorf
International Semantic Web Conference (Best Paper Candidate)
Knowledge Representation Learning
[SIGIR 2023] LogicRec: Recommendation with Users' Logical Requirements [Code ]
Z Tang , G Floto, A Toroghi, S Pei, X Zhang, S Sanner
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Recommender Systems Knowledge Representation Learning
[SIGIR 2023] Bayesian Knowledge-driven Critiquing with Indirect Evidence
A Toroghi, G Floto, Z Tang , S Sanner
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Recommender Systems
[ACL 2023 Findings] DiffuDetox: A Mixed Diffusion Model for Text Detoxification
G Floto, MMA Pour, P Farinneya, Z Tang , A Pesaranghader, M Bharadwaj, S Sanner
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Large Language Models Post-training Safety
[ECML-PKDD 2023] Customized Conversational Recommender Systems
S Li, Y Zhu, R Xie, Z Tang , Z Zhang, F Zhuang, Q He, H Xiong
European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases
Recommender Systems
2022
[IJCAI 2022] Positive-Unlabeled Learning with Adversarial Data Augmentation for Knowledge Graph Completion
Z Tang *, S Pei*, Z Zhang, Y Zhu, F Zhuang, R Hoehndorf, X Zhang (* equal contribution)
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Knowledge Representation Learning
[WSDM 2022] Personalized Transfer of User Preferences for Cross-domain Recommendation [Code ]
Y Zhu, Z Tang , Y Liu, F Zhuang, R Xie, X Zhang, L Lin, Q He
ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
Recommender Systems
[IP&M] Self-Supervised Learning for Conversational Recommendation
S Li, R Xie, Y Zhu, F Zhuang, Z Tang , WX Zhao, Q He
Information Processing & Management
Recommender Systems
FALCON: Faithful Neural Semantic Entailment over ALC Ontologies
Z Tang , T Hinnerichs, X Peng, X Zhang, R Hoehndorf
arXiv preprint
Knowledge Representation Learning
Description Logic EL++ Embeddings with Intersectional Closure
X Peng, Z Tang , M Kulmanov, K Niu, R Hoehndorf
arXiv preprint
Knowledge Representation Learning
Last update: July 2026.