publications

2025

1. arXiv

   WebDS: An End-to-End Benchmark for Web-based Data Science

   Ethan Hsu ,  Hong Meng Yam ,  Ines Bouissou ,  Aaron Murali John ,  Raj Thota ,  Josh Koe ,  Vivek Sarath Putta ,  GK Dharesan ,  Alexander Spangher ,  Shikhar Murty ,  Tenghao Huang ,  and  Christopher D Manning

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.01222, 2025
2. arXiv

   DiscoSum: Discourse-aware News Summarization

   Alexander Spangher* ,  Tenghao Huang* ,  Jialiang. Gu* ,  Jiatong. Shi ,  and  Muhao Chen

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.06930, 2025
3. EMNLP

   Teaching Language Models To Gather Information Proactively

   Tenghao Huang ,  Sihao Chen ,  Muhao Chen ,  Jonathan May ,  Longqi. Yang ,  Mengting. Wan ,  and  Pei. Zhou

   Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP, 2025
4. ACL

   NewsInterview: a Dataset and a Playground to Evaluate LLMs’ Grounding Gap via Informational Interviews

   Alexander Spangher ,  Michael Lu ,  Sriya Kalyan ,  Hyundong Cho ,  Tenghao Huang ,  Weijia Shi ,  and  Jonathan May

   Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025

   Oral
5. ACL

   R2D2: Remembering, Replaying and Dynamic Decision Making with a Reflective Agentic Memory

   Tenghao Huang ,  Kinjal Basu ,  Ibrahim Abdelaziz ,  Pavan Kapanipathi ,  Jonathan May ,  and  Muhao Chen

   Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025
6. Workshop

   A Novel Multi-Document Retrieval Benchmark: Journalist Source-Selection in Newswriting

   Alexander Spangher* ,  Tenghao Huang* ,  Yiqin. Huang* ,  Lucas. Spangher ,  Sewon Min ,  and  Mark Dredze

   Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Knowledge-Augmented Methods for NLP, 2025
7. KDD

   FoodPuzzle: Developing Large Language Model Agents as Flavor Scientists

   Tenghao Huang ,  Donghee Lee ,  John Sweeney ,  Jiatong Shi ,  Emily Steliotes ,  Matt Lange ,  Jonathan May ,  and  Muhao Chen

   Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (Datasets and Benchmarks Track), 2025

   Oral
8. EMNLP

   Familiarity-Aware Evidence Compression for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

   Dongwon Jung ,  Qin Liu ,  Tenghao Huang ,  Ben Zhou ,  and  Muhao Chen

   Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP, 2025
9. NAACL

   Creative Planning with Language Models: Practice, Evaluation and Applications

   Alexander Spangher ,  Tenghao Huang ,  Philippe Laban ,  and  Nanyun Peng

   Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL: Tutorials, 2025

   Tutorial

2024

1. NAACL

   Planning and Editing What You Retrieve for Enhanced Tool Learning

   Tenghao Huang ,  Dongwon Jung ,  and  Muhao Chen

   Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL, 2024
2. EMNLP

   Red Teaming Language Models for Contradictory Dialogues

   Xiaofei Wen ,  Bangzheng Li ,  Tenghao Huang ,  and  Muhao Chen

   Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2024
3. EMNLP

   Are Large Language Models Capable of Generating Human-Level Narratives?

   Yufei Tian* ,  Tenghao Huang* ,  Miri Liu ,  Derek Jiang ,  Alexander Spangher ,  Muhao Chen ,  Jonathan May ,  and  Nanyun Peng

   Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2024

   Outstanding Paper Award

2023

1. ICML

   Git-Theta: A Git Extension for Collaborative Development of Machine Learning Models

   Nikhil Kandpal ,  Brian Lester ,  Mohammed Muqeeth ,  Alexandre Mascarenhas ,  Michael Evans ,  Vignesh Baskaran ,  Jay Mohta ,  Derek Tam ,  Tenghao Huang ,  Haokun Liu ,  and  Colin Raffel

   Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023
2. EMNLP

   Affective and Dynamic Beam Search for Story Generation

   Tenghao Huang ,  Ehsan Qasemi ,  Bangzheng Li ,  He Wang ,  Faeze Brahman ,  Muhao Chen ,  and  Snigdha Chaturvedi

   Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP, 2023

2022

1. NAACL

   Revisiting Generative Commonsense Reasoning: A Pre-Ordering Approach

   Chao Zhao ,  Faeze Brahman ,  Tenghao Huang ,  and  Snigdha Chaturvedi

   Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL, 2022
2. NeurIPS

   Few-shot Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning is Better and Cheaper than In-Context Learning

   Haokun Liu ,  Derek Tam ,  Mohammed Muqeeth ,  Jay Mohta ,  Tenghao Huang ,  Mohit Bansal ,  and  Colin A. Raffel

   Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022
3. ACL

   Read Top News First: A Document Reordering Approach for Multi-Document News Summarization

   Tenghao Huang* ,  Chao Zhao* ,  Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury ,  Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran ,  Kathleen McKeown ,  and  Snigdha Chaturvedi

   Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL, 2022
4. arXiv

   Few-shot Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning is Better and Cheaper than In-Context Learning

   Haokun Liu ,  Derek Tam ,  Mohammed Muqeeth ,  Jay Mohta ,  Tenghao Huang ,  Mohit Bansal ,  and  Colin A. Raffel

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.05638, 2022

2021

1. EMNLP

   Uncovering Implicit Gender Bias in Narratives through Commonsense Inference

   Tenghao Huang ,  Faeze Brahman ,  Vered Shwartz ,  and  Snigdha Chaturvedi

   Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP, 2021