publications

Publications in reverse chronological order.

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2026

  1. arXiv
    Can LLMs Tell Stories Out of Order? A Corpus and Benchmark for Nonlinear Narrative Generation
    Syed Rifat Raiyan ,  Md. Tariquzzaman ,  Md Farhan Ishmam ,  and  Tenghao Huang
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.21468, 2026
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  2. arXiv
    Evaluating LLM Creativity through Long-Tail Performance
    Yichen Wang ,  Tenghao Huang ,  Vishakh Padmakumar ,  and  Mina Lee
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.12998, 2026
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  3. arXiv
    GLARE: Generative Learning via Adversarial Reward Estimation For Social Dynamics Forecasting
    Tenghao Huang ,  Zhaoxuan Tan ,  Muhao Chen ,  Jonathan May ,  Mengting Wan ,  Longqi Yang ,  Pei Zhou ,  and  Sihao Chen
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.12165, 2026
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  4. ACL
    GTA: Generating Long-Horizon Tasks for Web Agents at Scale
    Tenghao Huang ,  Kung-Hsiang Huang ,  Prafulla Kumar Choubey ,  Yilun Zhou ,  Muhao Chen ,  Jonathan May ,  and  Chien-Sheng Wu
    Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2026
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  5. arXiv
    Cooking Up Risks: Benchmarking and Reducing Food Safety Risks in Large Language Models
    Weidi Luo ,  Xiaofei Wen ,  Tenghao Huang ,  Hao Li ,  Hongyi Wang ,  Zhen Xiang ,  Chaowei Xiao ,  Kristina Gligorić ,  and  Muhao Chen
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.01444, 2026
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  6. ICML
    Optimizing Diversity and Quality through Base-Aligned Model Collaboration
    Yichen Wang ,  Chenghao Yang ,  Tenghao Huang ,  Muhao Chen ,  Jonathan May ,  and  Mina Lee
    Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026
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  7. ICLR
    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 ,  G K Dharesan ,  Alexander Spangher ,  Shikhar Murty ,  Tenghao Huang ,  and  Christopher D. Manning
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
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2025

  1. arXiv
    DiscoSum: Discourse-aware News Summarization
    Alexander Spangher* ,  Tenghao Huang* ,  Jialiang Gu* ,  Jiatong Shi ,  and  Muhao Chen
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.06930, 2025
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  2. 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
  3. ACL
    NewsInterview: a Dataset and a Playground to Evaluate LLMs’ Grounding Gap via Informational Interviews
    Alexander Spangher ,  Michael Lu ,  Sriya Kalyan ,  Hyundong Justin Cho ,  Tenghao Huang ,  Weiyan Shi ,  and  Jonathan May
    Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025
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  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. KDD
    FoodPuzzle: Toward Developing Large Language Model Agents as Autonomous 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
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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
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  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
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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
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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
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  3. ACL
    Read Top News First: A Document Reordering Approach for Multi-Document News Summarization
    Chao Zhao* ,  Tenghao Huang* ,  Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury ,  Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran ,  Kathleen McKeown ,  and  Snigdha Chaturvedi
    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL, 2022
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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
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