Jiarui Liu

PhD student, Carnegie Mellon University

Joined

July 2022

Names

Jiarui Liu (Preferred)

Emails

****@umich.edu (Confirmed)

****@cs.cmu.edu (Confirmed)

****@andrew.cmu.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu)

2025 – 2028

MS student

Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu)

2023 – 2025

Undergrad student

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (eecs.umich.edu)

2021 – 2023

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coworker

Zhijing Jin

2022 – 2023

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

Loop the Middle: Adaptive Depth Transformers via Selective Middle-Layer Recurrence
Lechen Zhang, Jiarui Liu, Zhijing Jin, Mona T. Diab
- MSLD 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Beyond Pattern Matching: Teaching Language Models to Plan, Sequence, and Execute Reasoning Primitives
Jiarui Liu, Kaustubh Dhole, Yingheng Wang, Zhijing Jin, Mona T. Diab
- MSLD 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Not All Tokens Need to Be Said: Selective Latent Execution for Efficient Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Jiarui Liu, Lechen Zhang, Zhijing Jin, Mona T. Diab
- MSLD 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Making Complex Reasoning Student-Friendly: A Hybrid LLM-to-SLM Distillation Framework
Yongjin Yang, Yinghui He, Jiarui Liu, Zhijing Jin
- SPOT
- Readers: Everyone
Toward Honest Language Models for Deductive Reasoning
Jiarui Liu, Kaustubh Dhole, Yingheng Wang, Haoyang Wen, Sarah Zhang, Haitao Mao, Gaotang Li, Neeraj Varshney, Jingguo Liu, Xiaoman Pan
- AAAI 2026 Bridge LMReasoning
- Readers: Everyone
Stabilizing Reinforcement Learning for Honesty Alignment in Language Models on Deductive Reasoning
Jiarui Liu, Kaustubh Dhole, Yingheng Wang, Haoyang Wen, Sarah Zhang, Haitao Mao, Gaotang Li, Neeraj Varshney, Jingguo Liu, Xiaoman Pan
- MATH4AI @ AAAI 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
LLM Microscope: What Model Internals Reveal About Answer Correctness and Context Utilization
Jiarui Liu, Jivitesh Jain, Mona T. Diab, Nishant Subramani
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Stabilizing Reinforcement Learning for Honesty Alignment in Language Models on Deductive Reasoning
Jiarui Liu, Kaustubh Dhole, Yingheng Wang, Haoyang Wen, Sarah Zhang, Haitao Mao, Gaotang Li, Neeraj Varshney, Jingguo Liu, Xiaoman Pan
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
CauSciBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark on End-to-End Causal Inference for Scientific Research
Sawal Acharya, Terry Jingchen Zhang, Andrew Kim, Anahita Haghighat, Sun Xianlin, Pepijn Cobben, Rahul Babu Shrestha, Maximilian Mordig, Jacob T. Emmerson, Furkan Danisman, Yuen Chen, Clijo Jose, Andrei Ioan Muresanu, Justin Cui, Jiarui Liu, Yahang Qi, Punya Syon Pandey, Yinya Huang, Bernhard Schölkopf, Mrinmaya Sachan et al. (1 additional authors not shown)
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Social World Models: Universal Structured Representations for Social Reasoning
Xuhui Zhou, Jiarui Liu, Akhila Yerukola, Hyunwoo Kim, Maarten Sap
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone

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