Jiayi Geng

PhD student, Language Technology Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Joined

January 2024

Names

Jiayi Geng (Preferred)

Emails

****@princeton.edu (Confirmed)

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

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

****@cmu.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Homepage

Google Scholar

Career & Education History

PhD student

Language Technology Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (andrew.cmu.edu)

2025 – Present

MS student

Computer Science, Princeton University (cs.princeton.edu)

2023 – 2025

Undergrad student

Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, McGill University (mail.mcgill.ca)

2020 – 2023

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Graham Neubig

2025 – Present

Coauthor

Danqi Chen

2024 – Present

Coauthor

Thomas L. Griffiths

2024 – Present

Expertise

Multi-agent

2025 – Present

AI for Science

2025 – Present

Reliable agent

2025 – Present

Cognitive Science & LLMs

2024 – 2025

Publications

Accumulating Context Changes the Beliefs of Language Models
Jiayi Geng, Howard Chen, Ryan Liu, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Robb Willer, Graham Neubig, Thomas L. Griffiths
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Assessing the Reverse-Engineering Abilities of Large Language Models
Jiayi Geng, Howard Chen, Dilip Arumugam, Thomas L. Griffiths
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Alita-G: Self-Evolving Generative Agent for Agent Generation
Jiahao Qiu, Xuan Qi, Hongru WANG, Xinzhe Juan, Yimin Wang, Zelin Zhao, Jiayi Geng, Jiacheng Guo, Shilong Liu, Mengdi Wang
- ICLR 2026 Conference Desk Rejected Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Physics Supernova: AI Agent Matches Elite Gold Medalists at IPhO 2025
Jiahao Qiu, Jingzhe Shi, Xinzhe Juan, Zelin Zhao, Jiayi Geng, Shilong Liu, Hongru WANG, Sanfeng Wu, Mengdi Wang
- NeurIPS 2025 LLM Evaluation Workshop Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Physics Supernova: AI Agent Matches Elite Gold Medalists at IPhO 2025
Jiahao Qiu, Jingzhe Shi, Xinzhe Juan, Zelin Zhao, Jiayi Geng, Shilong Liu, Hongru WANG, Sanfeng Wu, Mengdi Wang
- LAW
- Readers: Everyone
A Survey of Self-Evolving Agents: What, When, How, and Where to Evolve on the Path to Artificial Super Intelligence
Huan-ang Gao, Jiayi Geng, Wenyue Hua, Mengkang Hu, Xinzhe Juan, Hongzhang Liu, Shilong Liu, Jiahao Qiu, Xuan Qi, Qihan Ren, Yiran Wu, Hongru WANG, Han Xiao, Yuhang Zhou, Shaokun Zhang, Jiayi Zhang, Jinyu Xiang, Yixiong Fang, Qiwen Zhao, Dongrui Liu et al. (7 additional authors not shown)
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Are Large Language Models Reliable AI Scientists? Assessing Reverse-Engineering of Black-Box Systems
Jiayi Geng, Howard Chen, Dilip Arumugam, Thomas L. Griffiths
- LM4Sci
- Readers: Everyone
Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse
Ryan Liu, Jiayi Geng, Addison J. Wu, Ilia Sucholutsky, Tania Lombrozo, Thomas L. Griffiths
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse
Ryan Liu, Jiayi Geng, Addison J. Wu, Ilia Sucholutsky, Tania Lombrozo, Thomas L. Griffiths
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Large Language Models Assume People are More Rational than We Really are
Ryan Liu, Jiayi Geng, Joshua Peterson, Ilia Sucholutsky, Thomas L. Griffiths
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

View all 13 publications

Co-Authors

View all 64 co-authors