Litu Ou

PhD student, ILCC, University of Edinburgh

Joined

January 2023

Names

Litu Ou (Preferred)

Emails

****@ed.ac.uk (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@u.nus.edu (Confirmed)

****@comp.nus.edu.sg (Confirmed)

****@ed.ac.uk (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Semantic Scholar

Career & Education History

PhD student

ILCC, University of Edinburgh (ed.ac.uk)

2025 – 2028

Intern

Tongyi Lab, Alibaba Group (alibaba-inc.com)

2025 – 2025

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Mirella Lapata

2025 – Present

Student Research Mentor

Yao Fu

2022 – Present

Expertise

Natural Language Processing

2022 – Present

Publications

BrowseConf: Confidence-Guided Test-Time Scaling for Web Agents
Litu Ou, Kuan Li, Huifeng Yin, Liwen Zhang, Zhongwang Zhang, Xixi Wu, Rui Ye, Zile Qiao, Pengjun Xie, Jingren Zhou, Yong Jiang
- LLA 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
WebSailor-V2: Bridging the Chasm to Proprietary Agents via Synthetic Data and Scalable Reinforcement Learning
Kuan Li, Zhongwang Zhang, Huifeng Yin, Rui Ye, Yida Zhao, Liwen Zhang, Litu Ou, Ding-Chu Zhang, Xixi Wu, Xinmiao Yu, Jialong Wu, Xinyu Wang, Zile Qiao, Zhen Zhang, Yong Jiang, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang, Zhi-Qin John Xu, Shuai Wang, Minhao Cheng et al. (1 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
WebSailor: Navigating Super-human Reasoning for Web Agent
Kuan Li, Zhongwang Zhang, Huifeng Yin, Liwen Zhang, Litu Ou, Jialong Wu, Wenbiao Yin, Baixuan Li, Zhengwei Tao, Xinyu Wang, Weizhou Shen, Junkai Zhang, Ding-Chu Zhang, Xixi Wu, Yong Jiang, Ming Yan, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang, Zhi-Qin John Xu, Shuai Wang et al. (2 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2026 Conference Desk Rejected Submission
- Readers: Everyone
ReSum: Unlocking Long-Horizon Search Intelligence via Context Summarization
Xixi Wu, Kuan Li, Yida Zhao, Liwen Zhang, Litu Ou, Huifeng Yin, Zhongwang Zhang, Xinmiao Yu, Ding-Chu Zhang, Yong Jiang, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang, Minhao Cheng, Shuai Wang, Hong Cheng, Jingren Zhou
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Open-Source vs Close-Source: The Context Utilization Challenge
Litu Ou
- ICLR 2025 Blogpost Track
- Readers: Everyone
Chain-of-Thought Hub: A Continuous Effort to Measure Large Language Models’ Reasoning Performance
Yao Fu, Litu Ou, Yuhao Wan, Mingyu Chen, Hao Peng, Tushar Khot
- DeployableGenerativeAI
- Readers: Everyone
Specializing Smaller Language Models towards Multi-Step Reasoning
Yao Fu, Hao Peng, Litu Ou, Ashish Sabharwal, Tushar Khot
- ICML 2023 OralPoster
- Readers: Everyone

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Litu Ou

Names

Emails

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Expertise

Publications

BrowseConf: Confidence-Guided Test-Time Scaling for Web Agents

WebSailor-V2: Bridging the Chasm to Proprietary Agents via Synthetic Data and Scalable Reinforcement Learning

WebSailor: Navigating Super-human Reasoning for Web Agent

ReSum: Unlocking Long-Horizon Search Intelligence via Context Summarization

Open-Source vs Close-Source: The Context Utilization Challenge

Chain-of-Thought Hub: A Continuous Effort to Measure Large Language Models’ Reasoning Performance

Specializing Smaller Language Models towards Multi-Step Reasoning

Co-Authors