Liwen Zhang

Researcher, Alibaba Group

Joined

October 2021

Names

Liwen Zhang (Preferred)

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@alibaba-inc.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Google Scholar

ACL Anthology

Career & Education History

Researcher

Alibaba Group (alibaba-inc.com)

2024 – Present

Researcher

Baidu (baidu.com)

2021 – 2024

PhD student

ShanghaiTech University (shanghaitech.edu.cn)

2016 – 2021

Undergrad student

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Tsinghua University (uestc.edu.cn)

2012 – 2016

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Zixia Jia

Present

Coauthor

Wenjuan Han

Present

PhD Advisor

Kewei Tu

2016 – 2021

Expertise

Generation

Present

LLM

Present

RAG

Present

Machine Translation

2022 – Present

Syntactic Parsing

2018 – 2021

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
WebShaper: Agentically Data Synthesizing via Information-Seeking Formalization
Zhengwei Tao, Jialong Wu, Wenbiao Yin, Pu Wu, Junkai Zhang, Baixuan Li, Haiyang SHEN, Kuan Li, Liwen Zhang, Xinyu Wang, Wentao Zhang, Yong Jiang, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang, Jingren Zhou
- ICLR 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
IterResearch: Rethinking Long-Horizon Agents with Interaction Scaling
Guoxin Chen, Zile Qiao, Xuanzhong Chen, Donglei Yu, Haotian Xu, Xin Zhao, Ruihua Song, Wenbiao Yin, Huifeng Yin, Liwen Zhang, Kuan Li, Minpeng Liao, Yong Jiang, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang, Jingren Zhou
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
AgentFold: Long-Horizon Web Agents with Proactive Context Folding
Rui Ye, Zhongwang Zhang, Kuan Li, Huifeng Yin, Zhengwei Tao, Yida Zhao, Liangcai Su, Liwen Zhang, Zile Qiao, Xinyu Wang, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang, Jingren Zhou, Siheng Chen, Yong Jiang
- 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
Repurposing Synthetic Data for Fine-grained Search Agent Supervision
Yida Zhao, Kuan Li, Xixi Wu, Liwen Zhang, Ding-Chu Zhang, Baixuan Li, Maojia Song, Zhuo Chen, Chenxi Wang, Xinyu Wang, Kewei Tu, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang, Jingren Zhou, Yong Jiang
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Route Before Retrieve: Activating Latent Routing Abilities of LLMs for RAG vs. Long Context Selection
Yiwen Chen, Kuan Li, Fuzhen Zhuang, deqing wang, Liwen Zhang, Yong Jiang, Shuai Wang, Minhao Cheng
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- 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
WebDancer: Towards Autonomous Information Seeking Agency
Jialong Wu, Baixuan Li, Runnan Fang, Wenbiao Yin, Liwen Zhang, Zhenglin Wang, Zhengwei Tao, Ding-Chu Zhang, Zekun Xi, Xiangru Tang, Yong Jiang, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang, Jingren Zhou
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone

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