Wei Yang

PhD student, University of Southern California

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September 2024

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Wei Yang (Preferred)

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****@usc.edu (Confirmed)

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PhD student

University of Southern California (usc.edu)

2023 – 2028

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Publications

A Survey of Reasoning and Agentic Systems in Time Series with Large Language Models
Ching Chang, Yidan Shi, Defu Cao, Wei Yang, Jeehyun Hwang, Haixin Wang, Jiacheng Pang, Wei Wang, Yan Liu, Wen-Chih Peng, Tien-Fu Chen
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
``Someone Hid It!'': Query-Agnostic Black-Box Attacks on LLM-Based Retrieval
Jiate Li, Defu Cao, Li Li, Wei Yang, Yuehan Qin, Chenxiao Yu, Tiannuo Yang, Ryan A. Rossi, Yan Liu, Xiyang Hu, Yue Zhao
- ICML 2026 regular
- Readers: Everyone
TS-Reasoner: Domain-Oriented Time Series Inference Agents for Reasoning and Automated Analysis
Wen Ye, Wei Yang, Defu Cao, Yizhou Zhang, Lumingyuan Tang, Jie Cai, Yan Liu
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
When LLM Meets Time Series: A Real-World Benchmark for Explicit and Implicit Multi-Step Reasoning
Muyan Weng, Jinbo Liu, Defu Cao, Wen Ye, Kexin Zhang, Wei Yang, Yan Liu
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Conversational Time Series Foundation Models: Towards Explainable and Effective Forecasting
Defu Cao, Michael Gee, Jinbo Liu, Hengxaun Wang, Wei Yang, Rui Wang, Yan Liu
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Learning What Matters: Toward Causally-Grounded Foundations for Contextual Time-Series Forecasting
Wei Yang, Defu Cao, Wen Ye, Muyan Weng, Yan Liu
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Adaptive Collaboration with Humans: Metacognitive Policy Optimization for Multi-Agent LLMs with Continual Learning
Wei Yang, Defu Cao, Jiacheng Pang, Muyan Weng, Yan Liu
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Maestro: Learning to Collaborate via Conditional Listwise Policy Optimization for Multi-Agent LLMs
Wei Yang, Jiacheng Pang, Shixuan Li, Paul Bogdan, Stephen Tu, Jesse Thomason
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
ClimateLLM: Efficient Weather Forecasting via Frequency-Aware Large Language Models
Shixuan Li, Wei Yang, Peiyu Zhang, Xiongye Xiao, Defu Cao, Yuehan Qin, Xiaole Zhang, Yue Zhao, Paul Bogdan
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
When LLM Meets Time Series: Can LLMs Perform Multistep Time Series Reasoning and Inference
Wen Ye, Jinbo Liu, Defu Cao, Wei Yang, Yan Liu
- NeurIPS 2025 LLM Evaluation Workshop Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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