Zhen Zhang

Researcher, Alibaba Group

Joined

June 2023

Names

Zhen Zhang (Preferred)

zhen zhang

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Alibaba Group (alibaba-inc.com)

2025 – Present

MS student

Nankai University (nankai.edu.cn)

2022 – 2025

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Mengting Hu

2022 – 2023

Expertise

Agent

Deepresearch (text and multimodal)

Adaptive retrieval

2024 – 2025

natural language processing

information extraction

named entity recognition

2022 – 2023

deep learning

uncertainty estimation

2022 – 2023

Publications

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
Efficient Multimodal Planning Agent for Visual Question-Answering
Zhuo Chen, Xinyu Geng, Xinyu Wang, Yong Jiang, Zhen Zhang, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang, Kewei Tu
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Scaling Agents via Continual Pre-training
Liangcai Su, Zhen Zhang, Guangyu Li, Zhuo Chen, Chenxi Wang, Maojia Song, Xinyu Wang, Kuan Li, Jialong Wu, Xuanzhong Chen, Zile Qiao, Zhongwang Zhang, Huifeng Yin, Shihao Cai, Runnan Fang, Zhengwei Tao, Wenbiao Yin, Rui Ye, Yong Jiang, Ningyu Zhang et al. (6 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Towards General Agentic Intelligence via Environment Scaling
Runnan Fang, Shihao Cai, Baixuan Li, Jialong Wu, Guangyu Li, Wenbiao Yin, Xinyu Wang, Xiaobin Wang, Liangcai Su, Zhen Zhang, Shibin WU, Zhengwei Tao, Yong Jiang, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang, Ningyu Zhang, Wentao Zhang, Jingren Zhou
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
WebWatcher: Breaking New Frontiers of Vision-Language Deep Research Agent
Xinyu Geng, Peng Xia, Zhen Zhang, Xinyu Wang, Qiuchen Wang, Ruixue Ding, Chenxi Wang, Jialong Wu, Kuan Li, Yida Zhao, Huifeng Yin, Yong Jiang, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang, Huaxiu Yao, Yi R. Fung, Jingren Zhou
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Expanding the Capability Frontier of LLM Agents with ZPD-Guided Data Synthesis
Xuanzhong Chen, Zile Qiao, Guoxin Chen, Liangcai Su, Zhen Zhang, Xinyu Wang, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang, Jingren Zhou, Yong Jiang, Ting Chen
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
End-to-End QA Construction Pipeline for Continual Pre-training of Large Language Models
Jingyao Li, Zile Qiao, Xinyu Wang, Zhen Zhang, Sitong Wu, Guoxuan Chen, Bin Xia, Xiaozhe Ren, Yong Jiang, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang, Hong Xu, Jiaya Jia
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Benchmarking Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation with Dynamic VQA Dataset and Self-adaptive Planning Agent
Yangning Li, Yinghui Li, Xinyu Wang, Zhen Zhang, Xinran Zheng, Yong Jiang, Hui Wang, Hai-Tao Zheng, Fei Huang, Jingren Zhou
- AAAI 2025 PDLM Oral
- Readers: Everyone
E-NER: Evidential Deep Learning for Trustworthy Named Entity Recognition
Zhen Zhang, Mengting Hu, Shiwan Zhao, Minlie Huang, Haotian Wang, Lemao Liu, Zhirui Zhang, Zhe Liu, Bingzhe Wu
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Exploring Knowledge Boundaries in Large Language Models for Retrieval Judgment
Zhen Zhang, Xinyu Wang, Yong Jiang, Zhuo Chen, Feiteng Mu, Mengting Hu, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang
- ICLR 2025 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone

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