Zihan Wang

PhD student, Northwestern University, Northwestern University

Joined

September 2023

Names

Zihan Wang (Preferred)

Emails

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Career & Education History

PhD student

Northwestern University, Northwestern University (u.northwestern.edu)

2024 – 2029

Undergrad student

Renmin University of China (ruc.edu.cn)

2020 – 2024

Intern

Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (cs.illinois.edu)

2023 – 2023

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Manling Li

2024 – 2029

Expertise

Natural Language Processing

Present

Information Retrieval

Present

Publications

SkillCraft: Can LLM Agents learn to use tools skillfully?
Shiqi Chen, Jingze Gai, Ruochen Zhou, Jinghan Zhang, Tongyao Zhu, Junlong Li, Kangrui Wang, Zihan Wang, Zhengyu Chen, Klara Kaleb, Ning Miao, Siyang Gao, Cong Lu, Manling Li, Junxian He, Yee Whye Teh
- AgentSkills 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Theory of Space: Active Exploration and Spatial Belief Probing for Foundation Models
Pingyue Zhang, Zihan Huang, Yue Wang, Jieyu Zhang, Letian Xue, Zihan Wang, Qineng Wang, Keshigeyan Chandrasegaran, Ruohan Zhang, Yejin Choi, Ranjay Krishna, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Manling Li
- 4th ALVR Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Theory of Space: A Benchmark for Evaluating Spatial Belief Construction through Active Exploration
Pingyue Zhang, Zihan Huang, Yue Wang, Jieyu Zhang, Letian Xue, Zihan Wang, Qineng Wang, Keshigeyan Chandrasegaran, Ruohan Zhang, Yejin Choi, Ranjay Krishna, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Manling Li
- Eval Eval @ ACL 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
SkillCraft: Can LLM Agents Learn to Use Tools Skillfully?
Shiqi Chen, Jingze Gai, Ruochen Zhou, Jinghan Zhang, Tongyao Zhu, Junlong Li, Kangrui Wang, Zihan Wang, Zhengyu Chen, Klara Kaleb, Ning Miao, Siyang Gao, Cong Lu, Manling Li, Junxian He, Yee Whye Teh
- MSLD 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
VAGEN: Reinforcing World Model Reasoning for Multi-Turn VLM Agents
Kangrui Wang, Pingyue Zhang, Zihan Wang, Yaning Gao, Linjie Li, Qineng Wang, Hanyang Chen, Chi Wan, Yiping Lu, Zhengyuan Yang, Lijuan Wang, Ranjay Krishna, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Yejin Choi, Manling Li
- MSLD 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Theory of Space: Can Foundation Models Construct Spatial Beliefs through Active Exploration?
Pingyue Zhang, Zihan Huang, Yue Wang, Jieyu Zhang, Letian Xue, Zihan Wang, Qineng Wang, Keshigeyan Chandrasegaran, Ruohan Zhang, Yejin Choi, Ranjay Krishna, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Manling Li
- MSLD 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Theory of Space: Evaluating Multimodal Spatial Belief through Active Exploration
Pingyue Zhang, Zihan Huang, Yue Wang, Jieyu Zhang, Letian Xue, Zihan Wang, Qineng Wang, Keshigeyan Chandrasegaran, Ruohan Zhang, Yejin Choi, Ranjay Krishna, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Manling Li
- MUSI
- Readers: Everyone
Understanding Reasoning Collapse in LLM Agent Reinforcement Learning
Zihan Wang, Chi Gui, Xing Jin, Qineng Wang, Licheng Liu, Kangrui Wang, Shiqi Chen, Linjie Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Pingyue Zhang, Yiping Lu, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Lijuan Wang, Yejin Choi, Manling Li
- MSLD 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Understanding Reasoning Collapse in Multi-Turn Agent Reinforcement Learning
Zihan Wang, Chi Gui, Xing Jin, Qineng Wang, Licheng Liu, Kangrui Wang, Shiqi Chen, Linjie Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Pingyue Zhang, Yiping Lu, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Lijuan Wang, Yejin Choi, Manling Li
- ICLR 2026 AIWILD
- Readers: Everyone
RAGEN: Understanding Self-Evolution in LLM Agents via Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning
Zihan Wang, Kangrui Wang, Qineng Wang, Pingyue Zhang, Linjie Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Xing Jin, Jiajun Wu, Lijuan Wang, Yejin Choi, Manling Li
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone

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