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See also my RESUME (Transcripts)

Education

• M.S. in Computer Science, Nanjing University, advised by Professor Yuzhong Qu, 2024
• B.E. in Software Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, advised by Professor Yi Ding, 2021

Work experience

• 07.2024 - Now : Visiting Research Scholar
  • University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Supervisor: Professor William Wang
• 10.2023 - 06.2024 : Research Intern
  • DKI(Data, Knowledge, Intelligence) Group, Microsoft Research
  • Supervisor: Yong Xu, Fangkai Yang, Chaoyun Zhang
• 06.2021 - 06.2024 : Student Researcher
  • Websoft Lab, Nanjing University
  • Supervisor: Professor Yuzhong Qu
• 06.2023 - 09.2023 : Research Intern
  • Data Management Intelligence Departiment, Ant Group

Preprints

• Understanding the Interplay between Parametric and Contextual Knowledge for Large Language Models
  Sitao Cheng, Liangming Pan, Xunjian Yin, Xinyi Wang, William Yang Wang
  [paper] [homepage]

• Disentangling Memory and Reasoning Ability in Large Language Models
  Mingyu Jin, Weidi Luo, Sitao Cheng, Xinyi Wang, Wenyue Hua, Ruixiang Tang, William Yang Wang, Yongfeng Zhang
  [paper]

• RuleArena: A Benchmark for Rule-Guided Reasoning with LLMs in Real-World Scenarios
  Ruiwen Zhou, Wenyue Hua, Liangming Pan, Sitao Cheng, Xiaobao Wu, En Yu, William Yang Wang
  [paper]

• Thread: A Logic-Based Data Organization Paradigm for How-To Question Answering with Retrieval Augmented Generation
  Kaikai An, Fangkai Yang, Liqun Li, Junting Lu, Sitao Cheng, Lu Wang, Pu Zhao, Lele Cao, Qingwei Lin, Saravan Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang, Qi Zhang
  [paper]

Publications

• EfficientRAG: Efficient Retriever for Multi-Hop Question Answering
  The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, in Miami, Florida, 2024 Ziyuan Zhuang, Zhiyang Zhang, Sitao Cheng, Fangkai Yang, Jia Liu, Shujian Huang, Qingwei Lin, Saravan Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang, Qi Zhang
  [paper]

• Call Me When Necessary: LLMs can Efficiently and Faithfully Reason over Structured Environments
  The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics(ACL Findings), in Bangkok, Thailand, 2024.
  Sitao Cheng, Ziyuan Zhuang, Yong Xu, Fangkai Yang, Chaoyun Zhang, Xiaoting Qin, Xiang Huang, Ling Chen, Qingwei Lin, Dongmei Zhang, Saravan Rajmohan, Qi Zhang
  [paper] [code]

• QueryAgent: A Reliable and Efficient Reasoning Framework with Environmental Feedback based Self-Correction
  The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics(ACL), in Bangkok, Thailand, 2024.
  Xiang Huang*, Sitao Cheng*, Shanshan Huang, Jiayu Shen, Yong Xu, Chaoyun Zhang, Yuzhong Qu
  [paper] [code]

• MarkQA: A Large Scale KBQA Dataset with Numerical Reasoning
  The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing(EMNLP), in Singapore, 2023.
  Xiang Huang, Sitao Cheng, Yuheng Bao, Shanshan Huang, Yuzhong Qu
  [paper] [code] [homepage]

• Question Decomposition Tree for Answering Complex Questions over Knowledge Bases
  Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence(AAAI), in Washington, DC, USA, 2023.
  Xiang Huang, Sitao Cheng, Yiheng Shu, Yuheng Bao, Yuzhong Qu
  [paper] [code]

Selected Awards

• 2024 Outstanding Graduating Student at Nanjing University
• 2021 Outstanding Graduating Student at Sichuan Province
• 2021 Outstanding Graduating Student at UESTC

Services

• ARR Reviewer
• ACL 2024 Volunteer