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Accessible write-ups of my research papers.

KDD'26 Blue SkyXiaoou Liu*, Tiejin Chen*, Weibo Li, Xiyang Hu, Hua Wei

The Sim-to-Real Gap of Foundation Model Agents: A Unified MDP Perspective

Why agents that shine on benchmarks stumble in deployment: a unified MDP view of four channels behind the sim-to-real gap, and the remedies for each.

ICML'26Xiaoou Liu, Tiejin Chen, Dengjia Zhang, Yaqing Wang, Lu Cheng, Hua Wei

Diagnosing Multi-step Reasoning Failures in Black-box LLMs via Stepwise Confidence Attribution

Stepwise Confidence Attribution (SCA) assigns confidence to each reasoning step from text alone, flagging the steps where a black-box LLM likely went wrong.

KDD'25 Survey TrackXiaoou Liu*, Tiejin Chen*, Longchao Da, Chacha Chen, Zhen Lin, Hua Wei

UQ & Confidence Calibration in LLMs: A Survey

A taxonomy of uncertainty quantification and confidence calibration methods for LLMs, organized by computational efficiency and four sources of uncertainty.

Last updated: October 6, 2026