News & Updates

Latest news from USTC AGI Research Group.

2026
  • [Sep. 2026] πŸŽ‰ Congratulations on our demo papers CastClaw and Claw-R1 being accepted to the IEEE ICDM 2026 Demo Track!
  • [Sep. 2026] πŸŽ‰ Congratulations on our survey A Comprehensive Survey of Time Series Forecasting: Concepts, Challenges, and Future Directions being accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE)!
  • [Aug. 2026] πŸŽ‰ Congratulations on our paper PaperScout being accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2026!
  • [Aug. 2026] πŸŽ‰ We are excited to present our tutorial, β€œContext-Aware Time Series Forecasting: From Pattern Extrapolation to Cognitive Reasoning,” at IEEE ICDM 2026. See you in Shenyang!
  • [Aug. 2026] πŸŽ‰ I will serve as the Publication Chair for ICEBE 2026.
  • [Aug. 2026] πŸŽ‰ Congratulations on our papers Mind2Report, Time-R1, and AlphaCast being accepted to ACM CIKM 2026!
  • [Aug. 2026] πŸŽ‰ Congratulations on our survey A Survey on Table Mining with Large Language Models: Challenges, Advancements and Prospects being accepted by ACM Computing Surveys (ACM CSUR)!
  • [Aug. 2026] πŸŽ‰ Congratulations on our demo papers Agent-R1 and TabClaw being accepted to the ACM CIKM 2026 Demo Track!
  • [Jul. 2026] Our tutorial on Context-Aware Time Series Forecasting has been accepted by the IEEE ICDM 2026 Industry Tutorial Session. I will serve as a tutorial organizer and speaker.
  • [Jul. 2026] Our workshop, FedKDD/FedMAS 2026, will be held in conjunction with KDD 2026. I am honored to serve as the Program Chair.
  • [Jul. 2026] πŸ† Our Agentic Time Series Forecasting solution CastStar ranked #1 on the GIFT-Eval Overall leaderboard.
  • [Jun. 2026] πŸŽ‰ Our project CastClawοΌˆθ§‚ζ˜Ÿι˜οΌ‰ received a Poster Presentation Certificate at the 2026 BAAI Conference Agent for Science Competition.
  • [Jun. 2026] πŸŽ‰ Congratulations on our Knowledge-Oriented RAG Survey being accepted to ACM Transactions on Information Systems (ACM TOIS)!
  • [May. 2026] πŸŽ‰ Congratulations to Zhiding Liu on his work DisenTS being accepted to IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI)!
  • [May. 2026] πŸŽ‰ Congratulations to Xiaoyu Tao on her paper being accepted to ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST)!
  • [May. 2026] πŸŽ‰ Congratulations to two of my co-supervised students (Yucong Luo and Jie Ouyang) on receiving ByteDance Jindouyun offers!
  • [May. 2026] πŸŽ‰ Congratulations to Yitong Zhou on our paper ChemTable being accepted to KDD 2026!
  • [May. 2026] πŸš€ We released CastFactoryοΌˆη‚Όζ˜ŸεŠοΌ‰, a framework for LLM-driven time series forecasting model training. GitHub
  • [May. 2026] πŸŽ‰ Congratulations to Xiaoyu Tao and Bohou Zhang on our papers (TokenCast and ScholarSum) being accepted to IJCAI 2026!
  • [May. 2026] πŸŽ‰ Congratulations to Yaguo Liu and Xiaoyu Tao on our papers (CoGenCast and MemCast) being accepted to ICML 2026!
  • [Apr. 2026] πŸ“„ We released the preprint version of our survey on LLM-based agents from the contextual cognition perspective on Preprints.org: "A Comprehensive Survey of the LLM-Based Agent: The Contextual Cognition Perspective".
  • [Apr. 2026] πŸ“„ We released the preprint version of GeoMind on arXiv: "GeoMind: An Agentic Workflow for Lithology Classification with Reasoned Tool Invocation".
  • [Apr. 2026] πŸ“„ We released the preprint version of StepPO, our Agentic RL algorithm, on arXiv: "StepPO: Step-Aligned Policy Optimization for Agentic Reinforcement Learning".
  • [Apr. 2026] πŸ“˜ We released the CastClawοΌˆθ§‚ζ˜Ÿι˜οΌ‰ user documentation, covering installation, configuration, and usage for agentic time series forecasting.
  • [Apr. 2026] πŸŽ‰ Congratulations to Jiawei Cao on his paper being accepted to ACL 2026 Main Conference!
  • [Apr. 2026] πŸŽ‰ Congratulations to Qingyang Mao on his paper being accepted to IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE)!
  • [Apr. 2026] πŸš€ We released CastClawοΌˆθ§‚ζ˜Ÿι˜οΌ‰, an open-source GitHub framework for agentic time series forecasting. Check out the project page!
  • [Apr. 2026] πŸš€ We released Academic Search, an open-source GitHub skill for AI4Science literature search.
  • [Mar. 2026] πŸš€ We open-sourced TabClaw, an GitHub framework for agentic table reasoning, designed to enable LLM agents to understand, analyze, and interact with large-scale tabular data through structured reasoning and tool-augmented workflows.
  • [Mar. 2026] πŸš€ We open-sourced Claw-R1, an GitHub framework for agentic reinforcement learning, extending RL training environments for reasoning and tool-using LLM agents.
  • [Feb. 2026] πŸŽ‰ We released a Position Paper on arXiv: "Beyond Model-Centric Prediction β€” Agentic Time Series Forecasting".
  • [Jan. 2026] πŸ“„ We released PSPO, our Agentic RL algorithm, and validated it on the PaperScout paper search agent on arXiv: "PaperScout: An Autonomous Agent for Academic Paper Search with Process-Aware Sequence-Level Policy Optimization".
  • [Jan. 2026] πŸŽ‰ Congratulations to Li Li on her paper being accepted to DASFAA 2026!
  • [Jan. 2026] πŸŽ‰ Congratulations to Qingyang Mao and Zirui Liu on our paper being accepted to ICLR 2026!
  • [Jan. 2026] πŸŽ‰ I will serve as a Senior Program Committee (SPC) member for IJCAI2026.
  • [Jan. 2026] πŸŽ‰ Congratulations to Huajian Zhang, Shuo Yu, Qingchuan Li and Zhiding Liu on our paper being accepted to WWW 2026!
2025
  • [Dec. 2025] πŸŽ‰ I will serve as a AE for IEEE SMC2026.
  • [Nov. 2025] πŸŽ‰ Congratulations to Xiaoyu Tao on her paper being accepted to ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST)!
  • [Nov. 2025] πŸŽ‰ Congratulations to Qingchuan Li and Yupeng Li on our paper being accepted to AAAI 2026!
  • [Oct. 2025] πŸŽ‰ Congratulations to Chuang Jiang, Jiahao Wang, and collaborators on our paper being accepted to ACM WSDM2026!
  • [Sep. 2025] πŸŽ‰ Congratulations to Zhiding Liu on his paper being accepted to NeurIPS 2025!
  • [Aug. 2025] πŸŽ‰ Congratulations to Shuo Yu and Jiahao Wang on our paper being accepted to CIKM 2025!
  • [Jul. 2025] πŸŽ‰ Congratulations to Mingfan Pan and Yue Chen for our paper acceptance at RecSys 2025!
  • [Jun. 2025] πŸ“Š We released ChemTable, a large-scale dataset and benchmark for evaluating MLLMs on real-world chemical tables. [GitHub] [arXiv]
  • [Jun. 2025] πŸš€ We released Time-R1, the first time series reasoning model with reinforcement fine-tuning, now available on Hugging Face and GitHub.
  • [May. 2025] πŸŽ‰ Congratulations to Jie Ouyang and Junhao Yu on our paper being accepted to ACL 2025!
  • [May. 2025] πŸŽ‰ Congratulations to Daoyu Wang and Zirui Liu on our paper being accepted to ICML 2025!
  • [Apr. 2025] πŸŽ‰ Congratulations to Jintao Zhang, Yitong Zhou, and Hao Zhang for having our paper accepted by IJCAI 2025!
  • [Apr. 2025] πŸ“„ We preprinted a new survey: A Comprehensive Survey of Time Series Forecasting on TechRxiv.
  • [Apr. 2025] πŸ“„ Our survey A Survey on Table Mining with Large Language Models released on TechRxiv.
  • [Mar. 2025] πŸš€ Our Agent R1 project officially released on GitHub.
  • [Mar. 2025] πŸ“„ Our survey A Survey on Knowledge-Oriented Retrieval-Augmented Generation released on arXiv.
2024
  • [Dec. 2024] πŸ† Congrats to our students on winning the Gold Award in the 2024 Ascend AI Innovation Competition finals!