Xiang Huang

Xiang Huang

Fourth year Ph.D. candidate in Nanjing University

About Me - Xiang Huang - 黄祥

Currently, I am a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate of Websoft Research Group at Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University. I received my B.Sc. degree from Chongqing University in June 2020. In the same year, I was admitted to study for a Ph.D. degree at Nanjing University under the supervision of Prof. Yuzhong Qu.

Starting in July 2024, I am doing a research internship at Tongyi Laboratory, Alibaba Group, and I will join as a full-time employee in the fall of 2025.

Feel free to reach out to me if you’re interested in my research~

Research Interest

  1. R1, RL, and Character Model.
  2. Alignment and Instruction Following.
  3. Complex Reasoning over Structural Environments, including Knowledge-Based Question Answering(KBQA) and Text2SQL.

Publication

First Author

  • [ACL’25 Findings] Reverse Preference Optimization for Complex Instruction Following
    Keyword: Instruction following, Alignment
    Xiang Huang, Ting-En Lin, Feiteng Fang, Yuchuan Wu, Hangyu Li, Yuzhong Qu, Fei Huang, Yongbin Li
    paper | code

  • [ACL’25] TARGA: Targeted Synthetic Data Generation for Practical Reasoning over Structured Data
    Keyword: Synthetic data, ICL-based KBQA, Generalization, Zero-shot QA
    Xiang Huang, Jiayu Shen, Shanshan Huang, Sitao Cheng, Xiaxia Wang, Yuzhong Qu
    paper | code

  • [ACL’24 Oral] QueryAgent: A Reliable and Efficient Reasoning Framework with Environmental Feedback-based Self-Correction
    Keyword: Agent, Self-correction, Neural-Symbolic Reasoning, Tool learning
    Xiang Huang, Sitao Cheng, Shanshan Huang, Jiayu Shen, Yong Xu, Chaoyun Zhang, Yuzhong Qu
    paper | code

  • [EMNLP’23] MarkQA: A large scale KBQA dataset with numerical reasoning
    Keyword: Numerical reasoning, Code/Program-aided reasoning(PAL, PoT)
    Xiang Huang, Sitao Cheng, Yuheng Bao, Shanshan Huang, Yuzhong Qu
    paper | code

  • [AAAI’23 Oral] Question Decomposition Tree for Answering Complex Questions over Knowledge Bases
    Keyword: Question decomposition, Semantic parsing-based KBQA
    Xiang Huang, Sitao Cheng, Yiheng Shu, Yuheng Bao, Yuzhong Qu
    paper | code

Participants

  • [EMNLP’25 Under Review] Anonymous, Comming soon
    Keyword:Character Model, Reward Model
    Feiteng Fang, Ting-En Lin, Yuchuan Wu, Xiong Liu, Xiang Huang, Dingwei Chen, Jing Ye, Ziqiang Liu, Haonan Zhang, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Min Yang, Fei Huang, Yongbin Li

  • [NIPS’25 Under Review] Anonymous, Comming soon
    Keyword: Social Intelligence, R1
    Guiyang Hou, Gao Xing, Yuchuan Wu, Xiang Huang, Zhe Zheng, Yongliang Shen, Wenqi Zhang, Jialu Du, Fei Huang, Yongbin Li, Weiming Lu

  • [ACL’24 Findings] Call Me When Necessary: LLMs can Efficiently and Faithfully Reason over Structured Environments
    Keyword: Information retrieval-based KBQA, Self-correction
    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

  • [ISWC’21] EDG-Based Question Decomposition for Complex Question Answering over Knowledge Bases
    Keyword: Question decomposition, Semantic parsing-based KBQA
    Xixin Hu, Yiheng Shu, Xiang Huang & Yuzhong Qu
    paper | code

  • [UIC’19] Cnnloc: Deep-learning based indoor localization with wifi fingerprinting
    Keyword: Question decomposition, Semantic parsing-based KBQA
    Xudong Song, Xiaochen Fan, Xiangjian He, Chaocan Xiang, Qianwen Ye, Xiang Huang, Gengfa Fang, Liming Luke Chen, Jing Qin, Zumin Wang
    paper | code

Awards & Honors

  • Scholarship for Doctoral Excellence, Nanjing University
  • Outstanding Graduate Students, Nanjing University
  • First-Class Scholarship (Top 2%), Chongqing University
  • National Inspiration Scholarship, Chongqing University
  • Advanced Individuals in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Top 10 in university), Chongqing University

Education

  • 2020.09 - Now        Nanjing University      -  Computer science (Ph.D.)
  • 2016.09 - 2020.06   Chongqing University -  Computer science and technology (Bachelor)

Teaching Assistant

Discrete Mathematics (2021-2025)

Academic Services

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