Tianci Xue (薛天赐)

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Hi, nice to e-meet you! I am a first-year PhD student at Ohio State University(OSU), advised by Prof. Huan Sun and working closely with Prof. Yu Su. I obtained my master’s degree from Nanjing University. Previously, I was also a research intern at Blender NLP, UIUC, working with Prof. Heng Ji.

My research goal is to develop an AI system that empowers humans to better adapt to, understand, and explore this magical world.

I have broad interests in large language models (LLMs), large multimodal models(LMMs) and related fields. Recently, I’ve been focusing on language agents and reasoning. I’m particularly interested in steering LLMs toward self-learning and self-exploration in the wild, with the ultimate goal of achieving expert-level performance in specific domains.

Feel free to reach out if you are interested in my research or would like to discuss other research topics further.

news

Jul 08, 2025 🎉 Online-Mind2Web has been accepted to COLM 2025! See you in Montreal!🍁

selected publications

  1. COLM
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    An illusion of progress? assessing the current state of web agents
    Tianci Xue, Weijian Qi, Tianneng Shi, and 5 more authors
    2025
  2. Arxiv
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    Rcot: Detecting and rectifying factual inconsistency in reasoning by reversing chain-of-thought
    Tianci Xue, Ziqi Wang, Zhenhailong Wang, and 3 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.11499, 2023
  3. ACL
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    PACIT: Unlocking the Power of Examples for Better In-Context Instruction Tuning
    Tianci Xue, Ziqi Wang, Yixia Li, and 2 more authors
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024, Aug 2024

Education

The Ohio State University
PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, 2024–Present

Nanjing University
Master, Software Engineering, 2022–2024
Rank: 29/231

Hubei University of Technology
BS, Computer Science, 2018–2022
Rank: 1/178