Publications | Shouren Wang

2026

Path-Lock Expert: Separating Reasoning Mode in Hybrid Thinking via Architecture-Level Separation

Shouren Wang^*, Wang Yang^*, Chuang Ma, Debargha Ganguly, Vikash Singh, Chaoda Song, Xinpeng Li, Xianxuan Long, Vipin Chaudhary, and Xiaotian Han

In Conference on Language Modeling, Oct 2026

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@inproceedings{wang2026pathlock,
  title = {Path-Lock Expert: Separating Reasoning Mode in Hybrid Thinking via Architecture-Level Separation},
  author = {Wang, Shouren and Yang, Wang and Ma, Chuang and Ganguly, Debargha and Singh, Vikash and Song, Chaoda and Li, Xinpeng and Long, Xianxuan and Chaudhary, Vipin and Han, Xiaotian},
  booktitle = {Conference on Language Modeling},
  year = {2026},
  first_public_year = {2026},
  month = oct,
}

Mid-Think: Training-Free Intermediate-Budget Reasoning via Token-Level Triggers

Wang Yang^*, Shouren Wang^*, Debargha Ganguly, Xinpeng Li, Chaoda Song, Vikash Singh, Vipin Chaudhary, and Xiaotian Han

In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026, Jul 2026

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@inproceedings{yang2026midthink,
  title = {Mid-Think: Training-Free Intermediate-Budget Reasoning via Token-Level Triggers},
  author = {Yang, Wang and Wang, Shouren and Ganguly, Debargha and Li, Xinpeng and Song, Chaoda and Singh, Vikash and Chaudhary, Vipin and Han, Xiaotian},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026},
  pages = {6024--6038},
  year = {2026},
  first_public_year = {2026},
  month = jul,
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2026.findings-acl.299},
}

Agent Team Work Zone: An Automated, Persistent Workspace for Long-Lived Claude Code Agent Teams

Shouren Wang

arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.22917, Jul 2026

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@article{wang2026atwz,
  title = {Agent Team Work Zone: An Automated, Persistent Workspace for Long-Lived Claude Code Agent Teams},
  author = {Wang, Shouren},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.22917},
  year = {2026},
  first_public_year = {2026},
  month = jul,
}

Test-Time Scaling in Reasoning LLMs: Inference Regimes, Evaluation, and Reproducibility

Mohsen Hariri, Weicong Chen, Nahal Shahini, Vikash Singh, Kai Ye, Amirhossein Samandar, Debargha Ganguly, Sreehari Sankar, Yanyan Zhang, Shouren Wang, Jerry Peng, Biyao Zhang, Michael Hinczewski, and Vipin Chaudhary

arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.04001, Aug 2026

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@article{hariri2026testtimescaling,
  title = {Test-Time Scaling in Reasoning LLMs: Inference Regimes, Evaluation, and Reproducibility},
  author = {Hariri, Mohsen and Chen, Weicong and Shahini, Nahal and Singh, Vikash and Ye, Kai and Samandar, Amirhossein and Ganguly, Debargha and Sankar, Sreehari and Zhang, Yanyan and Wang, Shouren and Peng, Jerry and Zhang, Biyao and Hinczewski, Michael and Chaudhary, Vipin},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.04001},
  year = {2026},
  first_public_year = {2026},
  month = aug,
}

MemTrace: Probing What Final Accuracy Misses in Long-Term Memory

Xianxuan Long, Zhikai Chen, Shenglai Zeng, Shouren Wang, Kai Guo, and Jiliang Tang

arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.17328, Jun 2026

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@article{long2026memtrace,
  title = {MemTrace: Probing What Final Accuracy Misses in Long-Term Memory},
  author = {Long, Xianxuan and Chen, Zhikai and Zeng, Shenglai and Wang, Shouren and Guo, Kai and Tang, Jiliang},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.17328},
  year = {2026},
  first_public_year = {2026},
  month = jun,
}

A Survey on Agent Skills for LLMs: A Lifecycle Perspective from Construction to Ecosystems

Wang Yang, Chaoda Song, Xinpeng Li, Shouren Wang, Nengbo Wang, Yanyan Zhang, Chuang Ma, Debargha Ganguly, Vikash Singh, Shuai Xu, Jing Ma, Yin Yu, Vipin Chaudhary, and Xiaotian Han

SSRN, May 2026

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@article{wang2026agentskills,
  title = {A Survey on Agent Skills for LLMs: A Lifecycle Perspective from Construction to Ecosystems},
  author = {Yang, Wang and Song, Chaoda and Li, Xinpeng and Wang, Shouren and Wang, Nengbo and Zhang, Yanyan and Ma, Chuang and Ganguly, Debargha and Singh, Vikash and Xu, Shuai and Ma, Jing and Yu, Yin and Chaudhary, Vipin and Han, Xiaotian},
  journal = {SSRN},
  year = {2026},
  first_public_year = {2026},
  month = may,
  doi = {10.2139/ssrn.6746498},
}

CausalGuard: Conformal Inference under Graph Uncertainty

Vikash Singh, Weicong Chen, Debargha Ganguly, Yanyan Zhang, Nengbo Wang, Sreehari Sankar, Mohsen Hariri, Alexander Nemecek, Chaoda Song, Shouren Wang, Biyao Zhang, Wang Yang, Erman Ayday, Jing Ma, and Vipin Chaudhary

arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.21928, May 2026

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@article{singh2026causalguard,
  title = {CausalGuard: Conformal Inference under Graph Uncertainty},
  author = {Singh, Vikash and Chen, Weicong and Ganguly, Debargha and Zhang, Yanyan and Wang, Nengbo and Sankar, Sreehari and Hariri, Mohsen and Nemecek, Alexander and Song, Chaoda and Wang, Shouren and Zhang, Biyao and Yang, Wang and Ayday, Erman and Ma, Jing and Chaudhary, Vipin},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.21928},
  year = {2026},
  first_public_year = {2026},
  month = may,
}

Reliability-Gated Source Anchoring for Continual Test-Time Adaptation

Vikash Singh, Debargha Ganguly, Weicong Chen, Sabyasachi Sahoo, Sreehari Sankar, Biyao Zhang, Mohsen Hariri, Shouren Wang, Osama Zafar, Christian Gagné, and Vipin Chaudhary

arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.14063, May 2026

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@article{singh2026rmemsafe,
  title = {Reliability-Gated Source Anchoring for Continual Test-Time Adaptation},
  author = {Singh, Vikash and Ganguly, Debargha and Chen, Weicong and Sahoo, Sabyasachi and Sankar, Sreehari and Zhang, Biyao and Hariri, Mohsen and Wang, Shouren and Zafar, Osama and Gagné, Christian and Chaudhary, Vipin},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.14063},
  year = {2026},
  first_public_year = {2026},
  month = may,
}

AgentCE-Bench: Agent Configurable Evaluation with Scalable Horizons and Controllable Difficulty under Lightweight Environments

Wang Yang, Chaoda Song, Xinpeng Li, Debargha Ganguly, Chuang Ma, Shouren Wang, Zhihao Dou, Yuli Zhou, Vipin Chaudhary, and Xiaotian Han

arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.06111, Apr 2026

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@article{yang2026agentce,
  title = {AgentCE-Bench: Agent Configurable Evaluation with Scalable Horizons and Controllable Difficulty under Lightweight Environments},
  author = {Yang, Wang and Song, Chaoda and Li, Xinpeng and Ganguly, Debargha and Ma, Chuang and Wang, Shouren and Dou, Zhihao and Zhou, Yuli and Chaudhary, Vipin and Han, Xiaotian},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.06111},
  year = {2026},
  first_public_year = {2026},
  month = apr,
}

When Domains Interact: Asymmetric and Order-Sensitive Cross-Domain Effects in Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning

Wang Yang, Shouren Wang, Chaoda Song, Chuang Ma, Xinpeng Li, Nengbo Wang, Kaixiong Zhou, Vipin Chaudhary, and Xiaotian Han

arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.01365, Feb 2026

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@article{yang2026domains,
  title = {When Domains Interact: Asymmetric and Order-Sensitive Cross-Domain Effects in Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning},
  author = {Yang, Wang and Wang, Shouren and Song, Chaoda and Ma, Chuang and Li, Xinpeng and Wang, Nengbo and Zhou, Kaixiong and Chaudhary, Vipin and Han, Xiaotian},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.01365},
  year = {2026},
  first_public_year = {2026},
  month = feb,
}

2025

Demystifying Hybrid Thinking: Can LLMs Truly Switch Between Think and No-Think?

Shouren Wang^*, Wang Yang^*, Xianxuan Long, Qifan Wang, Vipin Chaudhary, and Xiaotian Han

In Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Oct 2026

Preprint: Oct 2025 · Accepted: EMNLP 2026 Main

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@inproceedings{wang2026demystifying,
  title = {Demystifying Hybrid Thinking: Can LLMs Truly Switch Between Think and No-Think?},
  author = {Wang, Shouren and Yang, Wang and Long, Xianxuan and Wang, Qifan and Chaudhary, Vipin and Han, Xiaotian},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
  year = {2026},
  first_public_year = {2025},
  month = oct,
  note = {Preprint: Oct 2025 · Accepted: EMNLP 2026 Main},
}

A Survey on Efficient Protein Language Models

Shouren Wang, Debargha Ganguly, Vinooth Rao Kulkarni, Wang Yang, Zhuoran Qiao, Daniel Blankenberg, Vipin Chaudhary, and Xiaotian Han

Transactions on Machine Learning Research, Jun 2026

Preprint: 2025 · Published: TMLR 2026

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@article{wang2026efficientplm,
  title = {A Survey on Efficient Protein Language Models},
  author = {Wang, Shouren and Ganguly, Debargha and Kulkarni, Vinooth Rao and Yang, Wang and Qiao, Zhuoran and Blankenberg, Daniel and Chaudhary, Vipin and Han, Xiaotian},
  journal = {Transactions on Machine Learning Research},
  year = {2026},
  first_public_year = {2025},
  month = jun,
  note = {Preprint: 2025 · Published: TMLR 2026},
}

Enhancing Player Enjoyment with a Two-Tier DRL and LLM-Based Agent System for Fighting Games

Shouren Wang, Zehua Jiang, Fernando Sliva, Sam Earle, and Julian Togelius

arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.07425, Apr 2025

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@article{wang2025fighting,
  title = {Enhancing Player Enjoyment with a Two-Tier DRL and LLM-Based Agent System for Fighting Games},
  author = {Wang, Shouren and Jiang, Zehua and Sliva, Fernando and Earle, Sam and Togelius, Julian},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.07425},
  year = {2025},
  first_public_year = {2025},
  month = apr,
}