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Cheng Wang

Hi, I am Cheng Wang (王程). I graduated from NUS and currently work at ByteDance. I study agents and occasionally contribute to open source.

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🔥 News

[2026.09] Our paper AgentVista is accepted to NeurIPS 2026!
[2026.04] Two first-author papers accepted to ACL 2026! One to Main Track and one to Findings (Oral)!
[2026.01] Our paper Mirage or Method? is accepted to ICLR 2026!
[2025.08] Two first-author papers accepted to EMNLP 2025! One to Main Track and one to Findings!
[2025.06] Our paper GuardReasoner-VL is accepted to ICML 2025 R2-FM Workshop!
[2025.04] Our survey on LRMs Safety is on arxiv now, check out the paper and repo!
[2025.01] One first-author paper is accepted to NAACL 2025 Main Conference.
[2025.01] I started my internship at ByteDance as an Algorithm Engineer Intern.
[2024.11] One first-author paper is accepted to COLING 2025.

📑 Publications

^* denotes equal contribution.

Overview
• First-author: ACL 26 Main, ACL 26 Findings (Oral), EMNLP 25 Main, EMNLP 25 Findings, NAACL 25 Main, COLING 25
• Co-first: ICLR 26
• Co-author: NeurIPS 26, NeurIPS 25

	NeurIPS 2026AgentVista: Evaluating Multimodal Agent in Ultra-Challenging Realistic Visual Scenarios Zhaochen Su^, Jincheng Gao^, Hangyu Guo^, Zhenhua Liu, Lueyang Zhang, Xinyu Geng, Shijue Huang, Peng Xia, Guanyu Jiang, Cheng Wang*, Yue Zhang, Yi R. (May) Fung, Junxian He Paper / Project / Code
	ACL 2026 Main Taming Extreme Tokens: Covariance-Aware GRPO with Gaussian-Kernel Advantage Reweighting Cheng Wang, Qin Liu, Wenxuan Zhou, Muhao Chen Paper / Code
	ACL 2026 Findings (Oral) False Sense of Security: Why Probing-based Malicious Input Detection Fails to Generalize Cheng Wang^, Zeming Wei^, Qin Liu, Wenxuan Zhou, Muhao Chen Paper / Code
	EMNLP 2025 MainWhen Audio and Text Disagree: Benchmarking Text Bias in Large Audio-Language Models under Cross-Modal Inconsistencies Cheng Wang, Gelei Deng, Xianglin Yang, Tianwei Zhang Paper / Code
	NeurIPS 2025GuardReasoner-VL: Safeguarding VLMs via Reinforced Reasoning Yue Liu, Shengfang Zhai, Mingzhe Du, Yulin Chen, Tri Cao, Hongcheng Gao, Cheng Wang, Xinfeng Li, Kun Wang, Junfeng Fang, Jiaheng Zhang, Bryan Hooi Paper / Code
	EMNLP 2025 FindingsSafety in Large Reasoning Models: A Survey Cheng Wang^*, Yue Liu, Baolong Bi, Duzhen Zhang, Zhongzhi Li, Junfeng Fang, Bryan Hooi Paper / GitHub
	NAACL 2025 MainTricking Retrievers with Influential Tokens: An Efficient Black-Box Corpus Poisoning Attack Cheng Wang, Yiwei Wang, Yujun Cai, Bryan Hooi Paper
	COLING 2025Con-ReCall: Detecting Pre-training Data in LLMs via Contrastive Decoding Cheng Wang, Yiwei Wang, Bryan Hooi, Yujun Cai, Nanyun Peng, Kai-Wei Chang Paper / Code

🎓 Education

National University of Singapore (NUS)
Period: 2022 - Present
Major: Computer Science

💼 Professional & Industry Experience

	ByteDance Algorithm Engineer Period: July 2026 - Present
	ByteDance Algorithm Engineer Intern Period: March 2026 - July 2026
	Microsoft Research Asia Research Intern Period: Jan 2026 - March 2026
	ByteDance Algorithm Engineer Intern Period: Jan 2025 - Jul 2025

Last updated: Sep 2026