Publications

2025

1. Leveraging Dual Process Theory in Language Agent Framework for Real-time Simultaneous Human-AI Collaboration

   Shao Zhang*, Xihuai Wang*, Wenhao Zhang, Chaoran Li, Junru Song, Tingyu Li, Lin Qiu, Xuezhi Cao, Xunliang Cai, Wen Yao, Weinan Zhang, Xinbing Wang, and Ying Wen

   63rd ACL, 2025

   LLM Reasoning and Agency

   Bib PDF Code

   @article{zhang2025dpt,
     author = {Zhang*, Shao and Wang*, Xihuai and Zhang, Wenhao and Li, Chaoran and Song, Junru and Li, Tingyu and Qiu, Lin and Cao, Xuezhi and Cai, Xunliang and Yao, Wen and Zhang, Weinan and Wang, Xinbing and Wen, Ying},
     title = {Leveraging Dual Process Theory in Language Agent Framework for Real-time Simultaneous Human-AI Collaboration},
     journal = {63rd ACL},
     year = {2025},
   }

2. PMAT: Optimizing Action Generation Order in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

   Kun Hu, Muning Wen, Xihuai Wang, Shao Zhang, Yiwei Shi, Minne Li, Minglong Li, and Ying Wen

   24th AAMAS, 2025

   MARL Efficiency

   Bib PDF Code

   @article{hu2025pmat,
     author = {Hu, Kun and Wen, Muning and Wang, Xihuai and Zhang, Shao and Shi, Yiwei and Li, Minne and Li, Minglong and Wen, Ying},
     title = {PMAT: Optimizing Action Generation Order in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning},
     journal = {24th AAMAS},
     year = {2025},
   }

2024

1. Mutual Theory of Mind in Human-AI Collaboration: An Empirical Study with LLM-driven AI Agents in a Real-time Shared Workspace Task

   Shao Zhang*, Xihuai Wang*, Wenhao Zhang, Yongshan Chen, Landi Gao, Dakuo Wang, Weinan Zhang, Xinbing Wang, and Ying Wen

   Preprint Under Review, 2024

   LLM Reasoning and Agency

   Bib PDF

   @article{zhang2024mutualtheorymindhumanai,
     author = {Zhang*, Shao and Wang*, Xihuai and Zhang, Wenhao and Chen, Yongshan and Gao, Landi and Wang, Dakuo and Zhang, Weinan and Wang, Xinbing and Wen, Ying},
     title = {Mutual Theory of Mind in Human-AI Collaboration: An Empirical Study with LLM-driven AI Agents in a Real-time Shared Workspace Task},
     journal = {Preprint Under Review},
     year = {2024},
   }

2. ZSC-Eval: An Evaluation Toolkit and Benchmark for Multi-agent Zero-shot Coordination

   Xihuai Wang, Shao Zhang, Wenhao Zhang, Wentao Dong, Jingxiao Chen, Ying Wen, and Weinan Zhang

   38th NeurIPS, 2024

   MARL Generalization

   Bib PDF Code

   @article{wang2023zsceval,
     author = {Wang, Xihuai and Zhang, Shao and Zhang, Wenhao and Dong, Wentao and Chen, Jingxiao and Wen, Ying and Zhang, Weinan},
     title = {ZSC-Eval: An Evaluation Toolkit and Benchmark for Multi-agent Zero-shot Coordination},
     journal = {38th NeurIPS},
     year = {2024},
   }

2023

1. Order Matters: Agent-by-agent Policy Optimization

   Xihuai Wang, Zheng Tian, Ziyu Wan, Ying Wen, Jun Wang, and Weinan Zhang

   11th ICLR, 2023

   MARL Efficiency

   Bib PDF Code

   @article{wang2023order,
     author = {Wang, Xihuai and Tian, Zheng and Wan, Ziyu and Wen, Ying and Wang, Jun and Zhang, Weinan},
     title = {Order Matters: Agent-by-agent Policy Optimization},
     journal = {11th ICLR},
     year = {2023},
     url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=Q-neeWNVv1},
   }

2022

1. Model-based Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning: Recent Progress and Prospects

   Xihuai Wang, Zhicheng Zhang, and Weinan Zhang

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.10603, 2022

   MARL Efficiency

   Bib PDF

   @article{wang2022modelbased,
     author = {Wang, Xihuai and Zhang, Zhicheng and Zhang, Weinan},
     title = {Model-based Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning: Recent Progress and Prospects},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.10603},
     year = {2022},
   }

2021

1. Model-based Multi-agent Policy Optimization with Adaptive Opponent-wise Rollouts

   Weinan Zhang, Xihuai Wang, Jian Shen, and Ming Zhou

   30th IJCAI, 2021

   MARL Efficiency

   Bib PDF Code

   @article{zhang2021modelbased,
     author = {Zhang, Weinan and Wang, Xihuai and Shen, Jian and Zhou, Ming},
     title = {Model-based Multi-agent Policy Optimization with Adaptive Opponent-wise Rollouts},
     journal = {30th IJCAI},
     year = {2021},
   }