Cheng Wang

Hi, I am Cheng Wang (王程), a final-year undergraduate student from NUS. I study agents and occasionally contribute to open source.

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🔥 News
  • [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 Tiktok as an Algorithm Engineer Intern.
  • [2024.11] One first-author paper is accepted to COLING 2025.
📑 Pre-prints & Publications

* denotes equal contribution.

agentvista
AgentVista: 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
Under Review, 2026

survey
ICLR 2026 Mirage or Method? How Model-Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions
Haoze Wu*, Cheng Wang*, Wenshuo Zhao, Junxian He
Paper / Code
survey
Neurips 25 MechInterp Workshop (Spotlight) 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
survey
Taming Extreme Tokens: Covariance-Aware GRPO with Gaussian-Kernel Advantage Reweighting
Cheng Wang, Qin Liu, Wenxuan Zhou, Muhao Chen
Under Review, 2025

survey
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
survey
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
survey
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
DIGA
NAACL 2025 MainTricking Retrievers with Influential Tokens: An Efficient Black-Box Corpus Poisoning Attack
Cheng Wang, Yiwei Wang, Yujun Cai, Bryan Hooi
Paper
con-recall
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
nus National University of Singapore (NUS)
Period: 2022 - Present
Major: Computer Science
💼 Professional & Industry Experience
microsoft Microsoft Research Asia
Research Intern
Period: Jan 2026 - March 2026
tiktok Tiktok
Algorithm Engineer Intern
Period: Jan 2025 - June 2025
nus National University of Singapore
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to AI and Machine Learning
Period: Jan 2024 - May 2024

Last update: Mar 2026