Shuochen Liu

Shuochen Liu

Joint PhD of USTC and CityU

I am currently a joint Ph.D. student in Data Science at USTC and CityU, supervised by Prof. Tong Xu in the BDAA Lab and Prof. Xiangyu Zhao at AML Lab. Prior to starting my doctoral studies, I received my Bachelor’s degree at HFUT in 2024.

Links: Google Scholar, GitHub

My research interests focus on (Multi-modal) LLMs, Reinforcement Learning, Personalized memory for AI agents.

📝 Publications

AAAI'26
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Look As You Think: Unifying Reasoning and Visual Evidence Attribution for Verifiable Document RAG via Reinforcement Learning

Shuochen Liu, Pengfei Luo, Chao Zhang, Yuhao Chen, Haotian Zhang, Qi Liu, Xin Kou, Tong Xu, Enhong Chen

Arxiv
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PERMA: Benchmarking Personalized Memory Agents via Event-Driven Preference and Realistic Task Environments

Shuochen Liu, Junyi Zhu, Long Shu, Junda Lin, Yuhao Chen, Haotian Zhang, Chao Zhang, Derong Xu, Jia Li, Bo Tang, Zhiyu Li, Feiyu Xiong, Enhong Chen, Tong Xu

EMNLP'24
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FastMem: fast memorization of prompt improves context awareness of large language models

Junyi Zhu*, Shuochen Liu*, Yu Yu, Bo Tang, Yibo Yan, Zhiyu Li, Feiyu Xiong, Tong Xu, Matthew B Blaschko

Arxiv
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Xiangqi-R1: Enhancing Spatial Strategic Reasoning in LLMs for Chinese Chess via Reinforcement Learning

Yuhao Chen, Shuochen Liu, Yuanjie Lyu, Chao Zhang, Jiayao Shi, Tong Xu

EMNLP'25
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Think Wider, Detect Sharper: Reinforced Reference Coverage for Document-Level Self-Contradiction Detection

Yuhao Chen, Yuanjie Lyu, Shuochen Liu, Chao Zhang, Junhui Lv, Tong Xu

KDD'23
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Meta multi-agent exercise recommendation: A game application perspective

Fei Liu, Xuegang Hu, Shuochen Liu, Chenyang Bu, Le Wu

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2024.10 & 2025.10 Graduate First-Class Scholarship
  • 2024.06 President Scholarship, Hefei University of Technology (2024)
  • 2024.06 Outstanding Graduates of Anhui Province’s Ordinary Colleges and Universities.
  • 2023.05 Top Ten Outstanding Students
  • 2022.12 & 2023.12 Undergraduate National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.
  • 2022.11 National Second Prize in Mathematical Modeling
  • 2022 Huawei Intelligent Base Scholarship

💻 Internships