About Me

My name is Zheng Wu, and I am currently a Master’s student at the School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, under the supervision of Prof. Zhuosheng Zhang. I received my Bachelor’s degree from the same institution in 2025.

My research interests include (multimodal) large language models, agent post-training and agent evaluation.

I am currently a Qingyun Plan Intern with the WeLM Foundation Model Team at Tencent WXG.

如果您对我的研究方向感兴趣,欢迎与我联系、探讨合作可能性。尤其欢迎有意向选择Zhuosheng Zhang老师作为导师的本科生或上海交通大学的校内本科生进行科研实习与合作。

Education

B.Eng. in Computer Science

Shanghai Jiao Tong University Supervisor: Prof. Zhuosheng Zhang

M.Eng. in Computer Science

Shanghai Jiao Tong University Supervisor: Prof. Zhuosheng Zhang

Internship

Qingyun Plan Intern · WeLM Foundation Model · Tencent

Tencent WXG 腾讯青云计划 · Project Up

General Agent Team · LongCat Foundation Model · Meituan

Meituan

Topology Lab · OPPO Research Institute

OPPO

Awards & Honors

National Scholarship, 2026 (top 0.2% nationwide)

Best Bachelor Thesis, 2025 (top 1% in SJTU)

National Scholarship, 2024 (top 0.2% nationwide)

National Scholarship, 2022 (top 0.2% nationwide)

Publications

* Equal contribution · # Corresponding author.

1. GEM: Gaussian Embedding Modeling for Out-of-Distribution Detection for GUI Agents

Zheng Wu, Pengzhou Cheng, Zongru Wu, Lingzhong Dong, Zhuosheng Zhang#.

AAAI 2026

2. Agent-Dice: Disentangling Knowledge Updates via Geometric Consensus for Agent Continual Learning

Zheng Wu, Xingyu Lou, Xinbei Ma, Yansi Li, Weiwen Liu, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang#, Zhuosheng Zhang#.

ACL 2026

3. Mobile-Aptus: Confidence-Driven Proactive and Robust Interaction in MLLM-based Mobile-Using Agents

Zheng Wu, Pengzhou Cheng, Zongru Wu, Yuan Guo, Tianjie Ju, Aston Zhang, Gongshen Liu, Zhuosheng Zhang#.

TASLP

4. OS-Kairos: Adaptive Interaction for MLLM-Powered GUI Agents

Pengzhou Cheng*, Zheng Wu*, Zongru Wu, Aston Zhang, Zhuosheng Zhang#, Gongshen Liu#.

ACL 2025

5. Would You Walk to the Car Wash? Revealing the Salience Bias of Large Language Models in Commonsense Reasoning

Zheng Wu, Chenhao Xue, Shijie Zheng, Yijie Lu, Cheng Yang, Zhuosheng Zhang#.

Preprint

6. Beyond a Single Judge: Simulating Social Persona Panels for Generative UI Evaluation

Zheng Wu, Yibo Luo, Pu Zhang, Cheng Yang, Zhuosheng Zhang#.

Preprint

7. GUI-CIDER: Mid-training GUI Agents via Causal Internalization and Density-aware Exemplar Reselection

Zheng Wu, Chengcheng Han, Zhengxi Lu, Tianjie Ju, Yanyu Chen, Qi Gu#, Xunliang Cai, Zhuosheng Zhang#.

Preprint

8. OS-SPEAR: A Toolkit for the Safety, Performance, Efficiency, and Robustness Analysis of OS Agents

Zheng Wu, Yi Hua, Zhaoyuan Huang, Chenhao Xue, Yijie Lu, Pengzhou Cheng, Zongru Wu, Lingzhong Dong, Gongshen Liu, Xinghao Jiang, Zhuosheng Zhang#.

Preprint

9. Quick on the Uptake: Eliciting Implicit Intents from Human Demonstrations for Personalized Mobile-Use Agents

Zheng Wu, Heyuan Huang, Yanjia Yang, Yuanyi Song, Xingyu Lou, Weiwen Liu, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang#, Zhuosheng Zhang#.

Preprint

10. VeriOS: Query-Driven Proactive Human-Agent-GUI Interaction for Trustworthy OS Agents

Zheng Wu, Heyuan Huang, Xingyu Lou, Xiangmou Qu, Pengzhou Cheng, Zongru Wu, Weiwen Liu, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang, Zhaoxiang Wang#, Zhuosheng Zhang#.

Preprint

11. UrbanGround: From Local Perception to Spatial Agency in a Real-Scale City

Tianjie Ju, Zheng Wu, Yueqing Sun, Yuhan Cui, Bobo Li, Shengqiong Wu, Pengzhou Cheng, Haodong Zhao, Zongru Wu, Xinbei Ma, Doris Zhang, Kunling Li, Mong-Li Lee, Wynne Hsu, Hao Fei#, Qi Gu#, Gongshen Liu#, Zhuosheng Zhang#.

Preprint · 🏆 #3 Paper of the Day

12. ColorEcosystem: Powering Personalized, Standardized, and Trustworthy Agentic Service in Massive-agent Ecosystem

Fangwen Wu*, Zheng Wu*, Jihong Wang, Yunku Chen, Ruiguang Pei, Heyuan Huang, Xin Liao, Xingyu Lou, Huarong Deng, Zhihui Fu, Weiwen Liu, Zhuosheng Zhang, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang#.

Position Paper

13. ColorAgent: Building a Robust, Personalized, and Interactive OS Agent

Ning Li*, Qiqiang Lin*, Zheng Wu, Xiaoyun Mo, Weiming Zhang, Yin Zhao, Xiangmou Qu, Jiamu Zhou, Jun Wang, Congmin Zheng, Yuanyi Song, Hongjiang Chen, Heyuan Huang, Jihong Wang, Jiaxin Yin, Jingwei Yu, Junwei Liao, Qiuying Peng, Xingyu Lou#, Jun Wang, Weiwen Liu#, Zhuosheng Zhang#, Weinan Zhang.

Technical Report

14. Faithful Mobile GUI Agents with Guided Advantage Estimator

Haowen Hu*, Pengzhou Cheng*, Zheng Wu, Lingzhong Dong, Gongshen Liu#, Zhuosheng Zhang#.

ICML 2026

15. Training High-Level Schedulers with Execution-Feedback Reinforcement Learning for Long-Horizon GUI Automation

Zehao Deng, Tianjie Ju, Zheng Wu, Zhuosheng Zhang#, Gongshen Liu.

CVPR 2026

16. Hidden Ghost Hand: Unveiling Backdoor Vulnerabilities in MLLM-powered Mobile GUI Agents

Pengzhou Cheng, Haowen Hu, Zheng Wu, Zongru Wu, Tianjie Ju, Zhuosheng Zhang#, Gongshen Liu#.

EMNLP 2025

17. See, Think, Act: Teaching Multimodal Agents to Effectively Interact with GUI by Identifying Toggles

Zongru Wu, Rui Mao, Zhiyuan Tian, Pengzhou Cheng, Tianjie Ju, Zheng Wu, Lingzhong Dong, Haiyue Sheng, Zhuosheng Zhang#, Gongshen Liu#.

CVPR 2026

18. LC-ERD: Mining Latent Logic for Self-Evolving Reasoning via Consistency-Regulated Reward Decomposition

Yanyu Chen, Jiyue Jiang, Dianzhi Yu, Zheng Wu, Jiahong Liu, Jiaming Han, Xiao Guo, Jinhu Qi, Yu Li, Yifei Zhang, Irwin King#.

KDD 2026

19. Behavior Safety of Autonomous Interactive Agents: Risks, Attacks, Defenses and Evaluation

Xinjie Lai, Weihao Zuo, Zheng Wu, Tianjie Ju, Haodong Zhao, Xiaofeng Zhang, Zhuosheng Zhang, Gongshen Liu, Xinpeng Zhang, Pengzhou Cheng#.

Survey

20. MineExplorer: Evaluating Open-World Exploration of MLLM Agents in Minecraft

Tianjie Ju, Yueqing Sun, Zheng Wu, Wei Zhang, Yaqi Huo, Xi Su, Qi Gu#, Xunliang Cai, Gongshen Liu, Zhuosheng Zhang#.

EMNLP 2026

21. Causal Probing for Internal Visual Representations in Multimodal Large Language Models

Zehao Deng*, Tianjie Ju*, Zheng Wu, Liangbo He, Jun Lan, Huijia Zhu, Weiqiang Wang, Zhuosheng Zhang#.

EMNLP 2026

22. Communication Policy Evolution for Proactive LLM Agents

Xinbei Ma, Jiyang Qiu, Yao Yao, Zheng Wu, Yijie Lu, Xiangmou Qu, Jiaxin Yin, Xingyu Lou#, Jun Wang#, Weiwen Liu, Weinan Zhang, Zhuosheng Zhang#, Hai Zhao#.

EMNLP 2026

23. Do GUI Agents Know When Not to Act? Enabling Conflict-Aware Termination for Multimodal GUI Agents

Zhaoyuan Huang, Tianjie Ju, Pengzhou Cheng, Zheng Wu, Yansi Li, Chuanbiao Song, Jun Lan, Huijia Zhu, Weiqiang Wang, Zhuosheng Zhang#.

EMNLP 2026

24. Agent-ScanKit: Unraveling Memory and Reasoning of MLLM-Based Agents via Sensitivity Perturbations

Pengzhou Cheng, Lingzhong Dong, Zheng Wu, Zongru Wu, Xiangru Tang, Chengwei Qin, Zhuosheng Zhang#, Gongshen Liu#.

Preprint

25. Atomic-to-Compositional Generalization for Mobile Agents with Systematic Scheduling

Yuan Guo, Tingjia Miao, Zheng Wu, Pengzhou Cheng, Ming Zhou, Zhuosheng Zhang#.

Preprint

26. Smoothing Grounding and Reasoning for MLLM-Powered GUI Agents with Query-Oriented Pivot Tasks

Zongru Wu, Pengzhou Cheng, Zheng Wu, Tianjie Ju, Zhuosheng Zhang#, Gongshen Liu#.

Preprint

27. Domain Adaptation of MLLM-based Computer-Using Agents with Standard Operating Procedure

Lingzhong Dong, Ziqi Zhou, Pengzhou Cheng, Zongru Wu, Zheng Wu, Gongshen Liu#, Zhuosheng Zhang#.

KSEM 2026

28. Say One Thing, Do Another? Diagnosing Reasoning-Execution Gaps in VLM-Powered Mobile-Use Agents

Lingzhong Dong, Ziqi Zhou, Shuaibo Yang, Haiyue Sheng, Pengzhou Cheng, Zongru Wu, Zheng Wu, Gongshen Liu#, Zhuosheng Zhang#.

Preprint

Tutorials and Contributions

Participating: Dive into LLMs《动手学大模型》Course Series GitHub stars Course Link

Participating: 《大模型开发全流程》Course Series Course Link

Academic Services

Reviewer of conferences:

AAAI, ACL, ICML, EMNLP, ICLR

Reviewer of journals:

TIFS, IJHCI