Publications

2026

• Demystifying Scientific Problem-Solving in LLMs by Probing Knowledge and Reasoning
  Alan Li∗, Yixin Liu∗, Arpan Sarkar, Doug Downey, Arman Cohan
  ICML 2026: Main Conference
  Paper

• A Survey on Evaluation of LLM-based Agents
  Asaf Yehudai, Lilach Eden, Alan Li, Guy Uziel, Yilun Zhao, Roy Bar-Haim, Arman Cohan, Michal Shmueli-Scheuer
  Findings of ACL 2026
  Paper

2025

• Multi-Perspective Integration via Mixture-of-Agents for Enhanced Healthcare QA Summarization
  Dongsuk Jang, Alan Li, Arman Cohan NAACL 2025: CL4Health (Workshop).
  Ranked #2 at CL4Health@NAACL2025 Leaderboard.
  Paper

• SciRIFF: A Resource to Enhance Language Model Instruction-Following over Scientific Literature
  David Wadden∗, Kejian Shi∗, Jacob Morrison, Alan Li, Aakanksha Naik, Shruti Singh, Nitzan Barzilay, Kyle Lo, Tom Hope, Luca Soldaini, Zejiang Shen, Doug Downey, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Arman Cohan
  EMNLP 2025: Main Conference
  Paper

2024

• Summarization-Based Document IDs for Generative Retrieval with Language Models
  Alan Li, Phillip Keung, Daniel Cheng, Jungo Kasai, Noah A. Smith
  EMNLP 2024: NLP for Wikipedia Workshop
  Paper

2023

• NarrowBERT: Accelerating Masked Language Model Pretraining and Inference
  Alan Li, Phillip Keung, Daniel Cheng, Jungo Kasai, Noah A. Smith
  ACL 2023: Main Conference
  Paper