Publications

Conference

• Shicheng Fan, Kun Zhang, Lu Cheng. TRACE: Trajectory Recovery for Continuous Mechanism Evolution in Causal Representation Learning. Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026. Paper · Code

Under Review

• Shicheng Fan*, Haochang Hao*, Dehai Min*, Weihao Liu, Philip S. Yu, Lu Cheng. Verifiable Rewards Beyond Math and Code: Lightweight Corpus-Grounded Process Supervision for Factual Question Answering. Under Review (manuscript: arXiv:2605.29648). Paper · Code (*Co-first author)

• Shicheng Fan, Nour Elhendawy, Jianle Sun, Ke Fang, Kun Zhang, Yihang Wang, Lu Cheng. MOSAIC: Module Discovery via Sparse Additive Identifiable Causal Learning for Scientific Time Series. Under Review (manuscript: arXiv:2605.05524). Paper · Code

• Hanrong Zhang*, Shicheng Fan*, Henry Peng Zou, Yankai Chen, Zhenting Wang, Jiayu Zhou, Chengze Li, Wei-Chieh Huang, Yifei Yao, Kening Zheng, Xue Liu, Xiaoxiao Li, Philip S. Yu. CoEvoSkills: Self-Evolving Agent Skills via Co-Evolutionary Verification. Under Review (manuscript: arXiv:2604.01687). Paper · Code (*Co-first author)