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

• 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. COLM 2026. Paper · Code

Preprints

• 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. Preprint (arXiv:2605.29648). Paper · Code

• 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. Preprint (arXiv:2605.05524). Paper · Code

• Hanrong Zhang, Yankai Chen, Shicheng Fan, Dehai Min, Shaowen Chen, …, Dawn Song, Philip S. Yu, Xue Liu. Scaling LLM Agent Learning with Data Synthesis: A Comprehensive Survey. Preprint (ResearchGate, June 2026; DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.32395.86569). Paper