Hi, I am Dongping Chen (陈东平).

At present, I am working with Professor Tianyi Zhou and Sarah Wiegreffe at University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to this, I have the privilege of being a visiting student to University of Washington, where I work with Professors Ranjay Krishna and Senior PhD Jieyu Zhang. My academic journey has also been enriched by a collaboration with Lichao Sun at Lehigh University, Xiangliang Zhang at University of Notre Dame. I am also leading ONE Lab with Professor Yao Wan, and very lucky to have the opportunity to work with my labmates.

My research interests are deeply rooted in the latest advancements in generative models, especially multimodal, LLM-based agents and frontier trustworthy problems.

I’m looking for summer intern opportunities in 2026 summer and feel free to reach out.

I’m interested in connecting with students for research collaboration, mentorship, or just making friends! I especially encourage junior student or students from underrepresented groups to reach out. Feel free to schedule a meeting via this link.

📝 Publications

* indicates equal contribution. ‡ indicates project leaders.

ICLR 2025 Spotlight

Interleaved Scene Graph for Interleaved Text-and-Image Generation Assessment [PDF] [Github] [Website]

Dongping Chen *, Ruoxi Chen *, Shu Pu *, Zhaoyi Liu *, Yanru Wu *, Caixi Chen *, Benlin Liu, Yue Huang, Yao Wan, Pan Zhou, Ranjay Krishna†

ICLR 2025

GUI-World: A Dataset for GUI-oriented Multimodal LLM-based Agents [PDF] [Github] [Website]

Dongping Chen *, Yue Huang *, Siyuan Wu, Jingyu Tang, Liuyi Chen, Yilin Bai, Zhigang He, Chenlong Wang, Huichi Zhou, Yiqiang Li, Tianshuo Zhou, Yue Yu, Chujie Gao, Qihui Zhang, Yi Gui, Zhen Li, Yao Wan†, Pan Zhou†, Jianfeng Gao, Lichao Sun

NeurIPS 2024

The Best of Both Worlds: Toward an Honest and Helpful Large Language Model [PDF] [Github] [Website]

Chujie Gao *, Siyuan Wu *, Yue Huang *, Dongping Chen *, Qihui Zhang *, Zhengyan Fu, Yao Wan†, Xiangliang Zhang, Lichao Sun

ICML 2024 Oral

MLLM-as-a-Judge: Assessing Multimodal LLM-as-a-Judge with Vision-Language Benchmark [PDF] [Github] [Website]

Dongping Chen *, Ruoxi Chen *, Shilin Zhang *, Yinuo Liu *, Yaochen Wang *, Huichi Zhou *, Qihui Zhang *, Yao Wan†, Pan Zhou†, Lichao Sun

NAACL 2024 Findings

LLM-as-a-Coauthor: The Challenges of Detecting LLM-Human Mixcase [PDF] [Github] [Website]

Qihui Zhang *, Chujie Gao *, Dongping Chen *, Yue Huang, Yixin Huang, Zhenyang Sun, Shilin Zhang, Weiye Li, Zhengyan Fu, Yao Wan, Lichao Sun†

Tech Report

Reinforced Visual Perception with Tools [PDF] [Github] [Model & Dataset]

Zetong Zhou, Dongping Chen‡, Zixian Ma, Zhihan Hu, Mingyang Fu, Sinan Wang, Yao Wan†, Zhou Zhao, Ranjay Krishna†

Preprint

Are We on the Right Way for Assessing Document Retrieval-Augmented Generation? [PDF] [Github] [Website] [Dataset]

Wenxuan Shen *, Mingjia Wang *, Yaochen Wang, Dongping Chen‡, Junjie Yang, Yao Wan, Weiwei Lin†

Preprint

code_transformed: The Influence of Large Language Models on Code [PDF] [Github]

Yuliang Xu *, Siming Huang *, Mingmeng Geng†, Yao Wan†, Xuanhua Shi, Dongping Chen‡

Tech Report

Optimizing Length Compression in Large Reasoning Models [PDF] [Github]

Zhengxiang Cheng, Dongping Chen‡, Mingyang Fu, Tianyi Zhou†

Preprint

Seeking and Updating with Live Visual Knowledge [PDF] [Github] [Dataset] [Website]

Mingyang Fu*, Yuyang Peng*, Dongping Chen‡, Zetong Zhou, Benlin Liu, Yao Wan†, Zhou Zhao, Philip S. Yu, Ranjay Krishna†

ACM MM 2025 Dataset Track

MultiRef: Controllable Image Generation with Multiple Visual References [PDF] [Github] [Dataset] [Website]

Ruoxi Chen, Dongping Chen‡, Siyuan Wu, Sinan Wang, Shiyun Lang, Petr Sushko, Gaoyang Jiang, Yao Wan, Ranjay Krishna†

EMNLP 2025 Findings

Wait, We Don’t Need to “Wait”! Removing Thinking Tokens Improves Reasoning Efficiency [PDF] (Code Coming Soon)

Chenlong Wang, Yuanning Feng, Dongping Chen‡, Zhaoyang Chu, Ranjay Krishna, Tianyi Zhou†

KDD 2025 Dataset and Benchmark Track

Judge Anything: MLLM as a Judge Across Any Modality [PDF] [Webpage]

Shu Pu *, Yaochen Wang *, Dongping Chen‡, Yuhang Chen, Guohao Wang, Qi Qin, Zhongyi Zhang, Zhiyuan Zhang, Zetong Zhou, Shuang Gong, Yi Gui, Yao Wan†, Philip S. Yu

IC2S2 2025

Wikipedia in the Era of LLMs: Evolution and Risks [PDF]

Siming Huang *, Yuliang Xu *, Mingmeng Geng†, Yao Wan†, Dongping Chen‡

ICML 2025

CodeSync: Synchronizing Large Language Models with Dynamic Code Evolution at Scale [PDF] [Code]

Chenlong Wang, Zhaoyang Chu, Zhengxiang Cheng, Xuyi Yang, Kaiyue Qiu, Yao Wan, Zhou Zhao, Xuanhua Shi, Dongping Chen‡

ACL 2025

nvAgent: Automated Data Visualization from Natural Language via Collaborative Agent Workflow [PDF] [Code]

Geliang Ouyang, Jingyao Chen, Zhihe Nie, Yi Gui, Yao Wan†, Hongyu Zhang, Dongping Chen‡

ACL 2025 Findings

The Impact of Large Language Models in Academia: from Writing to Speaking [PDF]

Mingmeng Geng†, Caixi Chen, Yanru Wu, Dongping Chen‡, Yao Wan, Pan Zhou

📖 Educations

2025.08 - Current, CS PhD Student, University of Maryland.
2024.08 - 2024.12, Visiting Scholar, University of Washington.
2021.09 - 2025.06, BEng., Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

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