Murong Yue | George Mason University

About Me

Hi, my name is Murong Yue. I am a Ph.D. student at George Mason University (GMU), where I am luckily working with Prof. Ziyu Yao. I earned a master’s degree from the University of Southern California (USC) and a bachelor’s degree from Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU). Before starting my Ph.D., I also worked as a Machine Learning Engineer at Alibaba AI Labs.

My research interests include LLM Reasoning, Building and Evaluating LLM Agents for Interdisciplinary Applications, and Trustworthy LLMs.

News

[Sep. 2025] Check our new preprint about scalable tool making for tool-augmented reasoning.
[May. 2025] One paper is accepted to ACL 2025 findings.
[Apr. 2025] Check out our new preprint about the LLM persona simulation.
[Feb. 2025] One paper is accepted to AAAI 2025 AI4EDU workshop.
[Jan. 2025] One paper is accepted to ICLR 2025.
[Apr. 2024] I am awarded the Outstanding PhD Student Award by GMU, CS department.
[Jan. 2024] One paper is accepted to ICLR 2024.
[Dec. 2023] One paper is accepted to ICASSP 2024.
[Oct. 2023] Our paper about an open-source platform for ALM is accepted to EMNLP 2023 demo.
[Apr. 2023] GMU will organize MASC-SLL 2023, an annual NLP event in the Mid-Atlantic area! I will be serving as a Colloquium Organizer.

Selected Publications

Preprint ToolLibGen: Scalable Automatic Tool Creation and Aggregation for LLM Reasoning

Murong Yue, Zhiwei Liu, Liangwei Yang, Jianguo Zhang, Zuxin Liu, Haolin Chen, Ziyu Yao, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong, Shelby Heinecke, Huan Wang

ACL 2025 Findings Efficient but Vulnerable: Benchmarking and Defending LLM Batch Prompting Attack

Murong Yue, Ziyu Yao

ICLR 2025 DOTS: Learning to Reason Dynamically in LLMs via Optimal Reasoning Trajectories Search

Murong Yue, Wenlin Yao, Haitao Mi, Dian Yu, Ziyu Yao, Dong Yu

AAAI LLM4EDU 2025 MathVC: An LLM-Simulated Multi-Character Virtual Classroom for Mathematics Education

Murong Yue*, Wenhan Lyu*, Jennifer Suh, Yixuan Zhang, Ziyu Yao (* represents equal contribution)

ICLR 2024 Large Language Model Cascades with Mixture of Thoughts Representations for Cost-efficient Reasoning

Murong Yue, Jie Zhao, Min Zhang, Liang Du, Ziyu Yao

Award

Outstanding PhD Students, GMU CS Department

Recognition for Service on Hangs-On Generative AI Tutorial, GMU CEC

Services

Organizing Committee

MASC-SLL 2023 - 10th Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning

Reviewer

NeurIPS’23, NeurIPS’24, EMNLP'24, ICLR'25, AISTATS'25

Talk

[Feb. 2024] Title: LLM agent: build your own personal assistant, Invited talk at George Mason University Event for Hand-on Generative AI. Host: Amadra Shehu.

[Oct. 2023] Title: Large Language Model Cascades with Mixture of Thoughts Representations for Cost-efficient Reasoning, Invited talk at Microsoft Semantic Machines. Host: Hao Fang.