Publications

Less is MoE: Trimming Experts in Domain-Specialist Language Models
Haoze He*, Xinkai Zou*, Xuan Jiang, Xingyuan Ding, Au Qu, Juncheng Billy Li, Heather Miller
In submission to EMNLP
[paper]

Simulating Organized Group Behavior: New Framework, Benchmark, and Analysis
Xinkai Zou*, Yiming Huang*, Zhuohang Wu, Jian Sha, Nan Huang, Longfei Yun, Jingbo Shang, Letian Peng
COLM 2026
[paper] [code] [project] [dataset]

Preserving Long-Tailed Expert Information in Mixture-of-Experts Tuning
Haoze He, Xingyuan Ding, Xuan Jiang, Xinkai Zou, Alex Cheng, Yibo Zhao, Juncheng Billy Li, Heather Miller
COLM 2026
[paper]

Kairotask: Probing the Bridge Between Vague Intents and Spatiotemporal Contexts
Jiachen Du, Yuanhao Zhang, Hengyu Jin, Xinkai Zou, Junwei Zhu, Xinyi Fu
CHI 2026 Poster
[paper]

Towards Generalizable Context-aware Anomaly Detection: A Large-scale Benchmark in Cloud Environments
Xinkai Zou, Xuan Jiang, Ruikai Huang, Haoze He, Parv Kapoor, Hongrui Wu, Yibo Wang, Jian Sha, Xiongbo Shi, Zixun Huang, Jinhua Zhao
COLM 2026 AIMS
[paper] [project] [dataset]

Emotional Support Originating from Dialogue: Empowering Older Adults' Self-Tracking of Sleep-Related Daytime Factors
Jiachen Du, Xinkai Zou, Liwen He, Shuzi Yin, Bingjie Gao, Wenjing Deng, Xinyi Fu, Haipeng Mi
UbiComp 2025 Poster
[paper]

TaskWise: Enhancing Cognitive Performance in Task Management through Interactive Detail Enrichment
Jiachen Du, Bingjie Gao, Shuzi Yin, Xinkai Zou, Wenjing Deng, Xinyi Fu
UbiComp 2025 Poster
[paper]

The Social Dynamics of Voice Cloning: Trust, Privacy, and Ethical Tensions When Sharing Your AI Voice Replica
Jiachen Du, Hanyu Huang, Xinkai Zou, Shuzi Yin, Bingjie Gao, Xinyi Fu
CSCW 2025 Poster
[paper]

SAFEFLOW: A Principled Protocol for Trustworthy and Transactional Autonomous Agent Systems
Peiran Li*, Xinkai Zou*, Zhuohang Wu, Ruifeng Li, Shuo Xing, Hanwen Zheng, Zhikai Hu, Yuping Wang, Haoxi Li, Qin Yuan, Yingmo Zhang, Zhengzhong Tu
arXiv
[paper] [dataset]

Goal2Story: A Multi-Agent Fleet based on Privately Enabled sLLMs for Impacting Mapping on Requirements Elicitation
Xinkai Zou, Yan Liu, Xiongbo Shi, Chen Yang
arXiv
[paper] [code] [dataset]