Jie-Jing Shao @ LAMDA, NJU-CS
Biography
I am a final-year PhD student from Department of Computer Science & Technology in Nanjing University and
a
member of LAMDA Group, which is led by professor
Zhi-Hua Zhou.
I received my B.Sc. degree from College of Computer Science and
Technology (Tang Aoqing Honors Program in Science) at Jilin
University in 2019. In the same year, I was admitted to study for a M.Sc. degree in Nanjing
University without entrance examination. In 2022, I started to pursue a Ph.D. degree at Nanjing University.
Since August 2025, I have been a visiting student at CFAR, A*STAR, supervised by Haiyan Yin, Xingrui Yu, and Ivor Tsang, and also working
closely
with Yueming Lyu.
Research Interests
My long-term goal is to build practical and robust machine learning systems in real world.
My current interest lies in topics related to Large Language Model Agent and Neuro-Symbolic
Learning, especially on improving their generalization and data efficiency.
(* denotes equal contributions)
-
ChinaTravel: An Open-Ended Travel Planning Benchmark with Compositional Constraint
Validation for Language Agents.
Jie-Jing Shao*, Bo-Wen Zhang*, Xiao-Wen Yang*, Bai-Zhi Chen, Si-Yu Han, Jing-Hao
Pang, Wen-Da Wei, Guohao Cai, Zhenhua Dong, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yu-Feng Li.
Based on this benchmark, we organize the
The IJCAI-25 Travel
Planning Challenge
and the
AIC 2025 Travel Planning
Challenge.
The developed demo was honored with the
Excellence Award at the National "AI+"
Industry Application Innovation Competition.
-
Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence: Towards Improving the Reasoning Abilities of
Large Language Models.
Xiao-Wen Yang*,
Jie-Jing Shao*, Lan-Zhe Guo*, Bo-Wen Zhang, Zhi Zhou, Lin-Han Jia,
Wang-Zhou Dai, Yu-Feng Li.
Highlighted in a
Nature News Feature article as one of ten representative papers in
neuro-symbolic research [
Link].
-
Abductive Learning for Neuro-Symbolic Grounded Imitation.
Jie-Jing Shao*, Hao-Ran Hao*, Xiao-Wen Yang, Yu-Feng Li.
PAKDD 2024 Workshop on Robust Machine Learning in Open Environments,
Best Paper Award
(
Slides)
-
Offline Imitation Learning with Model-based Reverse Augmentation.
Jie-Jing Shao*, Hao-Sen Shi*, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yu-Feng Li.
-
Analysis for Abductive Learning and Neural-Symbolic Reasoning Shortcuts.
Xiao-Wen Yang, Wen-Da Wei,
Jie-Jing Shao, Yu-Feng Li, Zhi-Hua Zhou.
-
Open-Set Learning under Covariate Shift.
Jie-Jing Shao*, Xiao-Wen Yang*, Lan-Zhe Guo.
Machine Learning 2024
Paper
-
LOG: Active Model Adaptation for Label-Efficient OOD Generalization.
Jie-Jing Shao, Lan-Zhe Guo, Xiao-Wen Yang, Yu-Feng Li.
-
Active Model Adaptation Under Unknown Shift.
Jie-Jing Shao, Yunlu Xu, Zhanzhan Cheng, Yu-Feng Li.
(* denotes equal contributions)
- ChinaTravel: An Open-Ended Travel Planning Benchmark with Compositional Constraint
Validation for Language Agents.
Jie-Jing Shao*, Bo-Wen Zhang*, Xiao-Wen Yang*, Bai-Zhi Chen, Si-Yu Han, Jing-Hao Pang,
Wen-Da Wei, Guohao Cai, Zhenhua Dong, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yu-Feng Li.
Based on this benchmark, we organize a competition on IJCAI 2025: The IJCAI-25 Travel Planning
Challenge .
We also organize a competition with JSAI on AIC (Global Campus Artificial Intelligence Algorithm Elite
Competition):
The AIC 2025 Travel Planning Challenge .
- Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence: Towards Improving the Reasoning Abilities of Large
Language Models.
Xiao-Wen Yang*, Jie-Jing Shao*, Lan-Zhe Guo*, Bo-Wen Zhang, Zhi Zhou, Lin-Han Jia,
Wang-Zhou Dai, Yu-Feng Li.
-
Breaking the Self-Evaluation Barrier: Reinforced Neuro-Symbolic Planning with Large Language
Models.
Jie-Jing Shao*, Hong-Jie You*, Guohao Cai, Quanyu Dai, Zhenhua Dong, Lan-Zhe Guo.
-
Abductive Learning for Neuro-Symbolic Grounded Imitation.
Jie-Jing Shao*, Hao-Ran Hao*, Xiao-Wen Yang, Yu-Feng Li.
PAKDD 2024 Workshop on Robust Machine Learning in Open Environments, Best Paper Award (Slides)
-
Offline Imitation Learning with Model-based Reverse Augmentation.
Jie-Jing Shao*, Hao-Sen Shi*, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yu-Feng Li.
-
Open-Set Learning under Covariate Shift.
Jie-Jing Shao*, Xiao-Wen Yang*, Lan-Zhe Guo.
-
Offline Imitation Learning without Auxiliary High-quality Behavior Data.
Jie-Jing Shao, Hao-Sen Shi, Tian Xu, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yang Yu, Yu-Feng Li.
-
Investigating the Limitation of CLIP Models: The Worst-performing Categories.
Jie-Jing Shao*, Jiang-Xin Shi*, Xiao-Wen Yang*, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yu-Feng Li.
-
LOG: Active Model Adaptation for Label-Efficient OOD Generalization.
Jie-Jing Shao, Lan-Zhe Guo, Xiao-Wen Yang, Yu-Feng Li.
-
Active Model Adaptation Under Unknown Shift.
Jie-Jing Shao, Yunlu Xu, Zhanzhan Cheng, Yu-Feng Li.
-
Towards Robust Model Reuse in the Presence of Latent Domains.
Jie-Jing Shao, Zhanzhan Cheng, Yu-Feng Li, Shiliang Pu.
2026
- Jie-Jing Shao*, Bo-Wen Zhang*, Xiao-Wen Yang*, Bai-Zhi Chen, Si-Yu Han, Jing-Hao Pang,
Wen-Da Wei, Guohao Cai, Zhenhua Dong, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yu-Feng Li. ChinaTravel: An Open-Ended Travel
Planning Benchmark with Compositional Constraint Validation for Language Agents. In:
Proceedings
of The 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR'26).
The preliminary version is accepted on the LLM Evals Workshop @ NeurIPS 2025. (Webpage, Code)
- Xiao-Wen Yang, Xuan-Yi Zhu, Wen-Da Wei, Ding-Chu Zhang, Jie-Jing Shao, Zhi Zhou, Lan-Zhe
Guo, Yu-Feng Li. Step Back to Leap Forward:
Self-Backtracking for Boosting Reasoning of Language
Models. In: Proceedings of the 40th AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence
(AAAI'26).
2025
- Jie-Jing Shao*, Hao-Ran Hao*, Xiao-Wen Yang, Yu-Feng Li. Abductive Learning for
Neuro-Symbolic Grounded Imitation. In: Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'25). (Webpage, Code, Slides).
Presented at PAKDD 2024 Workshop on Robust Machine Learning in Open Environments, Best Paper
Award (Slides)
- Jie-Jing Shao*, Hong-Jie You*, Guohao Cai, Quanyu Dai, Zhenhua Dong, Lan-Zhe Guo.
Breaking the Self-Evaluation Barrier:
Reinforced Neuro-Symbolic Planning with Large Language
Models. In: Proceedings of the 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence
(IJCAI'25).
- Xiao-Wen Yang*, Jie-Jing Shao*, Lan-Zhe Guo*, Bo-Wen Zhang, Zhi Zhou, Lin-Han Jia,
Wang-Zhou Dai, Yu-Feng Li. Neuro-Symbolic Artificial
Intelligence: Towards Improving the
Reasoning Abilities of Large Language Models. In: Proceedings of the 34th International
Joint
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'25 Survey Track).
- Lin-Han Jia, Wen-Chao Hu, Jie-Jing Shao, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yu-Feng Li. Verification Learning:
Make Unsupervised Neuro-Symbolic System Feasible. In: Proceedings of the 42nd
International
Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'25).
- Wen-Da Wei, Xiao-Wen Yang, Jie-Jing Shao, Lan-Zhe Guo. Curriculum Abductive Learning for
Mitigating Reasoning Shortcuts. In: Proceedings of the 34th International Joint
Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'25).
- Lan-Zhe Guo, Lin-Han Jia, Jie-Jing Shao, Yu-Feng Li. Robust Semi-Supervised Learning in
Open Environments. Frontiers of Computer Science, 2025.
2024
- Jie-Jing Shao*, Hao-Sen Shi*, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yu-Feng Li. Offline Imitation Learning with
Model-based Reverse Augmentation. In: Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on
Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'24). (Webpage, Code, Slides)
- Jie-Jing Shao*, Xiao-Wen Yang*, Lan-Zhe Guo. Open-Set Learning under
Covariate Shift.
Machine Learning, 2024.
- Xiao-Wen Yang, Wen-Da Wei, Jie-Jing Shao, Yu-Feng Li, Zhi-Hua Zhou. Analysis for
Abductive Learning and Neural-Symbolic Reasoning Shortcuts. In: Proceedings of the 41st
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'24).
- Jiang-Xin Shi, Tong Wei, Zhi Zhou, Jie-Jing Shao, Xin-Yan Han, Yu-Feng Li. Long-Tail
Learning with Foundation Model: Heavy Fine-tuning Hurts. In: Proceedings of the 41st
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'24).
- Xiao-Wen Yang, Jie-Jing Shao, Wei-Wei Tu, Yu-Feng Li, Wang-Zhou Dai, Zhi-Hua Zhou. Safe
Abductive Learning in the Presence of Inaccurate Rules. In: Proceedings of the 38th AAAI
conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'24).
2023
- Jie-Jing Shao, Hao-Sen Shi, Tian Xu, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yang Yu, Yu-Feng Li. Offline Imitation
Learning without Auxiliary High-quality Behavior Data. Preprint, 2023.
- Jie-Jing Shao*, Jiang-Xin Shi*, Xiao-Wen Yang*, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yu-Feng Li. Investigating
the Limitation of CLIP Models: The Worst-performing Categories. Preprint, 2023.
- Xiao-Wen Yang, Hong-Jie You, Peng-Xiao Song, Hao-Ran Hao, Jie-Jing Shao, Yu-Feng Li.
Lightweight Retrieval Tuning
for Black-Box Language Models. In: Efficient Natural Language and
Speech Processing Workshop at NeurIPS'23 (ENLSP'23).
- Lin-Han Jia, Lan-Zhe Guo, Zhi Zhou, Jie-Jing Shao, Yuke Xiang, Yu-Feng Li. Bidirectional
Adaptation for Robust Semi-Supervised Learning with Inconsistent Data Distributions. In:
Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'23).
2022-2021
- Jie-Jing Shao, Lan-Zhe Guo, Xiao-Wen Yang, Yu-Feng Li. LOG: Active Model Adaptation for
Label-Efficient OOD Generalization. In: Advances in Neural Information Processing
Systems
(NeurIPS'22).
- Jie-Jing Shao, Yunlu Xu, Zhanzhan Cheng, Yu-Feng Li. Active Model Adaptation Under
Unknown Shift. In: Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery
and Data
Mining (KDD'22).
- Lan-Zhe Guo, Yi-Ge Zhang, Zhi-Fan Wu, Jie-Jing Shao, Yu-Feng Li. Robust Semi-Supervised
Learning when Not All Classes have Labels. In: Advances in Neural Information Processing
Systems
(NeurIPS'22).
- Jie-Jing Shao, Zhanzhan Cheng, Yu-Feng Li, Shiliang Pu. Towards Robust Model Reuse in the
Presence of Latent Domains. In: Proceedings of the 30th International Joint Conference
on
Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'21).
- Lan-Zhe Guo, Zhi Zhou, Jie-Jing Shao, Qi Zhang, Feng Kuang, Gao-Le Li, Zhang-Xun Liu,
Guo-Bin Wu, Nan Ma, Qun Li, Yu-Feng Li. Learning from Imbalanced and
Incomplete Supervision with
Its Application to Ride-Sharing Liability Judgment. In: Proceedings of the 27th ACM
SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'21).
LLM Agents & Reasoning
- Jie-Jing Shao*, Bo-Wen Zhang*, Xiao-Wen Yang*, Bai-Zhi Chen, Si-Yu Han, Jing-Hao Pang,
Wen-Da Wei, Guohao Cai, Zhenhua Dong, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yu-Feng Li. ChinaTravel: An Open-Ended Travel Planning
Benchmark with Compositional Constraint Validation for Language Agents. In: Proceedings
of The 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR'26). The
preliminary version is accepted on the LLM Evals Workshop @ NeurIPS 2025. (Webpage, Code)
- Xiao-Wen Yang, Xuan-Yi Zhu, Wen-Da Wei, Ding-Chu Zhang, Jie-Jing Shao, Zhi Zhou, Lan-Zhe
Guo, Yu-Feng Li. Step Back to Leap Forward:
Self-Backtracking for Boosting Reasoning of Language Models. In: Proceedings of the 40th
AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'26).
- Jie-Jing Shao*, Hong-Jie You*, Guohao Cai, Quanyu Dai, Zhenhua Dong, Lan-Zhe Guo. Breaking the Self-Evaluation Barrier:
Reinforced Neuro-Symbolic Planning with Large Language Models. In: Proceedings of the
34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'25).
- Xiao-Wen Yang, Hong-Jie You, Peng-Xiao Song, Hao-Ran Hao, Jie-Jing Shao, Yu-Feng Li. Lightweight Retrieval Tuning
for Black-Box Language Models. In: Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing
Workshop at NeurIPS'23 (ENLSP'23).
Neuro-Symbolic Learning & Abductive Learning
- Xiao-Wen Yang*, Jie-Jing Shao*, Lan-Zhe Guo*, Bo-Wen Zhang, Zhi Zhou, Lin-Han Jia,
Wang-Zhou Dai, Yu-Feng Li. Neuro-Symbolic Artificial
Intelligence: Towards Improving the Reasoning Abilities of Large Language Models. In:
Proceedings of the 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'25
Survey Track).
- Jie-Jing Shao*, Hao-Ran Hao*, Xiao-Wen Yang, Yu-Feng Li. Abductive Learning for Neuro-Symbolic Grounded
Imitation. In: Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and
Data Mining (KDD'25). (Webpage, Code, Slides). Presented at PAKDD 2024 Workshop
on Robust Machine Learning in Open Environments, Best Paper Award (Slides)
- Lin-Han Jia, Wen-Chao Hu, Jie-Jing Shao, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yu-Feng Li. Verification Learning: Make Unsupervised
Neuro-Symbolic System Feasible. In: Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on
Machine Learning (ICML'25).
- Wen-Da Wei, Xiao-Wen Yang, Jie-Jing Shao, Lan-Zhe Guo. Curriculum Abductive Learning for
Mitigating Reasoning Shortcuts. In: Proceedings of the 34th International Joint
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'25).
- Xiao-Wen Yang, Wen-Da Wei, Jie-Jing Shao, Yu-Feng Li, Zhi-Hua Zhou. Analysis for Abductive Learning and
Neural-Symbolic Reasoning Shortcuts. In: Proceedings of the 41st International
Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'24).
- Xiao-Wen Yang, Jie-Jing Shao, Wei-Wei Tu, Yu-Feng Li, Wang-Zhou Dai, Zhi-Hua Zhou. Safe Abductive Learning in
the Presence of Inaccurate Rules. In: Proceedings of the 38th AAAI conference on
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'24).
Weakly-Supervised Learning
- Lan-Zhe Guo, Lin-Han Jia, Jie-Jing Shao, Yu-Feng Li. Robust Semi-Supervised Learning in Open
Environments. Frontiers of Computer Science, 2025.
- Jie-Jing Shao*, Hao-Sen Shi*, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yu-Feng Li. Offline Imitation Learning with Model-based Reverse
Augmentation. In: Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery
and Data Mining (KDD'24). (Webpage, Code, Slides)
- Jie-Jing Shao*, Xiao-Wen Yang*, Lan-Zhe Guo. Open-Set Learning under
Covariate Shift. Machine Learning, 2024.
- Jiang-Xin Shi, Tong Wei, Zhi Zhou, Jie-Jing Shao, Xin-Yan Han, Yu-Feng Li. Long-Tail Learning with Foundation Model: Heavy
Fine-tuning Hurts. In: Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine
Learning (ICML'24).
- Jie-Jing Shao, Hao-Sen Shi, Tian Xu, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yang Yu, Yu-Feng Li. Offline Imitation Learning without Auxiliary
High-quality Behavior Data. Preprint, 2023.
- Jie-Jing Shao*, Jiang-Xin Shi*, Xiao-Wen Yang*, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yu-Feng Li. Investigating the Limitation of CLIP Models: The
Worst-performing Categories. Preprint, 2023.
- Lin-Han Jia, Lan-Zhe Guo, Zhi Zhou, Jie-Jing Shao, Yuke Xiang, Yu-Feng Li. Bidirectional Adaptation for
Robust Semi-Supervised Learning with Inconsistent Data Distributions. In: Proceedings of
the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'23).
- Jie-Jing Shao, Lan-Zhe Guo, Xiao-Wen Yang, Yu-Feng Li. LOG: Active Model Adaptation for
Label-Efficient OOD Generalization. In: Advances in Neural Information Processing
Systems (NeurIPS'22).
- Jie-Jing Shao, Yunlu Xu, Zhanzhan Cheng, Yu-Feng Li. Active Model Adaptation Under Unknown
Shift. In: Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data
Mining (KDD'22).
- Lan-Zhe Guo, Yi-Ge Zhang, Zhi-Fan Wu, Jie-Jing Shao, Yu-Feng Li. Robust Semi-Supervised Learning when Not All
Classes have Labels. In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems
(NeurIPS'22).
- Jie-Jing Shao, Zhanzhan Cheng, Yu-Feng Li, Shiliang Pu. Towards Robust Model Reuse in the
Presence of Latent Domains. In: Proceedings of the 30th International Joint Conference
on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'21).
- Lan-Zhe Guo, Zhi Zhou, Jie-Jing Shao, Qi Zhang, Feng Kuang, Gao-Le Li, Zhang-Xun Liu,
Guo-Bin Wu, Nan Ma, Qun Li, Yu-Feng Li. Learning from Imbalanced and
Incomplete Supervision with Its Application to Ride-Sharing Liability Judgment. In:
Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
(KDD'21).
Projects
Awards & Honors
- Best Student Paper Award, AAAI 2026 Workshop on Trustworthy Agentic AI, 2026.
- Most Innovative Approach Award, NeurIPS 2025 Challenge on Foundation Models Meet Embodied Agents, 2025.
- Huawei Scholarship, Nanjing University, 2025
-
Best Paper Award, Robust Machine Learning in Open Environments Workshop@PAKDD 2024.
- Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu Province, 2024
- Tencent Scholarship, Nanjing University, 2022
- Outstanding Graduate Students, Nanjing University, 2021
- National Scholarship, Nanjing University, 2021
- LAMDA Elite Award, Runner-up. 2021
- Tang Aoqing Honors Program of Research and Practice Award, First Prize, Jilin University, 2016.6
- ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Contest, 2 Gold Medals, Shenyang, 2015.10 & Dalian, 2016.10
- CCPC Regional Contest, Gold Medal (4th place), Changchun, 2016.9
- CCPC Northeast Collegiate Programming Contest, Gold Medal (2nd place), Changchun, 2016.9
- CCPC Jilin Province Collegiate Programming Contest, 2 Championships, Changchun, 2015.9 & 2016.9
Presentations
Academic Service
- Co-Organizer: IJCAI 2025
Competition: Travel Planning Challenge
- Senior Program Committee: IJCAI 2025.
- Reviewer for Conferences:
- ICML 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026.
- NeurIPS 2023, 2024, 2025.
- ICLR 2024, 2025, 2026.
- KDD 2024, 2025 (Excellent Reviewers).
- AAAI 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026.
- IJCAI 2024, 2025.
- ECAI 2023; ACML 2021, 2022.
- Reviewer for Journals:
- Machine Learning.
- Neural Networks.
- Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.
- IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence.
Social Service
- Teaching Assistant, Advanced Machine Learning (NJU, For Graduate Students), Spring, 2021
- Teaching Assistant, Introduction of Machine Learning (NJU, For Undergraduate Students), Fall, 2020
- Student Coach, Jilin University ACM-ICPC Team, 2015-2019
Correspondence
Email: shaojj@lamda.nju.edu.cn or shjjhszs@gmail.com
Address: Jie-Jing Shao, National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, 163
Xianlin Avenue, Qixia District, Nanjing 210023, China.
(南京市栖霞区仙林大道163号, 南京大学仙林校区, 软件新技术国家重点实验室, 210023.)