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PhD student · University College London

Huichi Zhou 周辉池

Learning agents.
Memory, reasoning, and trust.

I am a PhD student at University College London, advised by Professor Jun Wang. Previously, I was a graduate student at Imperial College London, advised by Professor Guang Yang.

My research spans agentic memory and continual learning, large language models, and adversarial machine learning.

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34Publications
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Research

Publications

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01

Learning by Stateful Reflection

4 papers
Preprint2026

Memento-Skills: Let Agents Design Agents

Huichi Zhou, Siyuan Guo, Anjie Liu, …All 17 authors

Huichi Zhou, Siyuan Guo, Anjie Liu, Zhongwei Yu, Ziqin Gong, Bowen Zhao, Zhixun Chen, Menglong Zhang, Yihang Chen, Jinsong Li, Runyu Yang, Qiangbin Liu, Xinlei Yu, Jianmin Zhou, Na Wang, Chunyang Sun, Jun Wang

arXiv 2026/3

Cited by 80 Paper Code Scholar
Conference2026

Tame: A trustworthy test-time evolution of agent memory with systematic benchmarking

Yu Cheng, Yongkang Hu, Jiuan Zhou, Yushuo Zhang, Yihang Chen, Huichi Zhou, Mingang Chen, Zhizhong Zhang, Kun Shao, Yuan Xie, Zhaoxia Yin

EMNLP

Cited by 15 Paper Scholar
Preprint2026

EvoArena: Tracking Memory Evolution for Robust LLM Agents in Dynamic Environments

Jundong Xu, Qingchuan Li, Jiaying Wu, Yihuai Lan, Shuyue Stella Li, Huichi Zhou, Bowen Jiang, Lei Wang, Jun Wang, Anh Tuan Luu, Caiming Xiong, Hae Won Park, Bryan Hooi, Zhiyuan Hu

arXiv

Cited by 10 Paper Scholar
Preprint2025

Memento: Fine-tuning LLM Agents without Fine-tuning LLMs

Huichi Zhou, Yihang Chen, Siyuan Guo, Xue Yan, Kin Hei Lee, Zihan Wang, Ka Yiu Lee, Guchun Zhang, Kun Shao, Linyi Yang, Jun Wang

arXiv 2025/8

Cited by 193 Paper Code Scholar
02

LLM Agents & Multimodal Understanding

14 papers
Conference2026

Musical Score Understanding Benchmark: Evaluating Large Language Models' Comprehension of Complete Musical Scores

Congren Dai, Yue Yang, Krinos Li, …, Huichi Zhou, …All 15 authors

Congren Dai, Yue Yang, Krinos Li, Huichi Zhou, Shijie Liang, Zhang Bo, Enyang Liu, Ge Jin, Hongran An, Haosen Zhang, Peiyuan Jing, KinHei Lee, Zhenxuan Zhang, Xiaobing Li, Maosong Sun

ACL 2026 - The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Cited by 7 Paper Scholar
Conference2026

Training LLMs with LogicReward for Faithful and Rigorous Reasoning

Jundong Xu, Hao Fei, Huichi Zhou, Xin Quan, Qijun Huang, Shengqiong Wu, William Yang Wang, Mong-Li Lee, Wynne Hsu

ICLR 2026

Cited by 15 Paper Scholar
Conference2026

UIS-Digger: Towards Comprehensive Research Agent Systems for Real-world Unindexed Information Seeking

Chang Liu, Chuqiao Kuang, Tianyi Zhuang, Yuxin Cheng, Huichi Zhou, Xiaoguang Li, Lifeng Shang

ICLR 2026

Cited by 4 Paper Scholar
Preprint2026

ProMMSearchAgent: A Generalizable Multimodal Search Agent Trained with Process-Oriented Rewards

Wentao Yan, Shengqin Wang, Huichi Zhou, Yihang Chen, Kun Shao, Yuan Xie, Zhizhong Zhang

arXiv

Cited by 7 Paper Scholar
Preprint2026

HarnessPAI: An evolving harness for physical AI

Xin Wang, Wenhao Wu, Menghao Zhang, …, Huichi Zhou, …All 23 authors

Xin Wang, Wenhao Wu, Menghao Zhang, Zhi Wang, Kun Shao, Jian Luan, Yang Li, Qing Li, Shangding Gu, Huichi Zhou, Shuqing Shi, Fei Ni, Shuo Lu, Weicheng Meng, Kang Li, Jin Wu, Kang Zhao, Shangmin Guo, Gen Li, Yongqiang Tang, Zhizhong Zhang, Yuan Xie, Heng Qu

arXiv

Cited by 5 Paper Scholar
Preprint2026

Infoseeker: A scalable hierarchical parallel agent framework for web information seeking

Ka Yiu Lee, Yuxuan Huang, Zhiyuan He, Huichi Zhou, Weilin Luo, Kun Shao, Meng Fang, Jun Wang

arXiv

Cited by 4 Paper Scholar
Conference2026

DR-MMSearchAgent: Deepening Reasoning in Multimodal Search Agents

Shengqin Wang, Wentao Yan, Huichi Zhou, Yihang Chen, Kun Shao, Zhizhong Zhang, Yuan Xie

ICML

Cited by 2 Paper Scholar
Preprint2026

Web2BigTable: A Bi-Level Multi-Agent LLM System for Internet-Scale Information Search and Extraction

Yuxuan Huang, Yihang Chen, Zhiyuan He, Yuxiang Chen, Ka Yiu Lee, Huichi Zhou, Weilin Luo, Meng Fang, Jun Wang

arXiv

Cited by 1 Paper Scholar
Conference2025

GUI-World: A Video Benchmark and Dataset for Multimodal GUI-oriented Understanding

Dongping Chen, Yue Huang, Siyuan Wu, …, Huichi Zhou, …All 20 authors

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

ICLR 2025

Cited by 115 Paper Code Scholar
Preprint2025

Deep research agents: A systematic examination and roadmap

Yuxuan Huang, Yihang Chen, Haozheng Zhang, Kang Li, Huichi Zhou, Meng Fang, Linyi Yang, Xiaoguang Li, Lifeng Shang, Songcen Xu, Jianye Hao, Kun Shao, Jun Wang

arXiv

Cited by 210 Paper Scholar
Preprint2025

Univa: Universal video agent towards open-source next-generation video generalist

Zhengyang Liang, Daoan Zhang, Huichi Zhou, Rui Huang, Bobo Li, Yuechen Zhang, Shengqiong Wu, Xiaohan Wang, Jiebo Luo, Lizi Liao, Hao Fei

arXiv

Cited by 21 Paper Scholar
Preprint2025

Verigui: Verifiable long-chain gui dataset

Shunyu Liu, Minghao Liu, Huichi Zhou, …All 32 authors

Shunyu Liu, Minghao Liu, Huichi Zhou, Zhenyu Cui, Yang Zhou, Yuhao Zhou, Wendong Fan, Ge Zhang, Jiajun Shi, Weihao Xuan, Jiaxing Huang, Shuang Luo, Fang Wu, Heli Qi, Qingcheng Zeng, Ziqi Ren, Jialiang Gao, Jindi Lv, Junjie Wang, Aosong Feng, Heng Zhou, Wangchunshu Zhou, Zhenfei Yin, Wenlong Zhang, Guohao Li, Wenhao Yu, Irene Li, Lei Ma, Lei Bai, Qunshu Lin, Mingli Song, Dacheng Tao

arXiv

Cited by 16 Paper Scholar
Preprint2025

EfficientLLM: Efficiency in Large Language Models

Zhengqing Yuan, Weixiang Sun, Yixin Liu, …, Huichi Zhou, …All 16 authors

Zhengqing Yuan, Weixiang Sun, Yixin Liu, Huichi Zhou, Rong Zhou, Yiyang Li, Zheyuan Zhang, Wei Song, Yue Huang, Haolong Jia, Keerthiram Murugesan, Yu Wang, Lifang He, Jianfeng Gao, Lichao Sun, Yanfang Ye

arXiv

Cited by 16 Paper Scholar
Oral2024

MLLM-as-a-Judge: Assessing Multimodal LLM-as-a-Judge with Vision-Language Benchmark

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

ICML 2024 Oral

Cited by 560 Paper Code Scholar
03

Medical & Scientific AI

6 papers
Conference2026

Unleashing Video Language Models for Fine-grained HRCT Report Generation

Yingying Fang*, Huichi Zhou*, KinHei Lee*, Yijia Wang, Zhenxuan Zhang, Jiahao Huang, Guang Yang

MICCAI

Cited by 1 Paper Scholar
Preprint2026

A self-learning scientific agent for X-ray diffraction

Bin Cao, Huichi Zhou, Runyu Yang, Jingsong Li, Shuchen Sun, Yan Song, Hanyu Gao, Zhongwei Yu, Tong-Yi Zhang, Jun Wang

arXiv

Cited by 0 Paper Scholar
Journal2025

Revisiting Medical Image Retrieval via Knowledge Consolidation

Yang Nan, Huichi Zhou, Xiaodan Xing, Giorgos Papanastasiou, Lei Zhu, Zhifan Gao, Alejandro F. Frangi, Guang Yang

Medical Image Analysis (Impact Factor: 10.7)

Cited by 11 Paper Scholar
Conference2025

GEMA-Score: Granular Explainable Multi-Agent Score for Radiology Report Evaluation

Zhenxuan Zhang, Kinhei Lee, Weihang Deng, Huichi Zhou, Zihao Jin, Jiahao Huang, Zhifan Gao, Dominic C Marshall, Yingying Fang, Guang Yang

AAAI 2026 - The Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Cited by 21 Scholar
Journal2025

Reason Like a Radiologist: Chain-of-Thought and Reinforcement Learning for Verifiable Report Generation

Peiyuan Jing, Kinhei Lee, Zhenxuan Zhang, Huichi Zhou, Zhengqing Yuan, Zhifan Gao, Lei Zhu, Giorgos Papanastasiou, Yingying Fang, Guang Yang

Medical Image Analysis (Impact Factor: 10.7)

Cited by 30 Paper Scholar
Journal2024

Beyond the Hype: A Dispassionate Look at Vision-Language Models in Medical Scenario

Yang Nan*, Huichi Zhou*, Xiaodan Xing, Guang Yang

IEEE TNNLS (Impact Factor: 10.2)

Cited by 22 Paper Scholar
04

AI Safety & Adversarial Robustness

10 papers
Conference2026

How Adversarial Environments Mislead Agentic AI?

Zhonghao Zhan, Huichi Zhou, Zhenhao Li, Peiyuan Jing, Krinos Li, Hamed Haddadi

ACL 2026 Findings - The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Cited by 8 Paper Scholar
Conference2026

SemanticShield: LLM-powered audits expose shilling attacks in recommender systems

Kaihong Li, Huichi Zhou, Bin Ma, Fangjun Huang

ICASSP 2026

Cited by 6 Paper Scholar
Workshop2025

TrustRAG: Enhancing Robustness and Trustworthiness in RAG

Huichi Zhou*, Kin-Hei Lee*, Zhonghao Zhan*, Yue Chen, Zhenhao Li, Zhaoyang Wang, Hamed Haddadi, Emine Yilmaz

AAAI 2026 Workshop on Trust and Control in Agentic AI (TrustAgent)

Cited by 120 Project Paper Code Scholar
Journal2025

Reliable and Responsible Foundation Models

Xinyu Yang, Junlin Han, Rishi Bommasani, …, Huichi Zhou, …All 52 authors

Xinyu Yang, Junlin Han, Rishi Bommasani, Jinqi Luo, Wenjie Qu, Wangchunshu Zhou, Adel Bibi, Xiyao Wang, Jaehong Yoon, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Shengbang Tong, Lingfeng Shen, Rafael Rafailov, Runjia Li, Zhaoyang Wang, Yiyang Zhou, Chenhang Cui, Yu Wang, Wenhao Zheng, Huichi Zhou, Jindong Gu, Zhaorun Chen, Peng Xia, Tony Lee, Thomas P Zollo, Vikash Sehwag, Jixuan Leng, Jiuhai Chen, Yuxin Wen, Huan Zhang, Zhun Deng, Linjun Zhang, Pavel Izmailov, Pang Wei Koh, Yulia Tsvetkov, Andrew Gordon Wilson, Jiaheng Zhang, James Zou, Cihang Xie, Hao Wang, Philip Torr, Julian McAuley, David Alvarez-Melis, Florian Tramèr, Kaidi Xu, Suman Jana, Chris Callison-Burch, Rene Vidal, Filippos Kokkinos, Mohit Bansal, Beidi Chen, Huaxiu Yao

TMLR 2025 - Transactions on Machine Learning Research

Cited by 14 Paper Scholar
Conference2025

DiffuseDef: Improve Robustness to Adversarial Attacks via Iterative Denoising

Zhenhao Li, Huichi Zhou, Marek Rei, Lucia Specia

ACL 2025

Cited by 9 Paper Scholar
Poster2025

Enhancing GNN Robustness for Network Intrusion Detection via Agent-based Analysis

Zhonghao Zhan, Huichi Zhou, Hamed Haddadi

EuroS&P 2025 Poster

Cited by 8 Paper Scholar
Conference2025

Can Large Language Models Improve the Adversarial Robustness of Graph Neural Networks?

Zhongjian Zhang*, Xiao Wang*, Huichi Zhou, Mengmei Zhang, Cheng Yang, Chuan Shi

KDD 2025 Research Track

Cited by 66 Paper Code Scholar
Conference2025

Verifiable Format Control for Large Language Model Generations

Zhaoyang Wang*, Jinqi Jiang*, Huichi Zhou*, Wenhao Zheng, Xuchao Zhang, Chetan Bansal, Huaxiu Yao

NAACL

Cited by 24 Paper Scholar
Conference2025

Evaluate-and-Purify: Fortifying Code Language Models Against Adversarial Attacks Using LLM-as-a-Judge

Wenhan Mu, Ling Xu, Shuren Pei, Le Mi, Huichi Zhou

ICIC Oral

Cited by 5 Paper Scholar
Conference2024

Evaluating the Validity of Word-level Adversarial Attacks with Large Language Models

Huichi Zhou*, Zhaoyang Wang*, Hongtao Wang, Dongping Chen, Wenhan Mu, Fangyuan Zhang

ACL 2024 Findings

Cited by 16 Paper Code Scholar

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Beyond the papers

Academic activities

Talks

April 2026

Shanghai Innovation Institute

Hosted by Professor Yuan Xie

April 2026

East China Normal University

Hosted by Professor Zhizhong Zhang

Teaching

Spring 2026 · UCL

Multi-agent Artificial Intelligence

Teaching Assistant · COMP0124
Supervised by Professor Jun Wang

Supporting coursework, tutorials, and labs in multi-agent reinforcement learning and cooperation strategies.

Awards & honors

2021–2022

Chinese National Scholarship

Ministry of Education, China

The sole recipient in the department, recognizing academic performance, research, and comprehensive achievement.