publications

2025

1. arXiv 2025

   

   IndustryNav: Exploring Spatial Reasoning of Embodied Agents in Dynamic Industrial Navigation

   Yifan Li, Lichi Li, Anh Dao, Xinyu Zhou, Yicheng Qiao, Zheda Mai, Daeun Lee, Zichen Chen, Zhen Tan, Mohit Bansal, and Yu Kong

   Nov 2025

   arXiv Bib HTML

   @misc{li2025industrynav,
     title = {IndustryNav: Exploring Spatial Reasoning of Embodied Agents in Dynamic Industrial Navigation},
     author = {Li, Yifan and Li, Lichi and Dao, Anh and Zhou, Xinyu and Qiao, Yicheng and Mai, Zheda and Lee, Daeun and Chen, Zichen and Tan, Zhen and Bansal, Mohit and Kong, Yu},
     year = {2025},
     month = nov,
     eprint = {2511.17384},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     primaryclass = {cs.RO},
   }

2. NeurIPS 2025

   

   IndustryEQA: Pushing the Frontiers of Embodied Question Answering in Industrial Scenarios

   Yifan Li, Yuhang Chen, Anh Dao, Lichi Li, Zhongyi Cai, Zhen Tan, Tianlong Chen, and Yu Kong

   In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems , Dec 2025

   Bib Code Dataset

   @inproceedings{li2025industryeqa,
     booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
     title = {IndustryEQA: Pushing the Frontiers of Embodied Question Answering in Industrial Scenarios},
     author = {Li, Yifan and Chen, Yuhang and Dao, Anh and Li, Lichi and Cai, Zhongyi and Tan, Zhen and Chen, Tianlong and Kong, Yu},
     year = {2025},
     month = dec,
     publisher = {Curran Associates, Inc.},
     dataset = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/IndustryEQA/IndustryEQA},
   }

3. ACL 2025

   Towards Generating Controllable and Solvable Geometry Problem by Leveraging Symbolic Deduction Engine

   Zhuoxuan Jiang, Tianyang Zhang, Peiyan Peng, Jing Chen, Yinong Xun, Haotian Zhang, Lichi Li, Yong Li, and Shaohua Zhang

   In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Industry Track) , Jul 2025

   Bib Code

   @inproceedings{jiang2025generatingcontrollablesolvablegeometry,
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Industry Track)},
     title = {Towards Generating Controllable and Solvable Geometry Problem by Leveraging Symbolic Deduction Engine},
     author = {Jiang, Zhuoxuan and Zhang, Tianyang and Peng, Peiyan and Chen, Jing and Xun, Yinong and Zhang, Haotian and Li, Lichi and Li, Yong and Zhang, Shaohua},
     editor = {Rehm, Georg and Li, Yunyao},
     year = {2025},
     month = jul,
     address = {Vienna, Austria},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     url = {https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-industry.97/},
     doi = {10.18653/v1/2025.acl-industry.97},
     pages = {1378--1398},
     isbn = {979-8-89176-288-6},
   }

4. KDD 2025

   

   MerRec: A Large-scale Multipurpose Mercari Dataset for Consumer-to-Consumer Recommendation Systems

   Lichi Li, Zainul Abi Din, Zhen Tan, Sam London, Tianlong Chen, and Ajay Daptardar

   In Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining V.1 , Toronto ON, Canada, Aug 2025

   Bib Code Dataset

   @inproceedings{li2025merrec,
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining V.1},
     title = {MerRec: A Large-scale Multipurpose Mercari Dataset for Consumer-to-Consumer Recommendation Systems},
     author = {Li, Lichi and Din, Zainul Abi and Tan, Zhen and London, Sam and Chen, Tianlong and Daptardar, Ajay},
     year = {2025},
     month = aug,
     isbn = {9798400712456},
     publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
     address = {New York, NY, USA},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3690624.3709394},
     doi = {10.1145/3690624.3709394},
     pages = {2371–2382},
     numpages = {12},
     keywords = {datasets, recommender systems},
     location = {Toronto ON, Canada},
     series = {KDD '25},
     dataset = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/mercari-us/merrec},
   }

2014

1. ICWS 2014

   A Web Service for Scholarly Big Data Information Extraction

   Kyle Williams, Lichi Li, Madian Khabsa, Jian Wu, Patrick C. Shih, and C. Lee Giles

   In 2014 IEEE International Conference on Web Services , 2014

   Bib HTML Code

   @inproceedings{williams2014,
     author = {Williams, Kyle and Li, Lichi and Khabsa, Madian and Wu, Jian and Shih, Patrick C. and Giles, C. Lee},
     booktitle = {2014 IEEE International Conference on Web Services},
     title = {A Web Service for Scholarly Big Data Information Extraction},
     year = {2014},
     month = {},
     pages = {105-112},
     keywords = {Data mining;Big data;Web servers;Information retrieval;Databases;Hamming distance;Web service;information extraction;scholarly big data;CiteSeerExtractor},
     doi = {10.1109/ICWS.2014.27},
   }