Hi there👋I am Jiaxi Li, a Ph.D. student at the University of Georgia. I obtained my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Shandong University in June 2024.

My research interests lie in Large Language Models, Machine Reasoning and Agents.

📝 Selected Publications

* Equal Contribution; $\dagger$ Corresponding Author.

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Online Skill Learning for Web Agents via State-Grounded Dynamic Retrieval
Jiaxi Li, Ke Deng, Yun Wang, Jingyuan Huang, Yucheng Shi, Qiaoyu Tan, Jin Lu$\dagger$, Ninghao Liu$\dagger$
Preprint. [pdf] [code]

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MITS: Enhanced Tree Search Reasoning for LLMs via Pointwise Mutual Information
Jiaxi Li, Yucheng Shi, Xiao Huang, Jin Lu$\dagger$, Ninghao Liu$\dagger$
PAKDD 2026 (Oral). [pdf] [code]

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Mitigating Hallucination Through Theory-Consistent Symmetric Multimodal Preference Optimization
Wenqi Liu, Xuemeng Song$\dagger$, Jiaxi Li, Yinwei Wei, Na Zheng, Jianhua Yin, Liqiang Nie
NeurIPS 2025. [pdf] [code]

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HELENE: Hessian Layer-wise Clipping and Gradient Annealing for Accelerating Fine-tuning LLM with Zeroth-order Optimization
Huaqin Zhao*, Jiaxi Li*, Yi Pan, Shizhe Liang, Xiaofeng Yang, Wei Liu, Xiang Li, Fei Dou, Tianming Liu, Jin Lu$\dagger$
EMNLP 2025 (Main). [pdf]

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Automating Expert-Level Medical Reasoning Evaluation of Large Language Models
Shuang Zhou*, Wenya Xie*, Jiaxi Li*, Zaifu Zhan, Meijia Song, Han Yang, …, Meng-Han Tsai, Emma Schaffer, Yucheng Shi, Ninghao Liu, Zirui Liu, Rui Zhang$\dagger$
npj Digital Medicine 2025. [pdf] [code]

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Fact or Guesswork? Evaluating Large Language Models’ Medical Knowledge with Structured One-Hop Judgments
Jiaxi Li, Yiwei Wang, Kai Zhang, Yujun Cai, Bryan Hooi, Nanyun Peng, Kai-Wei Chang, Jin Lu$\dagger$
Preprint. [pdf] [code]

📖 Education

  • 2020.09 - 2024.06, Shandong University, B.E. in Computer Science and Technology.
  • 2024.08 - current, University of Georgia, Ph.D. in Computer Science.

💬 Selected Presentations

  • 2023.10, When do graph neural networks work on node classification task and when not? [Blog] [知乎]
  • 2024.10, Scaling up test-time compute for LLM reasoning. [Slides]

📝 Services

  • Reviewer for ACL 2025, EMNLP 2025.

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2024.06 Outstanding graduate of Shandong Province.