I’m an M.S. candidate in Artificial Intelligence (Sep 2023 – Jul 2026) at Zhengzhou University. My research interests include Text-to-SQL, LLM, VLM, Reinforcement Learning, reasoning, Argument Mining, Text Classification, and Knowledge Graph–based Question Answering.

I am advised by Prof. Hongying Zan at the Natural Language Processing Laboratory, Zhengzhou University. Previously, I received my B.Eng. in Software Engineering (Sep 2018 – Jul 2022) from Chengdu University of Information Technology.

Publications

Text-to-SQL / LLM Reasoning

LogicCat: A Chain-of-Thought Text-to-SQL Benchmark for Complex Reasoning
Tao Liu, Xutao Mao, Hongying Zan, Dixuan Zhang, Yifan Li, Haixin Liu, Lulu Kong, Jiaming Hou, Rui Li, YunLong Li, Aoze Zheng, Zhiqiang Zhang, Zhewei Luo, Kunli Zhang, Min Peng.
AAAI 2026 Poster (CCF-A)
arXiv · Code

IESR: Efficient MCTS-Based Modular Reasoning for Text-to-SQL with Large Language Models
Tao Liu, Jiafan Lu, Bohan Yu, Pengcheng Wu, Haixin Liu, Guoyu Xu, Xiangheng Li, Lixiao Li, Jiaming Hou, Shijun Zhao, Xinglin Lyu, Kunli Zhang, Yuxiang Jia, Hongying Zan.
ICML 2026 (CCF-A, under review)
arXiv · Code

SteinerSQL: Graph-Guided Mathematical Reasoning for Text-to-SQL Generation
Xutao Mao, Tao Liu, Hongying Zan.
EMNLP 2025 (CCF-B)
arXiv

Argument Mining / Text Classification / Education

Knowledge-Enhanced and Event-Rule Guided Framework for Fine-Grained Argument Mining in Chinese Essays
Tao Liu, Yunlong Li, Yifan Li, Bohan Yu, Aoze Zheng, Kunli Zhang, Hongying Zan, Ming Peng.
NLPCC 2025 (CCF-C)

Medical Text Classification with Data Augmentation Based on Baichuan2
Tao Liu, Hongying Zan, Jinwang Song, Kunli Zhang.
CLSW 2024 (EI, CCIS / Springer)

大模型背景下的“自然语言处理”课程与智能问答辅助教学
昝红英，Tao Liu（刘涛），张坤丽，王新荣。
教师专业发展与创新教育研究, 2024

Text Classification Based on Multilingual Back-Translation and Model Ensemble
Jinwang Song, Hongying Zan, Tao Liu, Kunli Zhang, Xinmeng Ji, Tingting Cui.
China Health Information Processing Conference 2023 (CCIS / Springer, 2024)