Persistent agents
Maintaining context, state, and task continuity across long-running human–agent work.
Zhiyu Yang · CS PhD @ UT Dallas
I study how collaborative AI agents improve over time.
I study how agents persist, learn from experience, and spend intelligence where it matters.
Research experience: SMU · THUNLP · ModelBest · OpenBMB
Research threads
AI agents, real-world evaluation, and human–AI collaboration.
Research
Agents that persist, learn, and adapt.
The common thread is continuity: how an agent keeps its bearings, learns from experience, and adjusts as the task, context, and relationship with a person evolve.
Learning from interaction
Turning real feedback, corrections, and outcomes into signals that can improve future behavior.
Adaptive agent systems
Helping agents adjust their behavior and effort as tasks, feedback, and collaboration with people evolve.
Selected work
Selected publications.
DSDBench
EMNLP 2025 Main · Oral
Why Stop at One Error? Benchmarking LLMs as Data Science Code Debuggers for Multi-Hop and Multi-Bug Errors
A data-science debugging benchmark for tracing multi-hop logical errors and resolving multiple bugs in realistic code.
MatPlotAgent
ACL 2024 Findings
Method and Evaluation for LLM-Based Agentic Scientific Data Visualization
A visual-feedback agent that turns natural-language requests into scientific visualizations, then uses the rendered chart to repair its own code.
News
Recent updates.
Survey · Position
Organizing Intelligence Over Time — Human–AI collaboration as joint cognitive development.
Literature map
Awesome Longitudinal AI Agents — A curated map of research on agents and Human–AI systems that change through accumulated experience.
Essay
The Harness Learning Stack — A post-training-like stack around environments, trajectories, graders, credit assignment, and harness updates.
Essay
AI 的下一场竞争，不是模型能力，而是经验循环 — 关于真实人机交互经验如何被记录、提炼，并重新进入个人或组织的学习循环。
Background
Academic and research background.
Education and research experience.
University of Texas at Dallas
CS PhD
Beijing Language and Culture University
M.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology
Sichuan University
B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology