Feng (Amanda) Luo

I’m a CS Ph.D. student in the NLP Lab at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB), advised by Prof. Shiyu Chang and Dr. Yang Zhang (MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab). Previously, I collaborated closely with Prof. Xia Hu and Prof. Hanjie Chen. Before starting my Ph.D., I was a full-time applied scientist at Tencent AI Lab.

My current research focuses on LLM agents and post-training. I study how context management and scalable experience generation can improve models’ reasoning and interaction capabilities, with an emphasis on training stability and adaptation to diverse human preferences.

Feng (Amanda) Luo

Publications and preprints

Selected papers, sorted by recency. * denotes equal contribution. Full list on Google Scholar.

MMPact: Autonomous Multimodal Context Compaction for LLM Agents
Feng Luo, Yang Zhang, Yujian Liu, Shiyu Chang, Mayank Darbari, Liangjie Hong, Liang Wu
Under review
Autonomous context compaction for multimodal LLM agents.
AutoL2S: Auto Long-Short Reasoning for Efficient Large Language Models
Feng Luo*, Yu-Neng Chuang*, Guanchu Wang, Hoang Anh Duy Le, Shaochen Zhong, Hongyi Liu, Jiayi Yuan, Yang Sui, Vladimir Braverman, Vipin Chaudhary, Xia Hu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2026
Paper / Code
Learning when to use long or short reasoning to improve the efficiency of large language models.