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Publications (8)

cs.LG2026

Skip-Connected Policy Optimization for Implicit Advantage

Fengwei Teng, Jinyi Bai, Xinhao Yao +3

Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has proven effective in RLVR by using outcome-based rewards. While fine-grained dense rewards can theoretically improve performance, we re…

cs.AI2025

AFlow: Automating Agentic Workflow Generation

Jiayi Zhang, Jinyu Xiang, Zhaoyang Yu +11

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in solving complex tasks across diverse domains, typically by employing agentic workflows that follow detailed i…

cs.CL2025

InteractComp: Evaluating Search Agents With Ambiguous Queries

Mingyi Deng, Lijun Huang, Yani Fan +23

Language agents have demonstrated remarkable potential in web search and information retrieval. However, many search-agent benchmarks assume that user queries are complete and unam…

cs.AI2025

Advances and Challenges in Foundation Agents: From Brain-Inspired Intelligence to Evolutionary, Collaborative, and Safe Systems

Bang Liu, Xinfeng Li, Jiayi Zhang +45

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has catalyzed a transformative shift in artificial intelligence, paving the way for advanced intelligent agents capable of sophisticated…

cs.CV2026

ToolArtist: Tool-Using Unified Multimodal Models for Agentic Image Generation

Jiahao Zhao, Xiaomin Yu, Zhongxiang Sun +5

Text-to-image (T2I) models can produce visually compelling images, yet they remain limited on open-world tasks that require complex semantic understanding, multi-step reasoning, an…

cs.CL2025

Atom of Thoughts for Markov LLM Test-Time Scaling

Fengwei Teng, Quan Shi, Zhaoyang Yu +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved significant performance gains through test-time scaling methods. However, existing approaches often incur redundant computations due to t…