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Publications (33)

cs.AI2024

OpenR: An Open Source Framework for Advanced Reasoning with Large Language Models

Jun Wang, Meng Fang, Ziyu Wan +10

In this technical report, we introduce OpenR, an open-source framework designed to integrate key components for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs)…

cs.RO2025

Learning Humanoid Standing-up Control across Diverse Postures

Tao Huang, Junli Ren, Huayi Wang +6

Standing-up control is crucial for humanoid robots, with the potential for integration into current locomotion and loco-manipulation systems, such as fall recovery. Existing approa…

cs.MA2022

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning is a Sequence Modeling Problem

Muning Wen, Jakub Grudzien Kuba, Runji Lin +4

Large sequence model (SM) such as GPT series and BERT has displayed outstanding performance and generalization capabilities on vision, language, and recently reinforcement learning…

cs.LG2022

Settling the Variance of Multi-Agent Policy Gradients

Jakub Grudzien Kuba, Muning Wen, Yaodong Yang +5

Policy gradient (PG) methods are popular reinforcement learning (RL) methods where a baseline is often applied to reduce the variance of gradient estimates. In multi-agent RL (MARL…

cs.AI2022

Trust Region Policy Optimisation in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Jakub Grudzien Kuba, Ruiqing Chen, Muning Wen +4

Trust region methods rigorously enabled reinforcement learning (RL) agents to learn monotonically improving policies, leading to superior performance on a variety of tasks. Unfortu…

cs.AI2025

Understanding and Optimizing Agentic Workflows via Shapley value

Yingxuan Yang, Bo Huang, Siyuan Qi +14

Agentic workflows have become the dominant paradigm for building complex AI systems, orchestrating specialized components, such as planning, reasoning, action execution, and reflec…

cs.AI2026

Holos: A Web-Scale LLM-Based Multi-Agent System for the Agentic Web

Xiaohang Nie, Zihan Guo, Zicai Cui +20

As large language models (LLM)-driven agents transition from isolated task solvers to persistent digital entities, the emergence of the Agentic Web, an ecosystem where heterogeneou…

cs.AI2024

Reinforcing Language Agents via Policy Optimization with Action Decomposition

Muning Wen, Ziyu Wan, Weinan Zhang +2

Language models as intelligent agents push the boundaries of sequential decision-making agents but struggle with limited knowledge of environmental dynamics and exponentially huge…

cs.LG2023

Large Sequence Models for Sequential Decision-Making: A Survey

Muning Wen, Runji Lin, Hanjing Wang +6

Transformer architectures have facilitated the development of large-scale and general-purpose sequence models for prediction tasks in natural language processing and computer visio…

cs.AI2026

CreativeGame:Toward Mechanic-Aware Creative Game Generation

Hongnan Ma, Han Wang, Shenglin Wang +6

Large language models can generate plausible game code, but turning this capability into \emph{iterative creative improvement} remains difficult. In practice, single-shot generatio…

cs.AI2024

Autonomous Goal Detection and Cessation in Reinforcement Learning: A Case Study on Source Term Estimation

Yiwei Shi, Muning Wen, Qi Zhang +3

Reinforcement Learning has revolutionized decision-making processes in dynamic environments, yet it often struggles with autonomously detecting and achieving goals without clear fe…

cs.MA2021

MALib: A Parallel Framework for Population-based Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning

Ming Zhou, Ziyu Wan, Hanjing Wang +6

Population-based multi-agent reinforcement learning (PB-MARL) refers to the series of methods nested with reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms, which produces a self-generated se…

cs.LG2026

MARA: Flow-Matching-Guided Multi-Agent Resource Allocation for Computational Resource Efficient Learning

Hanye Zhao, Muning Wen, Yong Yu +1

Allocating limited computation among concurrent learning tasks is difficult when each task must reach a target loss before a deadline but its required training effort is unknown. E…

cs.CL2026

MemRL: Self-Evolving Agents via Runtime Reinforcement Learning on Episodic Memory

Shengtao Zhang, Jiaqian Wang, Ruiwen Zhou +11

The hallmark of human intelligence is the self-evolving ability to master new skills by learning from past experiences. However, current AI agents struggle to emulate this self-evo…

cs.CL2025

PARL-MT: Learning to Call Functions in Multi-Turn Conversation with Progress Awareness

Huacan Chai, Zijie Cao, Maolin Ran +11

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive success in single-turn function calling, yet real-world applications such as travel planning or multi-stage data analysis typi…

cs.CL2025

HammerBench: Fine-Grained Function-Calling Evaluation in Real Mobile Device Scenarios

Jun Wang, Jiamu Zhou, Muning Wen +7

Evaluating the performance of LLMs in multi-turn human-agent interactions presents significant challenges, particularly due to the complexity and variability of user behavior. In t…

cs.LG2024

Entropy-Regularized Token-Level Policy Optimization for Language Agent Reinforcement

Muning Wen, Junwei Liao, Cheng Deng +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise as intelligent agents in interactive decision-making tasks. Traditional approaches often depend on meticulously designed prompts, hi…

cs.RO2025

MobileUse: A GUI Agent with Hierarchical Reflection for Autonomous Mobile Operation

Ning Li, Xiangmou Qu, Jiamu Zhou +6

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have enabled the development of mobile agents that can understand visual inputs and follow user instructions, unlocking…

cs.AI2026

Position: Agentic AI System Is a Foreseeable Pathway to AGI

Junwei Liao, Shuai Li, Muning Wen +2

Is monolithic scaling the only path to AGI? This paper challenges the dogma that purely scaling a single model is sufficient to achieve Artificial General Intelligence. Instead, we…

cs.MA2026

MAPLE-Guard: Memory-Aware Link Enforcement Against Memory-Link Poisoning in Multi-Agent Systems

Wenjun Xiong, Yijin Zhou, Jiaqian Wang +6

LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) increasingly rely on persistent private and shared memories for long-horizon coordination. This memory layer improves continuity, but it also gi…

cs.AI2026

MemQ: Integrating Q-Learning into Self-Evolving Memory Agents over Provenance DAGs

Junwei Liao, Haoting Shi, Ruiwen Zhou +9

Episodic memory allows LLM agents to accumulate and retrieve experience, but current methods treat each memory independently, i.e., evaluating retrieval quality in isolation withou…

cs.LG2022

Offline Pre-trained Multi-Agent Decision Transformer: One Big Sequence Model Tackles All SMAC Tasks

Linghui Meng, Muning Wen, Yaodong Yang +7

Offline reinforcement learning leverages previously-collected offline datasets to learn optimal policies with no necessity to access the real environment. Such a paradigm is also d…

cs.CL2026

From Test-Time Scaling to Reusable Memory: Measuring Crystallization in Text-to-SQL

Jiaqian Wang, Yutao Qi, Wenjin Hou +2

Test-time scaling can correct difficult text-to-SQL queries, but the extra computation is normally discarded after each answer. Systems increasingly retain verified repair episodes…

cs.LG2025

Robust Gymnasium: A Unified Modular Benchmark for Robust Reinforcement Learning

Shangding Gu, Laixi Shi, Muning Wen +5

Driven by inherent uncertainty and the sim-to-real gap, robust reinforcement learning (RL) seeks to improve resilience against the complexity and variability in agent-environment s…

cs.LG2024

Alphazero-like Tree-Search can Guide Large Language Model Decoding and Training

Xidong Feng, Ziyu Wan, Muning Wen +4

Recent works like Tree-of-Thought (ToT) and Reasoning via Planning (RAP) aim to augment the reasoning capabilities of LLMs by using tree-search algorithms to guide multi-step reaso…

cs.CL2024

P3: A Policy-Driven, Pace-Adaptive, and Diversity-Promoted Framework for data pruning in LLM Training

Yingxuan Yang, Huayi Wang, Muning Wen +4

In the rapidly advancing field of Large Language Models (LLMs), effectively leveraging existing datasets during fine-tuning to maximize the model's potential is of paramount import…

cs.LG2026

Towards Cold-Start Drafting and Continual Refining: A Value-Driven Memory Approach with Application to NPU Kernel Synthesis

Yujie Zheng, Zhuo Li, Shengtao Zhang +8

Deploying Large Language Models to data-scarce programming domains poses significant challenges, particularly for kernel synthesis on emerging Domain-Specific Architectures where a…

cs.AI2025

A Survey of AI Agent Protocols

Yingxuan Yang, Huacan Chai, Yuanyi Song +11

The rapid development of large language models (LLMs) has led to the widespread deployment of LLM agents across diverse industries, including customer service, content generation,…

cs.LG2024

Hammer: Robust Function-Calling for On-Device Language Models via Function Masking

Qiqiang Lin, Muning Wen, Qiuying Peng +8

Large language models have demonstrated impressive value in performing as autonomous agents when equipped with external tools and API calls. Nonetheless, effectively harnessing the…

cs.AI2024

TRAD: Enhancing LLM Agents with Step-Wise Thought Retrieval and Aligned Decision

Ruiwen Zhou, Yingxuan Yang, Muning Wen +6

Numerous large language model (LLM) agents have been built for different tasks like web navigation and online shopping due to LLM's wide knowledge and text-understanding ability. A…

cs.LG2025

PMAT: Optimizing Action Generation Order in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Kun Hu, Muning Wen, Xihuai Wang +5

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) faces challenges in coordinating agents due to complex interdependencies within multi-agent systems. Most MARL algorithms use the simultan…

cs.AI2026

Understanding Agent Scaling in LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems via Diversity

Yingxuan Yang, Chengrui Qu, Muning Wen +5

LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) have emerged as a promising approach to tackle complex tasks that are difficult for individual LLMs. A natural strategy is to scale performance…

cs.MA2026

MARFT: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Fine-Tuning

Junwei Liao, Muning Wen, Jun Wang +1

Large Language Model (LLM)-based Multi-Agent Systems (LaMAS) have demonstrated strong capabilities on complex agentic tasks requiring multifaceted reasoning and collaboration, from…