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cs.CL2026

Think Big, Search Small: Where Capacity Matters in Hierarchical Search Agents?

Qinnan Cai, Yibo Zhao, Xiang Li

Large language model based search agents increasingly adopt multi-agent architectures in which a main agent decomposes a complex question into sub-queries and dispatches them to pa…

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Skill is Not One-Size-Fits-All: Model-Aware Skill Alignment for LLM Agents

Jianxiang Yu, Jiapeng Zhu, Bochen Lin +3

LLM agents increasingly retrieve externally curated skills-procedural instructions retrieved at decision time-to improve performance on long-horizon interactive tasks. Existing ski…

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Retrieval, Reward, and Training Protocols: What Matters in Training Search Agents?

Yibo Zhao, Zichen Ding, Jiayi Wu +2

Search agents powered by large language models can autonomously decompose queries, retrieve information, and synthesize answers through multi-step reasoning. However, the rapid gro…

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Skill0.5: Joint Skill Internalization and Utilization for Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Jiapeng Zhu, Jianxiang Yu, Yibo Zhao +5

Equipping large language models with explicit skills has emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling autonomous agents to solve complex tasks. Agent skills can be inherently divid…

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Beyond Chunk-Local Extraction: Cross-Chunk Graph Augmentation for GraphRAG

Jiaming Zhang, Yibo Zhao, Jing Yu +2

GraphRAG extends retrieval-augmented generation by organizing corpora as explicit knowledge graphs, enabling graph-based retrieval for complex question answering. However, existing…

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MERIT: Matching Expertise via Rubric-Informed Training for Reviewer Assignment

Zixuan Yang, Yibo Zhao, Weicong Liu +1

Matching submissions with suitable reviewers at scale is a growing challenge for major venues, yet existing approaches either rely on coarse proxy signals that conflate general rel…