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cs.AI2026

Co-Harness: Co-Evolving Harnesses and Model Weights for LLM Agents

Zhengyu Chen, Teng Xiao, Huaisheng Zhu +3

Post-training agents for automated AI research requires optimizing not only model parameters, but also the runtime harness that shapes how research trajectories are generated, eval…

cs.AI2026

Rethinking the Evaluation of Harness Evolution for Agents

Yike Wang, Huaisheng Zhu, Zhengyu Hu +7

The paper reexamines how automatic harness evolution for large language model agents is evaluated, comparing it to simple test‑time scaling baselines and finding that it offers lim…

cs.LG2026

Meta-Reinforcement Learning with Self-Reflection for Agentic Search

Teng Xiao, Yige Yuan, Hamish Ivison +6

This paper introduces MR-Search, an in-context meta reinforcement learning (RL) formulation for agentic search with self-reflection. Instead of optimizing a policy within a single…

cs.LG2026

Simple Denoising Diffusion Language Models

Huaisheng Zhu, Zhengyu Chen, Shijie Zhou +8

Recent Uniform State Diffusion Models (USDMs), initialized from a uniform prior, offer the promise of fast text generation due to their inherent self-correction ability compared to…

cs.LG2025

On a Connection Between Imitation Learning and RLHF

Teng Xiao, Yige Yuan, Mingxiao Li +2

This work studies the alignment of large language models with preference data from an imitation learning perspective. We establish a close theoretical connection between reinforcem…

cs.LG2025

SimPER: A Minimalist Approach to Preference Alignment without Hyperparameters

Teng Xiao, Yige Yuan, Zhengyu Chen +4

Existing preference optimization objectives for language model alignment require additional hyperparameters that must be extensively tuned to achieve optimal performance, increasin…