collaborators

10 papers

cs.SE2026

Fantastic Adaptive Taxonomies and How to Use Them

Mert Cemri, Andrei Cojocaru, Melissa Pan +9

An agent system's execution traces record how it fails, and procedures that improve such a system without changing model weights (trajectory selection, prompt and workflow optimiza…

cs.DB2026

The Time is Here for Just-in-Time Systems: Challenges and Opportunities

Shu Liu, Alexander Krentsel, Shubham Agarwal +8

Core systems like key-value stores have historically taken years to build, and are designed to be general so as to amortize cost across deployments, paying a significant performanc…

cs.CL2026

optimize_anything: A Universal API for Optimizing any Text Parameter

Lakshya A Agrawal, Donghyun Lee, Shangyin Tan +11

Can a single LLM-based optimization system match specialized tools across fundamentally different domains? We show that when optimization problems are formulated as improving a tex…

cs.LG2026

How to Train Your Advisor: Steering Black-Box LLMs with Advisor Models

Parth Asawa, Alan Zhu, Abigail O'Neill +3

Frontier language models are deployed as black-box services, where model weights cannot be modified and customization is limited to prompting. We introduce Advisor Models, a method…

cs.CL2026

Multimodal QUD: Inquisitive Questions from Scientific Figures

Yating Wu, William Rudman, Venkata S Govindarajan +2

Discourse comprehension in complex documents often involves continuously posing and resolving Questions Under Discussion (QUDs). While QUD frameworks have so far focused on text, s…

cs.LG2026

EvoX: Meta-Evolution for Automated Discovery

Shu Liu, Shubham Agarwal, Monishwaran Maheswaran +14

Recent work such as AlphaEvolve has shown that combining LLM-driven optimization with evolutionary search can effectively improve programs, prompts, and algorithms across domains.…