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most citedA Survey on Recent Advances and Challenges in Reinforcement Learning Methods for Task-Oriented Dialogue Policy Learning

39 citations · 121 across the 78 of their papers we have counts for

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81 papers

cs.AI2026

Dual Exam: Controlled Evaluation of Multimodal Agents and World Models

Zhefan Rao, Meng Chu, Xuan Zhang +80

World Models (WMs) can support Multimodal Agents (MAs) through simulated experience, while Agent trajectories can inform World Model refinement. Evaluating this interaction require…

cs.CL2026

Behavior2Trip: Towards Personalized Travel Planning via User Behavior Trajectory

Zihao Cheng, Yingyu Shan, Hongru Wang +6

Travel planning agents assist users in generating personalized travel plans by modeling their individual preferences. Existing agents either rely on explicit user instructions or e…

cs.CL2026

Mitigating Context Interference for Reliable and Efficient Search Agents

Boyang Xue, Bin Wu, Shuofei Qiao +8

Recent research empowers Large Language Models (LLMs) as multi-turn search agents to iteratively retrieve and generate outputs until complex tasks are solved. However, the contexts…

cs.AI2026

CAP: A Scalable Benchmark for Evaluating Cross-Site Browser Agents with Complex Actions and Perception

Zejun Xu, Taiyi Chen, Jin Li +13

Large language models are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents that interact with the web through browsers. While recent progress has been driven by benchmarks that evaluate…

cs.CL2026

Demystifying On-Policy Distillation: Roles, Pathologies, and Regulations

Rui Wang, Hongru Wang, Yi Chen +4

On-policy distillation (OPD) has become a key paradigm in LLM post-training, yet its training dynamics remain poorly understood. We present a systematic study examining the role, p…

cs.LG2026

Learning from Own Solutions: Self-Conditioned Credit Assignment for Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

Yingyu Shan, Yuhang Guo, Zihao Cheng +7

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has driven substantial progress in training LLMs for reasoning tasks, but representative methods such as GRPO assign uniform c…

cs.AI2026

From Knowing to Acting: Benchmarking Self-Awareness Capability of LLM Agents

Yifan Li, Shengbin Yue, Boyu Feng +6

The integration of external tools has transitioned LLM agents from passive responders to autonomous systems. However, current benchmarks prioritize execution success, neglecting se…

cs.AI2026

Multi-Turn Evaluation of Deep Research Agents Under Process-Level Feedback

Rishabh Sabharwal, Hongru Wang, Amos Storkey +1

Existing benchmarks for deep research agents (DRAs) assess only single-shot outputs, ignoring a key question: can DRAs improve their reports when guided by feedback? To investigate…

cs.CL2026

Bridging the Agent-World Gap: Text World Models for LLM-based Agents

Yixia Li, Hongru Wang, Peng Lai +13

Large language model (LLM)-based agents are increasingly used in interactive textual environments, from web navigation and code editing to tool use and long-horizon dialogue. Yet m…

cs.CL2026

Towards On-Policy Data Evolution for Visual-Native Multimodal Deep Search Agents

Shijue Huang, Hangyu Guo, Guanting Dong +8

Multimodal deep search requires an agent to solve open-world problems by chaining search, tool use, and visual reasoning over evolving textual and visual context. Two bottlenecks l…

cs.CL2026

TInR: Exploring Tool-Internalized Reasoning in Large Language Models

Qiancheng Xu, Yongqi Li, Fan Liu +3

Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR) has emerged as a promising direction by extending Large Language Models' (LLMs) capabilities with external tools during reasoning. Existing TIR meth…

cs.LG2026

Dynamic Mixture of Latent Memories for Self-Evolving Agents

Dianzhi Yu, Vireo Zhang, Hongru Wang +7

Achieving self-evolution in intelligent agents requires the continual accumulation of new knowledge across changing task sequences without forgetting previously acquired abilities.…

cs.CL2026

Terminal-World: Scaling Terminal-Agent Environments via Agent Skills

Zihao Cheng, Hongru Wang, Zeming Liu +6

Terminal agents extend Large Language Models with the ability to execute tasks directly in command-line environments, but their progress is bottlenecked by the scarcity of high-qua…

cs.CL2026

Learning Agent Routing From Early Experience

Yimin Wang, Jiahao Qiu, Xuan Qi +6

LLM agents achieve strong performance on complex reasoning tasks but incur high latency and compute cost. In practice, many queries fall within the capability boundary of cutting-e…

cs.CL2026

MemEvolve: Towards Self-Evolving Agents via Co-Evolutionary Capability Expansion and Experience Distillation

Zihao Cheng, Zeming Liu, Yingyu Shan +7

While large language model--powered agents can self-evolve by accumulating experience or by dynamically creating new assets (i.e., tools or expert agents), existing frameworks typi…

cs.AI2026

Search-R2: Enhancing Search-Integrated Reasoning via Actor-Refiner Collaboration

Bowei He, Minda Hu, Zenan Xu +7

Search-integrated reasoning enables language agents to transcend static parametric knowledge by actively querying external sources. However, training these agents via reinforcement…

cs.CL2026

Illusions of Confidence? Diagnosing LLM Truthfulness via Neighborhood Consistency

Haoming Xu, Ningyuan Zhao, Yunzhi Yao +7

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in real-world settings, correctness alone is insufficient. Reliable deployment requires maintaining truthful beliefs under…

cs.CL2025

From Word to World: Can Large Language Models be Implicit Text-based World Models?

Yixia Li, Hongru Wang, Jiahao Qiu +7

Agentic reinforcement learning increasingly relies on experience-driven scaling, yet real-world environments remain non-adaptive, limited in coverage, and difficult to scale. World…

cs.CL2025

WebAggregator: Enhancing Compositional Reasoning Capabilities of Deep Research Agent Foundation Models

Rui Wang, Ce Zhang, Jun-Yu Ma +10

The hallmark of Deep Research agents lies in compositional reasoning, the capacity to aggregate distributed, heterogeneous information into coherent logical insights. However, curr…

cs.CR2025

SafeToolBench: Pioneering a Prospective Benchmark to Evaluating Tool Utilization Safety in LLMs

Hongfei Xia, Hongru Wang, Zeming Liu +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited great performance in autonomously calling various tools in external environments, leading to better problem solving and task automation…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

The Landscape of Agentic Reinforcement Learning for LLMs: A Survey

Guibin Zhang, Hejia Geng, Xiaohang Yu +22

The emergence of agentic reinforcement learning (Agentic RL) marks a paradigm shift from conventional reinforcement learning applied to large language models (LLM RL), reframing LL…

cs.AI2025

Physics Supernova: AI Agent Matches Elite Gold Medalists at IPhO 2025

Jiahao Qiu, Jingzhe Shi, Xinzhe Juan +6

Physics provides fundamental laws that describe and predict the natural world. AI systems aspiring toward more general, real-world intelligence must therefore demonstrate strong ph…

cs.CL2025

Perception-Aware Policy Optimization for Multimodal Reasoning

Zhenhailong Wang, Xuehang Guo, Sofia Stoica +8

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has proven to be a highly effective strategy for endowing Large Language Models (LLMs) with robust multi-step reasoning abilit…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

ReliableMath: Benchmark of Reliable Mathematical Reasoning on Large Language Models

Boyang Xue, Qi Zhu, Rui Wang +8

Although demonstrating remarkable performance on reasoning tasks, Large Language Models (LLMs) still tend to fabricate unreliable responses when confronted with problems that are u…