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

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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…

cs.AI2025

AgentDistill: Training-Free Agent Distillation with Generalizable MCP Boxes

Jiahao Qiu, Xinzhe Juan, Yimin Wang +11

While knowledge distillation has become a mature field for compressing large language models (LLMs) into smaller ones by aligning their outputs or internal representations, the dis…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

Position: Agent Should Invoke External Tools ONLY When Epistemically Necessary

Hongru Wang, Cheng Qian, Manling Li +6

As large language models evolve into tool-augmented agents, a central question remains unresolved: when is external tool use actually justified? Existing agent frameworks typically…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

Acting Less is Reasoning More! Teaching Model to Act Efficiently

Hongru Wang, Cheng Qian, Wanjun Zhong +7

Tool-integrated reasoning (TIR) augments large language models (LLMs) with the ability to invoke external tools during long-form reasoning, such as search engines and code interpre…

cs.HC2025

TransBench: Breaking Barriers for Transferable Graphical User Interface Agents in Dynamic Digital Environments

Yuheng Lu, Qian Yu, Hongru Wang +7

Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents, which autonomously operate on digital interfaces through natural language instructions, hold transformative potential for accessibility, auto…

cs.AI2025

Alita: Generalist Agent Enabling Scalable Agentic Reasoning with Minimal Predefinition and Maximal Self-Evolution

Jiahao Qiu, Xuan Qi, Tongcheng Zhang +15

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled agents to autonomously perform complex, open-ended tasks. However, many existing frameworks depend heavily on manually…

cs.CL2025

ToolSpectrum : Towards Personalized Tool Utilization for Large Language Models

Zihao Cheng, Hongru Wang, Zeming Liu +4

While integrating external tools into large language models (LLMs) enhances their ability to access real-time information and domain-specific services, existing approaches focus na…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

ModelingAgent: Bridging LLMs and Mathematical Modeling for Real-World Challenges

Cheng Qian, Hongyi Du, Hongru Wang +6

Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) has enabled substantial advances in solving mathematical problems. However, existing benchmarks often fail to reflect the complexity…

cs.CL2025

Self-Reasoning Language Models: Unfold Hidden Reasoning Chains with Few Reasoning Catalyst

Hongru Wang, Deng Cai, Wanjun Zhong +4

Inference-time scaling has attracted much attention which significantly enhance the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) in complex reasoning tasks by increasing the length…

cs.CL2025

Rethinking Stateful Tool Use in Multi-Turn Dialogues: Benchmarks and Challenges

Hongru Wang, Wenyu Huang, Yufei Wang +7

Existing benchmarks that assess Language Models (LMs) as Language Agents (LAs) for tool use primarily focus on stateless, single-turn interactions or partial evaluations, such as t…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

DecisionFlow: Advancing Large Language Model as Principled Decision Maker

Xiusi Chen, Shanyong Wang, Cheng Qian +3

In high-stakes domains such as healthcare and finance, effective decision-making demands not just accurate outcomes but transparent and explainable reasoning. However, current lang…

cs.AI2025

AdaCtrl: Towards Adaptive and Controllable Reasoning via Difficulty-Aware Budgeting

Shijue Huang, Hongru Wang, Wanjun Zhong +4

Modern large reasoning models demonstrate impressive problem-solving capabilities by employing sophisticated reasoning strategies. However, they often struggle to balance efficienc…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

RM-R1: Reward Modeling as Reasoning

Xiusi Chen, Gaotang Li, Ziqi Wang +9

Reward modeling is essential for aligning large language models with human preferences through reinforcement learning. To provide accurate reward signals, a reward model (RM) shoul…

cs.CL2025

ImPart: Importance-Aware Delta-Sparsification for Improved Model Compression and Merging in LLMs

Yan Yang, Yixia Li, Hongru Wang +4

With the proliferation of task-specific large language models, delta compression has emerged as a method to mitigate the resource challenges of deploying numerous such models by ef…

cs.LG2025★ 3 cited

ToolRL: Reward is All Tool Learning Needs

Cheng Qian, Emre Can Acikgoz, Qi He +5

Current Large Language Models (LLMs) often undergo supervised fine-tuning (SFT) to acquire tool use capabilities. However, SFT struggles to generalize to unfamiliar or complex tool…

cs.AI2025★ 2 cited

A Desideratum for Conversational Agents: Capabilities, Challenges, and Future Directions

Emre Can Acikgoz, Cheng Qian, Hongru Wang +5

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have propelled conversational AI from traditional dialogue systems into sophisticated agents capable of autonomous actions, contextu…

cs.CL2025

DAST: Difficulty-Aware Self-Training on Large Language Models

Boyang Xue, Qi Zhu, Hongru Wang +8

Present Large Language Models (LLM) self-training methods always under-sample on challenging queries, leading to inadequate learning on difficult problems which limits LLMs' abilit…

cs.CL2025

Harnessing the Reasoning Economy: A Survey of Efficient Reasoning for Large Language Models

Rui Wang, Hongru Wang, Boyang Xue +9

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced their ability to perform complex reasoning tasks, transitioning from fast and intuitive thinking (Sy…