most citedGunrock: A Social Bot for Complex and Engaging Long Conversations

11 citations · 11 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.CE2026

FinRankGRPO: Optimizing LLMs for Listwise Financial Asset Ranking via Group Relative Policy Optimization

Ningyuan Deng, Jinyuan Wang, Qi Li +2

While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at understanding unstructured financial contexts, their direct use in portfolio optimization is limited by a mismatch between next-token pr…

cs.LG2026

IAPO: Influence-Aware Policy Optimization for Credit Assignment in Multi-Turn Service Agents

Bo Ren, Yirong Mao, Yi Yang +1

Large Language Model (LLM) agents increasingly solve long-horizon tasks through multi-turn interactions with users and external tools. In these settings, relevant task information…

cs.LG2026

Agentic Reinforcement Learning with Observation-Calibrated Self-Distillation

Yi Yang, Cong Qin, Xiaodan Liu +8

Large language model agents are commonly trained through reinforcement learning with sparse trajectory-level rewards, which offer limited guidance on how strongly individual tokens…

cs.CL2026

Look Ahead Before You Distill: Future Trajectory Validation of Teacher Guidance for Agentic On-Policy Distillation

Chishui Chen, Yaoyou Fan, Te Sun +11

On-policy distillation (OPD) provides teacher supervision on states visited by the student, reducing the distribution gap between training and inference. However, in multi-turn age…

cs.CL2026

Skill or Skip? Learning Selective Skill Invocation in Agentic Tasks via Dual-Granularity Preference Learning

Chishui Chen, Jiaye Lin, Te Sun +6

Agent skills are callable procedural modules that provide reusable knowledge and execution policies for complex agentic tasks. However, existing methods mainly focus on selecting r…

cs.CL2019★ 11 cited

Gunrock: A Social Bot for Complex and Engaging Long Conversations

Dian Yu, Michelle Cohn, Yi Mang Yang +12

Gunrock is the winner of the 2018 Amazon Alexa Prize, as evaluated by coherence and engagement from both real users and Amazon-selected expert conversationalists. We focus on under…