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5 papers

cs.SE2026

SWE-Milestone: Evaluating AI Agents on Continuous Software Evolution

Gangda Deng, Zhaoling Chen, Zhongming Yu +11

Real-world software must continuously evolve to meet ever-changing and open-ended requirements. AI agents, increasingly deployed as long-running systems, are now entrusted to drive…

cs.CL2026

Rethinking RL for LLM Reasoning: It's Sparse Policy Selection, Not Capability Learning

Ömer Faruk Akgül, Rajgopal Kannan, Willie Neiswanger +1

Reinforcement learning has become the standard for improving reasoning in large language models, yet evidence increasingly suggests that RL does not teach new strategies; it redist…

cs.IR2026

SPARC-RAG: Adaptive Sequential-Parallel Scaling with Context Management for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Yuxin Yang, Gangda Deng, Ömer Faruk Akgül +6

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) grounds large language model outputs in external evidence, but remains challenged on multi-hop question answering that requires long reasoning.…

cs.LG2025

Training Diverse Graph Experts for Ensembles: A Systematic Empirical Study

Gangda Deng, Yuxin Yang, Ömer Faruk Akgül +4

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become essential tools for learning on relational data, yet the performance of a single GNN is often limited by the heterogeneity present in real-…

cs.SE2025

LocAgent: Graph-Guided LLM Agents for Code Localization

Zhaoling Chen, Xiangru Tang, Gangda Deng +6

Code localization--identifying precisely where in a codebase changes need to be made--is a fundamental yet challenging task in software maintenance. Existing approaches struggle to…