collaborators

5 papers

cs.AI2026

Open, Reliable, and Collective: A Community-Driven Framework for Tool-Using AI Agents

Hy Dang, Quang Dao, Meng Jiang

Tool-integrated LLMs retrieve information, perform computations, and take real-world actions, but their reliability depends on both tool-use accuracy and intrinsic tool accuracy, i…

cs.CL2026

Composing Policy Gradients and Prompt Optimization for Language Model Programs

Noah Ziems, Dilara Soylu, Lakshya A Agrawal +10

Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has proven to be an effective tool for post-training language models (LMs). However, AI systems are increasingly expressed as modular prog…

cs.CL2026

Prioritizing the Best: Incentivizing Reliable Multimodal Reasoning by Rewarding Beyond Answer Correctness

Mengzhao Jia, Zhihan Zhang, Meng Jiang

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) improves multimodal reasoning by rewarding verifiable final answers. Yet answer-correct trajectories may still rely on incompl…

cs.CL2026

HTAA: Enhancing LLM Planning via Hybrid Toolset Agentization & Adaptation

Chengrui Huang, Junshuo Zhang, Zhiyuan Ma +7

Enabling large language models to scale and reliably use hundreds of tools is critical for real-world applications, yet challenging due to the inefficiency and error accumulation i…

cs.CL2026

GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning

Lakshya A Agrawal, Shangyin Tan, Dilara Soylu +14

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly adapted to downstream tasks via reinforcement learning (RL) methods like Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), which often requir…