3 papers
cs.AI2026
Latent Reward Steering: An Adaptive Inference-Time Framework that Implicitly Promotes Cognitive Behaviors in Reasoning LLMs
Jiakang Li, Guanyu Zhu, Can Jin +8
Strong reasoning depends not only on model knowledge but also on how effectively cognitive behaviors are deployed during generation. Existing methods often rely on explicit behavio…
cs.AI2026
SkillAudit: From Fixed-Suite Benchmarking to Skill-Centered Assessment
Dexu Yu, Youhua Li, Zhaoyang Guan +12
Agent skills have become a practical way to extend large language model agents, but the growing skill ecosystem still lacks a reliable way to judge whether a skill is worth deployi…
cs.AI2026
GIFT: LLM-Guided State-Reward Interface for Financial Reinforcement Learning
Yanyan Wu, Boyi Zhang, Yanlin Liu +10
Financial portfolio trading is naturally formulated as a reinforcement learning problem, where an agent sequentially rebalances assets under changing market conditions to balance r…