most citedPosition: Agent Should Invoke External Tools ONLY When Epistemically Necessary

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cs.AI2026

Supervised Fine-tuning with Synthetic Rationale Data Hurts Real-World Disease Prediction

Buxin Su, Bingxuan Li, Cheng Qian +3

Supervised fine-tuning with synthetic rationale data is widely assumed to improve language model performance on clinical prediction tasks by teaching models not just what to predic…

cs.AI2026

Brick-Composer: Using MLLMs for Assembly with Diverse Bricks

Jiateng Liu, Bingxuan Li, Zhenhailong Wang +8

We dream of AI agents that can read arbitrary designs and construct real-world objects from reusable building blocks. As a first step toward this vision, we study whether multimoda…

cs.AI2026

Advancing Creative Physical Intelligence in Large Multimodal Models

Cheng Qian, Hyeonjeong Ha, Jiayu Liu +10

Large multimodal models (LMMs) have rapidly advanced in perception and reasoning; however, it remains unclear whether these capabilities generalize to discovering visually grounded…

cs.AI20261 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.AI2026

CreativityBench: Evaluating Agent Creative Reasoning via Affordance-Based Tool Repurposing

Cheng Qian, Hyeonjeong Ha, Jiayu Liu +10

Recent advances in large language models have led to strong performance on reasoning and environment-interaction tasks, yet their ability for creative problem-solving remains under…

cs.AI20261 cited

Agentic Reasoning for Large Language Models

Tianxin Wei, Ting-Wei Li, Zhining Liu +26

Reasoning is a fundamental cognitive process underlying inference, problem-solving, and decision-making. While large language models (LLMs) demonstrate strong reasoning capabilitie…