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cs.CL2026

Agent-Reflex: Teaching Language Agents to Act Reflectively

Guanting Dong, Xinyu Yang, Jiajie Jin +9

Large language models have evolved from single-turn chatbots into interactive agents capable of long-horizon reasoning. In real deployments, MCP tool services can return noisy feed…

cs.AI2026

AREX-2: Advancing Self-Improving Agents through Long-Horizon Reflective Tasks

Hongjin Qian, Chaofan Li, Kun Luo +11

We present AREX-2, an effort to advance the self-improving capability of LLM agents, which we define as the ability to iteratively refine a solution at test time. This ability rest…

cs.LG2026

Learn Now, Use Next, Trust Later: Prequential Test-Time Learning for LLM Agents

Tong Zhao, Reed Li, Yuyang Hu +5

Adapting large language model agents during deployment requires not only retaining past experience, but also turning new observations into timely guidance. Many test-time learning…

cs.AI2026

StateGuard: Analytical-State Management with Validity-Aware Intervention for Long-Horizon Data Agents

Wenle Liao, Zhao Wang, Jingchao Zhang +3

LLM-based agents have shown strong capabilities in automated data analysis and are increasingly moving toward long-horizon, multi-stage analytical workflows. However, as the analyt…

cs.AI2026

EvolveScaler: Synthesizing Information-Evolution Contexts via Executable State Machines and Natural-Language Rendering

Ziliang Zhao, Zenan Xu, Shuting Wang +6

In persistent interactions, long contexts may encode an evolving process rather than a fixed record: later events can revise or revoke earlier information, changing what remains va…

cs.AI2026

Repo-To-Skill: Distilling GitHub Repositories Into AI4AI Skills

Jianlyu Chen, Yuyang Hu, Hongjin Qian +8

Autonomous agents are beginning to carry out machine-learning (ML) research end to end. These agents combine a model backbone with a harness for planning, execution, memory, and ve…

cs.AI2026

AREX: Towards a Recursively Self-Improving Agent for Deep Research

Shuqi Lu, Chaofan Li, Kun Luo +21

Deep research requires agents to find answers that jointly satisfy multiple constraints. Discovering such answers is costly, whereas verifying a candidate can often be decomposed i…

cs.IR2026

Douyin Multimodal Embedding Model Technical Report

Haonan Chen, Chu Li, Zhicheng Wang +4

Multimodal representation learning is a cornerstone of modern AI. By encoding multimodal queries and targets into vectors, it powers industrial search and recommendation and underp…

cs.AI2026

CLAIM: Leading Open-domain Active Clarification of Large Language Models with Uncertainty Measurement

Kuangzhao Yang, Ziliang Zhao, Zhicheng Dou

In open-domain human-computer interaction scenarios, large language models (LLMs) frequently encounter user queries that are ambiguous or incomplete. In such cases, directly produc…

cs.AI2026

Learning from Online User Feedback for Shopping Agents

Haobo Zhang, Kelong Mao, Sulong Xu +2

Large language model-based shopping agents are increasingly deployed in real-world e-commerce platforms, generating massive amounts of user interaction logs that provide valuable s…

cs.IR2026

Training Documents Reranker with Search Rubrics for Deep Research Agent

Wenhan Liu, Yu Lu, Qiaolin Xia +8

Retrieval systems help deep research agents generate high-quality answers by providing relevant documents. However, existing retrievers typically select documents through relevance…

cs.AI2026

OPOD: On-Policy Omni Distillation

Tong Zhao, Yuyang Hu, Yutao Zhu +5

Omni-modal models provide a unified interface for text, images, and audio. However, improving these abilities together remains difficult, as post-training on pooled multimodal data…

cs.AI2026

SearchOS-V1: Towards Robust Open-Domain Information-Seeking Agent Collaboration

Yuyao Zhang, Junjie Gao, Zhengxian Wu +11

Recent advances in Tool-Integrated Large Language Models have made web search a core capability of information-seeking agents. However, as interaction histories grow, agents increa…

cs.CL2026

WebSwarm: Recursive Multi-Agent Orchestration for Deep-and-Wide Web Search

Xiaoshuai Song, Liancheng Zhang, Kangzhi Zhao +8

Large language model (LLM)-based web search agents are transforming information seeking from simple factoid question answering into complex, deep-and-wide search and research-orien…

cs.CL2026

VeriGraph: Towards Verifiable Data-Analytic Agents

Jiajie Jin, Zhao Yang, Wenle Liao +5

LLM-based agents have demonstrated strong capabilities in data-intensive analytical tasks, yet their outputs are rarely verifiable: a reliance on linear text trajectories makes the…

cs.CL2026

Toward Generalist Autonomous Research via Hypothesis-Tree Refinement

Jiajie Jin, Yuyang Hu, Kai Qiu +15

Scientific progress depends on a repeated loop of exploration, experimentation, and abstraction. Researchers test candidate directions, interpret the evidence, and carry the result…

cs.CL2026

Towards Verifiable Multimodal Deep Research: A Multi-Agent Harness for Interleaved Report Generation

Chenghao Zhang, Guanting Dong, Yufan Liu +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced autonomous agents from deep search, which retrieves concise factual answers, to deep research, which synthesizes scattered evidence into…

cs.AI2026

PlanningBench: Generating Scalable and Verifiable Planning Data for Evaluating and Training Large Language Models

Ziliang Zhao, Zenan Xu, Shuting Wang +7

Planning is a fundamental capability for large language models (LLMs) because such complex tasks require models to coordinate goals, constraints, resources, and long-term consequen…

cs.AI2026

AgentFugue: Agent Scaling for Long-Horizon Tasks through Collective Reasoning

Yuyang Hu, Hongjin Qian, Shuting Wang +5

Recent progress on long-horizon agentic tasks has been driven largely by scaling up individual agents through stronger models, better tools, and more effective scaffolding. In cont…

cs.AI2026

SAM: State-Adaptive Memory for Long-Horizon Reasoning Agent

Yuyang Hu, Hongjin Qian, Shuting Wang +5

Long-horizon agentic reasoning requires large language models to act over long interaction histories containing thoughts, tool calls, observations, and partial conclusions. The cha…

cs.CL2026

Swarm Skills: A Portable, Self-Evolving Multi-Agent System Specification for Coordination Engineering

Xinyu Zhang, Zhicheng Dou, Deyang Li +10

As artificial intelligence engineering paradigms shift from single-agent Prompt and Context Engineering toward multi-agent \textbf{Coordination Engineering}, the ability to codify…

cs.AI2026★ 1 cited

AutoResearchBench: Benchmarking AI Agents on Complex Scientific Literature Discovery

Lei Xiong, Kun Luo, Ziyi Xia +15

Autonomous scientific research is significantly advanced thanks to the development of AI agents. One key step in this process is finding the right scientific literature, whether to…

cs.IR2026

RAG: Retriever Routing for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Tong Zhao, Yutao Zhu, Yucheng Tian +1

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become a cornerstone for knowledge-intensive tasks. However, the efficacy of RAG is often bottlenecked by the ``one-size-fits-all'' retriev…

cs.SD2026

ATIR: Towards Audio-Text Interleaved Contextual Retrieval

Tong Zhao, Chenghao Zhang, Yutao Zhu +1

Audio carries richer information than text, including emotion, speaker traits, and environmental context, while also enabling lower-latency processing compared to speech-to-text pi…