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most citedBenchmarking Large Language Models in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

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cs.CL2026

From Sequence to Structure: Relational Uncertainty Propagation for LLM Agents

Zhengzhao Ma, Boxi Cao, Yaojie Lu +3

Reliable uncertainty quantification (UQ) is essential for deploying large language model (LLM) agents in complex interactive environments. Existing UQ methods largely rely on local…

cs.AI2026

Correcting What You Cannot See: Credit Assignment for Perception Distillation in Multimodal Reasoners

Feng Xiong, Leyan Xue, Hongyu Lin

On-policy distillation provides dense supervision for multimodal reasoners, but its trajectory-level reward cannot determine whether a failed answer arose from perception or subseq…

cs.LG2026

ShortOPD: Recovering Pruned LLMs with Short-to-Long On-Policy Distillation

Qingyu Zhang, Qianhao Yuan, Hongyu Lin +5

Structured pruning is a hardware-friendly way to compress LLMs, but it is mostly validated on multiple-choice recognition tasks, while the same compressed checkpoints can collapse…

cs.CL2026

Knowing When to Quit: Diagnosing and Training LLMs to Abort Futile Reasoning

Xinyan Guan, Jiali Zeng, Chunlei Xin +5

Large language models generate computationally expensive yet semantically void reasoning on beyond-capability tasks, creating risks where plausible-sounding but incorrect derivatio…

cs.AI2026

DocOps: A Verifiable Benchmark for Autonomous Agents in Complex Document Operations

Jiazhen Jiang, Boxi Cao, Lingyong Yan +6

As autonomous agents rapidly evolve, their ability to reliably manipulate ubiquitous digital documents has become critical for enabling general-purpose AI assistants and automating…

cs.CL2026

Before the Action: Benchmarking LLMs on Prospective Hypothesis Discovery

Tianyun Zhong, Wangyi Jiang, Wei Wang +15

Large language models (LLMs) excel at answering pre-specified questions, yet their ability to navigate the open-ended, pre-conclusion stage of discovery remains largely unmeasured.…

cs.LG2026

OmniFocus: Query-Guided Modality-Balanced Token Compression for Omni-Modal Large Language Models

Shijie Cao, Qingyu Zhang, Boxi Yu +6

Omni modal large language models (OmniLLMs) have attracted wide attention for their ability to jointly process audio and video, but they generate large token sequences under audio-…

cs.CL2026

PraMem: Practice-derived Experiential Memory for Long-horizon Behavior Prediction

Zhuoqun Li, Boxi Cao, Jiawei Chen +11

Long-horizon behavior prediction aims to infer a user's next action based on a lengthy historical sequence, playing a crucial role in artificial intelligence field. The rise of lar…

cs.CL2026

ReasoningLens: Hierarchical Visualization and Diagnostic Auditing for Large Reasoning Models

Jun Zhang, Jiasheng Zheng, Boxi Cao +5

The emergence of Large Reasoning Models has introduced exceptionally long Chain-of-Thought traces, creating a transparency burden where critical logic is often buried under massive…

cs.CL2026

Verifiable Environments Are LEGO Bricks: Recursive Composition for Reasoning Generalization

Hao Xiang, Qiaoyu Tang, Le Yu +8

Reinforcement Learning (RL) with verifiable environments has emerged as a powerful approach for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). While prior re…

cs.AI2026

MIRAGE: Mobile Agents with Implicit Reasoning and Generative World Models

Zhichao Yang, Yuanze Hu, Haojie Hao +7

Mobile agents are increasingly expected to operate everyday applications from screenshots and language goals, where reliable control requires reasoning over screen affordances, mul…

cs.AI2026

The Meta-Agent Challenge: Are Current Agents Capable of Autonomous Agent Development?

Xinyu Lu, Tianshu Wang, Pengbo Wang +8

Current AI benchmarks evaluate agents on task execution within human-designed workflows. These evaluations fundamentally fail to measure a critical next-level capability: whether m…

cs.CL2026

Combinatorial Synthesis: Scaling Code RLVR via Atomic Decomposition and Recombination

Jiasheng Zheng, Boxi Cao, Boxi Yu +6

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has recently emerged as the cornerstone for shaping the remarkable coding abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However,…

cs.CL2026

Your Teacher Can't Help You Here: Combating Supervision Fidelity Decay in On-Policy Distillation

Yanjiang Liu, Jie Lou, Xinyan Guan +7

On-policy distillation transfers reasoning capabilities by training a student model on its own generated trajectories using token-level feedback from a teacher. However, we identif…

cs.CL2026

LiteCoder-Terminal: Scaling Long-Horizon Terminal Environments for Learning Language Agents

Xiaoxuan Peng, Kaiqi Zhang, Xinyu Lu +5

Mastering terminal environments requires language agents capable of multi-step planning, feedback-grounded execution, and dynamic state adaptation. However, training such agents is…

cs.CV2026

MetaphorVU: Towards Metaphorical Video Understanding

Zhuoqun Li, Boxi Cao, Guiping Jiang +13

Metaphorical videos are prevalent across various real-world scenarios to convey complex ideas, and understanding them typically requires high-order cognitive capabilities. The lack…

cs.CL2026

Towards Real-world Human Behavior Simulation: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Long-horizon, Cross-scenario, Heterogeneous Behavior Traces

Jiawei Chen, Ruoxi Xu, Boxi Cao +11

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has illuminated the potential for a general-purpose user simulator. However, existing benchmarks remain constrained to isolated scenar…

cs.SE2026

LiveFMBench: Unveiling the Power and Limits of Agentic Workflows in Specification Generation

Dong Xu, Jialun Cao, Guozhao Mo +9

Formal specification is essential for rigorous program verification, yet writing correct specifications remains costly and difficult to automate. Although large language models (LL…

cs.SE2026

ScaleBox: Enabling High-Fidelity and Scalable Code Verification for Large Language Models

Jiasheng Zheng, Xin Zheng, Boxi Cao +8

Code sandboxes have emerged as a critical infrastructure for advancing the coding capabilities of large language models, providing verifiable feedback for both RL training and eval…

cs.AI2026

Beyond Text-Dominance: Understanding Modality Preference of Omni-modal Large Language Models

Xinru Yan, Boxi Cao, Yaojie Lu +4

Native Omni-modal Large Language Models (OLLMs) have shifted from pipeline architectures to unified representation spaces. However, this native integration gives rise to a critical…

cs.CL2026

All Languages Matter: Understanding and Mitigating Language Bias in Multilingual RAG

Dan Wang, Guozhao Mo, Yafei Shi +9

Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Generation (mRAG) leverages cross-lingual evidence to ground Large Language Models (LLMs) in global knowledge. However, we show that current mRAG s…

cs.LG2026

Tackling Length Inflation Without Trade-offs: Group Relative Reward Rescaling for Reinforcement Learning

Zichao Li, Jie Lou, Fangchen Dong +8

Reinforcement learning significantly enhances LLM capabilities but suffers from a critical issue: length inflation, where models adopt verbosity or inefficient reasoning to maximiz…

cs.LG2026

P^2O: Joint Policy and Prompt Optimization

Xinyu Lu, Kaiqi Zhang, Jinglin Yang +6

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) enhances Large Language Model (LLM) reasoning but is suffer from advantage collapse: when all rollouts of a query receive iden…

cs.LG2026

Decoupling Reasoning and Confidence: Resurrecting Calibration in Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards

Zhengzhao Ma, Xueru Wen, Boxi Cao +6

Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) significantly enhances large language models (LLMs) reasoning but severely suffers from calibration degeneration, where models…