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12 papers

cs.AI2026

Autodata: An agentic data scientist to create high quality synthetic data

Ilia Kulikov, Chenxi Whitehouse, Tianhao Wu +12

We introduce Autodata, a general method that enables AI agents to act as data scientists who build high quality training and evaluation data. We show how to train (meta-optimize) s…

cs.AI2026

Reasoning over mathematical objects: on-policy reward modeling and test time aggregation

Pranjal Aggarwal, Marjan Ghazvininejad, Seungone Kim +18

The ability to precisely derive mathematical objects is a core requirement for downstream STEM applications, including mathematics, physics, and chemistry, where reasoning must cul…

cs.CL2026

Text-to-Stage: Spatial Layouts from Long-form Narratives

Jefferson Hernandez, Swarnadeep Saha, Chenxi Whitehouse +6

In this work, we probe the ability of a language model to demonstrate spatial reasoning from unstructured text, mimicking human capabilities and automating a process that benefits…

cs.CL2025

Hybrid Reinforcement: When Reward Is Sparse, It's Better to Be Dense

Leitian Tao, Ilia Kulikov, Swarnadeep Saha +5

Post-training for reasoning of large language models (LLMs) increasingly relies on verifiable rewards: deterministic checkers that provide 0-1 correctness signals. While reliable,…

cs.CL2025

J1: Incentivizing Thinking in LLM-as-a-Judge via Reinforcement Learning

Chenxi Whitehouse, Tianlu Wang, Ping Yu +4

The progress of AI is bottlenecked by the quality of evaluation, making powerful LLM-as-a-Judge models a core solution. The efficacy of these judges depends on their chain-of-thoug…

cs.CL2025

OptimalThinkingBench: Evaluating Over and Underthinking in LLMs

Pranjal Aggarwal, Seungone Kim, Jack Lanchantin +4

Thinking LLMs solve complex tasks at the expense of increased compute and overthinking on simpler problems, while non-thinking LLMs are faster and cheaper but underthink on harder…