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QREF: Improving DeepSearch Agents by Aligning Search with Reasoning via Query Refinement and Evidence Filtering
Yujia Chen, Yuhui Wang, Junzhe Wang +15
DeepSearch agents achieve strong performance on complex information-seeking tasks through iterative search and reasoning. However, they often issue intent-misaligned, under-constra…
Seeing, Maintaining, and Learning: The Evolution of Multimodal Agent Memory
Minghao Guo, Qingyue Jiao, Xiujin Liu +77
Multimodal models and agents have emerged to enable AI systems to learn from and interact with the real world more like humans by integrating information across multiple modalities…
EvoIn: Bridging Evolution and Internalization for Agent Fine-Tuning
Shihan Dou, Shaofan Liu, Zhonghang Lu +8
Recent work has explored improving agents by jointly evolving their harnesses and models, but often takes a ''potpourri'' approach that bundles together new tools, new decision-mak…
ExplorationBench: Measuring AI Systems' Exploration in Verifiable Alien Worlds
Ming Zhang, Zhenghao Xiang, Peizhong Gao +17
Scientific discovery begins where known problems end. There, AI systems must engage in exploration: framing hypotheses, designing experiments, and iterating on the results. However…
Agents in the Large: Perception-Centered Architecture for Persistent Agents
Shihan Dou, Haoxiang Jia, Shichun Liu +14
Cognitive language agents have achieved substantial progress by equipping language models with memory, tools, and decision-making procedures, enabling agents to reason and act in i…
Certified Multi-Turn Robustness for LLM Safety via Compositional Bounds and Safety Persistence
Yang Liu, Bin Chong, Wenkai Yang +9
Large language models (LLMs) are vulnerable to multi-turn jailbreak attacks that progressively manipulate conversation context. Existing certified robustness methods are limited to…
SPIEval: Evaluating Large Language Models as Mobile Assistants over Scattered Personal Information
Junjie Ye, Zhuohui Sheng, Shaofan Liu +12
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as mobile assistants, where a key challenge is leveraging personal information scattered across multiple applications (apps)…
MemArbiter: Decision-Time Memory Arbitration for Long-Horizon LLM Agents
Jiajun Dong, Yutao Hu, Fengrui Fan +3
Large language model (LLM) agents must retain and use cross-step information to act coherently in long-horizon tasks. Existing methods improve memory accessibility, yet action-rele…
IACM-RL: Intent-Aware Context Management and Reinforcement Learning for Complex Tool Invocation under Dynamic Intent Fluctuations
Dingwei Zhu, Jiahan Li, Chengjun Pan +22
Executing long-horizon tool invocations in real-world environments is severely challenged by dynamic user intent noise. Existing methods attempt robustness via implicit history sca…
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…
HyperLogic: A Hard, Forward-Authored Chinese Logical Reasoning Benchmark with Execution-Derived Answers
Ming Zhang, Qiyuan Peng, Yinxi Wei +16
Existing logic benchmarks primarily measure models' ability to answer reasoning questions directly. Scalable benchmarks often generate text from formal structures, which makes answ…
Agentic Harness Engineering: Observability-Driven Automatic Evolution of Coding-Agent Harnesses
Jiahang Lin, Shichun Liu, Chengjun Pan +8
Harnesses are now central to coding-agent performance, mediating how models interact with tools and execution environments. Yet harness engineering remains a manual craft, because…
Entropy Polarity in Reinforcement Fine-Tuning: Direction, Asymmetry, and Control
Jiazheng Zhang, Ziche Fu, Junrui Shen +17
Policy entropy has emerged as a fundamental measure for understanding and controlling exploration in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) for LLMs. However, existi…
CL-bench Life: Can Language Models Learn from Real-Life Context?
Shihan Dou, Yujiong Shen, Chenhao Huang +35
Today's AI assistants such as OpenClaw are designed to handle context effectively, making context learning an increasingly important capability for models. As these systems move be…
EVPO: Explained Variance Policy Optimization for Adaptive Critic Utilization in LLM Post-Training
Chengjun Pan, Shichun Liu, Jiahang Lin +10
Reinforcement learning (RL) for LLM post-training faces a fundamental design choice: whether to use a learned critic as a baseline for policy optimization. Classical theory favors…
Enhancing LLM-based Search Agents via Contribution Weighted Group Relative Policy Optimization
Junzhe Wang, Zhiheng Xi, Yajie Yang +4
Search agents extend Large Language Models (LLMs) beyond static parametric knowledge by enabling access to up-to-date and long-tail information unavailable during pretraining. Whil…
Reward Hacking in the Era of Large Models: Mechanisms, Emergent Misalignment, Challenges
Xiaohua Wang, Muzhao Tian, Yuqi Zeng +20
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) and related alignment paradigms have become central to steering large language models (LLMs) and multimodal large language models…
MM-Doc-R1: Training Agents for Long Document Visual Question Answering through Multi-turn Reinforcement Learning
Jiahang Lin, Kai Hu, Binghai Wang +12
Conventional Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems often struggle with complex multi-hop queries over long documents due to their single-pass retrieval. We introduce MM-Doc-…
A Decomposition Perspective to Long-context Reasoning for LLMs
Yanling Xiao, Huaibing Xie, Guoliang Zhao +8
Long-context reasoning is essential for complex real-world applications, yet remains a significant challenge for Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite the rapid evolution in long-c…
Probing How Scalable Table Data Enhances General Long-Context Reasoning
Huaibing Xie, Guoliang Zhao, Yang Liu +8
As real-world tasks grow increasingly complex, long-context reasoning has become a core capability for Large Language Models (LLMs). However, few studies explore which data types a…
JFTA-Bench: Evaluate LLM's Ability of Tracking and Analyzing Malfunctions Using Fault Trees
Yuhui Wang, Zhixiong Yang, Ming Zhang +10
In the maintenance of complex systems, fault trees are used to locate problems and provide targeted solutions. To enable fault trees stored as images to be directly processed by la…
Steering LLMs via Scalable Interactive Oversight
Enyu Zhou, Zhiheng Xi, Long Ma +9
As Large Language Models increasingly automate complex, long-horizon tasks such as \emph{vibe coding}, a supervision gap has emerged. While models excel at execution, users often s…
CL-bench: A Benchmark for Context Learning
Shihan Dou, Ming Zhang, Zhangyue Yin +24
Current language models (LMs) excel at reasoning over prompts using pre-trained knowledge. However, real-world tasks are far more complex and context-dependent: models must learn f…
SciAgentGym: Benchmarking Multi-Step Scientific Tool-use in LLM Agents
Yujiong Shen, Yajie Yang, Zhiheng Xi +17
Scientific reasoning inherently demands integrating sophisticated toolkits to navigate domain-specific knowledge. Yet, current benchmarks largely overlook agents' ability to orches…