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cs.AI2026

From Prompt to Harness: Coderlet from Scratch

Mengfan Li

A model alone does not determine how a programming agent acts. What the model sees, how actions enter the environment, how feedback returns, and how one run affects the next all de…

cs.SE2026

Know Before Fix: QA-Driven Repository Knowledge Acquisition for Software Issue Resolution

Haotian Lin, Silin Chen, Xiaodong Gu +8

The paper introduces ACQUIRE, a QA-driven framework that lets a language model ask targeted questions about a code repository to acquire explicit knowledge before generating patche…

cs.CL2026

CoSToM:Causal-oriented Steering for Intrinsic Theory-of-Mind Alignment in Large Language Models

Mengfan Li, Xuanhua Shi, Yang Deng

Theory of Mind (ToM), the ability to attribute mental states to others, is a hallmark of social intelligence. While large language models (LLMs) demonstrate promising performance o…

cs.SE2026

EffiSkill: Agent Skill Based Automated Code Efficiency Optimization

Zimu Wang, Yuling Shi, Mengfan Li +4

Code efficiency is a fundamental aspect of software quality, yet how to harness large language models (LLMs) to optimize programs remains challenging. Prior approaches have sought…

cs.HC2026

Intelligent Reasoning Cues: A Framework and Case Study of the Roles of AI Information in Complex Decisions

Venkatesh Sivaraman, Eric P. Mason, Mengfan Ellen Li +4

Artificial intelligence (AI)-based decision support systems can be highly accurate yet still fail to support users or improve decisions. Existing theories of AI-assisted decision-m…

cs.AI2025

RecToM: A Benchmark for Evaluating Machine Theory of Mind in LLM-based Conversational Recommender Systems

Mengfan Li, Xuanhua Shi, Yang Deng

Large Language models are revolutionizing the conversational recommender systems through their impressive capabilities in instruction comprehension, reasoning, and human interactio…