6 papers
SemEval-2026 Task 9: Detecting Multilingual, Multicultural and Multievent Online Polarization
Usman Naseem, Robert Geislinger, Juan Ren +31
We present SemEval-2026 Task 9, a shared task on online polarization detection, covering 22 languages and comprising over 110K annotated instances. Each data instance is multi-labe…
Grounded Scaling: Why Agentic AI Needs Deterministic Environments
Liang Ding, Xintong Wang
Long-chain agent execution fails exponentially in environments designed for human tolerance: with per-step determinism , -step chain success degrades as . The AGI-t…
ARBOR: Online Process Rewards via a Reusable Rubric Buffer for Search Agents
Zheng Liu, Longxiang Zhang, Xintong Wang +8
LLM-based search agents are trained predominantly with outcome-only reward, leaving the search process itself unsupervised. This signal degenerates on outcome-homogeneous groups wh…
IndustryBench: Probing the Industrial Knowledge Boundaries of LLMs
Songlin Bai, Xintong Wang, Linlin Yu +12
In industrial procurement, an LLM answer is useful only if it survives a standards check: recommended material must match operating condition, every parameter must respect a regula…
CogSteer: Cognition-Inspired Selective Layer Intervention for Efficiently Steering Large Language Models
Xintong Wang, Jingheng Pan, Liang Ding +4
Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve remarkable performance through pretraining on extensive data. This enables efficient adaptation to diverse downstream tasks. However, the lack…
Chinese Toxic Language Mitigation via Sentiment Polarity Consistent Rewrites
Xintong Wang, Yixiao Liu, Jingheng Pan +3
Detoxifying offensive language while preserving the speaker's original intent is a challenging yet critical goal for improving the quality of online interactions. Although large la…