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Agent-Reflex: Teaching Language Agents to Act Reflectively
Guanting Dong, Xinyu Yang, Jiajie Jin +9
Large language models have evolved from single-turn chatbots into interactive agents capable of long-horizon reasoning. In real deployments, MCP tool services can return noisy feed…
Clearing the Fog: Towards Installing and Refining Proactive Exploration Capabilities in LLM Agents
Zhizhao Guan, Chen Huang, Ziming Liu +5
We study proactive exploration in LLM agents, i.e., the ability to explore an environment to acquire information that improves future decision-making. In this regard, we first iden…
Fetch-then-Explore: Decoupling Selection from Extraction over a Persistent Workspace for Search Agents
Qi Liu, Yiqun Chen, Zidan Chen +6
Search agents now answer questions that take dozens of searches to settle, yet how such an agent reads a page has drawn far less attention than how it finds one. Nearly all of them…
Learning to Act under Noise: Enhancing Agent Robustness via Noisy Environments
Yuxin Chen, Xiaodong Cai, Junfeng Fang +9
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have facilitated the widespread deployment of LLMs as interactive agents capable of reasoning, planning, and tool use. Despite stron…
VitaBench 2.0: Evaluating Personalized and Proactive Agents in Long-Term User Interactions
Yuxin Chen, Yi Zhang, Zhengzhou Cai +11
Large language models (LLMs) have evolved into interactive agents that collaborate with users in real-world tasks. Effective collaboration in such settings increasingly depends on…
Reasoning over Semantic IDs Enhances Generative Recommendation
Yingzhi He, Yan Sun, Junfei Tan +6
Recent advances in generative recommendation have leveraged pretrained LLMs by formulating sequential recommendation as autoregressive generation over a unified token space compris…
Transport and Merge: Cross-Architecture Merging for Large Language Models
Chenhang Cui, Binyun Yang, Fei Shen +5
Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong capabilities by scaling model capacity and training data, yet many real-world deployments rely on smaller models trained or adapted from…
Reinforcing Chain-of-Thought Reasoning with Self-Evolving Rubrics
Leheng Sheng, Wenchang Ma, Ruixin Hong +3
Despite chain-of-thought (CoT) playing crucial roles in LLM reasoning, directly rewarding it is difficult: training a reward model demands heavy human labeling efforts, and static…
When to Memorize and When to Stop: Gated Recurrent Memory for Long-Context Reasoning
Leheng Sheng, Yongtao Zhang, Wenchang Ma +6
While reasoning over long context is crucial for various real-world applications, it remains challenging for large language models (LLMs) as they suffer from performance degradatio…
Learning to Self-Verify Makes Language Models Better Reasoners
Yuxin Chen, Yu Wang, Yi Zhang +9
Recent large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance in generating promising reasoning paths for complex tasks. However, despite powerful generation ability, LLMs remain…
Risky-Bench: Evaluating Agentic Safety Risks in Real-World Life-Assist Deployments
Jingnan Zheng, Yanzhen Luo, Jingjun Xu +8
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as agents that operate in real-world environments, introducing safety risks beyond linguistic harm through tool use, external…
Self-Guard: Defending Large Reasoning Models via enhanced self-reflection
Jingnan Zheng, Jingjun Xu, Yanzhen Luo +6
The emergence of Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) introduces a new paradigm of explicit reasoning, enabling remarkable advances yet posing unique risks such as reasoning manipulation…
Understanding Multilingualism in Mixture-of-Experts LLMs: Routing Mechanism, Expert Specialization, and Layerwise Steering
Yuxin Chen, Zhengzhou Cai, Xiangtian Ji +4
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures have shown strong multilingual capabilities, yet the internal mechanisms underlying performance gains and cross-language differences remain i…
Reinforced Strategy Optimization for Conversational Recommender Systems via Network-of-Experts
Xiaoyan Zhao, Ming Yan, Yang Zhang +6
Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) aim to provide personalized recommendations through multi-turn natural language interactions with users. Given the strong interaction and…
Exploring and Exploiting the Inherent Efficiency within Large Reasoning Models for Self-Guided Efficiency Enhancement
Weixiang Zhao, Jiahe Guo, Yang Deng +7
Recent advancements in large reasoning models (LRMs) have significantly enhanced language models' capabilities in complex problem-solving by emulating human-like deliberative think…
The Emergence of Abstract Thought in Large Language Models Beyond Any Language
Yuxin Chen, Yiran Zhao, Yang Zhang +7
As large language models (LLMs) continue to advance, their capacity to function effectively across a diverse range of languages has shown marked improvement. Preliminary studies ob…
On Reasoning Strength Planning in Large Reasoning Models
Leheng Sheng, An Zhang, Zijian Wu +5
Recent studies empirically reveal that large reasoning models (LRMs) can automatically allocate more reasoning strengths (i.e., the number of reasoning tokens) for harder problems,…
RSafe: Incentivizing proactive reasoning to build robust and adaptive LLM safeguards
Jingnan Zheng, Xiangtian Ji, Yijun Lu +6
Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to exhibit vulnerabilities despite deliberate safety alignment efforts, posing significant risks to users and society. To safeguard against th…
AlphaSteer: Learning Refusal Steering with Principled Null-Space Constraint
Leheng Sheng, Changshuo Shen, Weixiang Zhao +6
As LLMs are increasingly deployed in real-world applications, ensuring their ability to refuse malicious prompts, especially jailbreak attacks, is essential for safe and reliable u…
MPO: Multilingual Safety Alignment via Reward Gap Optimization
Weixiang Zhao, Yulin Hu, Yang Deng +8
Large language models (LLMs) have become increasingly central to AI applications worldwide, necessitating robust multilingual safety alignment to ensure secure deployment across di…
When Less Language is More: Language-Reasoning Disentanglement Makes LLMs Better Multilingual Reasoners
Weixiang Zhao, Jiahe Guo, Yang Deng +9
Multilingual reasoning remains a significant challenge for large language models (LLMs), with performance disproportionately favoring high-resource languages. Drawing inspiration f…
Toward Generalizable Evaluation in the LLM Era: A Survey Beyond Benchmarks
Yixin Cao, Shibo Hong, Xinze Li +24
Large Language Models (LLMs) are advancing at an amazing speed and have become indispensable across academia, industry, and daily applications. To keep pace with the status quo, th…
An LMM for Efficient Video Understanding via Reinforced Compression of Video Cubes
Ji Qi, Yuan Yao, Yushi Bai +4
Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) uniformly perceive video frames, creating computational inefficiency for videos with inherently varying temporal information density. This paper pres…
SafeMLRM: Demystifying Safety in Multi-modal Large Reasoning Models
Junfeng Fang, Yukai Wang, Ruipeng Wang +5
The rapid advancement of multi-modal large reasoning models (MLRMs) -- enhanced versions of multimodal language models (MLLMs) equipped with reasoning capabilities -- has revolutio…