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most citedBeyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models

565 citations · 691 across the 38 of their papers we have counts for

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42 papers

cs.SE2026

E2E-SWE: Benchmarking LLMs on Building Working Codebases from Scratch

Hantian Ding, Chloe Bi, Jiacheng Zhu +5

Coding agents powered by large language models (LLMs) are evolving from making localized code changes to developing complete software repositories. However, evaluating repository-s…

cs.RO2026

StellaVLA: In-Context Structured Demonstration for Generalizable Vision-Language-Action Models

Siyu Xu, Yunke Wang, Zijian Wang +6

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models can follow instructions and manipulate objects, but their performance often collapses out of distribution (OOD), when the scene, viewpoint, or o…

cs.AI2026

Making AI Scientists Auditable from Evidence to Claim

Zijian Wang, Hanqi Li, Ziyue Yang +17

AI research systems can report improved results without establishing that the tested implementation matches the method described in their conclusions. We introduce Xcientist, a res…

cs.HC2026

Humans are Missing from AI Coding Agent Research

Zora Z. Wang, John Yang, Kilian Lieret +10

Recent progress in AI coding agent research has led to rapid improvements in agents' ability to autonomously perform complex software engineering tasks, from editing large codebase…

cs.PL2026

XFlow: An Executable Protocol Programming System for Reliable Multi-Agent Workflows

Hanqi Li, Jing Peng, Zijian Wang +2

LLM-based multi-agent systems increasingly coordinate planning, reasoning, tool use, and human interaction, yet their reliability remains limited. A central source of this limitati…

cs.IR2026

Subtraction Gets You More: Gap-Aware Retrieval for Multimodal Multi-Hop QA

Sunah O, Jay-Yoon Lee

In multimodal multi-hop question answering, we focus on the initial retrieval stage via two distinct tasks: (1) evidence set completion, retrieving missing evidence given context,…

cs.AI2026

DeepSurvey: Agent-Oriented Automated Survey Generation with Analytical Depth and Citation Reliability

Ziyue Yang, Da Ma, Hanqi Li +8

As scientific literature grows rapidly and research increasingly involves AI agents, automated survey generation has become a key capability for both agents and human researchers.…

cs.CV2026

EvoDriveVLA: Evolving Driving VLA Models via Collaborative Perception-Planning Distillation

Jiajun Cao, Xiaoan Zhang, Xiaobao Wei +10

Vision-Language-Action models have shown great promise for autonomous driving, yet they suffer from degraded perception after unfreezing the visual encoder and struggle with accumu…

cs.SE2026

SWE-Protégé: Learning to Selectively Collaborate With an Expert Unlocks Small Language Models as Software Engineering Agents

Patrick Tser Jern Kon, Archana Pradeep, Ang Chen +5

Small language models (SLMs) offer compelling advantages in cost, latency, and adaptability, but have so far lagged behind larger models on long-horizon software engineering tasks…

cs.LG2026

Reuse your FLOPs: Scaling RL on Hard Problems by Conditioning on Very Off-Policy Prefixes

Amrith Setlur, Zijian Wang, Andrew Cohen +2

Typical reinforcement learning (RL) methods for LLM reasoning waste compute on hard problems, where correct on-policy traces are rare, policy gradients vanish, and learning stalls.…

cs.LG2026

PaperGuide: Making Small Language-Model Paper-Reading Agents More Efficient

Zijian Wang, Tiancheng Huang, Hanqi Li +3

The accelerating growth of the scientific literature makes it increasingly difficult for researchers to track new advances through manual reading alone. Recent progress in large la…

cs.AI2026

ThinkDrive: Chain-of-Thought Guided Progressive Reinforcement Learning Fine-Tuning for Autonomous Driving

Chang Zhao, Zheming Yang, Yunqing Hu +4

With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) technologies, their application in the domain of autonomous driving has become increasingly widespread. However, existing…

cs.RO2025

Affordance Field Intervention: Enabling VLAs to Escape Memory Traps in Robotic Manipulation

Siyu Xu, Zijian Wang, Yunke Wang +3

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown great performance in robotic manipulation by mapping visual observations and language instructions directly to actions. However, they…

cs.CL2025

Eliciting Chain-of-Thought in Base LLMs via Gradient-Based Representation Optimization

Zijian Wang, Yanxiang Ma, Chang Xu

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning is a critical capability for large language models (LLMs), enabling them to tackle com- plex multi-step tasks. While base LLMs, pre-trained on gene…

cs.LG2025

Empowering Multi-Turn Tool-Integrated Agentic Reasoning with Group Turn Policy Optimization

Yifeng Ding, Hung Le, Songyang Han +5

Training Large Language Models (LLMs) for multi-turn Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR) - where models iteratively reason, generate code, and verify through execution - remains challe…

cs.LG2025

Controllable Flow Matching for Online Reinforcement Learning

Bin Wang, Boxiang Tao, Haifeng Jing +2

Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) typically relies on modeling environment dynamics for data efficiency. However, due to the accumulation of model errors over long-horizon…

cs.CL2025

Balancing Knowledge Updates: Toward Unified Modular Editing in LLMs

Jiahao Liu, Zijian Wang, Kuo Zhao +1

Knowledge editing has emerged as an efficient approach for updating factual knowledge in large language models (LLMs). It typically locates knowledge storage modules and then modif…

cs.CL2025

ThoughtProbe: Classifier-Guided LLM Thought Space Exploration via Probing Representations

Zijian Wang, Chang Xu

This paper introduces ThoughtProbe, a novel inference time framework that leverages the hidden reasoning features of Large Language Models (LLMs) to improve their reasoning perform…

cs.CL2025

CFVBench: A Comprehensive Video Benchmark for Fine-grained Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Kaiwen Wei, Xiao Liu, Jie Zhang +11

Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (MRAG) enables Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to generate responses with external multimodal evidence, and numerous video-based…

cs.SE2025

BigCodeArena: Unveiling More Reliable Human Preferences in Code Generation via Execution

Terry Yue Zhuo, Xiaolong Jin, Hange Liu +37

Crowdsourced model evaluation platforms, such as Chatbot Arena, enable real-time evaluation from human perspectives to assess the quality of model responses. In the coding domain,…

cs.CR2025

Breaking the Code: Security Assessment of AI Code Agents Through Systematic Jailbreaking Attacks

Shoumik Saha, Jifan Chen, Sam Mayers +3

Code-capable large language model (LLM) agents are embedded in software engineering workflows where they can read, write, and execute code, raising "jailbreak" stakes beyond text-o…

cs.SE2025

Training Language Model Agents to Find Vulnerabilities with CTF-Dojo

Terry Yue Zhuo, Dingmin Wang, Hantian Ding +2

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional capabilities when trained within executable runtime environments, notably excelling at software engineering tasks through…

cs.CL2025

AirQA: A Comprehensive QA Dataset for AI Research with Instance-Level Evaluation

Tiancheng Huang, Ruisheng Cao, Yuxin Zhang +8

The growing volume of academic papers has made it increasingly difficult for researchers to efficiently extract key information. While large language models (LLMs) based agents are…

cs.CR2025

Cyber-Zero: Training Cybersecurity Agents without Runtime

Terry Yue Zhuo, Dingmin Wang, Hantian Ding +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in software engineering tasks when trained with executable runtime environments, particularly in resolving GitHub issu…