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most citedTool Learning in the Wild: Empowering Language Models as Automatic Tool Agents

6 citations · 9 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.MA2026

When Extremists Enter LLM Societies: Investigating Extreme Behavior in Multi-Agent Systems

Guo Chen, Huaijin Xie, Ziwen Li +5

Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly serve as computational actors in multi-agent social simulations. While existing work emphasizes representative personas and average-c…

cs.CL2026

AdaTutoRank: Learning to Rerank Document Sets via Adaptive Tutoring Optimization for RAG and Deep Research

Kailin Jiang, Lei Liu, Jian Xi +6

Document rerankers determine what evidence reaches the downstream model in RAG and deep research, yet mainstream rerankers select by relevance matching, and individually relevant d…

cs.CL2026

Search-G1: Co-Evolving Representation-Based Rewards for Selective Grounded Search

Ruoxi Cheng, Haoxuan Ma, Hongyi Zhang +7

Search-augmented language agents should retrieve external information only when necessary and ground their answers in retrieved evidence. Yet terminal correctness assigns equal cre…

cs.AI2026

ForestBench: A Unified Graph Framework for Evaluating Multi-Agent Collaboration

Guo Chen, Ziwen Li, Reed Li +4

Multi-agent systems (MAS) built on Large Language Models (LLMs) are proliferating rapidly, but their heterogeneous execution traces provide no common basis for evaluation across me…

cs.IR2026

Training Documents Reranker with Search Rubrics for Deep Research Agent

Wenhan Liu, Yu Lu, Qiaolin Xia +8

Retrieval systems help deep research agents generate high-quality answers by providing relevant documents. However, existing retrievers typically select documents through relevance…

cs.AI2026

OPOD: On-Policy Omni Distillation

Tong Zhao, Yuyang Hu, Yutao Zhu +5

Omni-modal models provide a unified interface for text, images, and audio. However, improving these abilities together remains difficult, as post-training on pooled multimodal data…

cs.CL2026

Beyond Relevance-Centric Retrieval: Rubric-Oriented Document Set Selection and Ranking

Kailin Jiang, Lei Liu, Jian Xi +7

As large language models and AI agents become the primary consumers of search results, document set quality determines the upper bound of downstream generation. Yet existing evalua…

cs.CL2026

Reason Only When Needed: Efficient Generative Reward Modeling via Model-Internal Uncertainty

Chao Xue, Yao Wang, Mengqiao Liu +11

Recent advancements in the Generative Reward Model (GRM) have demonstrated its potential to enhance the reasoning abilities of LLMs through Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting. Despit…

cs.CL2026

Why Supervised Fine-Tuning Fails to Learn: A Systematic Study of Incomplete Learning in Large Language Models

Chao Xue, Yao Wang, Mengqiao Liu +11

Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) is the standard approach for adapting large language models (LLMs) to downstream tasks. However, we observe a persistent failure mode: even after conve…

cs.LG2026

Parameter Importance is Not Static: Evolving Parameter Isolation for Supervised Fine-Tuning

Zekai Lin, Chao Xue, Di Liang +8

Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) of large language models often suffers from task interference and catastrophic forgetting. Recent approaches alleviate this issue by isolating task-cri…

cs.CL2025

FinEval-KR: A Financial Domain Evaluation Framework for Large Language Models' Knowledge and Reasoning

Shaoyu Dou, Yutian Shen, Mofan Chen +9

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate significant potential but face challenges in complex financial reasoning tasks requiring both domain knowledge and sophisticated reasoning.…

cs.CL2024

ATM: Adversarial Tuning Multi-agent System Makes a Robust Retrieval-Augmented Generator

Junda Zhu, Lingyong Yan, Haibo Shi +2

Large language models (LLMs) are proven to benefit a lot from retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in alleviating hallucinations confronted with knowledge-intensive questions. RAG…

cs.CL2024★ 6 cited

Tool Learning in the Wild: Empowering Language Models as Automatic Tool Agents

Zhengliang Shi, Shen Gao, Lingyong Yan +6

Augmenting large language models (LLMs) with external tools has emerged as a promising approach to extend their utility, enabling them to solve practical tasks. Previous methods ma…

cs.CL2024

GOVERN: Gradient Orientation Vote Ensemble for Multi-Teacher Reinforced Distillation

Wenjie Zhou, Zhenxin Ding, Xiaodong Zhang +3

Pre-trained language models have become an integral component of question-answering systems, achieving remarkable performance. However, for practical deployment, it is crucial to p…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

The Real, the Better: Aligning Large Language Models with Online Human Behaviors

Guanying Jiang, Lingyong Yan, Haibo Shi +1

Large language model alignment is widely used and studied to avoid LLM producing unhelpful and harmful responses. However, the lengthy training process and predefined preference bi…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Learning to Use Tools via Cooperative and Interactive Agents

Zhengliang Shi, Shen Gao, Xiuyi Chen +7

Tool learning empowers large language models (LLMs) as agents to use external tools and extend their utility. Existing methods employ one single LLM-based agent to iteratively sele…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

KnowTuning: Knowledge-aware Fine-tuning for Large Language Models

Yougang Lyu, Lingyong Yan, Shuaiqiang Wang +6

Despite their success at many natural language processing (NLP) tasks, large language models still struggle to effectively leverage knowledge for knowledge-intensive tasks, manifes…