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cs.CL2026

Hybrid Reasoning Agents

Jiaru Zou, Yunzhe Qi, Sirui Chen +5

How can we build an agent that thinks beyond human language, yet still acts through it in the external environment? Modern LLM agents still reason and interact through text, while…

cs.CL2026

Metacognition as Reward: Reinforcing LLM Reasoning via Knowledge and Regulation Signals

Sirui Chen, Lei Xu, Yuying Zhao +6

Recent RL methods have substantially improved the reasoning abilities of LLMs. Existing reward designs mainly follow two paradigms: (1) Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewar…

cs.CL2026

Code as Agent Harness

Xuying Ning, Katherine Tieu, Dongqi Fu +39

Recent large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in understanding and generating code, from competitive programming to repository-level software engineerin…

cs.CL2026

EvoSelect: Data-Efficient LLM Evolution for Targeted Task Adaptation

Ting-Wei Li, Sirui Chen, Jiaru Zou +4

Adapting large language models (LLMs) to a targeted task efficiently and effectively remains a fundamental challenge. Such adaptation often requires iteratively improving the model…

cs.CL2026

Can Post-Training Transform LLMs into Causal Reasoners?

Junqi Chen, Sirui Chen, Chaochao Lu

Causal inference is essential for decision-making but remains challenging for non-experts. While large language models (LLMs) show promise in this domain, their precise causal esti…

cs.CL2026

CauScientist: Teaching LLMs to Respect Data for Causal Discovery

Bo Peng, Sirui Chen, Lei Xu +1

Causal discovery is fundamental to scientific understanding and reliable decision-making. Existing approaches face critical limitations: purely data-driven methods suffer from stat…

cs.CL2025

AutoTool: Dynamic Tool Selection and Integration for Agentic Reasoning

Jiaru Zou, Ling Yang, Yunzhe Qi +5

Agentic reinforcement learning has advanced large language models (LLMs) to reason through long chain-of-thought trajectories while interleaving external tool use. Existing approac…

cs.CL2025

DEPO: Dual-Efficiency Preference Optimization for LLM Agents

Sirui Chen, Mengshi Zhao, Lei Xu +5

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have greatly improved their reasoning and decision-making abilities when deployed as agents. Richer reasoning, however, often comes…

cs.CL2025

Synthesis by Design: Controlled Data Generation via Structural Guidance

Lei Xu, Sirui Chen, Yuxuan Huang +1

Mathematical reasoning remains challenging for LLMs due to complex logic and the need for precise computation. Existing methods enhance LLM reasoning by synthesizing datasets throu…

cs.CL2025

Exploring Consciousness in LLMs: A Systematic Survey of Theories, Implementations, and Frontier Risks

Sirui Chen, Shuqin Ma, Shu Yu +3

Consciousness stands as one of the most profound and distinguishing features of the human mind, fundamentally shaping our understanding of existence and agency. As large language m…

cs.CL2024

Beyond Surface Structure: A Causal Assessment of LLMs' Comprehension Ability

Yujin Han, Lei Xu, Sirui Chen +2

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capability in natural language tasks, yet debate persists on whether they truly comprehend deep structure (i.e., core semantics)…

cs.CL2024

From Imitation to Introspection: Probing Self-Consciousness in Language Models

Sirui Chen, Shu Yu, Shengjie Zhao +1

Self-consciousness, the introspection of one's existence and thoughts, represents a high-level cognitive process. As language models advance at an unprecedented pace, a critical qu…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

CLEAR: Can Language Models Really Understand Causal Graphs?

Sirui Chen, Mengying Xu, Kun Wang +4

Causal reasoning is a cornerstone of how humans interpret the world. To model and reason about causality, causal graphs offer a concise yet effective solution. Given the impressive…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Causal Evaluation of Language Models

Sirui Chen, Bo Peng, Meiqi Chen +7

Causal reasoning is viewed as crucial for achieving human-level machine intelligence. Recent advances in language models have expanded the horizons of artificial intelligence acros…