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6 papers

cs.IR2026

BOUND: Brief-Guided Corrective Preference Distillation at Search-Control Boundaries

Qingying Niu, Ruiyang Ren, Wayne Xin Zhao +1

Large language model (LLM)-based deep search agents solve tasks through iterative retrieval and reasoning, but locally relevant evidence can cause persistent wrong-anchor drift, co…

physics.soc-ph2025

Leveraging LLM-based agents for social science research: insights from citation network simulations

Jiarui Ji, Runlin Lei, Xuchen Pan +8

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrates their potential to encapsulate the logic and patterns inherent in human behavior simulation by leveraging extensive web d…

cs.CV2025

PAL-UI: Planning with Active Look-back for Vision-Based GUI Agents

Zikang Liu, Junyi Li, Wayne Xin Zhao +3

Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents powered by Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) promise human-like interaction with software applications, yet long-horizon tasks remain c…

cs.MA2025

GenSim: A General Social Simulation Platform with Large Language Model based Agents

Jiakai Tang, Heyang Gao, Xuchen Pan +11

With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), recent years have witnessed many promising studies on leveraging LLM-based agents to simulate human social behavior. Whi…

cs.CL2025

Do we Really Need Visual Instructions? Towards Visual Instruction-Free Fine-tuning for Large Vision-Language Models

Zikang Liu, Kun Zhou, Wayne Xin Zhao +3

Visual instruction tuning has become the predominant technology in eliciting the multimodal task-solving capabilities of large vision-language models (LVLMs). Despite the success,…

cs.CL2025

Unleashing the Potential of Large Language Models as Prompt Optimizers: Analogical Analysis with Gradient-based Model Optimizers

Xinyu Tang, Xiaolei Wang, Wayne Xin Zhao +3

Automatic prompt optimization is an important approach to improving the performance of large language models (LLMs). Recent research demonstrates the potential of using LLMs as pro…