11 papers
When LLM Rationales Become User-Facing: Effects on Trust Perception, Decision-Making, and Gaze Behaviors
Xin Sun, Ting Pan, Yajing Wang +5
Large language models (LLMs) increasingly show step-by-step reasoning rationales alongside their answers, turning reasoning from an internal model capability into a user-facing int…
ScholarQuest: A Taxonomy-Guided Benchmark for Agentic Academic Paper Search in Open Literature Environments
Tingyue Pan, Mingyue Cheng, Daoyu Wang +4
Academic paper search is a core step in scientific research, and LLM-based search agents are emerging as a promising paradigm for iterative, intent-driven literature exploration. H…
From Values to Tokens: An LLM-Driven Framework for Context-aware Time Series Forecasting via Symbolic Discretization
Xiaoyu Tao, Shilong Zhang, Mingyue Cheng +5
Time series forecasting plays a vital role in supporting decision-making across a wide range of critical applications, including energy, healthcare, and finance. Despite recent adv…
SocraticPO: Policy Optimization via Interactive Guidance
Zirui Liu, Jie Ouyang, Qi Liu +8
Reinforcement learning (RL) for large language models usually supervises reasoning with scalar outcome rewards, such as binary correctness. Such rewards provide an optimization dir…
Time Series Forecasting as Reasoning: A Slow-Thinking Approach with Reinforced LLMs
Yitong Zhou, Yucong Luo, Mingyue Cheng +4
To advance time series forecasting (TSF), various methods have been proposed to improve prediction accuracy, evolving from statistical techniques to data-driven deep learning archi…
PaperScout: An Autonomous Agent for Academic Paper Search with Process-Aware Sequence-Level Policy Optimization
Tingyue Pan, Jie Ouyang, Mingyue Cheng +6
Academic paper search is a fundamental task in scientific research, yet most existing approaches rely on rigid, predefined workflows that struggle with complex, conditional queries…