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math.CV2026

Markov maps and quasi-conformal deformations associated to geometrically finite Kleinian groups

Shengjin Huo, Wanting Shao

It is known that the dynamical properties of Kleinian groups with parabolic elements are much more complex than those without parabolic elements. In this paper, we mainly study the…

cs.LG2026

Discovered, Not Designed: Population Evolution for Collaborative and Compute-Intensive Model Discovery

Bo Peng, Lizhu Zhang, Yuhang Zhou +5

LLM-driven evolution enables iterative model development, but two practical goals remain underexplored: finding model designs that transfer across related tasks and sustaining impr…

cs.AI2026

MLToolBench: Learning Tool-Augmented Agents for Machine Learning Development

Xin Yu, Lizhu Zhang, Jiamu Bai +7

Machine learning engineering (MLE) agents have made substantial progress, but learning through ML experimentation remains costly in time and computation. Synthetic environments red…

cs.CL2026

CORAL: An LLM-Native Harness for Production Recommender Systems

Muhammad Rafay Azhar, Yuhang Zhou, Gilbert Jiang +7

Production recommender systems shape what billions of people see, and sustaining their performance requires continual optimization: as content, user behavior, and upstream models s…

cs.IR2026

ConnectionMind: Leveraging Social Networks and Large Language Models for Personalized Recommendation at Meta

Haoyu Han, Yuming Liu, Lei Huang +3

Modern recommendation systems on social media platforms such as Meta must model complex social relationships, including friendships, group memberships, and creator interactions, al…

cs.LG2026

EvoHarness-RL: Learning Runtime Harness Coordination for Self-Evolving Agents

Xuying Ning, Dongqi Fu, Tianxin Wei +17

Long-horizon LLM agents increasingly rely on external execution support to maintain state, track progress, recover from failures, and reuse experience across extended interactions.…

cs.CY2026

PersonaMem-v3: Toward Omni-Platform Personal Intelligence for Holistic User Understanding, Recommendation, and Agentic Tasks

Bowen Jiang, Yuan Yuan, Zhuoqun Hao +12

Personal intelligence is becoming a central frontier for user-facing AI agents. To be helpful in everyday life, agents must understand users across the digital contexts where their…

cs.AI2026

Remember When It Matters: Proactive Memory Agent for Long-Horizon Agents

Yifan Wu, Lizhu Zhang, Yuhang Zhou +5

In long-horizon tasks, decision-relevant state is often scattered across an expanding trajectory, while the action agent must surface it and act. As trajectories grow, task require…

cs.AI2026

SWE-Together: Evaluating Coding Agents in Interactive User Sessions

Yifan Wu, Zhuokai Zhao, Songlin Li +8

Most coding-agent benchmarks are static: an agent receives a complete task description up front and is judged only by its final code. Real coding assistance is interactive, with us…

cs.IR2026

Structuring and Tokenizing Distributed User Interest Context for Generative Recommendation

Ruizhong Qiu, Yinglong Xia, Dongqi Fu +6

Generative recommendation is an emerging paradigm that has shown promise in industrial recommendation systems, aiming to predict users' next interactions from their historical beha…

cs.CL2026

SAGE-OPD: Selective Agent-Guided Intervention for Multi-Turn On-Policy Distillation

Yuhang Zhou, Lizhu Zhang, Yifan Wu +5

On-policy distillation (OPD) improves student models by training them on trajectories induced by their own policy, making it a promising approach for mitigating exposure bias in ag…

cs.LG2026

OmniOPD: Logit-Free On-Policy Distillation via Speculative Verification

Yuhang Zhou, Lizhu Zhang, Yifan Wu +5

On-Policy Distillation (OPD) trains a student model on its own generative trajectories under dense token-level feedback from a stronger teacher, mitigating both the off-policy dist…

cs.AI2026

DAG-MoE: From Simple Mixture to Structural Aggregation in Mixture-of-Experts

Jiarui Feng, Hanqing Zeng, Karish Grover +11

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models have become a leading approach for decoupling parameter count from computational cost in large language models, yet effectively scaling MoE performa…

cs.AI2026

Spreadsheet-RL: Advancing Large Language Model Agents on Realistic Spreadsheet Tasks via Reinforcement Learning

Banghao Chi, Yining Xie, Mingyuan Wu +9

Spreadsheet systems (e.g., Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets) play a central role in modern data-centric workflows. As AI agents grow increasingly capable of automating complex tasks,…

cs.AI2026

TTE-Flash: Accelerating Reasoning-based Multimodal Representations via Think-Then-Embed Tokens

Jianpeng Cheng, Xian Wu, Jiangfan Zhang +16

Recent research has demonstrated that Universal Multimodal Embedding (UME) benefits significantly from Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. In this paradigm, a generative model produc…

cs.CL2026

Agentic Recommender System with Hierarchical Belief-State Memory

Xiang Shen, Yuhang Zhou, Yifan Wu +8

Memory-augmented LLM agents have advanced personalized recommendation, yet existing approaches universally adopt flat memory representations that conflate ephemeral signals with st…

cs.CL2026

Synthetic Sandbox for Training Machine Learning Engineering Agents

Yuhang Zhou, Lizhu Zhang, Yifan Wu +4

As large language model agents advance beyond software engineering (SWE) tasks toward machine learning engineering (MLE), verifying agent behavior becomes orders of magnitude more…

cs.AI2026

GISTBench: Evaluating LLM User Understanding via Evidence-Based Interest Verification

Iordanis Fostiropoulos, Muhammad Rafay Azhar, Abdalaziz Sawwan +8

We introduce GISTBench, a benchmark for evaluating Large Language Models' (LLMs) ability to understand users from their interaction histories in recommendation systems. Unlike trad…

cs.CL2026

LLM-Driven Reasoning for Constraint-Aware Feature Selection in Industrial Systems

Yuhang Zhou, Zhuokai Zhao, Ke Li +14

Feature selection is a crucial step in large-scale industrial machine learning systems, directly affecting model accuracy, efficiency, and maintainability. Traditional feature sele…

cs.CL2026

TARo: Token-level Adaptive Routing for LLM Test-time Alignment

Arushi Rai, Qiang Zhang, Hanqing Zeng +5

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong reasoning capabilities but typically require expensive post-training to reach high performance. Recent test-time alignment methods offer…

cs.LG2026

ReMix: Reinforcement routing for mixtures of LoRAs in LLM finetuning

Ruizhong Qiu, Hanqing Zeng, Yinglong Xia +15

Low-rank adapters (LoRAs) are a parameter-efficient finetuning technique that injects trainable low-rank matrices into pretrained models to adapt them to new tasks. Mixture-of-LoRA…

cs.LG2026

EBPO: Empirical Bayes Shrinkage for Stabilizing Group-Relative Policy Optimization

Kevin Han, Yuhang Zhou, Mingze Gao +6

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has proven effective for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, dominant approaches li…

cs.IR2026

Efficient Sequential Recommendation for Long Term User Interest Via Personalization

Qiang Zhang, Hanchao Yu, Ivan Ji +14

Recent years have witnessed success of sequential modeling, generative recommender, and large language model for recommendation. Though the scaling law has been validated for seque…

cs.LG2025

Exploring System 1 and 2 communication for latent reasoning in LLMs

Julian Coda-Forno, Zhuokai Zhao, Qiang Zhang +6

Should LLM reasoning live in a separate module, or within a single model's forward pass and representational space? We study dual-architecture latent reasoning, where a fluent Base…