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most citedTool Learning with Large Language Models: A Survey

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cs.AI2026

DocOps: A Verifiable Benchmark for Autonomous Agents in Complex Document Operations

Jiazhen Jiang, Boxi Cao, Lingyong Yan +6

As autonomous agents rapidly evolve, their ability to reliably manipulate ubiquitous digital documents has become critical for enabling general-purpose AI assistants and automating…

cs.CV2026

How to Utilize Complementary Vision-Text Information for 2D Structure Understanding

Jiancheng Dong, Pengyue Jia, Derong Xu +9

LLMs typically linearize 2D tables into 1D sequences to fit their autoregressive architecture, which weakens row-column adjacency and other layout cues. In contrast, purely visual…

cs.AI2026

AdaFuse: Accelerating Dynamic Adapter Inference via Token-Level Pre-Gating and Fused Kernel Optimization

Qiyang Li, Rui Kong, Yuchen Li +5

The integration of dynamic, sparse structures like Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) with parameter-efficient adapters (e.g., LoRA) is a powerful technique for enhancing Large Language Mode…

cs.AI2026

Not All Preferences Deserve Gradients: Understanding Gradient Utility in Offline Reasoning Alignment

Hui Wu, Hengyi Cai, Jinman Zhao +6

Offline preference optimization aligns reasoning models from fixed chosen--rejected pairs, yet standard methods apply gradient updates from every pair regardless of its training va…

cs.CL2026

MatchTIR: Fine-Grained Supervision for Tool-Integrated Reasoning via Bipartite Matching

Changle Qu, Sunhao Dai, Hengyi Cai +3

Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR) empowers large language models (LLMs) to tackle complex tasks by interleaving reasoning steps with external tool interactions. However, existing rei…

cs.AI2026

Adversarial Yet Cooperative: Multi-Perspective Reasoning in Retrieved-Augmented Language Models

Can Xu, Lingyong Yan, Jiayi Wu +6

Recent advances in synergizing large reasoning models (LRMs) with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) have shown promising results, yet two critical challenges remain: (1) reasoni…

cs.AI2026

Beyond Monolithic Architectures: A Multi-Agent Search and Knowledge Optimization Framework for Agentic Search

Yiqun Chen, Lingyong Yan, Zixuan Yang +5

Agentic search has emerged as a promising paradigm for complex information seeking by enabling Large Language Models (LLMs) to interleave reasoning with tool use. However, prevaili…

cs.DC2026

FlexSpec: Frozen Drafts Meet Evolving Targets in Edge-Cloud Collaborative LLM Speculative Decoding

Yuchen Li, Rui Kong, Zhonghao Lyu +11

Deploying large language models (LLMs) in mobile and edge computing environments is constrained by limited on-device resources, scarce wireless bandwidth, and frequent model evolut…

cs.AI2026

Reinforced Efficient Reasoning via Semantically Diverse Exploration

Ziqi Zhao, Zhaochun Ren, Jiahong Zou +9

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has proven effective in enhancing the reasoning of large language models (LLMs). Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS)-based extensio…

cs.CL2025

Learning a Single Token to Replace Long System Prompts in LLMs

Jiancheng Dong, Pengyue Jia, Jingyu Peng +7

Long system prompts are widely used to steer Large Language Models (LLMs), but repeatedly processing them at inference time is inefficient and consumes valuable context budget. Thi…

cs.AI2025

Efficient Thought Space Exploration Through Strategic Intervention

Ziheng Li, Hengyi Cai, Xiaochi Wei +4

While large language models (LLMs) demonstrate emerging reasoning capabilities, current inference-time expansion methods incur prohibitive computational costs by exhaustive samplin…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Grounding Long-Context Reasoning with Contextual Normalization for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Jiamin Chen, Yuchen Li, Xinyu Ma +5

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become an essential approach for extending the reasoning and knowledge capacity of large language models (LLMs). While prior research has p…

cs.CL2025

AdaSwitch: Balancing Exploration and Guidance in Knowledge Distillation via Adaptive Switching

Jingyu Peng, Maolin Wang, Hengyi Cai +5

Small language models (SLMs) are crucial for applications with strict latency and computational constraints, yet achieving high performance remains challenging. Knowledge distillat…

cs.LG2025

Solving the Granularity Mismatch: Hierarchical Preference Learning for Long-Horizon LLM Agents

Heyang Gao, Zexu Sun, Erxue Min +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) as autonomous agents are increasingly tasked with solving complex, long-horizon problems. Aligning these agents via preference-based offline methods li…

cs.LG2025

CurES: From Gradient Analysis to Efficient Curriculum Learning for Reasoning LLMs

Yongcheng Zeng, Zexu Sun, Bokai Ji +7

Curriculum learning plays a crucial role in enhancing the training efficiency of large language models (LLMs) on reasoning tasks. However, existing methods often fail to adequately…

cs.LG2025

Staying in the Sweet Spot: Responsive Reasoning Evolution via Capability-Adaptive Hint Scaffolding

Ziheng Li, Zexu Sun, Jinman Zhao +8

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has achieved remarkable success in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). However, existing RLV…

cs.CL2025

A Question Answering Dataset for Temporal-Sensitive Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Ziyang Chen, Erxue Min, Xiang Zhao +7

We introduce ChronoQA, a large-scale benchmark dataset for Chinese question answering, specifically designed to evaluate temporal reasoning in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)…

cs.CL2025

MAO-ARAG: Multi-Agent Orchestration for Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Yiqun Chen, Erhan Zhang, Lingyong Yan +4

In question-answering (QA) systems, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become pivotal in enhancing response accuracy and reducing hallucination issues. The architecture of RA…

cs.IR2025

CTR-Guided Generative Query Suggestion in Conversational Search

Erxue Min, Hsiu-Yuan Huang, Xihong Yang +7

Generating effective query suggestions in conversational search requires aligning model outputs with user preferences, which is challenging due to sparse and noisy click signals. W…

cs.IR2025

Leveraging LLMs to Evaluate Usefulness of Document

Xingzhu Wang, Erhan Zhang, Yiqun Chen +7

The conventional Cranfield paradigm struggles to effectively capture user satisfaction due to its weak correlation between relevance and satisfaction, alongside the high costs of r…

cs.CL2025

GRAF: Multi-turn Jailbreaking via Global Refinement and Active Fabrication

Hua Tang, Lingyong Yan, Yukun Zhao +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across diverse tasks. Nevertheless, they still pose notable safety risks due to potential misuse for malicious…

cs.CV2025

Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models via Entity-Centric Multimodal Preference Optimization

Jiulong Wu, Zhengliang Shi, Shuaiqiang Wang +5

Large Visual Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across multiple tasks. However, their trustworthiness is often challenged by hallucinations, which ca…

cs.CL2025

Proactive Guidance of Multi-Turn Conversation in Industrial Search

Xiaoyu Li, Xiao Li, Li Gao +5

The evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly advanced multi-turn conversation systems, emphasizing the need for proactive guidance to enhance users' interactions…

cs.CL2025

Joint Flashback Adaptation for Forgetting-Resistant Instruction Tuning

Yukun Zhao, Lingyong Yan, Zhenyang Li +4

Large language models have achieved remarkable success in various tasks. However, it is challenging for them to learn new tasks incrementally due to catastrophic forgetting. Existi…