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most citedTug-of-War Between Knowledge: Exploring and Resolving Knowledge Conflicts in Retrieval-Augmented Language Models

3 citations · 9 across the 34 of their papers we have counts for

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36 papers

cs.LG2026

Environments as Scaffold: Enriching Feedback to Bootstrap Self-Evolving Agents in Long-Horizon Tasks

Hongbang Yuan, Zhuoran Jin, Yixin Cao

Large Language Models demonstrate remarkable proficiency in static reasoning, yet training them as autonomous agents through Reinforcement Learning (RL) for long-horizon tasks is o…

cs.CL2026

SwarmBench: Can Large Language Models Act as Agent Swarm Orchestrators?

Jinshan Gao, Zhuoran Jin, Tianyi Men +2

Large language model-based multi-agent systems are evolving from fixed interaction topologies toward dynamically orchestrated Agent Swarms. However, existing benchmarks are still l…

cs.CL2026

SFT Conflicts, RL Coexists: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Multi-Task Learning for LLMs

Kejian Zhu, Zhuoran Jin, Shangqing Tu +5

Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) exhibit fundamentally different behaviors in enhancing multi-task reasoning for large language models (LLMs). Our preli…

cs.CV2026

Beyond Simply Environment Scaling: Designing Effective Environment Distributions for Multimodal Agent Learning

Kejian Zhu, Zhuoran Jin, Dongqi Huang +4

Recent works train agents by constructing large-scale multimodal environment pools. However, we find that simply increasing the number of multimodal environments does not always be…

cs.CL2026

The Physics of Multi-Turn Long-Horizon Planning: From Pre-training to Post-training via Single- and Multi-Teacher On-Policy Agentic Distillation

Tianyi Men, Zhuoran Jin, Kang Liu +1

Multi-turn long-horizon planning is critical for foundation model agents, yet how to fundamentally improve it remains unclear. Existing models are trained on uncontrollable and opa…

cs.CL2026

Empowering GUI Agents via Autonomous Experience Exploration and Hindsight Experience Utilization for Task Planning

Tianyi Men, Zhuoran Jin, Pengfei Cao +3

Multimodal web agents can assist humans in operating repetitive GUI tasks, where effective task planning is essential for decomposing complex tasks into executable actions. While s…

cs.CL2026

Why Multi-Step Tool-Use Reinforcement Learning Collapses and How Supervisory Signals Fix It

Yupu Hao, Zhuoran Jin, Huanxuan Liao +2

Tool use enables large language models (LLMs) to perform complex tasks, and recent agentic reinforcement learning (RL) methods show promise for enhancing model capabilities. Howeve…

cs.CL2026

Look Light, Think Heavy: What Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Can and Cannot Do

Zhuoran Jin, Kejian Zhu, Hongbang Yuan +5

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) has become a standard method for improving reasoning capabilities in large language models (LLMs) by eliciting step-by-step thinking, but its effectiveness i…

cs.CL2026

Replay What Matters: Off-Policy Replay for Efficient LLM Reinforcement Unlearning

Zirui Pang, Chenlong Zhang, Haosheng Tan +3

LLM unlearning has emerged as a cost-effective alternative to full retraining for removing hazardous knowledge from pretrained models while preserving general utility. Recent RL-ba…

cs.CL2026

Agentic Environment Engineering for Large Language Models: A Survey of Environment Modeling, Synthesis, Evaluation, and Application

Jiachun Li, Zhuoran Jin, Tianyi Men +12

Environments serve as interactive systems for large language model (LLM) based agents across diverse scenarios and play a crucial role in driving the continual evolution of model c…

cs.CL2026

Pushing the Limits of LLM Tool Calling via Experiential Knowledge Integration and Activation

Yupu Hao, Zhuoran Jin, Huanxuan Liao +2

Large language models (LLMs) rely on tool use to act as autonomous agents, yet often fail in multi-step execution due to insufficient tool-related knowledge and ineffective knowled…

cs.CV2026

Think While Watching: Online Streaming Segment-Level Memory for Multi-Turn Video Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models

Lu Wang, Zhuoran Jin, Yupu Hao +4

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong performance on offline video understanding, but most are limited to offline inference or have weak online reasoning, maki…

cs.CL2026

MMR-Life: Piecing Together Real-life Scenes for Multimodal Multi-image Reasoning

Jiachun Li, Shaoping Huang, Zhuoran Jin +5

Recent progress in the reasoning capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has empowered them to address more complex tasks such as scientific analysis and mathemati…

cs.CL2025

Omni-Reward: Towards Generalist Omni-Modal Reward Modeling with Free-Form Preferences

Zhuoran Jin, Hongbang Yuan, Kejian Zhu +5

Reward models (RMs) play a critical role in aligning AI behaviors with human preferences, yet they face two fundamental challenges: (1) Modality Imbalance, where most RMs are mainl…

cs.CL2025

Agent-RewardBench: Towards a Unified Benchmark for Reward Modeling across Perception, Planning, and Safety in Real-World Multimodal Agents

Tianyi Men, Zhuoran Jin, Pengfei Cao +3

As Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) advance, multimodal agents show promise in real-world tasks like web navigation and embodied intelligence. However, due to limitations i…

cs.CL2025

RULE: Reinforcement UnLEarning Achieves Forget-Retain Pareto Optimality

Chenlong Zhang, Zhuoran Jin, Hongbang Yuan +5

The widespread deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) trained on massive, uncurated corpora has raised growing concerns about the inclusion of sensitive, copyrighted, or illega…

cs.CL2025

Establishing Trustworthy LLM Evaluation via Shortcut Neuron Analysis

Kejian Zhu, Shangqing Tu, Zhuoran Jin +3

The development of large language models (LLMs) depends on trustworthy evaluation. However, most current evaluations rely on public benchmarks, which are prone to data contaminatio…

cs.CV2025

MMR-V: What's Left Unsaid? A Benchmark for Multimodal Deep Reasoning in Videos

Kejian Zhu, Zhuoran Jin, Hongbang Yuan +6

The sequential structure of videos poses a challenge to the ability of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to locate multi-frame evidence and conduct multimodal reasoning. How…

cs.CL2025

FinRAGBench-V: A Benchmark for Multimodal RAG with Visual Citation in the Financial Domain

Suifeng Zhao, Zhuoran Jin, Sujian Li +1

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) plays a vital role in the financial domain, powering applications such as real-time market analysis, trend forecasting, and interest rate compu…

cs.CL2025

Evaluating Personalized Tool-Augmented LLMs from the Perspectives of Personalization and Proactivity

Yupu Hao, Pengfei Cao, Zhuoran Jin +4

Personalized tool utilization is essential for aligning large language models (LLMs) with user preference in interaction scenarios with various tools. However, most of the current…

cs.CL2024

RAG-RewardBench: Benchmarking Reward Models in Retrieval Augmented Generation for Preference Alignment

Zhuoran Jin, Hongbang Yuan, Tianyi Men +4

Despite the significant progress made by existing retrieval augmented language models (RALMs) in providing trustworthy responses and grounding in reliable sources, they often overl…

cs.CL2024

One Mind, Many Tongues: A Deep Dive into Language-Agnostic Knowledge Neurons in Large Language Models

Pengfei Cao, Yuheng Chen, Zhuoran Jin +3

Large language models (LLMs) have learned vast amounts of factual knowledge through self-supervised pre-training on large-scale corpora. Meanwhile, LLMs have also demonstrated exce…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

DTELS: Towards Dynamic Granularity of Timeline Summarization

Chenlong Zhang, Tong Zhou, Pengfei Cao +4

The rapid proliferation of online news has posed significant challenges in tracking the continuous development of news topics. Traditional timeline summarization constructs a chron…

cs.CL2024

LINKED: Eliciting, Filtering and Integrating Knowledge in Large Language Model for Commonsense Reasoning

Jiachun Li, Pengfei Cao, Chenhao Wang +6

Large language models (LLMs) sometimes demonstrate poor performance on knowledge-intensive tasks, commonsense reasoning is one of them. Researchers typically address these issues b…