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Scaled Companion Linearizations for Coefficientwise Backward Stability
Javier Pérez
A central goal in solving a polynomial eigenvalue problem is to compute eigenpairs that are exact for a nearby polynomial, with each coefficient perturbation bounded by a modest mu…
EvoHarnessBench: Can Your Agents Keep Pace with an Evolving Harness?
Zixuan Ke, Vaidehi Patil, Haizhou Shi +9
Modern LLM-based agents operate through a harness of tools, reusable skills, and specialist agents that shapes what they observe and what they can do. In practice, this harness con…
Procedural Memory Distillation: Online Reflection for Self-Improving Language Models
Ye Liu, Srijan Bansal, Bo Pang +6
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), along with recent selfdistillation variants such as SDPO, evaluates each rollout against a verifier and updates the policy fr…
The Illusion of Multi-Agent Advantage
Prathyusha Jwalapuram, Hehai Lin, Chuyuan Li +7
Prevailing wisdom posits that Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) are superior to Single-Agent Systems (SAS), citing advantages like context protection, parallel processing and distributed d…
Reward Modeling for Multi-Agent Orchestration
King Yeung Tsang, Zihao Zhao, Vishal Venkataramani +5
Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) built on Large Language Models (LLMs) require effective orchestration to coordinate specialized agents, yet training such orchestrators is hindered by lim…
SkillOrchestra: Learning to Route Agents via Skill Transfer
Jiayu Wang, Yifei Ming, Zixuan Ke +3
Compound AI systems promise capabilities beyond those of individual models, yet their success depends critically on effective orchestration. Existing routing approaches face two li…
A Survey of Agent Memory in the Second Half: Towards Self-Evolving and Long-Horizon Agents
Wei-Chieh Huang, Weizhi Zhang, Yueqing Liang +56
Research in artificial intelligence is shifting from model innovations and benchmark scores towards problem definition and rigorous real-world evaluation. As the field enters the "…
MAS-ProVe: Understanding the Process Verification of Multi-Agent Systems
Vishal Venkataramani, Haizhou Shi, Zixuan Ke +6
Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) built on Large Language Models (LLMs) often exhibit high variance in their reasoning trajectories. Process verification, which evaluates intermediate step…
MAS-Orchestra: Understanding and Improving Multi-Agent Reasoning Through Holistic Orchestration and Controlled Benchmarks
Zixuan Ke, Yifei Ming, Austin Xu +7
While multi-agent systems (MAS) promise elevated intelligence through coordination of agents, current approaches to automatic MAS design under-deliver. Such shortcomings stem from…
LiveResearchBench: A Live Benchmark for User-Centric Deep Research in the Wild
Jiayu Wang, Yifei Ming, Riya Dulepet +7
Deep research -- producing comprehensive, citation-grounded reports by searching and synthesizing information from hundreds of live web sources -- marks an important frontier for a…
Helpful Agent Meets Deceptive Judge: Understanding Vulnerabilities in Agentic Workflows
Yifei Ming, Zixuan Ke, Xuan-Phi Nguyen +2
Agentic workflows -- where multiple large language model (LLM) instances interact to solve tasks -- are increasingly built on feedback mechanisms, where one model evaluates and cri…
Beyond Accuracy: Dissecting Mathematical Reasoning for LLMs Under Reinforcement Learning
Jiayu Wang, Yifei Ming, Zixuan Ke +4
Reinforcement learning (RL) has become the dominant paradigm for improving the performance of language models on complex reasoning tasks. Despite the substantial empirical gains de…
MAS-ZERO: Designing Multi-Agent Systems with Zero Supervision
Zixuan Ke, Austin Xu, Yifei Ming +4
Multi-agent systems (MAS) leveraging the impressive capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) hold significant potential for tackling complex tasks. However, most current MAS de…
A Survey of Frontiers in LLM Reasoning: Inference Scaling, Learning to Reason, and Agentic Systems
Zixuan Ke, Fangkai Jiao, Yifei Ming +9
Reasoning is a fundamental cognitive process that enables logical inference, problem-solving, and decision-making. With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), reaso…
NAACL2025 Tutorial: Adaptation of Large Language Models
Zixuan Ke, Yifei Ming, Shafiq Joty
This tutorial on adaptation of LLMs is designed to address the growing demand for models that go beyond the static capabilities of generic LLMs by providing an overview of dynamic,…
Demystifying Domain-adaptive Post-training for Financial LLMs
Zixuan Ke, Yifei Ming, Xuan-Phi Nguyen +2
Domain-adaptive post-training of large language models (LLMs) has emerged as a promising approach for specialized domains such as medicine and finance. However, significant challen…
FaithEval: Can Your Language Model Stay Faithful to Context, Even If "The Moon is Made of Marshmallows"
Yifei Ming, Senthil Purushwalkam, Shrey Pandit +4
Ensuring faithfulness to context in large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems is crucial for reliable deployment in real-world applications, as…
SFR-RAG: Towards Contextually Faithful LLMs
Xuan-Phi Nguyen, Shrey Pandit, Senthil Purushwalkam +7
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), a paradigm that integrates external contextual information with large language models (LLMs) to enhance factual accuracy and relevance, has em…