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most citedStrategic Chain-of-Thought: Guiding Accurate Reasoning in LLMs through Strategy Elicitation

5 citations · 11 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

cs.CL2026

DAIS: Dependency-Aware Intermediate QA Supervision for Complex Reasoning

Yu Wang, Ming Fan, Xicheng Zhang +5

Chain-of-thought (CoT) supervision exposes intermediate rationales, but flat rationale targets usually optimize a single reasoning sequence and provide limited supervision on how l…

cs.LG2026

NI Sampling: Accelerating Discrete Diffusion Sampling by Token Order Optimization

Enshu Liu, Xuefei Ning, Yu Wang +1

Discrete diffusion language models (dLLMs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to traditional autoregressive approaches, offering the flexibility to generate tokens in…

cs.AI2026

AJ-Bench: Benchmarking Agent-as-a-Judge for Environment-Aware Evaluation

Wentao Shi, Yu Wang, Yuyang Zhao +8

As reinforcement learning continues to scale the training of large language model-based agents, reliably verifying agent behaviors in complex environments has become increasingly c…

cs.CV2026

The Fourth Challenge on Image Super-Resolution (4) at NTIRE 2026: Benchmark Results and Method Overview

Zheng Chen, Kai Liu, Jingkai Wang +150

This paper presents the NTIRE 2026 image super-resolution (4) challenge, one of the associated competitions of the NTIRE 2026 Workshop at CVPR 2026. The challenge aims to r…

cs.CL2026

ReviewGrounder: Improving Review Substantiveness with Rubric-Guided, Tool-Integrated Agents

Zhuofeng Li, Yi Lu, Dongfu Jiang +7

The rapid rise in AI conference submissions has driven increasing exploration of large language models (LLMs) for peer review support. However, LLM-based reviewers often generate s…

cs.CV2026

Why Multimodal In-Context Learning Lags Behind? Unveiling the Inner Mechanisms and Bottlenecks

Yu Wang, Sharon Li

In-context learning (ICL) enables models to adapt to new tasks via inference-time demonstrations. Despite its success in large language models, the extension of ICL to multimodal s…

cs.CV2026

The Second Challenge on Real-World Face Restoration at NTIRE 2026: Methods and Results

Jingkai Wang, Jue Gong, Zheng Chen +50

This paper provides a review of the NTIRE 2026 challenge on real-world face restoration, highlighting the proposed solutions and the resulting outcomes. The challenge focuses on ge…

cs.CL2026

CocoaBench: Evaluating Unified Digital Agents in the Wild

CocoaBench Team, Shibo Hao, Zhining Zhang +29

LLM agents now perform strongly in software engineering, deep research, GUI automation, and various other applications, while recent agent scaffolds and models are increasingly int…

cs.CL2026

RCBSF: A Multi-Agent Framework for Automated Contract Revision via Stackelberg Game

Shijia Xu, Yu Wang, Xiaolong Jia +3

Despite the widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Legal AI, their utility for automated contract revision remains impeded by hallucinated safety and a lack of rigo…

cs.CL2026

Self-Correcting RAG: Enhancing Faithfulness via MMKP Context Selection and NLI-Guided MCTS

Shijia Xu, Zhou Wu, Xiaolong Jia +3

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) substantially extends the knowledge boundary of large language models. However, it still faces two major challenges when handling complex reaso…

cs.AI2026

ReactBench: A Benchmark for Topological Reasoning in MLLMs on Chemical Reaction Diagrams

Qiang Xu, Shengyuan Bai, Yu Wang +6

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at recognizing individual visual elements and reasoning over simple linear diagrams. However, when faced with complex topological str…

cs.LG2026

: Better Prompt Optimization with Fewer Prompts

Zhaolin Gao, Yu, Wang +4

Prompt optimization improves language models without updating their weights by searching for a better system prompt, but its effectiveness varies widely across tasks. We study what…

cs.LG2026

SkillRL: Evolving Agents via Recursive Skill-Augmented Reinforcement Learning

Peng Xia, Jianwen Chen, Hanyang Wang +10

Large Language Model (LLM) agents have shown stunning results in complex tasks, yet they often operate in isolation, failing to learn from past experiences. Existing memory-based m…

cs.CL2026

Learning to Self-Verify Makes Language Models Better Reasoners

Yuxin Chen, Yu Wang, Yi Zhang +9

Recent large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance in generating promising reasoning paths for complex tasks. However, despite powerful generation ability, LLMs remain…

cs.IR2026

From Atom to Community: Structured and Evolving Agent Memory for User Behavior Modeling

Yuxin Liao, Le Wu, Min Hou +3

User behavior modeling lies at the heart of personalized applications like recommender systems. With LLM-based agents, user preference representation has evolved from latent embedd…

cs.AI2026★ 1 cited

A Survey of Agentic Reasoning for Large Language Models: Towards Recursively Self-Improving and Collective Agents

Tianxin Wei, Ting-Wei Li, Zhining Liu +26

Reasoning is a fundamental cognitive process underlying inference, problem-solving, and decision-making. While large language models (LLMs) demonstrate strong reasoning capabilitie…

cs.IR2025

LLM Reasoning for Cold-Start Item Recommendation

Shijun Li, Yu Wang, Jin Wang +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant potential for improving recommendation systems through their inherent reasoning capabilities and extensive knowledge base. Yet,…

cs.MA2025

PartnerMAS: An LLM Hierarchical Multi-Agent Framework for Business Partner Selection on High-Dimensional Features

Lingyao Li, Haolun Wu, Zhenkun Li +5

High-dimensional decision-making tasks, such as business partner selection, involve evaluating large candidate pools with heterogeneous numerical, categorical, and textual features…

cs.AI2025

Game-TARS: Pretrained Foundation Models for Scalable Generalist Multimodal Game Agents

Zihao Wang, Xujing Li, Yining Ye +24

We present Game-TARS, a generalist game agent trained with a unified, scalable action space anchored to human-aligned native keyboard-mouse inputs. Unlike API- or GUI-based approac…

cs.RO2025

SimpleVLA-RL: Scaling VLA Training via Reinforcement Learning

Haozhan Li, Yuxin Zuo, Jiale Yu +18

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for robotic manipulation. Despite substantial progress enabled by large-scale pretraining and super…

cs.AI2025

DoPI: Doctor-like Proactive Interrogation LLM for Traditional Chinese Medicine

Zewen Sun, Ruoxiang Huang, Jiahe Feng +7

Enhancing interrogation capabilities in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) diagnosis through multi-turn dialogues and knowledge graphs presents a significant challenge for modern A…

cs.AI2025

RAG+: Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Application-Aware Reasoning

Yu Wang, Shiwan Zhao, Zhihu Wang +6

The integration of external knowledge through Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become foundational in enhancing large language models (LLMs) for knowledge-intensive tasks.…

cs.IR2025

AgentRecBench: Benchmarking LLM Agent-based Personalized Recommender Systems

Yu Shang, Peijie Liu, Yuwei Yan +9

The emergence of agentic recommender systems powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) represents a paradigm shift in personalized recommendations, leveraging LLMs' advanced reasonin…

cs.AI2025

Sleep-time Compute: Beyond Inference Scaling at Test-time

Kevin Lin, Charlie Snell, Yu Wang +4

Scaling test-time compute has emerged as a key ingredient for enabling large language models (LLMs) to solve difficult problems, but comes with high latency and inference cost. We…