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most citedTrade-offs in Large Reasoning Models: An Empirical Analysis of Deliberative and Adaptive Reasoning over Foundational Capabilities

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cs.CL2026

Self-Evolving Agents Can Repair Failures but Struggle to Generalize from Them

Weixiang Zhao, Yichen Zhang, Yanyan Zhao +5

Experience-driven self-evolution offers a promising path for large language model (LLM) agents to continually improve through interaction. Yet existing approaches often rely on suc…

cs.LG2026

HSD: Hybrid Hindsight Self-Distillation

Qiye Cai, Yichuan Ma, Peiji Li +7

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) provides reliable outcome supervision for language model reasoning, but scalar trajectory rewards offer limited guidance for t…

cs.LG2026

SL-BiLEM: Structured Learnable Behavior-in-the-Loop Epidemic Modeling for Forecasting and Policy Evaluation

Haochun Wang, Sendong Zhao, Jingbo Wang +3

Epidemic forecasting faces a fundamental challenge: human behavior dynamically responds to disease spread, creating feedback loops that induce distribution shifts at policy interve…

cs.AI2026

DeepTool: Scaling Interleaved Deliberation in Tool-Integrated Reasoning via Process-Supervised Reinforcement Learning

Yang He, Xiao Ding, Bibo Cai +5

Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR) extends LLM capabilities by leveraging external environments. However, existing methods lack the deliberation during sequential tool invocation requ…

cs.CL2026

Easier to Judge than to Find: Predicting In-Context Learning Success for Demonstration Selection

Haochun Wang, Chaofen Yang, Jiatong Liu +5

In-context learning (ICL) is highly sensitive to which demonstrations appear in the prompt, but selecting them is expensive because the space of possible demonstration contexts and…

cs.AI2026

Safety Geometry Collapse in Multimodal LLMs and Adaptive Drift Correction

Jiahe Guo, Xiangran Guo, Jiaxuan Chen +6

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) often fail to transfer safety capabilities learned in the text modality to semantically equivalent non-text inputs, revealing a persistent…

cs.AI2026

Learning to Learn from Multimodal Experience

Xingyu Sui, Weixiang Zhao, Yongxin Tang +4

Experience-driven learning has emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling agents to improve from interaction trajectories by accumulating and reusing past experience. However, ex…

cs.CL2026

Rethinking Experience Utilization in Self-Evolving Language Model Agents

Weixiang Zhao, Yingshuo Wang, Yichen Zhang +6

Self-evolving agents improve by accumulating and reusing experience from past interactions. Existing work has largely focused on how experience is constructed, represented, and upd…

cs.AI2026

LSR-Ben: A Logical and Scientific Reasoning Benchmark for Evaluating Process Reward Models

Zhouhao Sun, Xuan Zhang, Xiao Ding +10

Currently, process reward models (PRMs) have exhibited remarkable potential for test-time scaling. Since large language models (LLMs) regularly generate flawed intermediate reasoni…

cs.CL2026

On Safety Risks in Experience-Driven Self-Evolving Agents

Weixiang Zhao, Yichen Zhang, Yingshuo Wang +8

Experience-driven self-evolution has emerged as a promising paradigm for improving the autonomy of large language model agents, yet its reliance on self-curated experience introduc…

cs.CL2026

x1: Learning to Think Adaptively Across Languages and Cultures

Yangfan Ye, Xiaocheng Feng, Xiachong Feng +8

Languages encode distinct abstractions and inductive priors, yet most large language models (LLMs) overlook this diversity by reasoning in a single dominant language. In this work,…

cs.CL2026

ConflictBench: Evaluating Human-AI Conflict via Interactive and Visually Grounded Environments

Weixiang Zhao, Haozhen Li, Yanyan Zhao +5

As large language models (LLMs) evolve into autonomous agents capable of acting in open-ended environments, ensuring behavioral alignment with human values becomes a critical safet…

cs.AI2026

AutoTool: Automatic Scaling of Tool-Use Capabilities in RL via Decoupled Entropy Constraints

Yirong Zeng, Xiao Ding, Yufei Liu +9

Tool use represents a critical capability for AI agents, with recent advances focusing on leveraging reinforcement learning (RL) to scale up the explicit reasoning process to achie…

cs.CL2026

Large Language Model Agents Are Not Always Faithful Self-Evolvers

Weixiang Zhao, Yingshuo Wang, Yichen Zhang +5

Self-evolving large language model (LLM) agents continually improve by accumulating and reusing past experience, yet it remains unclear whether they faithfully rely on that experie…

cs.AI2026

Consolidation or Adaptation? PRISM: Disentangling SFT and RL Data via Gradient Concentration

Yang Zhao, Yangou Ouyang, Xiao Ding +8

While Hybrid Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) followed by Reinforcement Learning (RL) has become the standard paradigm for training LLM agents, effective mechanisms for data allocation…

cs.LG2026

MAESTRO: Meta-learning Adaptive Estimation of Scalarization Trade-offs for Reward Optimization

Yang Zhao, Hepeng Wang, Xiao Ding +8

Group-Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has emerged as an efficient paradigm for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs), yet its efficacy is primarily confined to domains with ver…

cs.LG2025

Tool Zero: Training Tool-Augmented LLMs via Pure RL from Scratch

Yirong Zeng, Xiao Ding, Yutai Hou +9

Training tool-augmented LLMs has emerged as a promising approach to enhancing language models' capabilities for complex tasks. The current supervised fine-tuning paradigm relies on…

cs.AI2025

Exploring and Exploiting the Inherent Efficiency within Large Reasoning Models for Self-Guided Efficiency Enhancement

Weixiang Zhao, Jiahe Guo, Yang Deng +7

Recent advancements in large reasoning models (LRMs) have significantly enhanced language models' capabilities in complex problem-solving by emulating human-like deliberative think…

cs.CL2025

Com: A Causal-Guided Benchmark for Exploring Complex Commonsense Reasoning in Large Language Models

Kai Xiong, Xiao Ding, Yixin Cao +7

Large language models (LLMs) have mastered abundant simple and explicit commonsense knowledge through pre-training, enabling them to achieve human-like performance in simple common…

cs.CL2025

CrossICL: Cross-Task In-Context Learning via Unsupervised Demonstration Transfer

Jinglong Gao, Xiao Ding, Lingxiao Zou +2

In-Context Learning (ICL) enhances the performance of large language models (LLMs) with demonstrations. However, obtaining these demonstrations primarily relies on manual effort. I…

cs.CL2025

ExpeTrans: LLMs Are Experiential Transfer Learners

Jinglong Gao, Xiao Ding, Lingxiao Zou +3

Recent studies provide large language models (LLMs) with textual task-solving experiences via prompts to improve their performance. However, previous methods rely on substantial hu…

cs.CL2025

Self-Route: Automatic Mode Switching via Capability Estimation for Efficient Reasoning

Yang He, Xiao Ding, Bibo Cai +5

While reasoning-augmented large language models (RLLMs) significantly enhance complex task performance through extended reasoning chains, they inevitably introduce substantial unne…

cs.CL2025

Information Gain-Guided Causal Intervention for Autonomous Debiasing Large Language Models

Zhouhao Sun, Xiao Ding, Li Du +5

Despite significant progress, recent studies indicate that current large language models (LLMs) may still capture dataset biases and utilize them during inference, leading to the p…

cs.CL2025

MPO: Multilingual Safety Alignment via Reward Gap Optimization

Weixiang Zhao, Yulin Hu, Yang Deng +8

Large language models (LLMs) have become increasingly central to AI applications worldwide, necessitating robust multilingual safety alignment to ensure secure deployment across di…