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23 papers

cs.AI2026

Harmony Harness: Multi-Objective Self-Evolution of Agent Harnesses

Weichen Yu, Lesly Miculicich, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra +5

Recent work on self-evolving LLM agents treats the agent harness as an optimization target that can be iteratively improved through execution feedback. Existing approaches, however…

cs.AI2026

VEPA: Verified Evolving Formal Policy for Lifelong LLM Agent Guardrails

Duy Nguyen, Lesly Miculicich, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra +5

LLM agents increasingly operate over sensitive resources, such as private documents and mutable system states, which can create serious safety and security risks. Runtime guardrail…

cs.CR2026

ASPIRE: Agentic Safety & Prompt Injection Red-teaming Engine

Pengfei He, Deep Mitra, Vishesh Sharma +4

LLM agents retrieve untrusted content and act through tools, creating indirect prompt-injection risks that can cause unauthorized actions or persistent state changes. Existing auto…

cs.CR2026

PI-Hunter: Automated Red-Teaming for Exposing and Localizing Prompt Injections

Pengfei He, Lesly Miculicich, Vishesh Sharma +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving into agentic systems that interact with external tools and environments, introducing new security risks such as indirect prompt in…

cs.LG2026

LiSA: Lifelong Safety Adaptation via Conservative Policy Induction

Minbeom Kim, Lesly Miculicich, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra +6

As AI agents move from chat interfaces to systems that read private data, call tools, and execute multi-step workflows, guardrails become a last line of defense against concrete de…

cs.CL2026

RubricEM: Meta-RL with Rubric-guided Policy Decomposition beyond Verifiable Rewards

Gaotang Li, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Zifeng Wang +9

Deep research agents plan, search, evaluate evidence, and synthesize long-form reports. Training these agents with reinforcement learning (RL) is challenging because they operate o…

cs.CV2026

ARD: Agentic Autoregressive Diffusion for Long Video Consistency

Do Xuan Long, Yale Song, Min-Yen Kan +2

Synthesizing consistent and coherent long video remains a fundamental challenge. Existing methods suffer from semantic drift and narrative collapse over long horizons. We present A…

cs.CL2026

PolicyBank: Evolving Policy Understanding for LLM Agents

Jihye Choi, Jinsung Yoon, Long T. Le +2

LLM agents operating under organizational policies must comply with authorization constraints typically specified in natural language. In practice, such specifications inevitably c…

cs.AI2026

TFRBench: A Reasoning Benchmark for Evaluating Forecasting Systems

Md Atik Ahamed, Mihir Parmar, Palash Goyal +7

We introduce TFRBench, the first benchmark designed to evaluate the reasoning capabilities of forecasting systems. Traditionally, time-series forecasting has been evaluated solely…

cs.CR2026

CausalArmor: Efficient Indirect Prompt Injection Guardrails via Causal Attribution

Minbeom Kim, Mihir Parmar, Phillip Wallis +5

AI agents equipped with tool-calling capabilities are susceptible to Indirect Prompt Injection (IPI) attacks. In this attack scenario, malicious commands hidden within untrusted co…

cs.LG2026

Co-RedTeam: Orchestrated Security Discovery and Exploitation with LLM Agents

Pengfei He, Ash Fox, Lesly Miculicich +7

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in assisting cybersecurity tasks, yet existing approaches struggle with automatic vulnerability discovery and exploitation due to li…

cs.LG2025

Synapse: Adaptive Arbitration of Complementary Expertise in Time Series Foundational Models

Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das, Palash Goyal, Mihir Parmar +7

Pre-trained Time Series Foundational Models (TSFMs) represent a significant advance, capable of forecasting diverse time series with complex characteristics, including varied seaso…

cs.SE2025

VeriGuard: Enhancing LLM Agent Safety via Verified Code Generation

Lesly Miculicich, Mihir Parmar, Hamid Palangi +4

The deployment of autonomous AI agents in sensitive domains, such as healthcare, introduces critical risks to safety, security, and privacy. These agents may deviate from user obje…

cs.AI2025

ReasoningBank: Scaling Agent Self-Evolving with Reasoning Memory

Siru Ouyang, Jun Yan, I-Hung Hsu +14

With the growing adoption of large language model agents in persistent real-world roles, they naturally encounter continuous streams of tasks. A key limitation, however, is their f…

cs.CL2025

Magnet: Multi-turn Tool-use Data Synthesis and Distillation via Graph Translation

Fan Yin, Zifeng Wang, I-Hung Hsu +9

Large language models (LLMs) have exhibited the ability to effectively utilize external tools to address user queries. However, their performance may be limited in complex, multi-t…

cs.CL2025

In Prospect and Retrospect: Reflective Memory Management for Long-term Personalized Dialogue Agents

Zhen Tan, Jun Yan, I-Hung Hsu +12

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant progress in open-ended dialogue, yet their inability to retain and retrieve relevant information from long-term interactions limi…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

PlanGEN: A Multi-Agent Framework for Generating Planning and Reasoning Trajectories for Complex Problem Solving

Mihir Parmar, Xin Liu, Palash Goyal +11

Recent agent frameworks and inference-time algorithms often struggle with complex planning problems due to limitations in verifying generated plans or reasoning and varying complex…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Reverse Thinking Makes LLMs Stronger Reasoners

Justin Chih-Yao Chen, Zifeng Wang, Hamid Palangi +8

Reverse thinking plays a crucial role in human reasoning. Humans can reason not only from a problem to a solution but also in reverse, i.e., start from the solution and reason towa…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Speculative Knowledge Distillation: Bridging the Teacher-Student Gap Through Interleaved Sampling

Wenda Xu, Rujun Han, Zifeng Wang +7

Recent advances in knowledge distillation (KD) have enabled smaller student models to approach the performance of larger teacher models. However, popular methods such as supervised…

cs.CL2024

Found in the Middle: Calibrating Positional Attention Bias Improves Long Context Utilization

Cheng-Yu Hsieh, Yung-Sung Chuang, Chun-Liang Li +8

Large language models (LLMs), even when specifically trained to process long input contexts, struggle to capture relevant information located in the middle of their input. This phe…

cs.CL2024★ 7 cited

Speculative RAG: Enhancing Retrieval Augmented Generation through Drafting

Zilong Wang, Zifeng Wang, Long Le +9

Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) combines the generative abilities of large language models (LLMs) with external knowledge sources to provide more accurate and up-to-date respo…

cs.CL2024

CaLM: Contrasting Large and Small Language Models to Verify Grounded Generation

I-Hung Hsu, Zifeng Wang, Long T. Le +4

Grounded generation aims to equip language models (LMs) with the ability to produce more credible and accountable responses by accurately citing verifiable sources. However, existi…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

CodecLM: Aligning Language Models with Tailored Synthetic Data

Zifeng Wang, Chun-Liang Li, Vincent Perot +5

Instruction tuning has emerged as the key in aligning large language models (LLMs) with specific task instructions, thereby mitigating the discrepancy between the next-token predic…