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most citedWhy Is Spatial Reasoning Hard for VLMs? An Attention Mechanism Perspective on Focus Areas

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cs.CL2026

When Does Mixing Help? Analyzing Query Embedding Interpolation in Multilingual Dense Retrieval

Tongyao Zhu, Chao-Ming Huang, Min-Yen Kan

While mixed-language querying is ubiquitous in multilingual communities, the sensitivity of dense retrievers to such queries remains poorly understood. We present a ratio-controlle…

cs.CL2026

SkillCraft: Can LLM Agents Learn to Use Tools Skillfully?

Shiqi Chen, Jingze Gai, Ruochen Zhou +13

Real-world tool-using agents operate over long-horizon workflows with recurring structure and diverse demands, where effective behavior requires not only invoking atomic tools but…

cs.LG2025

Why Do LLM Agents Fail in Exploring New Environments? A World-Modeling Perspective

Shiqi Chen, Tongyao Zhu, Zian Wang +8

Large Language Models (LLMs) as agents often fail to improve in new environments. We identify and characterize a failure mode we call exploration collapse: under reinforcement lear…

cs.CL2025

From Harm to Help: Turning Reasoning In-Context Demos into Assets for Reasoning LMs

Haonan Wang, Weida Liang, Zihang Fu +8

Recent reasoning LLMs (RLMs), especially those trained with verifier-based reinforcement learning, often perform worse with few-shot CoT than with direct answering. We revisit this…

cs.CL2025

Bring Reason to Vision: Understanding Perception and Reasoning through Model Merging

Shiqi Chen, Jinghan Zhang, Tongyao Zhu +5

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) combine visual perception with the general capabilities, such as reasoning, of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, the mechanisms by which these tw…

cs.CL2025

SkyLadder: Better and Faster Pretraining via Context Window Scheduling

Tongyao Zhu, Qian Liu, Haonan Wang +4

Recent advancements in LLM pretraining have featured ever-expanding context windows to process longer sequences. However, our pilot study reveals that models pretrained with shorte…