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6 papers

cs.CL2025

Parallel-R1: Towards Parallel Thinking via Reinforcement Learning

Tong Zheng, Hongming Zhang, Wenhao Yu +7

Parallel thinking has emerged as a novel approach for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by exploring multiple reasoning paths concurrently. Howev…

cs.CL2025

Proactive Guidance of Multi-Turn Conversation in Industrial Search

Xiaoyu Li, Xiao Li, Li Gao +5

The evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly advanced multi-turn conversation systems, emphasizing the need for proactive guidance to enhance users' interactions…

cs.HC2025

Free Lunch for User Experience: Crowdsourcing Agents for Scalable User Studies

Siyang Liu, Sahand Sabour, Xiaoyang Wang +1

User studies are central to user experience research, yet recruiting participant is expensive, slow, and limited in diversity. Recent work has explored using Large Language Models…

cs.AI2025

Enter the Void - Planning to Seek Entropy When Reward is Scarce

Ashish Sundar, Chunbo Luo, Xiaoyang Wang

Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) offers an intuitive way to increase the sample efficiency of model-free RL methods by simultaneously training a world model that learns to…

cs.CL2025

OpenCharacter: Training Customizable Role-Playing LLMs with Large-Scale Synthetic Personas

Xiaoyang Wang, Hongming Zhang, Tao Ge +3

Customizable role-playing in large language models (LLMs), also known as character generalization, is gaining increasing attention for its versatility and cost-efficiency in develo…

cs.CY2025

Addressing the sustainable AI trilemma: a case study on LLM agents and RAG

Hui Wu, Xiaoyang Wang, Zhong Fan

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant capabilities, but their widespread deployment and more advanced applications raise critical sustainability challenges, pa…