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most citedTableLLM: Enabling Tabular Data Manipulation by LLMs in Real Office Usage Scenarios

3 citations · 6 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.LG2026

Look Inward to Explore Outward: Learning Temperature Policy from LLM Internal States via Hierarchical RL

Yixiao Zhou, Yang Li, Dongzhou Cheng +2

Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) trains large language models (LLMs) from sampled trajectories, making decoding strategy a core component of learning rather th…

cs.HC2026

ProAgentBench: Evaluating LLM Agents for Proactive Assistance with Real-World Data

Yuanbo Tang, Huaze Tang, Tingyu Cao +6

Proactive agents that anticipate user intentions without explicit prompts represent a significant evolution in human-AI interaction, promising to reduce cognitive load and streamli…

cs.AI2026

Resource-Efficient Reinforcement for Reasoning Large Language Models via Dynamic One-Shot Policy Refinement

Yunjian Zhang, Sudong Wang, Yang Li +5

Large language models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable performance on complex reasoning tasks, with reinforcement learning under verifiable rewards (RLVR) emerging as a principled…

cs.CL2026

BMAM: Brain-inspired Multi-Agent Memory Framework

Yang Li, Jiaxiang Liu, Yusong Wang +2

Language-model-based agents operating over extended interaction horizons face persistent challenges in preserving temporally grounded information and maintaining behavioral consist…

cs.LG2026

Turn-PPO: Turn-Level Advantage Estimation with PPO for Improved Multi-Turn RL in Agentic LLMs

Junbo Li, Peng Zhou, Rui Meng +3

Reinforcement learning (RL) has re-emerged as a natural approach for training interactive LLM agents in real-world environments. However, directly applying the widely used Group Re…

cs.AI2026

ATPO: Agentic Turn-based Policy Optimization via Tree Search

Zefang Zong, Dingwei Chen, Yang Li +6

LLM agents have emerged as powerful systems for tackling multi-turn tasks by interleaving internal reasoning and external tool interactions. Agentic Reinforcement Learning has rece…

cs.LG2025

Grokked Models are Better Unlearners

Yuanbang Liang, Yang Li

Grokking-delayed generalization that emerges well after a model has fit the training data-has been linked to robustness and representation quality. We ask whether this training reg…

cs.AI2025

Adapting Like Humans: A Metacognitive Agent with Test-time Reasoning

Yang Li, Zhiyuan He, Yuxuan Huang +5

Recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit strong perceptual reasoning abilities, yet they often struggle to adapt efficiently when encountering novel tasks at test time. In cont…

cs.CL2025

ELPO: Ensemble Learning Based Prompt Optimization for Large Language Models

Qing Zhang, Bing Xu, Xudong Zhang +9

The remarkable performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) highly relies on crafted prompts. However, manual prompt engineering is a laborious process, creating a core bottleneck f…

cs.AI2025

MarsRL: Advancing Multi-Agent Reasoning System via Reinforcement Learning with Agentic Pipeline Parallelism

Shulin Liu, Dong Du, Tao Yang +2

Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) has been propelled by reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) and test-time scaling. However, the limited output lengt…

cs.AI2025

Thinker: Training LLMs in Hierarchical Thinking for Deep Search via Multi-Turn Interaction

Jun Xu, Xinkai Du, Yu Ao +17

Efficient retrieval of external knowledge bases and web pages is crucial for enhancing the reasoning abilities of LLMs. Previous works on training LLMs to leverage external retriev…

cs.MA2025

AgentGit: A Version Control Framework for Reliable and Scalable LLM-Powered Multi-Agent Systems

Yang Li, Siqi Ping, Xiyu Chen +4

With the rapid progress of large language models (LLMs), LLM-powered multi-agent systems (MAS) are drawing increasing interest across academia and industry. However, many current M…

cs.SI2025

Forecasting the Buzz: Enriching Hashtag Popularity Prediction with LLM Reasoning

Yifei Xu, Jiaying Wu, Herun Wan +3

Hashtag trends ignite campaigns, shift public opinion, and steer millions of dollars in advertising spend, yet forecasting which tag goes viral is elusive. Classical regressors dig…

cs.CV2025

Self-Evolving Vision-Language Models for Image Quality Assessment via Voting and Ranking

Wen Wen, Tianwu Zhi, Kanglong Fan +6

Improving vision-language models (VLMs) in the post-training stage typically relies on supervised fine-tuning or reinforcement learning, methods that necessitate costly, human-anno…

cs.CL2025

FACTORY: A Challenging Human-Verified Prompt Set for Long-Form Factuality

Mingda Chen, Yang Li, Xilun Chen +3

Long-form factuality evaluation assesses the ability of models to generate accurate, comprehensive responses to short prompts. Existing benchmarks often lack human verification, le…

cs.CL2025

UloRL:An Ultra-Long Output Reinforcement Learning Approach for Advancing Large Language Models' Reasoning Abilities

Dong Du, Shulin Liu, Tao Yang +2

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have highlighted the potential of reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) to enhance reasoning capabilities through ex…

cs.LG2025

Skip a Layer or Loop it? Test-Time Depth Adaptation of Pretrained LLMs

Ziyue Li, Yang Li, Tianyi Zhou

Can a pretrained neural network adapt its architecture to different inputs without any finetuning? Do we need all layers for simple tasks, and are they adequate for challenging tas…

cs.CL2025

Ring-lite: Scalable Reasoning via C3PO-Stabilized Reinforcement Learning for LLMs

Ling Team, Bin Hu, Cai Chen +43

We present Ring-lite, a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)-based large language model optimized via reinforcement learning (RL) to achieve efficient and robust reasoning capabilities. Built…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Rethinking Predictive Modeling for LLM Routing: When Simple kNN Beats Complex Learned Routers

Yang Li

As large language models (LLMs) grow in scale and specialization, routing--selecting the best model for a given input--has become essential for efficient and effective deployment.…

cs.LG2025

Policy Guided Tree Search for Enhanced LLM Reasoning

Yang Li

Despite their remarkable capabilities, large language models often struggle with tasks requiring complex reasoning and planning. While existing approaches like Chain-of-Thought pro…

cs.LG2025

LLM Bandit: Cost-Efficient LLM Generation via Preference-Conditioned Dynamic Routing

Yang Li

The rapid advancement in large language models (LLMs) has brought forth a diverse range of models with varying capabilities that excel in different tasks and domains. However, sele…

cs.CL2024

Rethinking LLM Uncertainty: A Multi-Agent Approach to Estimating Black-Box Model Uncertainty

Yu Feng, Phu Mon Htut, Zheng Qi +7

Quantifying uncertainty in black-box LLMs is vital for reliable responses and scalable oversight. Existing methods, which gauge a model's uncertainty through evaluating self-consis…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

VB-LoRA: Extreme Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning with Vector Banks

Yang Li, Shaobo Han, Shihao Ji

As the adoption of large language models increases and the need for per-user or per-task model customization grows, the parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods, such as low-…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

TableLLM: Enabling Tabular Data Manipulation by LLMs in Real Office Usage Scenarios

Xiaokang Zhang, Sijia Luo, Bohan Zhang +12

We introduce TableLLM, a robust large language model (LLM) with 8 billion parameters, purpose-built for proficiently handling tabular data manipulation tasks, whether they are embe…