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20232026
most citedExternalization in LLM Agents: A Unified Review of Memory, Skills, Protocols and Harness Engineering

6 citations · 10 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.AI2026

ReuF2F: Benchmarking Coding Agents on Formalized Undergraduate Research Problems

Zeyu Zheng, Yiyang Liu, Yuyang Zhao +20

As AI systems begin to resolve open research problems, reliable verification becomes increasingly important. Formal mathematics provides a trusted framework for mathematical reason…

cs.AI2026

AMBER: Multi-View Adaptive Budget Allocation for Listwise Vision-Language Reranking

Wenteng Chen, Jiachen Zhu, Rong Shan +10

Vision-language models (VLMs) are powerful listwise rerankers for multimodal retrieval, but high inference costs restrict them to evaluating small local candidate views. Existing m…

cs.CL2026

LatentSkill: From In-Context Textual Skills to In-Weight Latent Skills for LLM Agents

Aofan Yu, Chenyu Zhou, Tianyi Xu +8

Agent systems increasingly use textual skills to encode reusable task procedures, but injecting these skills into the prompt at every step incurs substantial context overhead and e…

cs.CL2026

Contexting as Recommendation: Evolutionary Collaborative Filtering for Context Engineering

Jiachen Zhu, Zhuoying Ou, Congmin Zheng +9

Large Language Models (LLMs) are highly sensitive to their input contexts, motivating the development of automated context engineering. However, existing methods predominantly trea…

cs.CL2026

Position: Academic Conferences are Potentially Facing Denominator Gaming Caused by Fully Automated Scientific Agents

Rong Shan, Te Gao, Hang Zheng +6

The implicit policy of maintaining relatively stable acceptance rates at top AI conferences, despite exponentially growing submissions, introduces a critical structural vulnerabili…

cs.SE2026★ 6 cited

Externalization in LLM Agents: A Unified Review of Memory, Skills, Protocols and Harness Engineering

Chenyu Zhou, Huacan Chai, Wenteng Chen +18

Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly built less by changing model weights than by reorganizing the runtime around them. Capabilities that earlier systems expected the…

cs.AI2026

Turing Test on Screen: A Benchmark for Mobile GUI Agent Humanization

Jiachen Zhu, Lingyu Yang, Rong Shan +6

The rise of autonomous GUI agents has triggered adversarial countermeasures from digital platforms, yet existing research prioritizes utility and robustness over the critical dimen…

cs.IR2026

PhotoBench: Beyond Visual Matching Towards Personalized Intent-Driven Photo Retrieval

Tianyi Xu, Rong Shan, Junjie Wu +11

Personal photo albums are not merely collections of static images but living, ecological archives defined by temporal continuity, social entanglement, and rich metadata, which make…

cs.IR2026

MuonRec: Shifting the Optimizer Paradigm Beyond Adam in Scalable Generative Recommendation

Rong Shan, Aofan Yu, Bo Chen +7

Recommender systems (RecSys) are increasingly emphasizing scaling, leveraging larger architectures and more interaction data to improve personalization. Yet, despite the optimizer'…

cs.AI2026

OSCAR: Optimization-Steered Agentic Planning for Composed Image Retrieval

Teng Wang, Rong Shan, Jianghao Lin +8

Composed image retrieval (CIR) requires complex reasoning over heterogeneous visual and textual constraints. Existing approaches largely fall into two paradigms: unified embedding…

cs.CY2025

Stop DDoS Attacking the Research Community with AI-Generated Survey Papers

Jianghao Lin, Rong Shan, Jiachen Zhu +3

Survey papers are foundational to the scholarly progress of research communities, offering structured overviews that guide both novices and experts across disciplines. However, the…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

A Survey of Process Reward Models: From Outcome Signals to Process Supervisions for Large Language Models

Congmin Zheng, Jiachen Zhu, Zhuoying Ou +8

Although Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit advanced reasoning ability, conventional alignment remains largely dominated by outcome reward models (ORMs) that judge only final ans…

cs.IR2025

A Survey of LLM-based Deep Search Agents: Paradigm, Optimization, Evaluation, and Challenges

Yunjia Xi, Jianghao Lin, Yongzhao Xiao +7

The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly revolutionized web search. The emergence of LLM-based Search Agents marks a pivotal shift towards deeper, dynamic, auto…

cs.CL2025

Evolutionary Perspectives on the Evaluation of LLM-Based AI Agents: A Comprehensive Survey

Jiachen Zhu, Menghui Zhu, Renting Rui +9

The advent of large language models (LLMs), such as GPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek, has significantly advanced natural language processing, giving rise to sophisticated chatbots capable…

cs.IR2025

Full-Stack Optimized Large Language Models for Lifelong Sequential Behavior Comprehension in Recommendation

Rong Shan, Jiachen Zhu, Jianghao Lin +5

In this paper, we address the lifelong sequential behavior incomprehension problem in large language models (LLMs) for recommendation, where LLMs struggle to extract useful informa…

cs.IR2024

An Automatic Graph Construction Framework based on Large Language Models for Recommendation

Rong Shan, Jianghao Lin, Chenxu Zhu +7

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as state-of-the-art methods to learn from graph-structured data for recommendation. However, most existing GNN-based recommendation method…

cs.IR2024★ 2 cited

Lifelong Personalized Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models for Recommendation

Jiachen Zhu, Jianghao Lin, Xinyi Dai +6

We primarily focus on the field of large language models (LLMs) for recommendation, which has been actively explored recently and poses a significant challenge in effectively enhan…

cs.IR2024

Large Language Models Make Sample-Efficient Recommender Systems

Jianghao Lin, Xinyi Dai, Rong Shan +4

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in the field of natural language processing (NLP), demonstrating remarkable abilities in producing text that resemble…

cs.IR2023★ 1 cited

ReLLa: Retrieval-enhanced Large Language Models for Lifelong Sequential Behavior Comprehension in Recommendation

Jianghao Lin, Rong Shan, Chenxu Zhu +6

With large language models (LLMs) achieving remarkable breakthroughs in natural language processing (NLP) domains, LLM-enhanced recommender systems have received much attention and…