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most citedInstructERC: Reforming Emotion Recognition in Conversation with Multi-task Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models

31 citations · 62 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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32 papers

cs.AI2026

WorkRover: Scaling Long-Horizon Cowork Agent Training Via Recursive Environment Evolution

Hang He, Linting Wang, Guanming Liu +14

Scaling interactive environments is important for training long-horizon agents through reinforcement learning. These environments often require further testing and refinement after…

cs.CL2026

Agent-Reflex: Teaching Language Agents to Act Reflectively

Guanting Dong, Xinyu Yang, Jiajie Jin +9

Large language models have evolved from single-turn chatbots into interactive agents capable of long-horizon reasoning. In real deployments, MCP tool services can return noisy feed…

cs.AI2026

WEFT: Scaling Tool-Use Post-Training for General-Purpose Agents

Bo Mao, Hang He, Linting Wang +17

Recent efforts to scale tool-use post-training have largely centered on the synthesis of executable environments, which constitute only one component of a broader agentic interacti…

cs.AI2026

EvoIn: Bridging Evolution and Internalization for Agent Fine-Tuning

Shihan Dou, Shaofan Liu, Zhonghang Lu +8

Recent work has explored improving agents by jointly evolving their harnesses and models, but often takes a ''potpourri'' approach that bundles together new tools, new decision-mak…

cs.CL2026

WebSwarm: Recursive Multi-Agent Orchestration for Deep-and-Wide Web Search

Xiaoshuai Song, Liancheng Zhang, Kangzhi Zhao +8

Large language model (LLM)-based web search agents are transforming information seeking from simple factoid question answering into complex, deep-and-wide search and research-orien…

cs.CL2026

VeriGraph: Towards Verifiable Data-Analytic Agents

Jiajie Jin, Zhao Yang, Wenle Liao +5

LLM-based agents have demonstrated strong capabilities in data-intensive analytical tasks, yet their outputs are rarely verifiable: a reliance on linear text trajectories makes the…

cs.CL2026

Toward Generalist Autonomous Research via Hypothesis-Tree Refinement

Jiajie Jin, Yuyang Hu, Kai Qiu +15

Scientific progress depends on a repeated loop of exploration, experimentation, and abstraction. Researchers test candidate directions, interpret the evidence, and carry the result…

cs.CL2026

Towards Verifiable Multimodal Deep Research: A Multi-Agent Harness for Interleaved Report Generation

Chenghao Zhang, Guanting Dong, Yufan Liu +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced autonomous agents from deep search, which retrieves concise factual answers, to deep research, which synthesizes scattered evidence into…

cs.AI2026

Agent-World: Scaling Real-World Environment Synthesis for Evolving General Agent Intelligence

Guanting Dong, Junting Lu, Junjie Huang +17

Large language models are increasingly expected to serve as general-purpose agents that interact with external, stateful tool environments. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) and bro…

cs.AI2026★ 1 cited

OmniGAIA: Towards Native Omni-Modal AI Agents

Xiaoxi Li, Wenxiang Jiao, Jiarui Jin +10

Human intelligence naturally intertwines omni-modal perception -- spanning vision, audio, and language -- with complex reasoning and tool usage to interact with the world. However,…

cs.AI2026

ET-Agent: Incentivizing Effective Tool-Integrated Reasoning Agent via Behavior Calibration

Yifei Chen, Guanting Dong, Zhicheng Dou

Large Language Models (LLMs) can extend their parameter knowledge limits by adopting the Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR) paradigm. However, existing LLM-based agent training framew…

cs.AI2026

SmartSearch: Process Reward-Guided Query Refinement for Search Agents

Tongyu Wen, Guanting Dong, Zhicheng Dou

Large language model (LLM)-based search agents have proven promising for addressing knowledge-intensive problems by incorporating information retrieval capabilities. Existing works…

cs.CL2026

EnvScaler: Scaling Tool-Interactive Environments for LLM Agent via Programmatic Synthesis

Xiaoshuai Song, Haofei Chang, Guanting Dong +3

Large language models (LLMs) are expected to be trained to act as agents in various real-world environments, but this process relies on rich and varied tool-interaction sandboxes.…

cs.AI2025

ToolScope: An Agentic Framework for Vision-Guided and Long-Horizon Tool Use

Mengjie Deng, Guanting Dong, Zhicheng Dou

Recently, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable problem-solving capabilities by autonomously integrating with external tools for collaborative reasoning. Howeve…

cs.CL2025

Towards Mixed-Modal Retrieval for Universal Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Chenghao Zhang, Guanting Dong, Xinyu Yang +1

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for enhancing large language models (LLMs) by retrieving relevant documents from an external corpus. However…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Agentic Entropy-Balanced Policy Optimization

Guanting Dong, Licheng Bao, Zhongyuan Wang +11

Recently, Agentic Reinforcement Learning (Agentic RL) has made significant progress in incentivizing the multi-turn, long-horizon tool-use capabilities of web agents. While mainstr…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

DeepAgent: A General Reasoning Agent with Scalable Toolsets

Xiaoxi Li, Wenxiang Jiao, Jiarui Jin +8

Large reasoning models have demonstrated strong problem-solving abilities, yet real-world tasks often require external tools and long-horizon interactions. Existing agent framework…

cs.AI2025

Toward Effective Tool-Integrated Reasoning via Self-Evolved Preference Learning

Yifei Chen, Guanting Dong, Zhicheng Dou

Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR) enables large language models (LLMs) to improve their internal reasoning ability by integrating external tools. However, models employing TIR often…

cs.AI2025

Revisiting RAG Ensemble: A Theoretical and Mechanistic Analysis of Multi-RAG System Collaboration

Yifei Chen, Guanting Dong, Yutao Zhu +1

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) technology has been widely applied in recent years. However, despite the emergence of various RAG frameworks, a single RAG framework still cann…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Klear-Reasoner: Advancing Reasoning Capability via Gradient-Preserving Clipping Policy Optimization

Zhenpeng Su, Leiyu Pan, Xue Bai +8

We present Klear-Reasoner, a model with long reasoning capabilities that demonstrates careful deliberation during problem solving, achieving outstanding performance across multiple…

cs.LG2025★ 4 cited

Agentic Reinforced Policy Optimization

Guanting Dong, Hangyu Mao, Kai Ma +11

Large-scale reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has demonstrated its effectiveness in harnessing the potential of large language models (LLMs) for single-turn rea…

cs.AI2025★ 2 cited

HiRA: A Hierarchical Reasoning Framework for Decoupled Planning and Execution in Deep Search

Jiajie Jin, Xiaoxi Li, Guanting Dong +5

Complex information needs in real-world search scenarios demand deep reasoning and knowledge synthesis across diverse sources, which traditional retrieval-augmented generation (RAG…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Leveraging LLM-Assisted Query Understanding for Live Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Guanting Dong, Xiaoxi Li, Yuyao Zhang +1

Real-world live retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems face significant challenges when processing user queries that are often noisy, ambiguous, and contain multiple intents.…

cs.CL2025★ 4 cited

Tool-Star: Empowering LLM-Brained Multi-Tool Reasoner via Reinforcement Learning

Guanting Dong, Yifei Chen, Xiaoxi Li +7

Recently, large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable reasoning capabilities via large-scale reinforcement learning (RL). However, leveraging the RL algorithm to empower eff…