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cs.LG2026

Coding Agent Memory Post-training: Unlocking the Memory Potential of Pre-trained File Operations for Long-Horizon Tasks via Reinforcement Learning

Lirui Luo, Kelong Mao, Heming Xia +10

Language-model agents increasingly tackle long-horizon tasks whose interaction histories exceed the model's active context. Recent work has begun to use reinforcement learning to m…

cs.AI2026

Optical Reasoning: Rethinking Images as an Expressive Reasoning Medium Beyond Text

Yutong Bian, Dongjie Cheng, Heming Xia +2

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) improves the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) and has been extended to Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). More recent work further moves fr…

cs.CL2026

ToolSpec: Accelerating Tool Calling via Schema-Aware and Retrieval-Augmented Speculative Decoding

Heming Xia, Yongqi Li, Cunxiao Du +2

Tool calling has greatly expanded the practical utility of large language models (LLMs) by enabling them to interact with external applications. As LLM capabilities advance, effect…

cs.AI2026

Finding RELIEF: Shaping Reasoning Behavior without Reasoning Supervision via Belief Engineering

Chak Tou Leong, Dingwei Chen, Heming Xia +4

Large reasoning models (LRMs) have achieved remarkable success in complex problem-solving, yet they often suffer from computational redundancy or reasoning unfaithfulness. Current…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

LLM-REVal: Can We Trust LLM Reviewers Yet?

Rui Li, Jia-Chen Gu, Po-Nien Kung +5

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has inspired researchers to integrate them extensively into the academic workflow, potentially reshaping how research is pract…

cs.CL2025

Merlin's Whisper: Enabling Efficient Reasoning in Large Language Models via Black-box Persuasive Prompting

Heming Xia, Cunxiao Du, Rui Li +3

Large reasoning models (LRMs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in tackling complex tasks through step-by-step thinking. However, this lengthy reasoning process incurs subst…

cs.CL2025

From Query to Logic: Ontology-Driven Multi-Hop Reasoning in LLMs

Haonan Bian, Yutao Qi, Rui Yang +4

Large Language Models (LLMs), despite their success in question answering, exhibit limitations in complex multi-hop question answering (MQA) tasks that necessitate non-linear, stru…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Reasoning Beyond Language: A Comprehensive Survey on Latent Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Xinghao Chen, Anhao Zhao, Heming Xia +7

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive performance on complex tasks through Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. However, conventional CoT relies on explicitly verbalized…

cs.CL2025

KNN-SSD: Enabling Dynamic Self-Speculative Decoding via Nearest Neighbor Layer Set Optimization

Mingbo Song, Heming Xia, Jun Zhang +4

Speculative Decoding (SD) has emerged as a widely used paradigm to accelerate the inference of large language models (LLMs) without compromising generation quality. It works by eff…

cs.CL2025

Tutorial Proposal: Speculative Decoding for Efficient LLM Inference

Heming Xia, Cunxiao Du, Yongqi Li +2

This tutorial presents a comprehensive introduction to Speculative Decoding (SD), an advanced technique for LLM inference acceleration that has garnered significant research intere…

cs.CL2025

PEToolLLM: Towards Personalized Tool Learning in Large Language Models

Qiancheng Xu, Yongqi Li, Heming Xia +3

Tool learning has emerged as a promising direction by extending Large Language Models' (LLMs) capabilities with external tools. Existing tool learning studies primarily focus on th…

cs.CL2025

How Far are LLMs from Being Our Digital Twins? A Benchmark for Persona-Based Behavior Chain Simulation

Rui Li, Heming Xia, Xinfeng Yuan +4

Recently, LLMs have garnered increasing attention across academic disciplines for their potential as human digital twins, virtual proxies designed to replicate individuals and auto…

cs.CL2025

Beyond Single Frames: Can LMMs Comprehend Temporal and Contextual Narratives in Image Sequences?

Xiaochen Wang, Heming Xia, Jialin Song +9

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have achieved remarkable success across various visual-language tasks. However, existing benchmarks predominantly focus on single-image understanding…

cs.CL2025

TokenSkip: Controllable Chain-of-Thought Compression in LLMs

Heming Xia, Chak Tou Leong, Wenjie Wang +2

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) has been proven effective in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). Recent advancements, such as OpenAI's o1 and DeepSeek-R1,…

cs.SE2024

AppBench: Planning of Multiple APIs from Various APPs for Complex User Instruction

Hongru Wang, Rui Wang, Boyang Xue +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) can interact with the real world by connecting with versatile external APIs, resulting in better problem-solving and task automation capabilities. Prev…

cs.CL2024

SWIFT: On-the-Fly Self-Speculative Decoding for LLM Inference Acceleration

Heming Xia, Yongqi Li, Jun Zhang +2

Speculative decoding (SD) has emerged as a widely used paradigm to accelerate LLM inference without compromising quality. It works by first employing a compact model to draft multi…

cs.CL2024

Enhancing Tool Retrieval with Iterative Feedback from Large Language Models

Qiancheng Xu, Yongqi Li, Heming Xia +1

Tool learning aims to enhance and expand large language models' (LLMs) capabilities with external tools, which has gained significant attention recently. Current methods have shown…