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most citedLLM-Forest: Ensemble Learning of LLMs with Graph-Augmented Prompts for Data Imputation

6 citations · 19 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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30 papers

cs.CL2026

Hybrid Reasoning Agents

Jiaru Zou, Yunzhe Qi, Sirui Chen +5

How can we build an agent that thinks beyond human language, yet still acts through it in the external environment? Modern LLM agents still reason and interact through text, while…

cs.LG2026

CURIO: Curiosity-Driven Test-Time Learning for Open-Ended Discovery

Tao Feng, Fangxu Yu, Zijie Lei +5

Open-ended discovery requires learning from repeated attempts while continuing to explore directions whose value is not yet apparent. Search with a frozen large language model (LLM…

cs.AI2026

Evo-Harness: Context-to-Harness Skill Compilation for Self-Evolving Agents

Tianxin Wei, Zhan Shi, Minhua Lin +14

Learning from experience is critical for developing capable, self-improving large language model (LLM) agents. Existing methods typically extract knowledge from accumulated traject…

cs.AI2026

Harnessing Generalist Agents for Contextualized Time Series

Zihao Li, Kaifeng Jin, Yuanchen Bei +8

Time series are often embedded in rich contexts that are essential for holistic modeling. Moreover, real-world practitioners often require end-to-end workflows for analyzing tempor…

q-bio.NC2026

BEAST3D: Animal behavioral analysis and neural encoding from multi-view video via Gaussian splatting

Yanchen Wang, Lenny Aharon, Wangshu Zhu +7

Multi-view video recordings are increasingly used to capture the 3D movements of animals in experimental settings, yet extracting rich 3D representations from these recordings rema…

cs.CL2026

Code as Agent Harness

Xuying Ning, Katherine Tieu, Dongqi Fu +39

Recent large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in understanding and generating code, from competitive programming to repository-level software engineerin…

cs.AI2026

Heterogeneous Scientific Foundation Model Collaboration

Zihao Li, Jiaru Zou, Feihao Fang +6

Agentic large language model systems have demonstrated strong capabilities. However, their reliance on language as the universal interface fundamentally limits their applicability…

cs.IR2026

PaperMind: Benchmarking Agentic Reasoning and Critique over Scientific Papers in Multimodal LLMs

Yanjun Zhao, Tianxin Wei, Jiaru Zou +7

Understanding scientific papers requires more than answering isolated questions or summarizing content. It involves an integrated reasoning process that grounds textual and visual…

cs.CL2026

DIVERSED: Relaxed Speculative Decoding via Dynamic Ensemble Verification

Ziyi Wang, Siva Rajesh Kasa, Ankith M S +6

Speculative decoding is an effective technique for accelerating large language model inference by drafting multiple tokens in parallel. In practice, its speedup is often bottleneck…

cs.CL2026

EvoSelect: Data-Efficient LLM Evolution for Targeted Task Adaptation

Ting-Wei Li, Sirui Chen, Jiaru Zou +4

Adapting large language models (LLMs) to a targeted task efficiently and effectively remains a fundamental challenge. Such adaptation often requires iteratively improving the model…

cs.AI2026

Recursive Multi-Agent Systems

Jiaru Zou, Rui Pan, Ruizhong Qiu +8

Recursive or looped language models have recently emerged as a new scaling axis by iteratively refining the same model computation over latent states to deepen reasoning. We extend…

cs.AI2026

MC-Search: Evaluating and Enhancing Multimodal Agentic Search with Structured Long Reasoning Chains

Xuying Ning, Dongqi Fu, Tianxin Wei +7

With the increasing demand for step-wise, cross-modal, and knowledge-grounded reasoning, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are evolving beyond the traditional fixed retrieve…

cs.LG2026

Influence-Preserving Proxies for Gradient-Based Data Selection in LLM Fine-tuning

Sirui Chen, Yunzhe Qi, Mengting Ai +4

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) relies critically on selecting training data that most benefits a model's downstream performance. Gradient-based data selection methods such as TracIn…

cs.AI2026★ 1 cited

A Survey of Agentic Reasoning for Large Language Models: Towards Recursively Self-Improving and Collective Agents

Tianxin Wei, Ting-Wei Li, Zhining Liu +26

Reasoning is a fundamental cognitive process underlying inference, problem-solving, and decision-making. While large language models (LLMs) demonstrate strong reasoning capabilitie…

cs.AI2026

TSAQA: Time Series Analysis Question And Answering Benchmark

Baoyu Jing, Sanhorn Chen, Lecheng Zheng +13

Time series data are integral to critical applications across domains such as finance, healthcare, transportation, and environmental science. While recent work has begun to explore…

cs.CL2025

AutoTool: Dynamic Tool Selection and Integration for Agentic Reasoning

Jiaru Zou, Ling Yang, Yunzhe Qi +5

Agentic reinforcement learning has advanced large language models (LLMs) to reason through long chain-of-thought trajectories while interleaving external tool use. Existing approac…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Latent Collaboration in Multi-Agent Systems

Jiaru Zou, Ruizhong Qiu, Gaotang Li +10

Multi-agent systems (MAS) extend large language models (LLMs) from independent single-model reasoning to coordinative system-level intelligence. While existing LLM agents depend on…

cs.CL2025

Demystifying Reinforcement Learning in Agentic Reasoning

Zhaochen Yu, Ling Yang, Jiaru Zou +2

Recently, the emergence of agentic RL has showcased that RL could also effectively improve the agentic reasoning ability of LLMs, yet the key design principles and optimal practice…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

TaTToo: Tool-Grounded Thinking PRM for Test-Time Scaling in Tabular Reasoning

Jiaru Zou, Soumya Roy, Vinay Kumar Verma +6

Process Reward Models (PRMs) have recently emerged as a powerful framework for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large reasoning models (LRMs), particularly in the context of…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

ReasonFlux-PRM: Trajectory-Aware PRMs for Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LLMs

Jiaru Zou, Ling Yang, Jingwen Gu +4

Process Reward Models (PRMs) have recently emerged as a powerful framework for supervising intermediate reasoning steps in large language models (LLMs). Previous PRMs are primarily…

cs.CL2025

Zero-Shot Open-Schema Entity Structure Discovery

Xueqiang Xu, Jinfeng Xiao, James Barry +7

Entity structure extraction, which aims to extract entities and their associated attribute-value structures from text, is an essential task for text understanding and knowledge gra…

cs.CL2025

Transformer Copilot: Learning from The Mistake Log in LLM Fine-tuning

Jiaru Zou, Yikun Ban, Zihao Li +4

Large language models are typically adapted to downstream tasks through supervised fine-tuning on domain-specific data. While standard fine-tuning focuses on minimizing generation…

cs.CL2025

RAG over Tables: Hierarchical Memory Index, Multi-Stage Retrieval, and Benchmarking

Jiaru Zou, Dongqi Fu, Sirui Chen +5

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances Large Language Models (LLMs) by integrating them with an external knowledge base to improve the answer relevance and accuracy. In real…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Language in the Flow of Time: Time-Series-Paired Texts Weaved into a Unified Temporal Narrative

Zihao Li, Xiao Lin, Zhining Liu +8

While many advances in time series models focus exclusively on numerical data, research on multimodal time series, particularly those involving contextual textual information, rema…