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cs.AI2026

Quantifying Consistency in LLM Logical Reasoning via Structural Uncertainty

Baishali Chaudhury, Mengdie Flora Wang, Hyunji Hayley Park +3

Large language models can arrive at the same answer through reasoning paths that are unstable, contradictory, or difficult to rank consistently -- a failure mode especially prevale…

cs.AI2026

Knowing When to Ask: Self-Gated Clarification for Hierarchical Language Agents

Aijing Gao, Yiming Kang, Mengdie Flora Wang +1

In hierarchical reasoning, failures often originate at intermediate decision points where the agent commits to a wrong branch without recognizing that it lacks critical information…

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Position: Agent Should Invoke External Tools ONLY When Epistemically Necessary

Hongru Wang, Cheng Qian, Manling Li +6

As large language models evolve into tool-augmented agents, a central question remains unresolved: when is external tool use actually justified? Existing agent frameworks typically…

cs.AI2026

Avenir-Web: Human-Experience-Imitating Multimodal Web Agents with Mixture of Grounding Experts

Aiden Yiliu Li, Xinyue Hao, Shilong Liu +1

Despite advances in multimodal large language models, autonomous web agents still struggle to reliably execute long-horizon tasks on complex and dynamic web interfaces. Existing ag…

cs.AI2026

FutureX-Pro: Extending Future Prediction to High-Value Vertical Domains

Jiashuo Liu, Siyuan Chen, Zaiyuan Wang +38

Building upon FutureX, which established a live benchmark for general-purpose future prediction, this report introduces FutureX-Pro, including FutureX-Finance, FutureX-Retail, Futu…

cs.AI2026

A Survey of Self-Evolving Agents: What, When, How, and Where to Evolve on the Path to Artificial Super Intelligence

Huan-ang Gao, Jiayi Geng, Wenyue Hua +24

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse tasks but remain fundamentally static, unable to adapt their internal parameters to novel task…