activity
20242026
collaborators

9 papers

cs.LG2026

ProCUA-SFT Technical Report

Jaehun Jung, Ximing Lu, Brandon Cui +11

Training computer-use agents (CUAs) -- models that interact with graphical desktops through screenshots and keyboard/mouse actions -- requires large-scale, diverse trajectory data…

cs.CL2026

Logit Arithmetic Elicits Long Reasoning Capabilities Without Training

Yunxiang Zhang, Muhammad Khalifa, Lechen Zhang +5

Large reasoning models exhibit long chain-of-thought reasoning with complex strategies such as backtracking and self-verification. Yet, these capabilities typically require resourc…

cs.LG2026

Countdown-Code: A Testbed for Studying The Emergence and Generalization of Reward Hacking in RLVR

Muhammad Khalifa, Zohaib Khan, Omer Tafveez +2

Reward hacking is a form of misalignment in which models overoptimize proxy rewards without genuinely solving the underlying task. Precisely measuring reward hacking occurrence rem…

cs.AI2026

Gaming the Judge: Unfaithful Chain-of-Thought Can Undermine Agent Evaluation

Muhammad Khalifa, Lajanugen Logeswaran, Jaekyeom Kim +6

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as judges to evaluate agent performance, particularly in non-verifiable settings where judgments rely on agent trajectories inclu…

cs.AI2025

MLRC-Bench: Can Language Agents Solve Machine Learning Research Challenges?

Yunxiang Zhang, Muhammad Khalifa, Shitanshu Bhushan +6

We introduce MLRC-Bench, a benchmark designed to quantify how effectively language agents can tackle challenging Machine Learning (ML) Research Competitions, with a focus on open r…

cs.CL2025

Logit Arithmetic Elicits Long Reasoning Capabilities Without Training

Yunxiang Zhang, Muhammad Khalifa, Lechen Zhang +5

Large reasoning models (LRMs) can do complex reasoning via long chain-of-thought (CoT) involving cognitive strategies such as backtracking and self-correction. Recent studies sugge…