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most citedAdvances and Challenges in Foundation Agents: From Brain-Inspired Intelligence to Evolutionary, Collaborative, and Safe Systems

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cs.CL2026

Gap Detection: Mitigating Homogenization through Demand and Defensibility

Xucheng Yu, Haibo Jin, Xiaoqi Wang +2

Language models often produce semantically similar answers to open-ended questions, even when many plausible alternatives exist. Generating useful alternatives requires identifying…

cs.AI2026

Let the Library Speak: Self-Advertised Method Selection for Formal Proving

Xiaopeng Yuan, Suijin Wang, Yanli Wang +5

LLM-based formal provers can retrieve relevant lemmas and prior proofs, but relevance alone does not say whether a mathematical method can be used on the current theorem. A method…

cs.SE2026

Large-scale Repository Engineering via Agent-Native Reusable Code Primitives

Haibo Jin, Peng Kuang, Xucheng Yu +3

Large language models equipped with development environments have moved code generation toward repository-scale construction, yet building complete repositories remains difficult b…

cs.AI2026

ANTMAN: Adaptive Need Tracking for Multi-Agent Navigation in Large Information Spaces

Jerry Wang, Haibo Jin, Xiaopeng Yuan +2

Information-seeking agents increasingly operate over information spaces that are too large to process exhaustively. Yet many multi-agent systems organize computation around static…

cs.SE2026

Harness Engineering in LLM Tool Use via Agent-Native Reusable Tool Primitives

Haibo Jin, Suijin Wang, Xucheng Yu +2

Large language models (LLMs) augmented with external tools have demonstrated remarkable capability in solving complex real-world tasks. However, existing approaches suffer from two…

cs.AI2026

KV-PRM: Efficient Process Reward Modeling via KV-Cache Transfer for Multi-Agent Test-Time Scaling

Peng Kuang, Haibo Jin, Xiaoyu Han +5

Process Reward Models (PRMs) have been proven to be highly effective in guiding test-time scaling (TTS) methods, which significantly boost the capabilities of LLM-based multi-agent…

cs.CL2026

Preference Tuning as Spectral Update Reorganization

Peiyan Zhang, Haibo Jin, Liying Kang +1

Preference-based post-training is usually understood through endpoint behavior, yet the learned update that produces this behavior remains largely opaque. We study RLHF and related…

cs.AI2026

Closing the Loop on Latent Reasoning via Test-Time Reconstruction

Xiaopeng Yuan, Haibo Jin, Ye Yu +4

Recent work moves intermediate reasoning from natural-language traces into latent or cache-level representations to reduce token overhead and avoid a discrete communication bottlen…

cs.LG2026

SCI-Defense: Defending Manipulation Attacks from Generative Engine Optimization

Xucheng Yu, Haibo Jin, Huimin Zeng +1

LLM-based ranking systems are vulnerable to Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) attacks, where adversaries inject semantic signals into product descriptions to artificially boost…

cs.CL2026

TextReg: Mitigating Prompt Distributional Overfitting via Regularized Text-Space Optimization

Lucheng Fu, Ye Yu, Yiyang Wang +4

Large language models (LLMs) are highly sensitive to the prompts used to specify task objectives and behavioral constraints. Many recent prompt optimization methods iteratively rew…

cs.AI2026

Do Self-Evolving Agents Forget? Capability Degradation and Preservation in Lifelong LLM Agent Adaptation

Ye Yu, Xiaopeng Yuan, Haibo Jin +3

Recent advances in LLM agents enable systems that autonomously refine workflows, accumulate reusable skills, self-train their underlying models, and maintain persistent memory. How…

cs.AI2026

Learning to Communicate: Toward End-to-End Optimization of Multi-Agent Language Systems

Ye Yu, Heming Liu, Haibo Jin +3

Multi-agent systems built on large language models have shown strong performance on complex reasoning tasks, yet most work focuses on agent roles and orchestration while treating i…

cs.CL2026

Controlling Output Rankings in LLM-Based Search via Generative Engine Optimization

Haibo Jin, Ruoxi Chen, Peiyan Zhang +4

The way customers search for and choose products is changing with the rise of large language models (LLMs). LLM-based search, or generative engines, provides direct product recomme…

cs.MA2026

Agent Primitives: Reusable Latent Building Blocks for Multi-Agent Systems

Haibo Jin, Peng Kuang, Ye Yu +2

While existing multi-agent systems (MAS) can handle complex problems by enabling collaboration among multiple agents, they are often highly task-specific, relying on manually craft…

cs.CL2026

Now You Hear Me: Audio Narrative Attacks Against Large Audio-Language Models

Ye Yu, Haibo Jin, Yaoning Yu +2

Large audio-language models increasingly operate on raw speech inputs, enabling more seamless integration across domains such as voice assistants, education, and clinical triage. T…

cs.CR2026

Crafting Adversarial Inputs for Large Vision-Language Models Using Black-Box Optimization

Jiwei Guan, Haibo Jin, Haohan Wang

Recent advancements in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown groundbreaking capabilities across diverse multimodal tasks. However, these models remain vulnerable to adver…

cs.CL2025

Learning to Conceal Risk: Controllable Multi-turn Red Teaming for LLMs in the Financial Domain

Gang Cheng, Haibo Jin, Wenbin Zhang +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in finance, where unsafe behavior can lead to serious regulatory risks. However, most red-teaming research focuses on overtly…

cs.CL2025

GUARD: Guideline Upholding Test through Adaptive Role-play and Jailbreak Diagnostics for LLMs

Haibo Jin, Ruoxi Chen, Peiyan Zhang +3

As Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly integral to various domains, their potential to generate harmful responses has prompted significant societal and regulatory conc…

cs.LG2025

GuardVal: Dynamic Large Language Model Jailbreak Evaluation for Comprehensive Safety Testing

Peiyan Zhang, Haibo Jin, Liying Kang +1

Jailbreak attacks reveal critical vulnerabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs) by causing them to generate harmful or unethical content. Evaluating these threats is particularly…

cs.CR2025

InfoFlood: Jailbreaking Large Language Models with Information Overload

Advait Yadav, Haibo Jin, Man Luo +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various domains. However, their potential to generate harmful responses has raised significant societa…

cs.CV2025

From Hallucinations to Jailbreaks: Rethinking the Vulnerability of Large Foundation Models

Haibo Jin, Peiyan Zhang, Peiran Wang +2

Large foundation models (LFMs) are susceptible to two distinct vulnerabilities: hallucinations and jailbreak attacks. While typically studied in isolation, we observe that defenses…

cs.CV2025

Reasoning Can Hurt the Inductive Abilities of Large Language Models

Haibo Jin, Peiyan Zhang, Man Luo +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable progress across domains, yet their ability to perform inductive reasoning - inferring latent rules from sparse examples - remains…

cs.CL2025

Exploring the Vulnerability of the Content Moderation Guardrail in Large Language Models via Intent Manipulation

Jun Zhuang, Haibo Jin, Ye Zhang +4

Intent detection, a core component of natural language understanding, has considerably evolved as a crucial mechanism in safeguarding large language models (LLMs). While prior work…

cs.AI2025★ 16 cited

Advances and Challenges in Foundation Agents: From Brain-Inspired Intelligence to Evolutionary, Collaborative, and Safe Systems

Bang Liu, Xinfeng Li, Jiayi Zhang +45

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has catalyzed a transformative shift in artificial intelligence, paving the way for advanced intelligent agents capable of sophisticated…