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most citedThe Landscape of Agentic Reinforcement Learning for LLMs: A Survey

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32 papers

cs.RO2026

Trust-Calibrated VLA Policy Post-Training with Evolving Imagination

Wenzhan Li, Yiran Qin, Heng Zhou +3

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are often pretrained via imitation learning, making reinforcement learning (RL) post-training important when deployment moves beyond demonstrati…

cs.LG2026

DuoOPD: Learning from Joint Teacher-Student Outcomes for Multi-Task On-Policy Distillation

Ao Yu, Weibo Gao, Heng Zhou +6

On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student on its own responses with token-level feedback from a stronger teacher, yet the teacher can fail on questions the student already answ…

cs.RO2026

MAAP: Multi-Agent Active Perception for Collaborative Manipulation

Bruno N. Y. Chen, Li Kang, Heng Zhou +4

Multi-agent manipulation naturally produces multiple task-driven viewpoints: every arm carries a wrist camera and moves through the scene while acting. Yet these observations are t…

cs.RO2026

MA-VLA: Multi-Arm Vision-Language-Action Model for Collaboration and Compositional Generalization

Zaibin Zhang, Junlan Xiao, Zhongbo Zhang +11

Multi-arm collaboration is becoming a core capability in embodied manipulation. Recent vision-language-action (VLA) models integrate perception, language, and control, but most rep…

cs.AI2026

Emotion2Skill: Model-Internal Emotion Signals for Adaptive Skill Selection and Evolution

Bohan Lin, Hejia Geng, Xinyi Xie +5

Skill-based LLM agents select reusable procedures from external libraries to solve complex tasks, yet their routing decisions rely primarily on task descriptions, verbal reflection…

cs.AI2026

LatticeMind: A Conflict-Aware Memory Primitive for Multi-Agent Systems

Heng Zhou, Lian Zhang, Yutao Fan +5

Multi-agent LLM systems often fail not for lack of candidate answers, but because they have no persistent mechanism for deciding which incompatible claim should currently be truste…

cs.CV2026

ViMax: Agentic Video Generation

Lingxuan Huang, Sizhe He, Hengji Zhou +3

Long-form video generation requires systematic narrative planning and visual consistency that current short-clip methods cannot provide. Existing methods generate isolated sequence…

cs.CV2026

DramaDirector: Geometry-Guided Short Drama Generation

Hengji Zhou, Sijie Liu, Jianrun Chen +3

Short dramas, with their rapid shot rhythms, dialogue-driven focus shifts, and demanding cinematographic grounding, pose challenges that prompt-level or text-only video generation…

cs.CV2026

VideoAgent: All-in-One Framework for Video Understanding and Editing

Hengji Zhou, Lingxuan Huang, Jian Wang +4

Video editing has become essential in digital media creation, yet existing automated systems are restricted to short segment processing and domain-specific tasks. They face two cri…

cs.AI2026

Navigating User Behavior toward Personalized Multimodal Generation

Hengji Zhou, Yufeng Liu, Ye Liu +3

Modern AIGC pipelines deliver high-fidelity images and videos but presuppose a well-formed creation instruction, while end users rarely articulate visual details, leaving generator…

cs.AI2026

TailorMind: Towards Preference-Aligned Multimodal Content Generation

Hengji Zhou, Ye Liu, Yufeng Liu +3

Personalized content systems depend on available UGC and struggle when suitable content is absent, delayed, or costly to create. Although multimodal generators can synthesize conte…

cs.RO2026

ComSim: Building Scalable Real-World Robot Data Generation via Compositional Simulation

Yiran Qin, Jiahua Ma, Li Kang +11

Recent advancements in foundational models, such as large language models and world models, have greatly enhanced the capabilities of robotics, enabling robots to autonomously perf…

cs.CL2026

Select-then-Solve: Paradigm Routing as Inference-Time Optimization for LLM Agents

Heng Zhou, Zelin Tan, Zhemeng Zhang +15

When an LLM-based agent improves on a task, is the gain from the model itself or from the reasoning paradigm wrapped around it? We study this question by comparing six inference-ti…

cs.RO2026

CoEnv: Driving Embodied Multi-Agent Collaboration via Compositional Environment

Li Kang, Yutao Fan, Rui Li +11

Multi-agent embodied systems hold promise for complex collaborative manipulation, yet face critical challenges in spatial coordination, temporal reasoning, and shared workspace awa…

cs.RO2026

Ego to World: Collaborative Spatial Reasoning in Embodied Systems via Reinforcement Learning

Heng Zhou, Li Kang, Yiran Qin +12

Understanding the world from distributed, partial viewpoints is a fundamental challenge for embodied multi-agent systems. Each agent perceives the environment through an ego-centri…

cs.CV2026

Reading Seeing: Diagnosing and Closing the Typography Gap in Vision-Language Models

Heng Zhou, Ao Yu, Li Kang +5

Vision-Language Models achieve near-perfect accuracy at reading text in images, yet prove largely typography-blind: capable of recognizing what text says, but not how it looks. We…

cs.AI2026

ATP-Bench: Towards Agentic Tool Planning for MLLM Interleaved Generation

Yinuo Liu, Zi Qian, Heng Zhou +7

Interleaved text-and-image generation represents a significant frontier for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), offering a more intuitive way to convey complex information. C…

cs.CV2026

From Perception to Action: An Interactive Benchmark for Vision Reasoning

Yuhao Wu, Maojia Song, Yihuai Lan +8

Understanding the physical structure is essential for real-world applications such as embodied agents, interactive design, and long-horizon manipulation. Yet, prevailing Vision-Lan…

cs.LG2026★ 1 cited

State Rank Dynamics in Linear Attention LLMs

Ao Sun, Hongtao Zhang, Heng Zhou +9

Linear Attention Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a compelling recurrent formulation that compresses context into a fixed-size state matrix, enabling constant-time inference. How…

cs.RO2026

Advances and Innovations in the Multi-Agent Robotic System (MARS) Challenge

Li Kang, Heng Zhou, Xiufeng Song +41

Recent advancements in multimodal large language models and vision-languageaction models have significantly driven progress in Embodied AI. As the field transitions toward more com…

cs.AI2026

Toward Efficient Agents: Memory, Tool learning, and Planning

Xiaofang Yang, Lijun Li, Heng Zhou +12

Recent years have witnessed increasing interest in extending large language models into agentic systems. While the effectiveness of agents has continued to improve, efficiency, whi…

cs.CL2025

LiveSearchBench: An Automatically Constructed Benchmark for Retrieval and Reasoning over Dynamic Knowledge

Heng Zhou, Ao Yu, Yuchen Fan +10

Evaluating large language models (LLMs) on question answering often relies on static benchmarks that reward memorization and understate the role of retrieval, failing to capture th…

cs.LG2025

Scaling Behaviors of LLM Reinforcement Learning Post-Training: An Empirical Study in Mathematical Reasoning

Zelin Tan, Hejia Geng, Xiaohang Yu +14

While scaling laws for large language models (LLMs) during pre-training have been extensively studied, their behavior under reinforcement learning (RL) post-training remains largel…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

The Landscape of Agentic Reinforcement Learning for LLMs: A Survey

Guibin Zhang, Hejia Geng, Xiaohang Yu +22

The emergence of agentic reinforcement learning (Agentic RL) marks a paradigm shift from conventional reinforcement learning applied to large language models (LLM RL), reframing LL…