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6 papers

cs.CL2026

Belief-Trajectory Energy: Measuring the Path to a Prediction

Jiahao Ying, Wei Tang, Boxian Ai +7

Large language models (LLMs) progressively revise their predictions across Transformer layers, yet we typically observe only the final output, discarding the trajectory through whi…

cs.AI2026

ICAE-Bench: Evaluating Coding Agents as Interactive Project Builders

Zhongyuan Peng, Dan Huang, Chuyu Zhang +8

The recent emergence of vibe-coding workflows is changing what coding agents are expected to do. Instead of merely completing code under fully specified instructions, agents are in…

cs.AI2026

DenoiseRL: Bootstrapping Reasoning Models to Recover from Noisy Prefixes

Caijun Xu, Changyi Xiao, Zhongyuan Peng +1

Reinforcement learning has become a central paradigm for advancing reasoning in large language models, yet most existing methods still depend on stronger teacher models or heavily…

cs.LG2026

Reinforcement Learning with Conditional Expectation Reward

Changyi Xiao, Caijun Xu, Yixin Cao

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has proven effective in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models, particularly in domains such as mathema…

cs.CL2026

CoDiQ: Test-Time Scaling for Controllable Difficult Question Generation

Zhongyuan Peng, Caijun Xu, Changyi Xiao +4

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) benefit substantially from training on challenging competition-level questions. However, existing automated question synthesis methods lack precise di…

cs.AI2026

SCALER:Synthetic Scalable Adaptive Learning Environment for Reasoning

Caijun Xu, Changyi Xiao, Zhongyuan Peng +2

Reinforcement learning (RL) offers a principled way to enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models, yet its effectiveness hinges on training signals that remain inf…