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most citedAgent Laboratory: Using LLM Agents as Research Assistants

29 citations · 30 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.CL2026

Instella-MoE Technical Report

Jiang Liu, Sudhanshu Ranjan, Prakamya Mishra +10

In this work, we introduce Instella-MoE, a fully open Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model with 16 billion total parameters and 2.8 billion active parameters per token, trained…

cs.CV2026

VEGAS: Human-Aligned Video Caption Evaluation via Gaze

Shenghui Chen, Po-han Li, Ximeng Sun +5

Vision-language models excel at video captioning, yet typically generate descriptions that fail to capture individual viewers' attention. We propose VEGAS (Video caption Evaluation…

cs.CV2026

VideoSeek: Long-Horizon Video Agent with Tool-Guided Seeking

Jingyang Lin, Jialian Wu, Jiang Liu +6

Video agentic models have advanced challenging video-language tasks. However, most agentic approaches still heavily rely on greedy parsing over densely sampled video frames, result…

cs.AI2026

TermiGen: High-Fidelity Environment and Robust Trajectory Synthesis for Terminal Agents

Kaijie Zhu, Yuzhou Nie, Yijiang Li +10

Executing complex terminal tasks remains a significant challenge for open-weight LLMs, constrained by two fundamental limitations. First, high-fidelity, executable training environ…

cs.CL2026

Reliable Use of Lemmas via Eligibility Reasoning and SectionAware Reinforcement Learning

Zhikun Xu, Xiaodong Yu, Ben Zhou +6

Recent large language models (LLMs) perform strongly on mathematical benchmarks yet often misapply lemmas, importing conclusions without validating assumptions. We formalize lemma$…

cs.CL2026

CD4LM: Consistency Distillation and aDaptive Decoding for Diffusion Language Models

Yihao Liang, Ze Wang, Hao Chen +7

Autoregressive large language models achieve strong results on many benchmarks, but decoding remains fundamentally latency-limited by sequential dependence on previously generated…

cs.CL2025

Instella: Fully Open Language Models with Stellar Performance

Jiang Liu, Jialian Wu, Xiaodong Yu +10

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks, yet the majority of high-performing models remain closed-source or partially ope…

cs.CV2025

Learning from Online Videos at Inference Time for Computer-Use Agents

Yujian Liu, Ze Wang, Hao Chen +7

Computer-use agents can operate computers and automate laborious tasks, but despite recent rapid progress, they still lag behind human users, especially when tasks require domain-s…

cs.CV2025

CaptionQA: Is Your Caption as Useful as the Image Itself?

Shijia Yang, Yunong Liu, Bohan Zhai +5

Image captions serve as efficient surrogates for visual content in multimodal systems such as retrieval, recommendation, and multi-step agentic inference pipelines. Yet current eva…

cs.CV2025

Latent Visual Reasoning

Bangzheng Li, Ximeng Sun, Jiang Liu +7

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved notable gains in various tasks by incorporating Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning in language spaces. Recent work extends this…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

XModBench: Benchmarking Cross-Modal Capabilities and Consistency in Omni-Language Models

Xingrui Wang, Jiang Liu, Chao Huang +7

Omni-modal large language models (OLLMs) aim to unify audio, vision, and text understanding within a single framework. While existing benchmarks primarily evaluate general cross-mo…

cs.CV2025

DRIFT: Transferring Reasoning Priors for Efficient MLLM Fine-Tuning

Chao Huang, Zeliang Zhang, Jiang Liu +7

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made rapid progress, yet their reasoning ability often lags behind strong text-only LLMs. Bridging this gap typically requires large-s…

cs.CV2025

ImageDoctor: Diagnosing Text-to-Image Generation via Grounded Image Reasoning

Yuxiang Guo, Jiang Liu, Ze Wang +7

The rapid advancement of text-to-image (T2I) models has increased the need for reliable human preference modeling, a demand further amplified by recent progress in reinforcement le…

cs.LG2025

APRIL: Active Partial Rollouts in Reinforcement Learning to Tame Long-tail Generation

Yuzhen Zhou, Jiajun Li, Yusheng Su +15

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a cornerstone in advancing large-scale pre-trained language models (LLMs). Successive generations, including GPT-o series, DeepSeek-R1, Kimi-…

cs.CV2025

Instella-T2I: Pushing the Limits of 1D Discrete Latent Space Image Generation

Ze Wang, Hao Chen, Benran Hu +7

Image tokenization plays a critical role in reducing the computational demands of modeling high-resolution images, significantly improving the efficiency of image and multimodal un…

cs.CV2025

Unleashing Hour-Scale Video Training for Long Video-Language Understanding

Jingyang Lin, Jialian Wu, Ximeng Sun +8

Recent long-form video-language understanding benchmarks have driven progress in video large multimodal models (Video-LMMs). However, the scarcity of well-annotated long videos has…

cs.CV2025

MOVi: Training-free Text-conditioned Multi-Object Video Generation

Aimon Rahman, Jiang Liu, Ze Wang +7

Recent advances in diffusion-based text-to-video (T2V) models have demonstrated remarkable progress, but these models still face challenges in generating videos with multiple objec…

cs.CV2025

KeyVID: Keyframe-Aware Video Diffusion for Audio-Synchronized Visual Animation

Xingrui Wang, Jiang Liu, Ze Wang +7

Generating video from various conditions, such as text, image, and audio, enables both spatial and temporal control, leading to high-quality generation results. Videos with dramati…

cs.CL2025

Self-Taught Agentic Long Context Understanding

Yufan Zhuang, Xiaodong Yu, Jialian Wu +7

Answering complex, long-context questions remains a major challenge for large language models (LLMs) as it requires effective question clarifications and context retrieval. We prop…

cs.HC2025★ 29 cited

Agent Laboratory: Using LLM Agents as Research Assistants

Samuel Schmidgall, Yusheng Su, Ze Wang +7

Historically, scientific discovery has been a lengthy and costly process, demanding substantial time and resources from initial conception to final results. To accelerate scientifi…

cs.CV2024

SoftVQ-VAE: Efficient 1-Dimensional Continuous Tokenizer

Hao Chen, Ze Wang, Xiang Li +7

Efficient image tokenization with high compression ratios remains a critical challenge for training generative models. We present SoftVQ-VAE, a continuous image tokenizer that leve…