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most citedAgent Laboratory: Using LLM Agents as Research Assistants

29 citations · 31 across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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37 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

AdaVDR: Adaptive Tool Use and Reflection for Video Deep Research

Xintong Zhang, Xiaomeng Fan, Shilin Yan +7

Video deep research aims to answer questions by jointly understanding video content and retrieving external knowledge from the open Web. However, these tasks often require diverse…

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

Pause and Think: A Dataset and Benchmark for Video-Grounded Assistive Action Suggestion

Shivam Singh, Saptarshi Majumder, Pratik Prabhanjan Brahma +2

Recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) struggle with grounded reasoning, temporal consistency, and context aware planning in videos. We introduce pause-and-think-T, a reasoning-centr…

cs.LG2026

PR2: Predictive Routing Replay for MoE-Based LLM Reinforcement Learning

Daize Dong, Junlin Chen, Haolong Jia +9

Mixture of Experts (MoE) Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve strong performance at scale. However, reinforcement learning (RL) on MoE-based LLMs often suffers from training instab…

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

AdaptEvolve: Improving Efficiency of Evolutionary AI Agents through Adaptive Model Selection

Pretam Ray, Pratik Prabhanjan Brahma, Zicheng Liu +1

Evolutionary agentic systems intensify the trade-off between computational efficiency and reasoning capability by repeatedly invoking large language models (LLMs) during inference.…

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.CL2025

Geak: Introducing Triton Kernel AI Agent & Evaluation Benchmarks

Jianghui Wang, Vinay Joshi, Saptarshi Majumder +7

The demand for AI-generated GPU kernels is rapidly growing, influenced by the need for scalable, hardware-optimized solutions in both industry and academia. As deep learning worklo…

cs.CL2025

SAND-Math: Using LLMs to Generate Novel, Difficult and Useful Mathematics Questions and Answers

Chaitanya Manem, Pratik Prabhanjan Brahma, Prakamya Mishra +2

The demand for Large Language Models (LLMs) at multiple scales, capable of sophisticated and sound mathematical reasoning, continues to grow. However, the development of performant…

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.CL2025

TTT-Bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Reasoning Ability with Simple and Novel Tic-Tac-Toe-style Games

Prakamya Mishra, Jiang Liu, Jialian Wu +3

Large reasoning models (LRMs) have demonstrated impressive reasoning capabilities across a broad range of tasks including Olympiad-level mathematical problems, indicating evidence…

cs.CV2025

Hallucination at a Glance: Controlled Visual Edits and Fine-Grained Multimodal Learning

Tianyi Bai, Yuxuan Fan, Jiantao Qiu +7

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved strong performance on vision-language tasks but still struggle with fine-grained visual differences, leading to hallucination…

cs.CL2025

TaDA: Training-free recipe for Decoding with Adaptive KV Cache Compression and Mean-centering

Vinay Joshi, Pratik Prabhanjan Brahma, Zicheng Liu +1

The key-value (KV) cache in transformer models is a critical component for efficient decoding or inference, yet its memory demands scale poorly with sequence length, posing a major…