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20222026
most citedPTDE: Personalized Training with Distilled Execution for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

4 citations · 7 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.AI2026

RankBuffer: Efficient Ranking-Based Rewards for Open-Ended Generation

Zixuan Yang, Yiqun Chen, Qi Liu +6

Open-ended generation lacks canonical answers, making pointwise rewards difficult to calibrate for group-based reinforcement learning. Directly ranking same-query rollouts provides…

cs.AI2026

CoSkill: Joint Reinforcement Learning of Reasoning and Meta-Skill Agents for Hierarchical Skill Evolution

Jinyuan Feng, Dongmin Li, Yiqun Chen +4

Skill libraries improve the sample efficiency of agentic reinforcement learning (RL) by enabling large language model (LLM) agents to reuse procedural knowledge. Yet existing parad…

cs.AI2026

Fetch-then-Explore: Decoupling Selection from Extraction over a Persistent Workspace for Search Agents

Qi Liu, Yiqun Chen, Zidan Chen +6

Search agents now answer questions that take dozens of searches to settle, yet how such an agent reads a page has drawn far less attention than how it finds one. Nearly all of them…

cs.AI2026

DuMate-DeepResearch: An Auditable Multi-Agent System with Recursive Search and Rubric-Grounded Reasoning

Lingyong Yan, Can Xu, Yukun Zhao +13

Deep Research (DR) has emerged as a new agentic paradigm to tackle complex, open-ended research tasks, demanding systems that can iteratively frame problems, acquire evidence, veri…

cs.AI2026

UnityMAS-O: A General RL Optimization Framework for LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems

Yiqun Chen, Wei Yang, Erhan Zhang +14

LLM-based multi-agent systems decompose complex tasks into interacting roles, but most remain manually orchestrated by prompts, tools, and control rules, while agents are rarely op…

cs.AI2026

OASES: Outcome-Aligned Search-Evaluation Co-Training for Agentic Search

Erhan Zhang, Yiqun Chen, Zechun Niu +6

Agentic search enables language models to solve knowledge-intensive tasks by adaptively acquiring external evidence over multiple steps. Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewa…

cs.CL2026

Focus on the Core: Empowering Diffusion Large Language Models by Self-Contrast

Jinyuan Feng, Xin Yu, Yiqun Chen +5

The iterative denoising paradigm of Diffusion Large Language Models (DLMs) endows them with a distinct advantage in global context modeling. However, current decoding strategies fa…

cs.CL2026

Tournament-GRPO: Group-Wise Tournament Rewards for Reinforcement Learning in Open-Ended Long-Form Generation

Zixuan Yang, Yiqun Chen, Wei Yang +7

Reinforcement learning in open-ended long-form generation is challenging because reliable reference answers and automatic metrics are often unavailable. Existing rubric-based metho…

cs.LG2026

MARTI-MARS: Scaling Multi-Agent Self-Search via Reinforcement Learning for Code Generation

Shijie Wang, Pengfei Li, Yikun Fu +21

While the complex reasoning capability of Large Language Models (LLMs) has attracted significant attention, single-agent systems often encounter inherent performance ceilings in co…

cs.IR2026

FITMM: Adaptive Frequency-Aware Multimodal Recommendation via Information-Theoretic Representation Learning

Wei Yang, Rui Zhong, Yiqun Chen +4

Multimodal recommendation aims to enhance user preference modeling by leveraging rich item content such as images and text. Yet dominant systems fuse modalities in the spatial doma…

cs.IR2026

Structured Spectral Reasoning for Frequency-Adaptive Multimodal Recommendation

Wei Yang, Rui Zhong, Yiqun Chen +2

Multimodal recommendation aims to integrate collaborative signals with heterogeneous content such as visual and textual information, but remains challenged by modality-specific noi…

cs.AI2026

Self-Compression of Chain-of-Thought via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Yiqun Chen, Jinyuan Feng, Wei Yang +9

The inference overhead induced by redundant reasoning undermines the interactive experience and severely bottlenecks the deployment of Large Reasoning Models. Existing reinforcemen…

cs.AI2026

JADE: Bridging the Strategic-Operational Gap in Dynamic Agentic RAG

Yiqun Chen, Erhan Zhang, Tianyi Hu +8

The evolution of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has shifted from static retrieval pipelines to dynamic, agentic workflows where a central planner orchestrates multi-turn reas…

cs.AI2026

Beyond Monolithic Architectures: A Multi-Agent Search and Knowledge Optimization Framework for Agentic Search

Yiqun Chen, Lingyong Yan, Zixuan Yang +5

Agentic search has emerged as a promising paradigm for complex information seeking by enabling Large Language Models (LLMs) to interleave reasoning with tool use. However, prevaili…

cs.CL2025

Deep Research: A Systematic Survey

Zhengliang Shi, Yiqun Chen, Haitao Li +23

Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly evolved from text generators into powerful problem solvers. Yet, many open tasks demand critical thinking, multi-source, and verifiable ou…

cs.CL2025

MAO-ARAG: Multi-Agent Orchestration for Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Yiqun Chen, Erhan Zhang, Lingyong Yan +4

In question-answering (QA) systems, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become pivotal in enhancing response accuracy and reducing hallucination issues. The architecture of RA…

cs.IR2025

Leveraging LLMs to Evaluate Usefulness of Document

Xingzhu Wang, Erhan Zhang, Yiqun Chen +7

The conventional Cranfield paradigm struggles to effectively capture user satisfaction due to its weak correlation between relevance and satisfaction, alongside the high costs of r…

cs.CL2025

Towards AI Search Paradigm

Yuchen Li, Hengyi Cai, Rui Kong +20

In this paper, we introduce the AI Search Paradigm, a comprehensive blueprint for next-generation search systems capable of emulating human information processing and decision-maki…

cs.IR2025★ 1 cited

LLM4Ranking: An Easy-to-use Framework of Utilizing Large Language Models for Document Reranking

Qi Liu, Haozhe Duan, Yiqun Chen +3

Utilizing large language models (LLMs) for document reranking has been a popular and promising research direction in recent years, many studies are dedicated to improving the perfo…

cs.CL2025

Improving Retrieval-Augmented Generation through Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Yiqun Chen, Lingyong Yan, Weiwei Sun +6

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is widely utilized to incorporate external knowledge into large language models, thereby enhancing factuality and reducing hallucinations in qu…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

TourRank: Utilizing Large Language Models for Documents Ranking with a Tournament-Inspired Strategy

Yiqun Chen, Qi Liu, Yi Zhang +6

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly employed in zero-shot documents ranking, yielding commendable results. However, several significant challenges still persist in LLMs f…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

MA4DIV: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Search Result Diversification

Yiqun Chen, Jiaxin Mao, Yi Zhang +7

Search result diversification (SRD), which aims to ensure that documents in a ranking list cover a broad range of subtopics, is a significant and widely studied problem in Informat…

cs.AI2022★ 4 cited

PTDE: Personalized Training with Distilled Execution for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Yiqun Chen, Hangyu Mao, Jiaxin Mao +5

Centralized Training with Decentralized Execution (CTDE) has emerged as a widely adopted paradigm in multi-agent reinforcement learning, emphasizing the utilization of global infor…