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most citedAutonomous Agents for Scientific Discovery: Orchestrating Scientists, Language, Code, and Physics

1 citations · 1 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.AI2026

AutoSFT: An Agentic System for Automated Data Research in Supervised Fine-Tuning

Bingxiang He, Pengqi Sun, Shihao Peng +18

Language model agents increasingly automate post-training, but when given the full training stack they converge on supervised fine-tuning and spend most effort revising training da…

cs.CL2026

Co-Evolution in Agentic Systems: Toward Self-Directed Evolution Beyond Human Design

Qing Zong, Jiayu Liu, Junhao Shen +9

Agentic systems are increasingly expected to improve after deployment, yet single-entity self-evolution is often bounded by a static learning context, such as fixed tasks and feedb…

cs.AI2026

BioInsight: Multi-Agent Orchestration for Interactive Biomedical Knowledge Discovery

Jieyi Wang, Bingxuan Li, Nanyi Jiang +9

Biomedical deep-research systems increasingly retrieve and synthesize scientific evidence, but their outputs typically collapse heterogeneous evidence into static text, making prov…

cs.LG2026

Teaching LLMs to Self-Evolve: Cultivating Core Meta-Skills with Reinforcement Learning

Shujin Wu, Cheng Qian, Xiusi Chen +1

Test-time scaling through iterative self-evolution with environment feedback, as demonstrated by AlphaEvolve, shows remarkable performance gains. We hypothesize that the success of…

cs.CL2026

AdaPlanBench: Evaluating Adaptive Planning in Large Language Model Agents under World and User Constraints

Jiayu Liu, Cheng Qian, Zhenhailong Wang +10

Planning for real-world problems by language models often involves both world and user constraints, which may not be fully specified upfront and are progressively disclosed through…

cs.AI2026

PlanBench-XL: Evaluating Long-Horizon Planning of LLM Tool-Use Agents in Large-Scale Tool Ecosystems

Jiayu Liu, Qihan Lin, Cheng Qian +8

LLM agents increasingly operate in large tool ecosystems, where real-world tasks require discovering relevant tools, inferring implicit sub-goals, and adapting to dynamic environme…

cs.AI2026

Advancing Creative Physical Intelligence in Large Multimodal Models

Cheng Qian, Hyeonjeong Ha, Jiayu Liu +10

Large multimodal models (LMMs) have rapidly advanced in perception and reasoning; however, it remains unclear whether these capabilities generalize to discovering visually grounded…

cs.AI2026

CreativityBench: Evaluating Agent Creative Reasoning via Affordance-Based Tool Repurposing

Cheng Qian, Hyeonjeong Ha, Jiayu Liu +10

Recent advances in large language models have led to strong performance on reasoning and environment-interaction tasks, yet their ability for creative problem-solving remains under…

cs.LG2026

How Far Can Unsupervised RLVR Scale LLM Training?

Bingxiang He, Yuxin Zuo, Zeyuan Liu +18

Unsupervised reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (URLVR) offers a pathway to scale LLM training beyond the supervision bottleneck by deriving rewards without ground trut…

cs.LG2026

Decoding the Critique Mechanism in Large Reasoning Models

Hoang Phan, Quang H. Nguyen, Hung T. Q. Le +3

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) exhibit backtracking and self-verification mechanisms that enable them to revise intermediate steps and reach correct solutions, yielding strong perfo…

cs.AI2026

Why Reasoning Fails to Plan: A Planning-Centric Analysis of Long-Horizon Decision Making in LLM Agents

Zehong Wang, Fang Wu, Hongru Wang +8

Large language model (LLM)-based agents exhibit strong step-by-step reasoning capabilities over short horizons, yet often fail to sustain coherent behavior over long planning horiz…

cs.AI2026

Current Agents Fail to Leverage World Model as Tool for Foresight

Cheng Qian, Emre Can Acikgoz, Bingxuan Li +8

Agents built on vision-language models increasingly face tasks that demand anticipating future states rather than relying on short-horizon reasoning. Generative world models offer…

cs.CL2026

PEARL: Self-Evolving Assistant for Time Management with Reinforcement Learning

Bingxuan Li, Jeonghwan Kim, Cheng Qian +4

Overlapping calendar invitations force busy professionals to repeatedly decide which meetings to attend, reschedule, or decline. We refer to this preference-driven decision process…

cs.CL2025

Veri-R1: Toward Precise and Faithful Claim Verification via Online Reinforcement Learning

Qi He, Cheng Qian, Xiusi Chen +3

Claim verification with large language models (LLMs) has recently attracted growing attention, due to their strong reasoning capabilities and transparent verification processes com…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

Autonomous Agents for Scientific Discovery: Orchestrating Scientists, Language, Code, and Physics

Lianhao Zhou, Hongyi Ling, Cong Fu +14

Computing has long served as a cornerstone of scientific discovery. Recently, a paradigm shift has emerged with the rise of large language models (LLMs), introducing autonomous sys…

cs.CL2025

Beyond Log Likelihood: Probability-Based Objectives for Supervised Fine-Tuning across the Model Capability Continuum

Gaotang Li, Ruizhong Qiu, Xiusi Chen +2

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is the standard approach for post-training large language models (LLMs), yet it often shows limited generalization. We trace this limitation to its def…

cs.CL2024

EscapeBench: Towards Advancing Creative Intelligence of Language Model Agents

Cheng Qian, Peixuan Han, Qinyu Luo +9

Language model agents excel in long-session planning and reasoning, but existing benchmarks primarily focus on goal-oriented tasks with explicit objectives, neglecting creative ada…