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most citedSpeculative RAG: Enhancing Retrieval Augmented Generation through Drafting

7 citations · 10 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.LG2026

RRSI: Regularized Recursive Self-Improvement of Agent Harnesses

Peng Xia, Rujun Han, Zifeng Wang +11

An LLM agent's capability is largely magnified by its harness, namely the prompts, control flow, tooling, memory, and context management surrounding the frozen backbone model. Rece…

cs.AI2026

EnvHarness: Awakening Static Worlds for Agent Learning

Chengsong Huang, Zifeng Wang, Rujun Han +14

LLM agents learn by interacting with environments, yet these environments are hand-built and static: blind to an agent's weaknesses, and quickly left behind as it improves. While r…

cs.CL2026

FinanceHarness: Autonomous Financial Deep Research Framework

Yijia Xiao, Rujun Han, Yanfei Chen +8

Powered by advances in LLMs and autonomous agents, deep research has become one of the most widely adopted agentic products. However, most deep research systems write general-purpo…

cs.CL2026

RubricEM: Meta-RL with Rubric-guided Policy Decomposition beyond Verifiable Rewards

Gaotang Li, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Zifeng Wang +9

Deep research agents plan, search, evaluate evidence, and synthesize long-form reports. Training these agents with reinforcement learning (RL) is challenging because they operate o…

cs.AI2026

SkillOS: Learning Skill Curation for Self-Evolving Agents

Siru Ouyang, Jun Yan, Yanfei Chen +13

LLM-based agents are increasingly deployed to handle streaming tasks, yet they often remain one-off problem solvers that fail to learn from past interactions. Reusable skills disti…

cs.AI2026

SAGE: Steerable Agentic Data Generation for Deep Search with Execution Feedback

Fangyuan Xu, Rujun Han, Yanfei Chen +7

Deep search agents, which aim to answer complex questions requiring reasoning across multiple documents, can significantly speed up the information-seeking process. Collecting huma…

cs.CL2025

HEART: Emotionally-Driven Test-Time Scaling of Language Models

Gabriela Pinto, Palash Goyal, Mihir Parmar +6

Test-time scaling has significantly improved how AI models solve problems, yet current methods often get stuck in repetitive, incorrect patterns of thought. We introduce HEART, a f…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Universal Model Routing for Efficient LLM Inference

Wittawat Jitkrittum, Harikrishna Narasimhan, Ankit Singh Rawat +9

Model routing is a simple technique for reducing the inference cost of large language models (LLMs), wherein one maintains a pool of candidate LLMs, and learns to route each prompt…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Speculative Knowledge Distillation: Bridging the Teacher-Student Gap Through Interleaved Sampling

Wenda Xu, Rujun Han, Zifeng Wang +7

Recent advances in knowledge distillation (KD) have enabled smaller student models to approach the performance of larger teacher models. However, popular methods such as supervised…

cs.CL2024★ 7 cited

Speculative RAG: Enhancing Retrieval Augmented Generation through Drafting

Zilong Wang, Zifeng Wang, Long Le +9

Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) combines the generative abilities of large language models (LLMs) with external knowledge sources to provide more accurate and up-to-date respo…