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cs.CL2026

An Empirical Study of Automating Agent Evaluation

Kang Zhou, Sangmin Woo, Haibo Ding +14

Agent evaluation requires assessing complex multi-step behaviors involving tool use and intermediate reasoning, making it costly and expertise-intensive. A natural question arises:…

cs.CL2026

Beyond Correctness: Rewarding Faithful Reasoning in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Zhichao Xu, Zongyu Wu, Yun Zhou +9

Inspired by the success of reinforcement learning (RL) in Large Language Model (LLM) training for domains like math and code, recent work has begun training LLMs to dynamically pla…

cs.CL2026

Diffusion Language Model Inference with Monte Carlo Tree Search

Zheng Huang, Kiran Ramnath, Yueyan Chen +8

Diffusion language models (DLMs) have recently emerged as a compelling alternative to autoregressive generation, offering parallel generation and improved global coherence. During…

cs.CL2026

Learning to Ideate for Machine Learning Engineering Agents

Yunxiang Zhang, Kang Zhou, Zhichao Xu +5

Existing machine learning engineering (MLE) agents struggle to iteratively optimize their implemented algorithms for effectiveness. To address this, we introduce MLE-Ideator, a dua…

cs.CL2025

Think, Verbalize, then Speak: Bridging Complex Thoughts and Comprehensible Speech

Sang Hoon Woo, Sehun Lee, Kang-wook Kim +1

Spoken dialogue systems increasingly employ large language models (LLMs) to leverage their advanced reasoning capabilities. However, direct application of LLMs in spoken communicat…

cs.CL2025

A Systematic Survey of Automatic Prompt Optimization Techniques

Kiran Ramnath, Kang Zhou, Sheng Guan +18

Since the advent of large language models (LLMs), prompt engineering has been a crucial step for eliciting desired responses for various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. Ho…