most citedReassessing the Role of Supervised Fine-Tuning: An Empirical Study in VLM Reasoning

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cs.CL2026

Facts Don't Speak Louder than Words: The Behavioral Essence of Long-CoT Distillation

Yongcan Yu, Jian Liang, Lingxiao He +5

While long chain-of-thought (CoT) distillation significantly improves the reasoning abilities of language models, its underlying mechanism remains poorly understood. Current pipeli…

cs.CL2026

DualStake: Dual-Path Confidence Calibration in Deep Research Agents

Yinuo Xu, Yuwei Liang, Jianjie Cheng +4

Deep Research agents tackle knowledge-intensive tasks through multi-round retrieval and decision-oriented generation. However, these agents suffer from severe overconfidence, makin…

cs.CL2026

How to Train Your Deep Research Agent? Prompt, Reward, and Policy Optimization in Search-R1

Yinuo Xu, Shuo Lu, Jianjie Cheng +5

Deep Research agents tackle knowledge-intensive tasks through multi-round retrieval and decision-oriented generation. While reinforcement learning (RL) has been shown to improve pe…

cs.AI2026

Do MLLMs Really Understand Space? A Mathematical Reasoning Evaluation

Shuo Lu, Jianjie Cheng, Yinuo Xu +16

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved strong performance on perception-oriented tasks, yet their ability to perform mathematical spatial reasoning, defined as the…

cs.CL2025

DeepResearch-Slice: Bridging the Retrieval-Utilization Gap via Explicit Text Slicing

Shuo Lu, Yinuo Xu, Jianjie Cheng +3

Deep Research agents predominantly optimize search policies to maximize retrieval probability. However, we identify a critical bottleneck: the retrieval-utilization gap, where mode…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Reassessing the Role of Supervised Fine-Tuning: An Empirical Study in VLM Reasoning

Yongcan Yu, Lingxiao He, Shuo Lu +10

Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) reasoning have been largely attributed to the rise of reinforcement Learning (RL), which has shifted the community's focus away fro…