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9 papers

cs.AI2026

Agents' Last Exam

Yiyou Sun, Xinyang Han, Weichen Zhang +306

Recent AI systems have achieved strong results on a wide range of benchmarks, yet these gains have not translated into economically meaningful deployment across many professional d…

cs.AI2026

Breaking the Reversal Curse in Autoregressive Language Models via Identity Bridge

Xutao Ma, Yixiao Huang, Hanlin Zhu +1

Autoregressive large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in many complex tasks, yet they can still fail in very simple logical reasoning such as the "reversal c…

cs.LG2026

Transformers Provably Learn to Internalize Chain-of-Thought

Yixiao Huang, Hanlin Zhu, Zixuan Wang +4

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting substantially improves the sample efficiency of transformers, reducing the complexity of tasks like parity learning from exponential to polynomial…

cs.LG2026

Multi-Objective Learning for Diffusion Models: A Statistical Theory under Semi-Supervised Learning

Ziheng Cheng, Yixiao Huang, Hanlin Zhu +5

Diffusion models are increasingly used as powerful conditional generators, yet real deployments often involve multiple target distributions arising from different tasks, e.g., dive…

cs.AI2026

AutoResearch AI: Towards AI-Powered Research Automation for Scientific Discovery

Guiyao Tie, Jiawen Shi, Dingjie Song +20

Scientific research is being reshaped by AI systems that move beyond isolated assistance toward longer-horizon workflows spanning literature grounding, hypothesis generation, exper…

cs.CL2026

Generalization or Hallucination? Understanding Out-of-Context Reasoning in Transformers

Yixiao Huang, Hanlin Zhu, Tianyu Guo +5

Large language models (LLMs) can acquire new knowledge through fine-tuning, but this process exhibits a puzzling duality: models can generalize remarkably from new facts, yet are a…