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most citedTug-of-War Between Knowledge: Exploring and Resolving Knowledge Conflicts in Retrieval-Augmented Language Models

3 citations · 21 across the 46 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CL2026

SwarmBench: Can Large Language Models Act as Agent Swarm Orchestrators?

Jinshan Gao, Zhuoran Jin, Tianyi Men +2

Large language model-based multi-agent systems are evolving from fixed interaction topologies toward dynamically orchestrated Agent Swarms. However, existing benchmarks are still l…

cs.CL2026

Quantifying Error Tolerance in Synthetic Data: An Atomic-level Operand vs. Operator Perturbation Study

Jiaxiang Liu, Chenhao Yuan, Shuwen Xu +9

Synthetic data generation has become a cornerstone for advancing large language models. However, the lack of the quantitative analysis for error tolerance became a critical bottlen…

cs.CL2026

RuleWeaver: Benchmarking Rule-Centered Scenario Reasoning for Large Language Models

Bohan Yu, Shi-Yang Li, Pengfei Cao +2

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to specialized domains, where effective use of domain expertise often requires reasoning over complex rules in concrete scenar…

cs.CL2026

Beyond Factual Knowledge: Benchmarking and Learning Step-Level Procedural Rule Reasoning in Large Language Models

Bohan Yu, Pengfei Cao, Chen Han +7

Large language models (LLMs) excel at text understanding and generation, yet still struggle to reliably understand and apply externally provided procedural rules at scale. To evalu…

cs.CL2026

The Physics of Multi-Turn Long-Horizon Planning: From Pre-training to Post-training via Single- and Multi-Teacher On-Policy Agentic Distillation

Tianyi Men, Zhuoran Jin, Kang Liu +1

Multi-turn long-horizon planning is critical for foundation model agents, yet how to fundamentally improve it remains unclear. Existing models are trained on uncontrollable and opa…

cs.CL2026

Agentic Environment Engineering for Large Language Models: A Survey of Environment Modeling, Synthesis, Evaluation, and Application

Jiachun Li, Zhuoran Jin, Tianyi Men +12

Environments serve as interactive systems for large language model (LLM) based agents across diverse scenarios and play a crucial role in driving the continual evolution of model c…

cs.CL2026

Pushing the Limits of LLM Tool Calling via Experiential Knowledge Integration and Activation

Yupu Hao, Zhuoran Jin, Huanxuan Liao +2

Large language models (LLMs) rely on tool use to act as autonomous agents, yet often fail in multi-step execution due to insufficient tool-related knowledge and ineffective knowled…

cs.CL2025

EvoEdit: Lifelong Free-Text Knowledge Editing through Latent Perturbation Augmentation and Knowledge-driven Parameter Fusion

Pengfei Cao, Zeao Ji, Daojian Zeng +2

Adjusting the outdated knowledge of large language models (LLMs) after deployment remains a major challenge. This difficulty has spurred the development of knowledge editing, which…

cs.CL2025

MotivGraph-SoIQ: Integrating Motivational Knowledge Graphs and Socratic Dialogue for Enhanced LLM Ideation

Xinping Lei, Tong Zhou, Yubo Chen +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) hold substantial potential for accelerating academic ideation but face critical challenges in grounding ideas and mitigating confirmation bias for furt…

cs.CL2025

Towards Atoms of Large Language Models

Chenhui Hu, Pengfei Cao, Yubo Chen +2

The fundamental representational units (FRUs) of large language models (LLMs) remain undefined, limiting further understanding of their underlying mechanisms. In this paper, we int…

cs.CL2025

Task-Stratified Knowledge Scaling Laws for Post-Training Quantized Large Language Models

Chenxi Zhou, Pengfei Cao, Jiang Li +4

Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) is a critical strategy for efficient Large Language Models (LLMs) deployment. However, existing scaling laws primarily focus on general performance…

cs.CL2025

ASP2LJ : An Adversarial Self-Play Laywer Augmented Legal Judgment Framework

Ao Chang, Tong Zhou, Yubo Chen +4

Legal Judgment Prediction (LJP) aims to predict judicial outcomes, including relevant legal charge, terms, and fines, which is a crucial process in Large Language Model(LLM). Howev…

cs.CL2025

Know-MRI: A Knowledge Mechanisms Revealer&Interpreter for Large Language Models

Jiaxiang Liu, Boxuan Xing, Chenhao Yuan +8

As large language models (LLMs) continue to advance, there is a growing urgency to enhance the interpretability of their internal knowledge mechanisms. Consequently, many interpret…

cs.CL2025

RULE: Reinforcement UnLEarning Achieves Forget-Retain Pareto Optimality

Chenlong Zhang, Zhuoran Jin, Hongbang Yuan +5

The widespread deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) trained on massive, uncurated corpora has raised growing concerns about the inclusion of sensitive, copyrighted, or illega…

cs.AI2025★ 2 cited

Large Language Models for Planning: A Comprehensive and Systematic Survey

Pengfei Cao, Tianyi Men, Wencan Liu +7

Planning represents a fundamental capability of intelligent agents, requiring comprehensive environmental understanding, rigorous logical reasoning, and effective sequential decisi…

cs.CL2025

Semantic Pivots Enable Cross-Lingual Transfer in Large Language Models

Kaiyu He, Tong Zhou, Yubo Chen +4

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable ability in cross-lingual tasks. Understanding how LLMs acquire this ability is crucial for their interpretability. To quantify t…

cs.CL2025

Revealing the Deceptiveness of Knowledge Editing: A Mechanistic Analysis of Superficial Editing

Jiakuan Xie, Pengfei Cao, Yubo Chen +2

Knowledge editing, which aims to update the knowledge encoded in language models, can be deceptive. Despite the fact that many existing knowledge editing algorithms achieve near-pe…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Transparentize the Internal and External Knowledge Utilization in LLMs with Trustworthy Citation

Jiajun Shen, Tong Zhou, Yubo Chen +4

While hallucinations of large language models could been alleviated through retrieval-augmented generation and citation generation, how the model utilizes internal knowledge is sti…

cs.CL2025

Evaluating Personalized Tool-Augmented LLMs from the Perspectives of Personalization and Proactivity

Yupu Hao, Pengfei Cao, Zhuoran Jin +4

Personalized tool utilization is essential for aligning large language models (LLMs) with user preference in interaction scenarios with various tools. However, most of the current…

cs.CL2025

Fixing the Broken Compass: Diagnosing and Improving Inference-Time Reward Modeling

Jiachun Li, Pengfei Cao, Zhuoran Jin +6

Inference-time scaling techniques have shown promise in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). While recent research has primarily focused on trainin…

cs.CL2025

The Knowledge Microscope: Features as Better Analytical Lenses than Neurons

Yuheng Chen, Pengfei Cao, Kang Liu +1

Previous studies primarily utilize MLP neurons as units of analysis for understanding the mechanisms of factual knowledge in Language Models (LMs); however, neurons suffer from pol…

cs.CL2024

RAG-RewardBench: Benchmarking Reward Models in Retrieval Augmented Generation for Preference Alignment

Zhuoran Jin, Hongbang Yuan, Tianyi Men +4

Despite the significant progress made by existing retrieval augmented language models (RALMs) in providing trustworthy responses and grounding in reliable sources, they often overl…

cs.CL2024

One Mind, Many Tongues: A Deep Dive into Language-Agnostic Knowledge Neurons in Large Language Models

Pengfei Cao, Yuheng Chen, Zhuoran Jin +3

Large language models (LLMs) have learned vast amounts of factual knowledge through self-supervised pre-training on large-scale corpora. Meanwhile, LLMs have also demonstrated exce…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

DTELS: Towards Dynamic Granularity of Timeline Summarization

Chenlong Zhang, Tong Zhou, Pengfei Cao +4

The rapid proliferation of online news has posed significant challenges in tracking the continuous development of news topics. Traditional timeline summarization constructs a chron…