7 papers
Arbor: Tree Search as a Cognition Layer for Autonomous Agents
Neha Prakriya, Chaojun Hou, Zheng Gong +5
Arbor is a multi-agent framework that introduces structured tree search as a cognition layer for autonomous agents operating in large, stateful action spaces. Prior autonomous opti…
Step 3.5 Flash: Open Frontier-Level Intelligence with 11B Active Parameters
Ailin Huang, Ang Li, Aobo Kong +213
We introduce Step 3.5 Flash, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model that bridges frontier-level agentic intelligence and computational efficiency. We focus on what matters most wh…
From Helpfulness to Toxic Proactivity: Diagnosing Behavioral Misalignment in LLM Agents
Xinyue Wang, Yuanhe Zhang, Zhengshuo Gong +6
The enhanced capabilities of LLM-based agents come with an emergency for model planning and tool-use abilities. Attributing to helpful-harmless trade-off from LLM alignment, agents…
Step-DeepResearch Technical Report
Chen Hu, Haikuo Du, Heng Wang +64
As LLMs shift toward autonomous agents, Deep Research has emerged as a pivotal metric. However, existing academic benchmarks like BrowseComp often fail to meet real-world demands f…
Step-3 is Large yet Affordable: Model-system Co-design for Cost-effective Decoding
StepFun, :, Bin Wang +195
Large language models (LLMs) face low hardware efficiency during decoding, especially for long-context reasoning tasks. This paper introduces Step-3, a 321B-parameter VLM with hard…
Step-Audio-AQAA: a Fully End-to-End Expressive Large Audio Language Model
Ailin Huang, Bingxin Li, Bruce Wang +73
Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) have significantly advanced intelligent human-computer interaction, yet their reliance on text-based outputs limits their ability to generate na…