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cs.CL2026

Plan Canvas: Fixed Reasoning Regions for Continuous Language Flows

Miaohe Niu, Pengxiang Li, Jingbo Zhu +1

Continuous language flows generate text by denoising all positions of a target canvas together. The natural way to add reasoning to such a model is to write a trace ahead of the an…

cs.CL2026

Can Terminal Agents Trust Their Own Verification? Diagnosing and Improving Self-Verification

Yingfeng Luo, Shaowei Wei, Daixin Wang +7

Terminal agents rely on self-verification to assess and correct their solutions as they solve tasks through interaction with command-line environments. Yet how trustworthy such sel…

cs.CL2026

Complementary Roles of Activation and Parametric Memory in Few-Shot Learning

Miaohe Niu, Runsong Zhao, Xinyu Liu +5

At test time, large language models (LLMs) can encode historical information in activation memory (i.e., KV caches) and parametric memory (i.e., updated parameters). While activati…

cs.CL2026

BabelArena: A Large-Scale Multilingual Benchmark for LLM Agents

Peng Kuang, Yuchun Fan, Jiangnan Li +7

Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly execute multi-step workflows through tool use and interaction with users and environments. However, current agent evaluations are lar…

cs.CL2026

ToFu: A White-Box, Token-Efficient Agent Harness for Researchers

Junhao Ruan, Yuan Ge, Bei Li +7

Agentic coding tools present new opportunities to transform research workflows. The performance of agent systems built depends on both large language models (LLMs) and the harness…

cs.CL2026

HybridThinker: Efficient Chain-of-Thought Reasoning via Compressed Memory and Transient Thought Steps

Xin Liu, Runsong Zhao, Xinyu Liu +8

Extended chain-of-thought (CoT) traces improve LLM reasoning but incur substantial computational and memory costs. While existing CoT compression methods mitigate this by condensin…

cs.CL2026

LANG: Reinforcement Learning for Multilingual Reasoning with Language-Adaptive Hint Guidance

Yuchun Fan, Bei Li, Peiguang Li +9

Reinforcement learning has proven effective for enhancing multi-step reasoning in large language models (LLMs), yet its benefits have not fully translated to multilingual contexts.…

cs.CL2026

MTR-Suite: A Framework for Evaluating and Synthesizing Conversational Retrieval Benchmarks

Junhao Ruan, Abudukeyumu Abudula, Bei Li +8

Accurate evaluation of conversational retrieval is pivotal for advancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. However, existing conversational retrieval benchmarks suffer…

cs.CL2026

StateRAG: Typed State Contracts for Complex Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Miaohe Niu, Pengxiang Li, Jingbo Zhu +1

Complex retrieval-augmented generation requires evidence retrieval and control over what to retrieve next, which paths to explore, whether evidence is sufficient, and which interme…

cs.CL2026

RouteLMT: Learned Sample Routing for Hybrid LLM Translation Deployment

Yingfeng Luo, Hongyu Liu, Dingyang Lin +6

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance in Machine Translation (MT), but deploying them at scale remains prohibitively expensive. A widely adopted remedy…

cs.CL2026

BIASEDTALES-ML: A Multilingual Dataset for Analyzing Narrative Attribute Distributions in LLM-Generated Stories

Yuxuan Ouyang, yingfeng luo, JingBo Zhu +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate narrative content, including children's stories, which play an important role in social and cultural learning. Despit…

cs.CL2026

SPS: Steering Probability Squeezing for Better Exploration in Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models

Yifu Huo, Chenglong Wang, Ziming Zhu +9

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for training reasoning-oriented models by leveraging rule-based reward signals. However, RL training typically tends…

cs.CL2026

APR: Penalizing Structural Redundancy in Large Reasoning Models via Anchor-based Process Rewards

Kaiyan Chang, Chenwei Zhu, Yingfeng Luo +7

Test-Time Scaling (TTS) has significantly enhanced the capabilities of Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) but introduces a critical side-effect known as Overthinking. We conduct a preli…

cs.CL2026

SERM: Self-Evolving Relevance Model with Agent-Driven Learning from Massive Query Streams

Chenglong Wang, Canjia Li, Xingzhao Zhu +9

Due to the dynamically evolving nature of real-world query streams, relevance models struggle to generalize to practical search scenarios. A sophisticated solution is self-evolutio…

cs.CL2025

Probing Preference Representations: A Multi-Dimensional Evaluation and Analysis Method for Reward Models

Chenglong Wang, Yifu Huo, Yang Gan +10

Previous methods evaluate reward models by testing them on a fixed pairwise ranking test set, but they typically do not provide performance information on each preference dimension…

cs.CL2025

MRO: Enhancing Reasoning in Diffusion Language Models via Multi-Reward Optimization

Chenglong Wang, Yang Gan, Hang Zhou +10

Recent advances in diffusion language models (DLMs) have presented a promising alternative to traditional autoregressive large language models (LLMs). However, DLMs still lag behin…

cs.CL2025

GRAM-R: Self-Training Generative Foundation Reward Models for Reward Reasoning

Chenglong Wang, Yongyu Mu, Hang Zhou +10

Significant progress in reward modeling over recent years has been driven by a paradigm shift from task-specific designs towards generalist reward models. Despite this trend, devel…

cs.CL2025

HEAL: A Hypothesis-Based Preference-Aware Analysis Framework

Yifu Huo, Chenglong Wang, Qiren Zhu +5

Preference optimization methods like DPO have achieved remarkable performance in LLM alignment. However, the evaluation for these methods relies on a single response and overlooks…