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cs.SD2026

MIRA: A Musical Intent Refinement Agent for Aligning Text-to-Music Generation with User Intent

Zekai Liu, Zhilin Wang, Xuzheng He +2

Text-to-music systems produce increasingly convincing audio, yet evaluation reveals little about whether the result matches user intent. A global text-audio relevance score can ove…

cs.CL2026

Skill Self-Play: Pushing the Frontier of LLM Capability with Co-Evolving Skills

Siyuan Huang, Pengyu Cheng, Haotian Liu +10

LLM training is shifting from manual design and annotation to interaction-driven self-evolution. However, existing self-evolutionary methods face a fundamental dilemma between task…

cs.AI2026

EvoPolicyGym: Evaluating Autonomous Policy Evolution in Interactive Environments

Zhilin Wang, Han Song, Runzhe Zhan +13

Autonomous agents are increasingly expected to improve executable policies through feedback, yet existing evaluations often collapse this process into a final score or confound it…

cs.LG2026

How Does Reasoning Flow? Tracing Attention-Induced Information Flow for Targeted RL in LLMs

Zhichen Dong, Yang Li, Yuhan Sun +9

Token-level credit assignment remains a key obstacle for reinforcement learning (RL) in large language models (LLMs), where RL recipes typically treat all tokens equally, failing t…

cs.AI2026

ComBench: A Benchmark for Rigorous Proof Reasoning and Constructive Realization in Olympiad-Level Combinatorics

Shunkai Zhang, Haoran Zhang, Yun Luo +15

Combinatorics is central to Olympiad-level mathematical problem solving, requiring deep discrete reasoning, creative constructions, and rigorous structural insight. Recent evidence…

cs.AI2026

SubtleMemory: A Benchmark for Fine-Grained Relational Memory Discrimination in Long-Horizon AI Agents

Wenxuan Wang, Haoyu Sun, Fukuan Hou +4

Persistent AI assistants, such as OpenClaw, accumulate large collections of related memories over long-term interactions. As these memories grow, they may reinforce one another, di…

cs.CL2026

Agent Planning Benchmark: A Diagnostic Framework for Planning Capabilities in LLM Agents

Haoyu Sun, Wenxuan Wang, Mingyang Song +5

Planning is central to LLM agents: before acting, an agent must decompose goals, select tools, reason over constraints, and decide when a task is infeasible. Yet existing agent eva…

cs.AI2026

-Bench: Evaluating Proactive Personal Assistant Agents in Long-Horizon Workflows

Haoran Zhang, Luxin Xu, Zhilin Wang +11

The rise of personal assistant agents, e.g., OpenClaw, highlights the growing potential of large language models to support users across everyday life and work. A core challenge in…

cs.AI2026

Achieving Gold-Medal-Level Olympiad Reasoning via Simple and Unified Scaling

Yafu Li, Runzhe Zhan, Haoran Zhang +25

Recent progress in reasoning models has substantially advanced long-horizon mathematical and scientific problem solving, with several systems now reaching gold-medal-level performa…

cs.LG2026

The Cancellation Hypothesis in Critic-Free RL: From Outcome Rewards to Token Credits

Tianhao Cheng, Zeyu Huang, Zihan Qiu +5

A commonly accepted explanation of critic-free RL for LLMs, based on sequence-level rewards, is that it reinforces successful rollouts with a positive advantage while penalizing fa…

cs.AI2026

Memory Intelligence Agent

Jingyang Qiao, Weicheng Meng, Yu Cheng +6

Deep research agents (DRAs) integrate LLM reasoning with external tools. Memory systems enable DRAs to leverage historical experiences, which are essential for efficient reasoning…

cs.CL2026

LatentMem: Customizing Latent Memory for Multi-Agent Systems

Muxin Fu, Xiangyuan Xue, Yafu Li +5

Large language model (LLM)-powered multi-agent systems (MAS) demonstrate remarkable collective intelligence, wherein multi-agent memory serves as a pivotal mechanism for continual…

cs.CL2026

New Skills or Sharper Primitives? A Probabilistic Perspective on the Emergence of Reasoning in RLVR

Zhilin Wang, Yafu Li, Shunkai Zhang +4

Whether Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) endows Large Language Models (LLMs) with new capabilities or merely elicits latent traces remains a central debate. In…

cs.CL2026

Characterizing, Evaluating, and Optimizing Complex Reasoning

Haoran Zhang, Yafu Li, Zhi Wang +4

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) increasingly rely on reasoning traces with complex internal structures. However, existing work lacks a unified answer to three fundamental questions:…

cs.CV2025

VideoSSR: Video Self-Supervised Reinforcement Learning

Zefeng He, Xiaoye Qu, Yafu Li +3

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has substantially advanced the video understanding capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, the rapi…

cs.CV2025

Spotlight on Token Perception for Multimodal Reinforcement Learning

Siyuan Huang, Xiaoye Qu, Yafu Li +4

While Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has advanced the reasoning capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), most existing methods in multimodal rea…

cs.LG2025

ExGRPO: Learning to Reason from Experience

Runzhe Zhan, Yafu Li, Zhi Wang +5

Reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR) is an emerging paradigm for improving the reasoning ability of large language models. However, standard on-policy training dis…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Rethinking Entropy Regularization in Large Reasoning Models

Yuxian Jiang, Yafu Li, Guanxu Chen +3

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has shown great promise in enhancing the reasoning abilities of large reasoning models (LRMs). However, it suffers from a crit…

cs.AI2025

Conditional Advantage Estimation for Reinforcement Learning in Large Reasoning Models

Guanxu Chen, Yafu Li, Yuxian Jiang +6

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) for large language models (LLMs) has achieved remarkable progress in enhancing LLMs' reasoning capabilities on tasks with clea…

cs.AI2025

Diversity-Incentivized Exploration for Versatile Reasoning

Zican Hu, Shilin Zhang, Yafu Li +7

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a crucial paradigm for incentivizing reasoning capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs). Due to vast state-…