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most citedTeaching Language Models to Self-Improve through Interactive Demonstrations

2 citations · 3 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.AI2026

Sibyl: An Efficient Small-large Model Collaboration Framework for Long-horizon Tasks

Zhewei Fang, Yuxin Zhang, Zhenwei Shao +8

Small language models (SLMs) offer a promising foundation for on-device agents through low-latency, resource-efficient inference, yet limited reasoning and planning capabilities co…

cs.CL2026

SCOUT: Synergizing Reasoning and Tool-Use for Computer-Use Safety

Jianxing Chen, Xiao Yu, Shipra Agrawal +1

Computer-use agents (CUAs), while capable of completing computer tasks in everyday and professional workflows, can cause unintended harm even under benign instructions and environm…

cs.AI2026

Co-Evolving Harnesses and Models: On-Policy Correction Helps Weaker Models Catch Up Where Imitation Fails

Zhou Yu, Bin Bi, Shiva Kumar Pentyala +8

Agent harnesses (the system prompt, tool set, execution hooks, and context-management scaffolding around a model) are a critical determinant of agentic task success. Automated harn…

cs.AI2026

OpenForgeRL: Train Harness-native Agents in Any Environment

Xiao Yu, Baolin Peng, Ruize Xu +7

Modern AI agents rely on elaborate inference harnesses such as Claude Code, Codex, and OpenClaw to drive multi-turn reasoning, tool use, and access to external systems. While power…

cs.CL2026

Factorization-Error-Free Discrete Diffusion Language Model via Speculative Decoding

Xun Fang, Yunchen Li, Hang Yuan +1

Discrete diffusion language models improve generation efficiency through parallel token prediction, but standard prediction methods introduce factorization errors by approxim…

cs.CL2026

ConFit v3: Improving Resume-Job Matching with LLM-based Re-Ranking

Xiao Yu, Ruize Xu, Chengyuan Xue +6

A reliable resume-job matching system helps a company find suitable candidates from a pool of resumes and helps a job seeker find relevant jobs from a list of job posts. While rece…

cs.AI2026

Orchard: An Open-Source Agentic Modeling Framework

Baolin Peng, Wenlin Yao, Qianhui Wu +11

Agentic modeling aims to transform LLMs into autonomous agents capable of solving complex tasks through planning, reasoning, tool use, and multi-turn interaction with external envi…

cs.CL2026★ 1 cited

Reinforcement World Model Learning for LLM-based Agents

Xiao Yu, Baolin Peng, Ruize Xu +6

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved strong performance in language-centric tasks. However, in agentic settings, LLMs often struggle to anticipate action consequences and ada…

cs.CL2025

Dyna-Mind: Learning to Simulate from Experience for Better AI Agents

Xiao Yu, Baolin Peng, Michel Galley +6

Reasoning models have recently shown remarkable progress in domains such as math and coding. However, their expert-level abilities in math and coding contrast sharply with their pe…

cs.SE2025

AI Agents for Web Testing: A Case Study in the Wild

Naimeng Ye, Xiao Yu, Ruize Xu +2

Automated web testing plays a critical role in ensuring high-quality user experiences and delivering business value. Traditional approaches primarily focus on code coverage and loa…

cs.AI2025

Dyna-Think: Synergizing Reasoning, Acting, and World Model Simulation in AI Agents

Xiao Yu, Baolin Peng, Ruize Xu +5

Recent progress in reasoning with large language models (LLMs), such as DeepSeek-R1, demonstrates impressive capabilities in domains like mathematics and coding, by exhibiting comp…

cs.AI2025

Strategize Globally, Adapt Locally: A Multi-Turn Red Teaming Agent with Dual-Level Learning

Si Chen, Xiao Yu, Ninareh Mehrabi +3

The exploitation of large language models (LLMs) for malicious purposes poses significant security risks as these models become more powerful and widespread. While most existing re…

cs.CL2025

ConFit v2: Improving Resume-Job Matching using Hypothetical Resume Embedding and Runner-Up Hard-Negative Mining

Xiao Yu, Ruize Xu, Chengyuan Xue +3

A reliable resume-job matching system helps a company recommend suitable candidates from a pool of resumes and helps a job seeker find relevant jobs from a list of job posts. Howev…

cs.CL2024

ExACT: Teaching AI Agents to Explore with Reflective-MCTS and Exploratory Learning

Xiao Yu, Baolin Peng, Vineeth Vajipey +4

Autonomous agents have demonstrated significant potential in automating complex multistep decision-making tasks. However, even state-of-the-art vision-language models (VLMs), such…

cs.CL2024

LocalRQA: From Generating Data to Locally Training, Testing, and Deploying Retrieval-Augmented QA Systems

Xiao Yu, Yunan Lu, Zhou Yu

Retrieval-augmented question-answering systems combine retrieval techniques with large language models to provide answers that are more accurate and informative. Many existing tool…

cs.CL2024

ConFit: Improving Resume-Job Matching using Data Augmentation and Contrastive Learning

Xiao Yu, Jinzhong Zhang, Zhou Yu

A reliable resume-job matching system helps a company find suitable candidates from a pool of resumes, and helps a job seeker find relevant jobs from a list of job posts. However,…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Teaching Language Models to Self-Improve through Interactive Demonstrations

Xiao Yu, Baolin Peng, Michel Galley +2

The self-improving ability of large language models (LLMs), enabled by prompting them to analyze and revise their own outputs, has garnered significant interest in recent research.…