most citedA Survey of Self-Evolving Agents: What, When, How, and Where to Evolve on the Path to Artificial Super Intelligence

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11 papers

cs.LG2026

AI4AI at Test-Time: Strong-to-Weak Capability Transfer via Harnesses

Cheng Qian, Wenting Zhao, Liangwei Yang +6

Recent work on distillation transfers the capabilities of large models to smaller ones often by updating the latter's parameters, through teacher forcing, on-policy distillation, a…

cs.CL2026

Learning to Predict Future-Aligned Research Proposals with Language Models

Heng Wang, Pengcheng Jiang, Jiashuo Sun +4

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to assist ideation in research, but evaluating the quality of LLM-generated research proposals remains difficult: novelty and sou…

cs.LG2026

Tool-R0: Self-Evolving LLM Agents for Tool-Learning from Zero Data

Emre Can Acikgoz, Cheng Qian, Jonas Hübotter +3

Large language models (LLMs) are becoming the foundation for autonomous agents that can use tools to solve complex tasks. Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a common approa…

cs.LG2025

xRouter: Training Cost-Aware LLMs Orchestration System via Reinforcement Learning

Cheng Qian, Zuxin Liu, Shirley Kokane +10

Modern LLM deployments confront a widening cost-performance spectrum: premium models deliver strong reasoning but are expensive, while lightweight models are economical yet brittle…

cs.LG2025

Self-Improving LLM Agents at Test-Time

Emre Can Acikgoz, Cheng Qian, Heng Ji +2

One paradigm of language model (LM) fine-tuning relies on creating large training datasets, under the assumption that high quantity and diversity will enable models to generalize t…

cs.CL2025

Veri-R1: Toward Precise and Faithful Claim Verification via Online Reinforcement Learning

Qi He, Cheng Qian, Xiusi Chen +3

Claim verification with large language models (LLMs) has recently attracted growing attention, due to their strong reasoning capabilities and transparent verification processes com…

cs.AI2025

UserRL: Training Interactive User-Centric Agent via Reinforcement Learning

Cheng Qian, Zuxin Liu, Akshara Prabhakar +10

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promise in training agentic models that move beyond static benchmarks to engage in dynamic, multi-turn interactions. Yet, the ultimate value o…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

The Landscape of Agentic Reinforcement Learning for LLMs: A Survey

Guibin Zhang, Hejia Geng, Xiaohang Yu +22

The emergence of agentic reinforcement learning (Agentic RL) marks a paradigm shift from conventional reinforcement learning applied to large language models (LLM RL), reframing LL…

cs.CL2025

WINELL: Wikipedia Never-Ending Updating with LLM Agents

Revanth Gangi Reddy, Tanay Dixit, Jiaxin Qin +7

Wikipedia, a vast and continuously consulted knowledge base, faces significant challenges in maintaining up-to-date content due to its reliance on manual human editors. Inspired by…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

UserBench: An Interactive Gym Environment for User-Centric Agents

Cheng Qian, Zuxin Liu, Akshara Prabhakar +9

Large Language Models (LLMs)-based agents have made impressive progress in reasoning and tool use, enabling them to solve complex tasks. However, their ability to proactively colla…

cs.AI2025★ 3 cited

A Survey of Self-Evolving Agents: What, When, How, and Where to Evolve on the Path to Artificial Super Intelligence

Huan-ang Gao, Jiayi Geng, Wenyue Hua +24

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse tasks but remain fundamentally static, unable to adapt their internal parameters to novel task…