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20242026
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12 papers

cs.CL2026

Beyond APIs: Probing the Limits of MLLMs in Physical Tool Use

Zhixin Ma, Yutong Zhou, Yongqi Li +2

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at utilizing digital APIs and increasingly serve as the "brain" of embodied AI, instructing robots to interact with the physical worl…

cs.AI2026

Optical Reasoning: Rethinking Images as an Expressive Reasoning Medium Beyond Text

Yutong Bian, Dongjie Cheng, Heming Xia +2

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) improves the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) and has been extended to Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). More recent work further moves fr…

cs.CL2026

TInR: Exploring Tool-Internalized Reasoning in Large Language Models

Qiancheng Xu, Yongqi Li, Fan Liu +3

Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR) has emerged as a promising direction by extending Large Language Models' (LLMs) capabilities with external tools during reasoning. Existing TIR meth…

cs.CL2026

Merlin's Whisper: Enabling Efficient Reasoning in Large Language Models via Black-box Persuasive Prompting

Heming Xia, Cunxiao Du, Rui Li +3

Large reasoning models (LRMs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in tackling complex tasks through step-by-step thinking. However, this lengthy reasoning process incurs subst…

cs.CL2026

Agent-as-a-Judge

Runyang You, Hongru Cai, Caiqi Zhang +5

LLM-as-a-Judge has revolutionized AI evaluation by leveraging large language models for scalable assessments. However, as evaluands become increasingly complex, specialized, and mu…

cs.AI2025

Scaling over Scaling: Exploring Test-Time Scaling Plateau in Large Reasoning Models

Jian Wang, Boyan Zhu, Chak Tou Leong +2

Large reasoning models (LRMs) have exhibited the capacity of enhancing reasoning performance via internal test-time scaling. Building upon this, a promising direction is to further…