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Explore Before Committing: Hypothesis-Guided Search for Deep Research Agents
Ruochen Zhou, Zhengyu Chen, Luan Zhang +3
Deep-research agents answer complex questions by interacting with search and browsing tools, yet they often search along a single evolving trajectory. Our trajectory-level analysis…
HarnessCompass: Guiding Automatic Harness Evolution toward Generalizable and Effective Agent Harnesses
Luan Zhang, Ruochen Zhou, Dandan Song +9
Harness design plays a critical role in agent performance by shaping how large language models (LLMs) perceive, reason over, and act within executable environments. Recent work has…
SkillCraft: Can LLM Agents Learn to Use Tools Skillfully?
Shiqi Chen, Jingze Gai, Ruochen Zhou +13
Real-world tool-using agents operate over long-horizon workflows with recurring structure and diverse demands, where effective behavior requires not only invoking atomic tools but…
Reinforcement Learning for Tool-Integrated Interleaved Thinking towards Cross-Domain Generalization
Zhengyu Chen, Jinluan Yang, Teng Xiao +6
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in reasoning and tool utilization. However, the generalization of tool-augmented reinforce…
Does Learning Mathematical Problem-Solving Generalize to Broader Reasoning?
Ruochen Zhou, Minrui Xu, Shiqi Chen +5
There has been a growing interest in enhancing the mathematical problem-solving (MPS) capabilities of large language models. While the majority of research efforts concentrate on c…
From Mathematical Reasoning to Code: Generalization of Process Reward Models in Test-Time Scaling
Zhengyu Chen, Yudong Wang, Teng Xiao +5
Recent advancements in improving the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models have underscored the efficacy of Process Reward Models (PRMs) in addressing intermediate errors…
Learn to Reason Efficiently with Adaptive Length-based Reward Shaping
Wei Liu, Ruochen Zhou, Yiyun Deng +5
Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in solving complex problems through reinforcement learning (RL), particularly by generating long reasoning traces.…
Why Is Spatial Reasoning Hard for VLMs? An Attention Mechanism Perspective on Focus Areas
Shiqi Chen, Tongyao Zhu, Ruochen Zhou +7
Large Vision Language Models (VLMs) have long struggled with spatial reasoning tasks. Surprisingly, even simple spatial reasoning tasks, such as recognizing "under" or "behind" rel…
Image-of-Thought Prompting for Visual Reasoning Refinement in Multimodal Large Language Models
Qiji Zhou, Ruochen Zhou, Zike Hu +3
Recent advancements in Chain-of-Thought (CoT) and related rationale-based works have significantly improved the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) in complex reasoning tas…