most citedTowards Scientific Intelligence: A Survey of LLM-based Scientific Agents

6 citations · 7 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

18 papers

cs.ET2026

Partitioning-free 3D-IC Floorplanning

Shuo Ren, Rongliang Fu, Libo Shen +5

3D integration with fine-pitch hybrid bonding offers a promising path to alleviate interconnect bottlenecks in conventional two-dimensional (2D) ICs, yet efficient 3D floorplanning…

cs.CL2026

EDGE: Experience-Distillation for Guided Exploration in Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Can Xie, Yuyi Zhou, Wen Yang +5

Reinforcement learning with outcome-based objectives such as GRPO enables LLM-based agents to solve complex, long-horizon tasks, yet the reusable exploration patterns embedded in i…

cs.AI2026

EviGraph: Evidence-Guided Autonomous Research Agents

Zhenjiang Ren, Ruiji Li, Xujing Zhang +3

Autonomous research agents can generate hypotheses, execute experiments, and draft manuscripts, yet their outputs often contain unsupported claims and inconsistencies between resea…

cs.AI2026

Project2Task: Graph-Guided Project-Level Planning for Autonomous Research

Huirui Xu, Runtao Xu, Shuo Ren +1

Research agents can increasingly search literature, propose hypotheses, generate code, run experiments, and draft manuscripts from a single topic. However, a research project is no…

cs.AI2026

AgenticECO: An Agentic Framework for ECO on 3D Integrated Circuits

Shuo Ren, Yaohui Han, Libo Shen +4

As Moore's law slows, the industry is turning to three-dimensional integration; yet in merged 3D-IC flows, routed designs expose bond-level defects with no 2D analogue, and post-ro…

cs.AR2026

CLIP-3D: Closed-Loop Evaluation of Performance and Physical Constraints for 3D ICs

Shuo Ren, Libo Shen, Yaohui Han +6

3D integration packs more power into a smaller footprint, so a candidate design's actual throughput depends on its layout: which macro sits on which tier, where the hot spot lands,…

cs.AI2026

AgenticPD: A Stage-Aware Agentic Framework for Closed-Loop Physical Design Optimization

Shuo Ren, Zijin Cheng, Yaohui Han +7

Physical design quality-of-results (QoR) optimization is hard and expensive. Choices made at one stage can help or hurt later stages. Each evaluation requires a costly EDA run thro…

cs.AR2026

Chiplet3D: Pin- and Thermal-Aware 3D Chiplet Floorplanning via Convolution-Embedded MILP

Shuo Ren, Libo Shen, Yaohui Han +4

As traditional Moore's Law scaling slows down, 3D-ICs stack multiple active dies vertically to sustain performance scaling. However, this vertical stacking traps heat inside, makin…

cs.AI2026

AutoLPBench: An Auto-Generated, Agent-Friendly LP Benchmark via Inverse-KKT Construction

Shuo Ren, Yaohui Han, Yifan Shi +6

Most LP-from-text benchmarks are static datasets of word problems written and labeled by hand. Once such a dataset is released, its size is fixed, its difficulty is fixed, and ever…

cs.CV2026

World2VLM: Distilling World Model Imagination into VLMs for Dynamic Spatial Reasoning

Wanyue Zhang, Wenxiang Wu, Wang Xu +6

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown strong performance on static visual understanding, yet they still struggle with dynamic spatial reasoning that requires imagining how scene…

cs.DC2026

Cloud-native and Distributed Systems for Efficient and Scalable Large Language Models -- A Research Agenda

Minxian Xu, Jingfeng Wu, Shengye Song +16

The rapid rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has revolutionized various artificial intelligence (AI) applications, from natural language processing to code generation. However, t…

cs.MA2026

AstroVLM: Expert Multi-agent Collaborative Reasoning for Astronomical Imaging Quality Diagnosis

Yaohui Han, Tianshuo Wang, Zixi Zhao +6

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have been applied to several specific domains and have shown strong problem-solving capabilities. However, astronomical imaging, a quite complex probl…

cs.CV2025

SWITCH: Benchmarking Modeling and Handling of Tangible Interfaces in Long-horizon Embodied Scenarios

Juntao Cheng, Wanyue Zhang, Zhiwei Yu +7

Tangible control interfaces (TCIs), such as appliance panels, remotes, elevators, and embedded GUIs, are a fundamental component of everyday human-built environments. Interacting w…

cs.CV2025

Look Again, Think Slowly: Enhancing Visual Reflection in Vision-Language Models

Pu Jian, Junhong Wu, Wei Sun +3

Recent advances in text-only "slow-thinking" reasoning have prompted efforts to transfer this capability to vision-language models (VLMs), for training visual reasoning models (\te…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Why Do MLLMs Struggle with Spatial Understanding? A Systematic Analysis from Data to Architecture

Wanyue Zhang, Yibin Huang, Yangbin Xu +5

Spatial understanding is essential for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to support perception, reasoning, and planning in embodied environments. Despite recent progress, ex…

cs.CV2025

Teaching Vision-Language Models to Ask: Resolving Ambiguity in Visual Questions

Pu Jian, Donglei Yu, Wen Yang +2

In visual question answering (VQA) context, users often pose ambiguous questions to visual language models (VLMs) due to varying expression habits. Existing research addresses such…

cs.AI2025

KTAE: A Model-Free Algorithm to Key-Tokens Advantage Estimation in Mathematical Reasoning

Wei Sun, Wen Yang, Pu Jian +4

Recent advances have demonstrated that integrating reinforcement learning with rule-based rewards can significantly enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models, eve…

cs.AI2025★ 6 cited

Towards Scientific Intelligence: A Survey of LLM-based Scientific Agents

Shuo Ren, Can Xie, Pu Jian +3

As scientific research becomes increasingly complex, innovative tools are needed to manage vast data, facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration, and accelerate discovery. Large la…