activity
20242026
collaborators

5 papers

cs.LG2026

When Does Muon Help Agentic Reinforcement Learning?

Kai Ruan, Jinghao Lin, Zihe Huang +4

Muon is competitive with AdamW in large-scale pre-training, but its operating regime in reinforcement-learning post-training remains unclear. We map this regime on ALFWorld, a spar…

cs.AI2026

Doomed from the Start: Early Abort of LLM Agent Episodes via a Recall-Controlled Probe Cascade

Kai Ruan, Zihe Huang, Ziqi Zhou +4

Large language model (LLM) agents often waste inference compute by continuing multi-step trajectories that are already doomed to fail. We study early failure prediction and inferen…

cs.CV2026

PianoFlow: Music-Aware Streaming Piano Motion Generation with Bimanual Coordination

Xuan Wang, Kai Ruan, Jiayi Han +2

Audio-driven bimanual piano motion generation requires precise modeling of complex musical structures and dynamic cross-hand coordination. However, existing methods often rely on a…

cs.CV2025

X-MoGen: Unified Motion Generation across Humans and Animals

Xuan Wang, Kai Ruan, Liyang Qian +3

Text-driven motion generation has attracted increasing attention due to its broad applications in virtual reality, animation, and robotics. While existing methods typically model h…

cs.CL2024

Evaluating LLMs' Divergent Thinking Capabilities for Scientific Idea Generation with Minimal Context

Kai Ruan, Xuan Wang, Jixiang Hong +3

While Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities in scientific tasks such as literature analysis and experimental design (e.g., accurately extracting key find…