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6 papers

cs.AI2026

Learning Visual Spatial Planning from Symbolic State via Modality-Gap-Aware Self-Distillation

Haocheng Luo, Jiahui Liu, Ruicheng Zhang +8

While Vision-Language Models excel at general multimodal understanding, they still struggle with visual spatial planning. We attribute this limitation to a perception--reasoning mo…

cs.AI2026

-Knowledge: Evaluating Conversational Agents over Unstructured Knowledge

Quan Shi, Alexandra Zytek, Pedram Razavi +2

Conversational agents are increasingly deployed in knowledge-intensive settings, where correct behavior depends on retrieving and applying domain-specific knowledge from large, pro…

cs.CL2025

Atom of Thoughts for Markov LLM Test-Time Scaling

Fengwei Teng, Quan Shi, Zhaoyang Yu +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved significant performance gains through test-time scaling methods. However, existing approaches often incur redundant computations due to t…

cs.AI2025

When Models Know More Than They Can Explain: Quantifying Knowledge Transfer in Human-AI Collaboration

Quan Shi, Carlos E. Jimenez, Shunyu Yao +3

Recent advancements in AI reasoning have driven substantial improvements across diverse tasks. A critical open question is whether these improvements also yields better knowledge t…

cs.CL2025

IMPersona: Evaluating Individual Level LM Impersonation

Quan Shi, Carlos E. Jimenez, Stephen Dong +4

As language models achieve increasingly human-like capabilities in conversational text generation, a critical question emerges: to what extent can these systems simulate the charac…

cs.CL2025

BRIGHT: A Realistic and Challenging Benchmark for Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval

Hongjin Su, Howard Yen, Mengzhou Xia +12

Existing retrieval benchmarks primarily consist of information-seeking queries (e.g., aggregated questions from search engines) where keyword or semantic-based retrieval is usually…