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most citedExploring Advanced LLM Multi-Agent Systems Based on Blackboard Architecture

4 citations · 7 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cs.AI2026

AlphaDiana: A Measurement System for Agents in Verifiable Reasoning Tasks

Zhanke Zhou, Zongze Li, Weikai Huang +16

Agents pair reasoning models with harnesses that organize model calls, execute tools, load skill instructions, and retain history in memory. Understanding agent performance require…

cs.CL2026

Decouple to Forget: Semantic Mediation for Sensitive Unlearning in Large Language Models

Jingyue Cong, Andy Song, Yang Yu +7

Machine unlearning for large language models seeks to remove specified knowledge while preserving general capability, yet current methods often treat an entire response as the unit…

cs.LG2026

Test-time Calibration Learning for Large Language Model Reasoning

Zizhuo Zhang, Xiong Peng, Jingwei Sun +4

Reliable large language models (LLMs) must not only produce accurate answers but also express confidence that faithfully reflects their probability of being correct. Such calibrati…

cs.LG2026

Bayes-Sufficient Compression Is Not Enough: How Does Communication Help Multi-Agent Systems?

Yi Xie, Zhanke Zhou, Yi Fan +3

Multi-agent LLM systems pair a sender with broad context and an executor with a limited local view. We study when a short message improves the executor's next decision, when raw co…

cs.AI2026

Taming CoT Obfuscation in VLMs: From Mechanistic Evidence to Activation-Level Enforcement

Xutao Mao, Jianing Zhu, Jinman Zhao +4

Reinforcement learning (RL) has substantially improved the reasoning capabilities of vision-language models (VLMs), yet it can induce chain-of-thought (CoT) obfuscation, an operati…

cs.LG2026

DE-Venus: A Data-Efficient RLVR Framework for Large Language Models

Shenzhi Yang, Guangcheng Zhu, Kai Tang +11

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) improves large language model reasoning, but its practical scaling is constrained by expensive on-policy rollouts and the cost…

cs.AI2026

Scaling Large Reasoning Models beyond Human Supervision: A Path toward Superintelligence

Zhiqin Yang, Jingwen Fu, Yuhan Liu +16

Recent advances in large reasoning models (LRMs) have shown that reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) can substantially improve reasoning in mathematics and code,…

cs.LG2026

Towards Understanding On-Policy Distillation through the Lens of Test-Time Scaling

Xinmu Ge, Zizhuo Zhang, Yu Huang +9

On-policy distillation (OPD) has emerged as a promising post-training technique for enhancing LLM reasoning. Under the reverse KL objective, the idealized optimum of OPD aligns the…

cs.LG2026

DICE: Entropy-Regularized Equilibrium Selection for Stable Multi-Agent LLM Coordination

Yi Xie, Zhanke Zhou, Chentao Cao +2

Multi-agent large language model (LLM) systems often fail to reliably outperform a single strong model equipped with best-of-N sampling. We argue that a core source of this instabi…

cs.LG2026

Beyond Homophily: Towards Generalized Graph Reconstruction Attack and Defense

Zhanke Zhou, Bo Han, Xuan Li +3

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely deployed on relational data, yet they can leak sensitive or proprietary information about the training graph adjacency, e.g., social ties, t…

cs.LG2026

The Easy, the Hard, and the Learnable: Confidence and Difficulty-Adaptive Policy Optimization for LLM Reasoning

Zhanke Zhou, Xiangyu Lu, Chentao Cao +4

RL with verifiable rewards can substantially improve LLM reasoning, yet standard GRPO-style training often treats easy, hard, and learnable questions alike through uniform sampling…

cs.CL2026

Multi-Agent Debate with Memory Masking

Hongduan Tian, Xiao Feng, Ziyuan Zhao +3

Large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated impressive capabilities in reasoning tasks. Currently, mainstream LLM reasoning frameworks predominantly focus on scaling up…

cs.AI2026

RewardFlow: Topology-Aware Reward Propagation on State Graphs for Agentic RL with Large Language Models

Xiao Feng, Bo Han, Zhanke Zhou +5

Reinforcement learning (RL) shows promise for enhancing LLM agentic reasoning, yet sparse terminal rewards hinder fine-grained optimization. Process reward modeling offers an alter…

cs.LG2025

Towards Understanding Valuable Preference Data for Large Language Model Alignment

Zizhuo Zhang, Qizhou Wang, Shanshan Ye +4

Large language model (LLM) alignment is typically achieved through learning from human preference comparisons, making the quality of preference data critical to its success. Existi…

cs.AI2025

AlphaApollo: A System for Deep Agentic Reasoning

Zhanke Zhou, Chentao Cao, Xiao Feng +15

We present AlphaApollo, an agentic reasoning system that targets two bottlenecks in foundation-model reasoning: (1) limited reasoning capacity for complex, long-horizon problem sol…

cs.LG2025

Co-rewarding: Stable Self-supervised RL for Eliciting Reasoning in Large Language Models

Zizhuo Zhang, Jianing Zhu, Xinmu Ge +6

While reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is effective to improve the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs), its reliance on human-annotated labels le…

cs.MA2025★ 4 cited

Exploring Advanced LLM Multi-Agent Systems Based on Blackboard Architecture

Bochen Han, Songmao Zhang

In this paper, we propose to incorporate the blackboard architecture into LLM multi-agent systems (MASs) so that (1) agents with various roles can share all the information and oth…

cs.LG2025

From Passive to Active Reasoning: Can Large Language Models Ask the Right Questions under Incomplete Information?

Zhanke Zhou, Xiao Feng, Zhaocheng Zhu +3

While existing benchmarks probe the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs) across diverse domains, they predominantly assess passive reasoning, providing models with a…

cs.LG2025

Landscape of Thoughts: Visualizing the Reasoning Process of Large Language Models

Zhanke Zhou, Zhaocheng Zhu, Xuan Li +5

Numerous applications of large language models (LLMs) rely on their ability to perform step-by-step reasoning. However, the reasoning behavior of LLMs remains poorly understood, po…

cs.CV2024

Self-Calibrated Tuning of Vision-Language Models for Out-of-Distribution Detection

Geng Yu, Jianing Zhu, Jiangchao Yao +1

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for deploying reliable machine learning models in open-world applications. Recent advances in CLIP-based OOD detection have shown pro…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Model Inversion Attacks: A Survey of Approaches and Countermeasures

Zhanke Zhou, Jianing Zhu, Fengfei Yu +4

Deep neural networks have enabled numerous studies and applications on both Euclidean data, such as images and text, and non-Euclidean data, such as graphs. Because these networks…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Can Language Models Perform Robust Reasoning in Chain-of-thought Prompting with Noisy Rationales?

Zhanke Zhou, Rong Tao, Jianing Zhu +3

This paper investigates an under-explored challenge in large language models (LLMs): chain-of-thought prompting with noisy rationales, which include irrelevant or inaccurate reason…