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most citedConifer: Improving Complex Constrained Instruction-Following Ability of Large Language Models

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cs.LG2026

PAC: Progress-Augmented Advantage Curriculum for Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning of LLMs

Yuanqiang Yu, Yanzhao Zheng, Zhentao Zhang +8

Reinforcement learning (RL) is used to improve the reasoning abilities of LLMs, while training data span heterogeneous tasks. However, most RL post-training pipelines rely on fixed…

cs.CL2026

Rethinking Memory as Continuously Evolving Connectivity

Jizhan Fang, Buqiang Xu, Zhixian Wang +12

Existing memory-augmented LLM agents often treat memory as a static repository with pre-defined representations and fixed retrieval pipelines, which is brittle in dynamic agentic e…

cs.CL2026

Rubrics to Tokens: Bridging Response-level Rubrics and Token-level Rewards in Instruction Following Tasks

Tianze Xu, Yanzhao Zheng, Pengrui Lu +11

Rubric-based Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a promising approach for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with complex, open-domain instruction following tasks. Howeve…

cs.AI2026

ContextBudget: Budget-Aware Context Management for Long-Horizon Search Agents

Yong Wu, YanZhao Zheng, TianZe Xu +9

LLM-based agents show strong potential for long-horizon reasoning, yet their context size is limited by deployment factors (e.g., memory, latency, and cost), yielding a constrained…

cs.LG2026

SkillRouter: Skill Routing for LLM Agents at Scale

YanZhao Zheng, ZhenTao Zhang, Chao Ma +8

Reusable skills let LLM agents package task-specific procedures, tool affordances, and execution guidance into modular building blocks. As skill ecosystems grow to tens of thousand…

cs.LG2025

SERL: Self-Examining Reinforcement Learning on Open-Domain

Weixuan Ou, Yanzhao Zheng, Shuoshuo Sun +7

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been shown to improve the capabilities of large language models (LLMs). However, applying RL to open-domain tasks faces two key challenges: (1) the…

cs.AI2025

Reason from Future: Reverse Thought Chain Enhances LLM Reasoning

Yinlong Xu, Yanzhao Zheng, Shuoshuo Sun +7

It has been demonstrated that carefully designed reasoning paradigms, like Chain-of-Thought (CoT) and Tree-of-Thought (ToT), can enhance the reasoning capabilities of small languag…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Conifer: Improving Complex Constrained Instruction-Following Ability of Large Language Models

Haoran Sun, Lixin Liu, Junjie Li +4

The ability of large language models (LLMs) to follow instructions is crucial to real-world applications. Despite recent advances, several studies have highlighted that LLMs strugg…