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16 papers

cs.AI2026

LMBuild: Evaluating LLM Agents for Generating Buildable and Functional Structures

Jiateng Liu, Rushi Wang, Cheng Qian +9

LLM-based agents are increasingly capable of generating complex 3D structures, with the potential to reshape how objects are designed and realized in the physical world. Yet, produ…

cs.AI2026

Evaluating the Hidden Costs of Personalization in Large Language Models

Yumeng Wang, Yuchen Wu, Cheng Qian +6

While Large language models (LLMs) incorporate user personalization signals to improve usability and helpfulness, they increasingly shift from providing balanced, informative respo…

cs.AI2026

BioInsight: Multi-Agent Orchestration for Interactive Biomedical Knowledge Discovery

Jieyi Wang, Bingxuan Li, Nanyi Jiang +9

Biomedical deep-research systems increasingly retrieve and synthesize scientific evidence, but their outputs typically collapse heterogeneous evidence into static text, making prov…

cs.CL2026

AdaPlanBench: Evaluating Adaptive Planning in Large Language Model Agents under World and User Constraints

Jiayu Liu, Cheng Qian, Zhenhailong Wang +10

Planning for real-world problems by language models often involves both world and user constraints, which may not be fully specified upfront and are progressively disclosed through…

cs.AI2026

PlanBench-XL: Evaluating Long-Horizon Planning of LLM Tool-Use Agents in Large-Scale Tool Ecosystems

Jiayu Liu, Qihan Lin, Cheng Qian +8

LLM agents increasingly operate in large tool ecosystems, where real-world tasks require discovering relevant tools, inferring implicit sub-goals, and adapting to dynamic environme…

cs.AI2026

Brick-Composer: Using MLLMs for Assembly with Diverse Bricks

Jiateng Liu, Bingxuan Li, Zhenhailong Wang +8

We dream of AI agents that can read arbitrary designs and construct real-world objects from reusable building blocks. As a first step toward this vision, we study whether multimoda…

cs.AI2026

Advancing Creative Physical Intelligence in Large Multimodal Models

Cheng Qian, Hyeonjeong Ha, Jiayu Liu +10

Large multimodal models (LMMs) have rapidly advanced in perception and reasoning; however, it remains unclear whether these capabilities generalize to discovering visually grounded…

cs.CL2026

MemGuard: Preventing Memory Contamination in Long-Term Memory-Augmented Large Language Models

Hyeonjeong Ha, Jeonghwan Kim, Cheng Qian +7

Memory-augmented large language models extend reasoning beyond a fixed context window by maintaining long-term memory across interactions. However, existing memory systems often co…

cs.CL2026

UserHarness: Harnessing User Minds for Stronger Agent Theory-of-Mind

Cheng Qian, Jiayu Liu, Heng Ji

Understanding what a user believes and intends is central to building effective agent assistants. This ability is often evaluated through Theory-of-Mind (ToM) tasks, where success…

cs.AI2026

CreativityBench: Evaluating Agent Creative Reasoning via Affordance-Based Tool Repurposing

Cheng Qian, Hyeonjeong Ha, Jiayu Liu +10

Recent advances in large language models have led to strong performance on reasoning and environment-interaction tasks, yet their ability for creative problem-solving remains under…

cs.CL2026

Code2Math: Can Your Code Agent Evolve Math Problems Through Exploration?

Dadi Guo, Yuejin Xie, Qingyu Liu +11

As large language models (LLMs) advance their mathematical capabilities toward the IMO and research level, the scarcity of challenging, high-quality problems has become a significa…

cs.LG2026

Step-Level Sparse Autoencoder for Reasoning Process Interpretation

Xuan Yang, Jiayu Liu, Yuhang Lai +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved strong complex reasoning capabilities through Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. However, their reasoning patterns remain too complicated…

cs.LG2026

Linear Dynamics in the RLVR Training of Large Language Models

Tianle Wang, Jiayu Liu, Zhongyuan Wu +4

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has driven significant performance gains in reasoning-oriented large language models (LLMs), yet its internal training dynamic…

cs.AI2025

CostBench: Evaluating Multi-Turn Cost-Optimal Planning and Adaptation in Dynamic Environments for LLM Tool-Use Agents

Jiayu Liu, Cheng Qian, Zhaochen Su +4

Current evaluations of Large Language Model (LLM) agents primarily emphasize task completion, often overlooking resource efficiency and adaptability. This neglects a crucial capabi…

cs.CL2025

Diversity-Enhanced Reasoning for Subjective Questions

Yumeng Wang, Zhiyuan Fan, Jiayu Liu +2

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) with long chain-of-thought capabilities, optimized via reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), excel at objective reasoning tasks like…

cs.AI2025

Mathematical Proof as a Litmus Test: Revealing Failure Modes of Advanced Large Reasoning Models

Dadi Guo, Jiayu Liu, Zhiyuan Fan +5

Large reasoning models (e.g., R1, o3) have demonstrated remarkable mathematical problem-solving abilities. However, the high reported accuracy of these advanced models on popular d…