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most citedCan Large Language Models Help Experimental Design for Causal Discovery?

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cs.LG2026

ExpEvolve: Structuring and Reusing Experience for Open-Ended Discovery

Yongqiang Chen, Chenxi Liu, Deyu Zou +4

Evolutionary coding agents such as AlphaEvolve are one of the notable successes in using Large Language Models (LLMs) to build AI Scientists. These agents tackle open-ended scienti…

cs.CL2026

Analogical Deep Research: Retrieving and Integrating Historical Analogies for Foresight Analysis

Yongqiang Chen, Guangyi Chen, Yuewen Sun +1

Systematic comparisons between current situations and structurally similar past events in the historical, i.e., historical analogies, is among the most powerful tools for foresight…

cs.LG2026

Learning Task-Sufficient World Models by Synergizing Agentic Exploration and Structured Modeling

Fan Feng, Yujia Zheng, Minghao Fu +5

Learning and planning in imagination using world models provides an effective paradigm for training agents for decision-making. However, existing approaches often rely on high-dime…

cs.CL2026

CausalGame: Benchmarking Causal Thinking of LLM Agents in Games

Zhenhao Chen, Yongqiang Chen, Chenxi Liu +7

Building AI Scientist agents with Large Language Models (LLMs) has recently attracted growing attention. Since scientific discovery fundamentally relies on uncovering causal relati…

cs.CL2026

CiPO: Counterfactual Unlearning for Large Reasoning Models through Iterative Preference Optimization

Junyi Li, Yongqiang Chen, Ningning Ding

Machine unlearning has gained increasing attention in recent years, as a promising technique to selectively remove unwanted privacy or copyrighted information from Large Language M…

cs.LG2026

CausalEvolve: Towards Open-Ended Discovery with Causal Scratchpad

Yongqiang Chen, Chenxi Liu, Zhenhao Chen +3

Evolve-based agent such as AlphaEvolve is one of the notable successes in using Large Language Models (LLMs) to build AI Scientists. These agents tackle open-ended scientific probl…

cs.LG2026

ParamMem: Augmenting Language Agents with Parametric Reflective Memory

Tianjun Yao, Yongqiang Chen, Yujia Zheng +3

Self-reflection enables language agents to iteratively refine solutions, yet often produces repetitive outputs that limit reasoning performance. Recent studies have attempted to ad…

cs.LG2025

Pruning Spurious Subgraphs for Graph Out-of-Distribution Generalization

Tianjun Yao, Haoxuan Li, Yongqiang Chen +4

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) often encounter significant performance degradation under distribution shifts between training and test data, hindering their applicability in real-wor…

cs.LG2025

Concept Concentration for Faithful Representation Intervention

Hongzheng Yang, Yongqiang Chen, Zeyu Qin +4

Representation intervention aims to localize and modify the representations that encode the underlying concepts in large language models (LLMs) to elicit the aligned and expected b…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

Can Large Language Models Help Experimental Design for Causal Discovery?

Junyi Li, Yongqiang Chen, Chenxi Liu +5

Designing proper experiments and selecting optimal intervention targets is a longstanding problem in scientific or causal discovery. Identifying the underlying causal structure fro…

cs.LG2024

Empowering Graph Invariance Learning with Deep Spurious Infomax

Tianjun Yao, Yongqiang Chen, Zhenhao Chen +3

Recently, there has been a surge of interest in developing graph neural networks that utilize the invariance principle on graphs to generalize the out-of-distribution (OOD) data. D…