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7 papers

cs.IR2026

PIXELRAG: Web Screenshots Beat Text for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Yichuan Wang, Zhifei Li, Zirui Wang +5

Augmenting large language models (LLMs) with retrieved web text has become a dominant paradigm, yet the web is not natively textual: existing systems depend on complex parsing pipe…

cs.LG2026

FrontierSmith: Synthesizing Open-Ended Coding Problems at Scale

Runyuan He, Qiuyang Mang, Shang Zhou +14

Many real-world coding challenges are open-ended and admit no known optimal solution. Yet, recent progress in LLM coding has focused on well-defined tasks such as feature implement…

cs.LG2025

FrontierCS: Evolving Challenges for Evolving Intelligence

Qiuyang Mang, Wenhao Chai, Zhifei Li +48

We introduce FrontierCS, a benchmark of 156 open-ended problems across diverse areas of computer science, designed and reviewed by experts, including CS PhDs and top-tier competiti…

cs.DB2025

LEANN: A Low-Storage Vector Index

Yichuan Wang, Zhifei Li, Shu Liu +10

Embedding-based vector search underpins many important applications, such as recommendation and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). It relies on vector indices to enable efficien…

cs.LG2025

Autellix: An Efficient Serving Engine for LLM Agents as General Programs

Michael Luo, Xiaoxiang Shi, Colin Cai +8

Large language model (LLM) applications are evolving beyond simple chatbots into dynamic, general-purpose agentic programs, which scale LLM calls and output tokens to help AI agent…

cs.AI2025

The Danger of Overthinking: Examining the Reasoning-Action Dilemma in Agentic Tasks

Alejandro Cuadron, Dacheng Li, Wenjie Ma +13

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) represent a breakthrough in AI problem-solving capabilities, but their effectiveness in interactive environments can be limited. This paper introduces…