3 papers
cs.AI2026
When Self-Evolution Backfires: Pre-Commit Gating against Skill Contamination in LLM Agents
Linfang Shang, Ming Xu, Yiding Sun +4
Self-evolving agents accumulate capability by distilling reusable skills from their execution trajectories, but we find this process is not monotonic: past a critical pool size, ne…
cs.CL2026
Towards Faithful Industrial RAG: A Reinforced Co-adaptation Framework for Advertising QA
Wenwei Li, Ming Xu, Tianle Xia +7
Industrial advertising question answering (QA) is a high-stakes task in which hallucinated content, particularly fabricated URLs, can lead to financial loss, compliance violations,…
cs.CL2026
Search-P1: Path-Centric Reward Shaping for Stable and Efficient Agentic RAG Training
Tianle Xia, Ming Xu, Lingxiang Hu +7
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) by incorporating external knowledge, yet traditional single-round retrieval struggles with complex multi-…