most citedVerbalized Sampling: How to Mitigate Mode Collapse and Unlock LLM Diversity

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cs.SE2026

AutoEnvScaling: Automating the Data Flywheel with Terminal Agents

Simon Yu, Baolin Peng, Bo Liu +8

Terminal agents solve tasks in software engineering and scientific research by executing commands in a terminal. Training them via reinforcement learning (RL) requires diverse and…

cs.CL2026

SPADE: Self-Play in Adaptive Synthetic Executable Environments

Bo Liu, Simon Yu, Yiding Jiang +15

Continuous self-improvement requires an ever-expanding pool of self-generated, diverse, adaptive goals. For language agents, existing training environment pools (hand-curated, stat…

cs.CL2026

One Frozen Simulator Is Not Enough: Simulator Collapse in Multi-Agent RL

Simon Yu, Nicholas Tomlin, Marwa Abdulhai +7

Multi-agent reinforcement learning for human-AI interaction typically relies on a single large language model to simulate user behavior. We show that this approach systematically f…

cs.CL2026

The Piggyback Hypothesis of Generalization: Explaining and Mitigating Emergent Misalignment

Jiachen Zhao, Zhengxuan Wu, Aryaman Arora +3

The mechanisms behind LLMs' broad over-generalization beyond training examples remain unclear. Emergent misalignment (EM) offers a striking case study: finetuning on narrow tasks i…

cs.AI2026

Shepherd: Enabling Programmable Meta-Agents via Reversible Agentic Execution Traces

Simon Yu, Derek Chong, Ananjan Nandi +4

As LLM agent systems take on more complex tasks, they increasingly rely on meta-agents: higher-order agents that create, operate on and manage other agents. Meta-agent operations s…

cs.AI2026

Agents' Last Exam

Yiyou Sun, Xinyang Han, Weichen Zhang +378

Recent AI systems have achieved strong results on a wide range of benchmarks, yet these gains have not translated into economically meaningful deployment across many professional d…

cs.LG2026

RASFT: Rollout-Adaptive Supervised Fine-Tuning for Reasoning

Yongliang Miao, Fengyuan Liu, Wei Shi +4

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is a prevailing method for adapting large language models to reasoning tasks by imitating offline expert demonstrations, often treating a single expert…

cs.AI2026

Coding with "Enemy": Can Human Developers Detect AI Agent Sabotage?

Jingheng Ye, Huiqi Zou, Simon Yu +1

AI coding agents are increasingly embedded in real-world software development, collaborating with human developers while gaining broader access to codebases and tools. This creates…

cs.AI2026

How to Interpret Agent Behavior

Jie Gao, Kaiser Sun, Jen-tse Huang +8

Autonomous agents such as Claude Code and Codex now operate for hours or even days. Understanding their runtime behavior has become critical for downstream tasks such as diagnosing…

cs.CL2025

PolySkill: Learning Generalizable Skills Through Polymorphic Abstraction

Simon Yu, Gang Li, Weiyan Shi +1

Large language models (LLMs) are moving beyond static uses and are now powering agents that learn continually during their interaction with external environments. For example, agen…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

Verbalized Sampling: How to Mitigate Mode Collapse and Unlock LLM Diversity

Jiayi Zhang, Simon Yu, Derek Chong +4

Post-training alignment often reduces LLM diversity, leading to a phenomenon known as mode collapse. Unlike prior work that attributes this effect to algorithmic limitations, we id…

cs.LG2025

GEM: A Gym for Agentic LLMs

Zichen Liu, Anya Sims, Keyu Duan +16

The training paradigm for large language models (LLMs) is moving from static datasets to experience-based learning, where agents acquire skills via interacting with complex environ…

cs.AI2025

SPIRAL: Self-Play on Zero-Sum Games Incentivizes Reasoning via Multi-Agent Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning

Bo Liu, Leon Guertler, Simon Yu +9

Recent advances in reinforcement learning have shown that language models can develop sophisticated reasoning through training on tasks with verifiable rewards, but these approache…