collaborators

6 papers

cs.CL2026

Unified Context Evolution for LLM Agents

Zixuan Zhu, Yitong Hu, Yong Dai +4

LLM-based agents can solve multi-step interactive tasks by combining reasoning with environment feedback, yet each episode starts from the same fixed context and any useful strateg…

cs.RO2026

Pelican-Unify 1.0: A Unified Embodied Intelligence Model for Understanding, Reasoning, Imagination and Action

Yi Zhang, Yinda Chen, Che Liu +26

We present Pelican-Unify 1.0, the first embodied foundation model trained according to the principle of unification. Pelican-Unify 1.0 uses a single VLM as a unified understanding…

cs.LG2026

Self-Induced Outcome Potential: Turn-Level Credit Assignment for Agents without Verifiers

Senkang Hu, Yong Dai, Xudong Han +4

Long-horizon LLM agents depend on intermediate information-gathering turns, yet training feedback is usually observed only at the final answer, because process-level rewards requir…

cs.CL2026

Skill-Conditioned Gated Self-Distillation for LLM Reasoning

Jiazhen Huang, Xiao Chen, Xiao Luo +3

On-policy self-distillation (SD) improves LLM reasoning by using teacher-side privileged information (PI) to turn sparse verifier outcomes into dense token-level supervision. Exist…

cs.AI2026

Optimizing Agentic Reasoning with Retrieval via Synthetic Semantic Information Gain Reward

Senkang Hu, Yong Dai, Yuzhi Zhao +5

Agentic reasoning enables large reasoning models (LRMs) to dynamically acquire external knowledge, but yet optimizing the retrieval process remains challenging due to the lack of d…

cs.CL2025

Distribution-Aligned Decoding for Efficient LLM Task Adaptation

Senkang Hu, Xudong Han, Jinqi Jiang +5

Adapting billion-parameter language models to a downstream task is still costly, even with parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT). We re-cast task adaptation as output-distribution…