3 papers
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.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.CL2025
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…