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9 papers

cs.AI2026

FinEvo-Bench: A Longitudinal Benchmark for Self-Evolving Agents in Professional Financial Workflows

Bo Deng, Kang Zhou, Lifan Guo +6

Most agent benchmarks evaluate tasks independently and cannot measure whether experience from one task helps with later tasks. Existing self-evolution benchmarks do not jointly cov…

cs.AI2026

FinPerMA: A Theory-Informed, Event-Grounded Personalized-Memory Benchmark for LLM Agents

Ben Wang, Kang Zhou, Lifan Guo +2

Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly used as personalized assistants in high-stakes domains such as financial advising, yet it remains unclear whether they can mainta…

cs.AI2026

FinProBench: Evaluating Financial AI Agents with Role-Grounded Rubrics Derived from Professional Deliverables

Ben Wang, Kang Zhou, Lifan Guo +2

Evaluating financial AI agents requires criteria aligned with real professional work. Existing rubric methods typically derive criteria from task prompts or model outputs, overlook…

cs.CL2026

An Empirical Study of Automating Agent Evaluation

Kang Zhou, Sangmin Woo, Haibo Ding +14

Agent evaluation requires assessing complex multi-step behaviors involving tool use and intermediate reasoning, making it costly and expertise-intensive. A natural question arises:…

cs.CL2026

Beyond Correctness: Rewarding Faithful Reasoning in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Zhichao Xu, Zongyu Wu, Yun Zhou +9

Inspired by the success of reinforcement learning (RL) in Large Language Model (LLM) training for domains like math and code, recent work has begun training LLMs to dynamically pla…

cs.CL2026

Diffusion Language Model Inference with Monte Carlo Tree Search

Zheng Huang, Kiran Ramnath, Yueyan Chen +8

Diffusion language models (DLMs) have recently emerged as a compelling alternative to autoregressive generation, offering parallel generation and improved global coherence. During…