3 papers
cs.AI2026
SearchAuditor: Auditing and Attributing Failures in Long-Horizon Search Agents
Zhixiang Liang, Yifei Liu, Yidan Huang +5
Deep search agents tackle challenging questions through long-horizon web interactions, a process that is both complex and fragile: small reasoning errors may propagate through long…
cs.CV2026
Crafter: A Multi-Agent Harness for Editable Scientific Figure Generation from Diverse Inputs
Haozhe Zhao, Shuzheng Si, Zhenhailong Wang +6
Scientific figures are among the most effective means of communicating complex research ideas, yet producing publication-quality illustrations remains one of the most labor-intensi…
cs.LG2026
Hidden States as Early Signals: Step-level Trace Evaluation and Pruning for Efficient Test-Time Scaling
Zhixiang Liang, Beichen Huang, Zheng Wang +1
Large Language Models (LLMs) can enhance reasoning capabilities through test-time scaling by generating multiple traces. However, the combination of lengthy reasoning traces with m…