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7 papers

cs.LG2026

Distribution-Aware Reward: Reinforcement Learning over Predictive Distributions for LLM Regression

Jungsoo Park, Hyungjoo Chae, Ethan Mendes +4

Large language models can predict real-valued quantities from heterogeneous inputs such as text, code, and molecular strings, but most training objectives score each decoded floati…

cs.CL2026

DR Tulu: Reinforcement Learning with Evolving Rubrics for Deep Research

Rulin Shao, Akari Asai, Shannon Zejiang Shen +18

Deep research agents perform multi-step research to produce long-form, well-attributed answers. However, most open deep research agents are trained on easily verifiable short-form…

cs.CL2026

DRACULA: Hunting for the Actions Users Want Deep Research Agents to Execute

Nishant Balepur, Malachi Hamada, Varsha Kishore +9

Scientific Deep Research (DR) agents answer user queries by synthesizing research papers into multi-section reports. User feedback can improve their utility, but existing protocols…

cs.AI2026

AstaBench: Rigorous Benchmarking of AI Agents with a Scientific Research Suite

Jonathan Bragg, Mike D'Arcy, Nishant Balepur +36

AI agents hold the potential to revolutionize scientific productivity by automating literature reviews, replicating experiments, analyzing data, and even proposing new directions o…

cs.CL2026

Language Models Don't Know What You Want: Evaluating Personalization in Deep Research Needs Real Users

Nishant Balepur, Malachi Hamada, Varsha Kishore +7

Deep Research (DR) systems help researchers cope with ballooning publishing counts. Such tools synthesize scientific papers to answer research queries, but lack understanding of th…

cs.CL2026

Improving Attributed Long-form Question Answering with Intent Awareness

Xinran Zhao, Aakanksha Naik, Jay DeYoung +4

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used to generate comprehensive, knowledge-intensive reports. However, while these models are trained on diverse academic papers…