9 papers
AgonAlpha: Autonomous Alpha Discovery via Prompt Economy and Scalable Agentic Search
Weicheng Ye, Youran Sun, Xingyu Ren +3
Language models can propose many plausible trading factors, but an autonomous research system must also allocate its evaluation budget, verify its own evidence, and preserve how ea…
Understanding Sparse Attention Selectivity in Long-Context Foundation Models via Counterfactual Evaluation
Xingyu Ren, Youran Sun, Chugang Yi +1
Sparse attention is widely deployed in long-context serving stacks, yet no framework audits how discarding blocks changes the influence of specific content on model output. We firs…
Cross-Task Dissociation in Frontier Vision-Language Model Theory of Mind
Kejia Zhang, Youran Sun, Chugang Yi +1
Do frontier vision-language models present a coherent Theory-of-Mind (ToM) profile across tasks, matching the same human reference group, or does that profile fragment from one par…
Effective Parameters, Real Behavior: Renormalization for Robotics -- From Infinite Electron Mass to Sim-to-Real Gap
Youran Sun, Jiaxuan Guo, Xingyu Ren +2
Bridging the sim-to-real gap is a central problem in robotics, and the prevailing approach is to build increasingly accurate simulators. Here, we propose another approach based on…
Bringing Agentic Search to Earth Observation Data Discovery
Minghan Yu, Youran Sun, Chugang Yi +2
NASA and its data centers hold thousands of geoscience datasets and tools like Worldview, Giovanni, the Science Discovery Engine, and Harmony. Finding the right one is hard even fo…
Agon: An Autonomous Large-Scale Omnidisciplinary Research System Built on Prompt Economy
Youran Sun, Xingyu Ren, Chugang Yi +4
Large language models are making research production scalable, shifting the bottleneck from producing artifacts to judging claims. We present \textsc{Agon}, a research orchestrator…