collaborators

11 papers

cs.LG2026

HER: Human-like Reasoning and Reinforcement Learning for LLM Role-playing

Chengyu Du, Xintao Wang, Aili Chen +11

LLM role-playing, i.e., using LLMs to simulate specific personas, has emerged as a key capability in various applications, such as companionship, content creation and digital games…

cs.CL2026

From AI Assistant to AI Scientist: Autonomous Discovery of LLM-RL Algorithms with LLM Agents

Sirui Xia, Yikai Zhang, Aili Chen +3

Discovering improved policy optimization algorithms for language models remains a costly manual process requiring repeated mechanism-level modification and validation. Unlike simpl…

cs.AI2026

DIVE: Scaling Diversity in Agentic Task Synthesis for Generalizable Tool Use

Aili Chen, Chi Zhang, Junteng Liu +11

Recent work synthesizes agentic tasks for post-training tool-using LLMs, yet robust generalization under shifts in tasks and toolsets remains an open challenge. We trace this britt…

cs.CL2026

CoSER: A Comprehensive Literary Dataset and Framework for Training and Evaluating LLM Role-Playing and Persona Simulation

Xintao Wang, Heng Wang, Yifei Zhang +9

Role-playing language agents (RPLAs) have emerged as promising applications of large language models (LLMs). However, simulating established characters presents a challenging task…

cs.CL2025

Curse of Knowledge: When Complex Evaluation Context Benefits yet Biases LLM Judges

Weiyuan Li, Xintao Wang, Siyu Yuan +5

As large language models (LLMs) grow more capable, they face increasingly diverse and complex tasks, making reliable evaluation challenging. The paradigm of LLMs as judges has emer…

cs.CL2025

Enhancing Language Agent Strategic Reasoning through Self-Play in Adversarial Games

Yikai Zhang, Ye Rong, Siyu Yuan +3

Existing language agents often encounter difficulties in dynamic adversarial games due to poor strategic reasoning. To mitigate this limitation, a promising approach is to allow ag…