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7 papers

cs.LG2026

HarnessCompass: Guiding Automatic Harness Evolution toward Generalizable and Effective Agent Harnesses

Luan Zhang, Ruochen Zhou, Dandan Song +9

Harness design plays a critical role in agent performance by shaping how large language models (LLMs) perceive, reason over, and act within executable environments. Recent work has…

cs.CL2026

SkillCraft: Can LLM Agents Learn to Use Tools Skillfully?

Shiqi Chen, Jingze Gai, Ruochen Zhou +13

Real-world tool-using agents operate over long-horizon workflows with recurring structure and diverse demands, where effective behavior requires not only invoking atomic tools but…

cs.LG2026

Reinforcement Learning for Tool-Integrated Interleaved Thinking towards Cross-Domain Generalization

Zhengyu Chen, Jinluan Yang, Teng Xiao +6

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in reasoning and tool utilization. However, the generalization of tool-augmented reinforce…

cs.CL2025

Why Is Spatial Reasoning Hard for VLMs? An Attention Mechanism Perspective on Focus Areas

Shiqi Chen, Tongyao Zhu, Ruochen Zhou +7

Large Vision Language Models (VLMs) have long struggled with spatial reasoning tasks. Surprisingly, even simple spatial reasoning tasks, such as recognizing "under" or "behind" rel…

cs.CL2025

Does Learning Mathematical Problem-Solving Generalize to Broader Reasoning?

Ruochen Zhou, Minrui Xu, Shiqi Chen +5

There has been a growing interest in enhancing the mathematical problem-solving (MPS) capabilities of large language models. While the majority of research efforts concentrate on c…

cs.CL2025

From Mathematical Reasoning to Code: Generalization of Process Reward Models in Test-Time Scaling

Zhengyu Chen, Yudong Wang, Teng Xiao +5

Recent advancements in improving the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models have underscored the efficacy of Process Reward Models (PRMs) in addressing intermediate errors…