3 papers
cs.CL2026
Rubrics to Tokens: Bridging Response-level Rubrics and Token-level Rewards in Instruction Following Tasks
Tianze Xu, Yanzhao Zheng, Pengrui Lu +11
Rubric-based Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a promising approach for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with complex, open-domain instruction following tasks. Howeve…
cs.AI2026
ContextBudget: Budget-Aware Context Management for Long-Horizon Search Agents
Yong Wu, YanZhao Zheng, TianZe Xu +9
LLM-based agents show strong potential for long-horizon reasoning, yet their context size is limited by deployment factors (e.g., memory, latency, and cost), yielding a constrained…
cs.LG2026
SkillRouter: Skill Routing for LLM Agents at Scale
YanZhao Zheng, ZhenTao Zhang, Chao Ma +8
Reusable skills let LLM agents package task-specific procedures, tool affordances, and execution guidance into modular building blocks. As skill ecosystems grow to tens of thousand…