33 papers
Mechanist: AI as a Scientific Instrument for Discovering the Mechanisms of Intelligence
Mengru Wang, Junfeng Fang, Shuofei Qiao +16
AI models have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains, yet the mechanisms underlying their capabilities and the risks they may pose remain poorly understood. As AI deve…
Active Perception for Embodied Disambiguation
Yiwei Liu, Luwei Yang
Natural language provides robots with a flexible task interface, but target ambiguity in embodied environments arises not only from user intent; it can also result from missing tas…
Mitigating Context Interference for Reliable and Efficient Search Agents
Boyang Xue, Bin Wu, Shuofei Qiao +8
Recent research empowers Large Language Models (LLMs) as multi-turn search agents to iteratively retrieve and generate outputs until complex tasks are solved. However, the contexts…
Rewarding the Scientific Process: Process-Level Reward Modeling for Agentic Data Analysis
Zhisong Qiu, Shuofei Qiao, Kewei Xu +4
Process Reward Models (PRMs) have achieved remarkable success in augmenting the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) within static domains such as mathematics. Ho…
LabVLA: Grounding Vision-Language-Action Models in Scientific Laboratories
Baochang Ren, Xinjie Liu, Xi Chen +15
Scientific laboratories increasingly rely on AI systems to reason about experiments, but the physical act of doing science remains largely outside their reach. AI can help read lit…
InnoEval: On Research Idea Evaluation as a Knowledge-Grounded, Multi-Perspective Reasoning Problem
Shuofei Qiao, Yunxiang Wei, Xuehai Wang +10
The rapid evolution of Large Language Models has catalyzed a surge in scientific idea production, yet this leap has not been accompanied by a matching advance in idea evaluation. T…