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11 papers

cs.LG2026

AI4AI at Test-Time: Strong-to-Weak Capability Transfer via Harnesses

Cheng Qian, Wenting Zhao, Liangwei Yang +6

Recent work on distillation transfers the capabilities of large models to smaller ones often by updating the latter's parameters, through teacher forcing, on-policy distillation, a…

cs.CL2026

Learning to Predict Future-Aligned Research Proposals with Language Models

Heng Wang, Pengcheng Jiang, Jiashuo Sun +4

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to assist ideation in research, but evaluating the quality of LLM-generated research proposals remains difficult: novelty and sou…

cs.AI2026

The Landscape of Agentic Reinforcement Learning for LLMs: A Survey

Guibin Zhang, Hejia Geng, Xiaohang Yu +22

The emergence of agentic reinforcement learning (Agentic RL) marks a paradigm shift from conventional reinforcement learning applied to large language models (LLM RL), reframing LL…

cs.LG2026

Tool-R0: Self-Evolving LLM Agents for Tool-Learning from Zero Data

Emre Can Acikgoz, Cheng Qian, Jonas Hübotter +3

Large language models (LLMs) are becoming the foundation for autonomous agents that can use tools to solve complex tasks. Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a common approa…

cs.AI2026

A Survey of Self-Evolving Agents: What, When, How, and Where to Evolve on the Path to Artificial Super Intelligence

Huan-ang Gao, Jiayi Geng, Wenyue Hua +24

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse tasks but remain fundamentally static, unable to adapt their internal parameters to novel task…

cs.LG2025

xRouter: Training Cost-Aware LLMs Orchestration System via Reinforcement Learning

Cheng Qian, Zuxin Liu, Shirley Kokane +10

Modern LLM deployments confront a widening cost-performance spectrum: premium models deliver strong reasoning but are expensive, while lightweight models are economical yet brittle…