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11 papers

cs.CL2026

Self-Authored Verification Is Unreliable in Heuristic Self-Improving Agents

Diandian Guo, Cong Cao, Fangfang Yuan +3

Self-improving agents accumulate capability by repeatedly rewriting procedural policies, controllers, or heuristic rules. They typically rely on self-authored tests or metrics to d…

cs.AI2026

MOF-Sleuth: Tool-Grounded Reward Alignment for Explainable Fine-Grained MOF CIF Auditing

Yu Liu, Zhiwei Yang, Diandian Guo +7

Large metal-organic framework (MOF) databases support simulation, screening, and machine learning through crystallographic information files (CIFs). Subtle chemical and structural…

cs.IR2026

OPERA: A Reinforcement Learning--Enhanced Orchestrated Planner-Executor Architecture for Reasoning-Oriented Multi-Hop Retrieval

Yu Liu, Yanbing Liu, Fangfang Yuan +6

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) and dense retrievers have driven significant progress in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). However, existing approaches face sig…

cs.SE2026

AOCI: Symbolic-Semantic Indexing for Practical Repository-Scale Code Understanding with LLMs

Jinshi Liu, Hanying Zuo, Congyin Cao +3

Large language models struggle with understanding codebases beyond a certain scale -- repositories with hundreds of thousands of lines of code. Existing methods -- retrieval, summa…

cs.AI2026

A Hierarchical Error-Corrective Graph Framework for Autonomous Agents with LLM-Based Action Generation

Cong Cao, Jingyao Zhang, Kun Tong

We propose a Hierarchical Error-Corrective Graph FrameworkforAutonomousAgentswithLLM-BasedActionGeneration(HECG),whichincorporates three core innovations: (1) Multi-Dimensional Tra…

cs.CL2026

MuVaC: A Variational Causal Framework for Multimodal Sarcasm Understanding in Dialogues

Diandian Guo, Fangfang Yuan, Cong Cao +5

The prevalence of sarcasm in multimodal dialogues on the social platforms presents a crucial yet challenging task for understanding the true intent behind online content. Comprehen…