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16 papers

cs.CL2026

Learning to Persuade Exposes How Easily LLMs Abandon Correct Beliefs

Nimet Beyza Bozdag, Emre Can Acikgoz, Gokhan Tur +1

Persuasion is a core dynamic of natural language communication, shaping how large language models (LLMs) update beliefs, resolve disagreements, and reach decisions. As LLMs increas…

cs.AI2026

PlanBench-XL: Evaluating Long-Horizon Planning of LLM Tool-Use Agents in Large-Scale Tool Ecosystems

Jiayu Liu, Qihan Lin, Cheng Qian +8

LLM agents increasingly operate in large tool ecosystems, where real-world tasks require discovering relevant tools, inferring implicit sub-goals, and adapting to dynamic environme…

cs.AI2026

Advancing Creative Physical Intelligence in Large Multimodal Models

Cheng Qian, Hyeonjeong Ha, Jiayu Liu +10

Large multimodal models (LMMs) have rapidly advanced in perception and reasoning; however, it remains unclear whether these capabilities generalize to discovering visually grounded…

cs.CL2026

AcquisitionSynthesis: Targeted Data Generation using Acquisition Functions

Ishika Agarwal, Sofia Stoica, Emre Can Acikgoz +4

Data quality remains a critical bottleneck in developing capable, competitive models. Researchers have explored many ways to generate top quality samples. Some works rely on reject…

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

Current Agents Fail to Leverage World Model as Tool for Foresight

Cheng Qian, Emre Can Acikgoz, Bingxuan Li +8

Agents built on vision-language models increasingly face tasks that demand anticipating future states rather than relying on short-horizon reasoning. Generative world models offer…