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SkillCraft: Can LLM Agents Learn to Use Tools Skillfully?

Shiqi Chen, Jingze Gai, Ruochen Zhou, Jinghan Zhang, Tongyao Zhu, Junlong Li · Feb 28, 2026

Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon General
  • Real-world tool-using agents operate over long-horizon workflows with recurring structure and diverse demands, where effective behavior requires not only invoking atomic tools but also abstracting, and reusing higher-level tool…
  • Evaluating state-of-the-art agents on SkillCraft, we observe substantial efficiency gains, with token usage reduced by up to 80% by skill saving and reuse.
Confusion-Aware Rubric Optimization for LLM-based Automated Grading

Yucheng Chu, Hang Li, Kaiqi Yang, Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, Joseph Krajcik, Namsoo Shin · Feb 28, 2026

Citations: 0
Rubric Rating Automatic Metrics Medicine
  • Empirical evaluations on teacher education and STEM datasets demonstrate that CARO significantly outperforms existing SOTA methods.
When Metrics Disagree: Automatic Similarity vs. LLM-as-a-Judge for Clinical Dialogue Evaluation

Bian Sun, Zhenjian Wang, Orvill de la Torre, Zirui Wang · Feb 27, 2026

Citations: 0
Llm As JudgeAutomatic Metrics Medicine
  • This paper details the baseline model selection, fine-tuning process, evaluation methods, and the implications of deploying more accurate LLMs in healthcare settings.
  • The fine-tuned model demonstrated significant improvements across all key dimensions except GPT-4's evaluation.
DARE-bench: Evaluating Modeling and Instruction Fidelity of LLMs in Data Science

Fan Shu, Yite Wang, Ruofan Wu, Boyi Liu, Zhewei Yao, Yuxiong He · Feb 27, 2026

Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon General
  • The fast-growing demands in using Large Language Models (LLMs) to tackle complex multi-step data science tasks create an emergent need for accurate benchmarking.
  • To bridge these gaps, we introduce DARE-bench, a benchmark designed for machine learning modeling and data science instruction following.
AgentDropoutV2: Optimizing Information Flow in Multi-Agent Systems via Test-Time Rectify-or-Reject Pruning

Yutong Wang, Siyuan Xiong, Xuebo Liu, Wenkang Zhou, Liang Ding, Miao Zhang · Feb 26, 2026

Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Multi Agent MathCoding
  • We propose AgentDropoutV2, a test-time rectify-or-reject pruning framework designed to dynamically optimize MAS information flow without retraining.
  • Empirical results on extensive math benchmarks show that AgentDropoutV2 significantly boosts the MAS's task performance, achieving an average accuracy gain of 6.3 percentage points on math benchmarks.
Spatio-Temporal Token Pruning for Efficient High-Resolution GUI Agents

Zhou Xu, Bowen Zhou, Qi Wang, Shuwen Feng, Jingyu Xiao · Feb 26, 2026

Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Web Browsing General
  • Pure-vision GUI agents provide universal interaction capabilities but suffer from severe efficiency bottlenecks due to the massive spatiotemporal redundancy inherent in high-resolution screenshots and historical trajectories.
  • We identify two critical misalignments in existing compression paradigms: the temporal mismatch, where uniform history encoding diverges from the agent's "fading memory" attention pattern, and the spatial topology conflict, where…
Obscure but Effective: Classical Chinese Jailbreak Prompt Optimization via Bio-Inspired Search

Xun Huang, Simeng Qin, Xiaoshuang Jia, Ranjie Duan, Huanqian Yan, Zhitao Zeng · Feb 26, 2026

Citations: 0
Red Team Automatic Metrics Multilingual
  • Owing to its conciseness and obscurity, classical Chinese can partially bypass existing safety constraints, exposing notable vulnerabilities in LLMs.
  • To enhance readability and evaluation accuracy, we further design a classical Chinese to English translation module.
Modeling Expert AI Diagnostic Alignment via Immutable Inference Snapshots

Dimitrios P. Panagoulias, Evangelia-Aikaterini Tsichrintzi, Georgios Savvidis, Evridiki Tsoureli-Nikita · Feb 26, 2026

Citations: 0
Expert Verification Automatic Metrics Medicine
  • Human-in-the-loop validation is essential in safety-critical clinical AI, yet the transition between initial model inference and expert correction is rarely analyzed as a structured signal.
  • Evaluation on 21 dermatological cases (21 complete AI physician pairs) em- ployed a four-level concordance framework comprising exact primary match rate (PMR), semantic similarity-adjusted rate (AMR), cross-category alignment, and…
Test-Time Scaling with Diffusion Language Models via Reward-Guided Stitching

Roy Miles, Aysim Toker, Andreea-Maria Oncescu, Songcen Xu, Jiankang Deng, Ismail Elezi · Feb 26, 2026

Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon MathCoding
  • This modular pipeline separates exploration (diffusion) from evaluation and solution synthesis, avoiding monolithic unified hybrids while preserving broad search.
  • Across math reasoning benchmarks, we find that step-level recombination is most beneficial on harder problems, and ablations highlight the importance of the final AR solver in converting stitched but imperfect rationales into accurate…
DeepPresenter: Environment-Grounded Reflection for Agentic Presentation Generation

Hao Zheng, Guozhao Mo, Xinru Yan, Qianhao Yuan, Wenkai Zhang, Xuanang Chen · Feb 26, 2026

Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon General
  • However, existing presentation agents often rely on predefined workflows and fixed templates.
  • To address this, we present DeepPresenter, an agentic framework that adapts to diverse user intents, enables effective feedback-driven refinement, and generalizes beyond a scripted pipeline.
Hierarchy-of-Groups Policy Optimization for Long-Horizon Agentic Tasks

Shuo He, Lang Feng, Qi Wei, Xin Cheng, Lei Feng, Bo An · Feb 26, 2026

Citations: 0
Simulation Env Long Horizon Coding
  • Group-based reinforcement learning (RL), such as GRPO, has advanced the capabilities of large language models on long-horizon agentic tasks.
  • To address the issue, in this paper, we propose Hierarchy-of-Groups Policy Optimization (HGPO) for long-horizon agentic tasks.
Critique Edit Coding
  • NLD-P is formalized as a modular control abstraction that separates provenance, constraint logic, task content, and post-generation evaluation, encoded directly in natural language without reliance on external orchestration code.
  • All conceptual framing, methodological claims, and final revisions were directed, reviewed, and approved by the human author under a documented human-in-the-loop protocol.
AMA-Bench: Evaluating Long-Horizon Memory for Agentic Applications

Yujie Zhao, Boqin Yuan, Junbo Huang, Haocheng Yuan, Zhongming Yu, Haozhou Xu · Feb 26, 2026

Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon General
  • To bridge this gap, we introduce AMA-Bench (Agent Memory with Any length), which evaluates long-horizon memory for LLMs in real agentic applications.
  • To address these limitations, we propose AMA-Agent, an effective memory system featuring a causality graph and tool-augmented retrieval.
RLHFless: Serverless Computing for Efficient RLHF

Rui Wei, Hanfei Yu, Shubham Jain, Yogarajan Sivakumar, Devesh Tiwari, Jian Li · Feb 26, 2026

Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics General
  • Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has been widely applied to Large Language Model (LLM) post-training to align model outputs with human preferences.
Same Words, Different Judgments: Modality Effects on Preference Alignment

Aaron Broukhim, Nadir Weibel, Eshin Jolly · Feb 26, 2026

Citations: 0
Pairwise PreferenceRlaif Or Synthetic Feedback Automatic Metrics General
  • Preference-based reinforcement learning (PbRL) is the dominant framework for aligning AI systems to human preferences, but its application to speech remains underexplored.
  • We present a controlled cross-modal study of human and synthetic preference annotations, comparing text and audio evaluations of identical semantic content across 100 prompts.
Search More, Think Less: Rethinking Long-Horizon Agentic Search for Efficiency and Generalization

Qianben Chen, Tianrui Qin, King Zhu, Qiexiang Wang, Chengjun Yu, Shu Xu · Feb 26, 2026

Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon General
  • Recent deep research agents primarily improve performance by scaling reasoning depth, but this leads to high inference cost and latency in search-intensive scenarios.
  • In this work, we propose Search More, Think Less (SMTL), a framework for long-horizon agentic search that targets both efficiency and generalization.
Search-P1: Path-Centric Reward Shaping for Stable and Efficient Agentic RAG Training

Tianle Xia, Ming Xu, Lingxiang Hu, Yiding Sun, Wenwei Li, Linfang Shang · Feb 26, 2026

Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon General
  • We propose Search-P1, a framework that introduces path-centric reward shaping for agentic RAG training, comprising two key components: (1) Path-Centric Reward, which evaluates the structural quality of reasoning trajectories through…
  • Experiments on multiple QA benchmarks demonstrate that Search-P1 achieves significant improvements over Search-R1 and other strong baselines, with an average accuracy gain of 7.7 points.

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