- Brief Is Better: Non-Monotonic Chain-of-Thought Budget Effects in Function-Calling Language Agents
Xuan Qi · Apr 2, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning is widely assumed to improve agent performance, but the relationship between reasoning length and accuracy in structured tool-use settings remains poorly understood.
- S0 Tuning: Zero-Overhead Adaptation of Hybrid Recurrent-Attention Models
Jack Young · Apr 1, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Using roughly 48 execution-verified HumanEval training solutions, tuning a single initial state matrix per recurrent layer, with zero inference overhead, outperforms LoRA by +10.8 pp (p < 0.001) on HumanEval.
- Cache What Lasts: Token Retention for Memory-Bounded KV Cache in LLMs
Ngoc Bui, Shubham Sharma, Simran Lamba, Saumitra Mishra, Rex Ying · Dec 3, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Across mathematical reasoning (GSM8K, MATH-500, AIME24), procedural generation (LongProc), conversational long-memory benchmarks (LongMemEval), and long-context understanding (LongBenchV2 and SCBench), TRIM-KV consistently outperforms…
- DeepPrune: Parallel Scaling without Inter-trace Redundancy
Shangqing Tu, Yaxuan Li, Yushi Bai, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li · Oct 9, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Our method features a specialized judge model trained with out-of-distribution data (AIME 2022, AIME 2023, and MATH 500) using oversampling techniques to accurately predict answer equivalence from partial reasoning traces, achieving 0.7072…
- SkillX: Automatically Constructing Skill Knowledge Bases for Agents
Chenxi Wang, Zhuoyun Yu, Xin Xie, Wuguannan Yao, Runnan Fang · Apr 6, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Learning from experience is critical for building capable large language model (LLM) agents, yet prevailing self-evolving paradigms remain inefficient: agents learn in isolation, repeatedly rediscover similar behaviors from limited…
- The Bitter Lesson of Diffusion Language Models for Agentic Workflows: A Comprehensive Reality Check
Qingyu Lu, Liang Ding, Kanjian Zhang, Jinxia Zhang, Dacheng Tao · Jan 19, 2026 · Citations: 0
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In this work, we present a comprehensive evaluation of dLLMs (e.g., LLaDA, Dream) across two distinct agentic paradigms: Embodied Agents (requiring long-horizon planning) and Tool-Calling Agents (requiring precise formatting).
- Failure Makes the Agent Stronger: Enhancing Accuracy through Structured Reflection for Reliable Tool Interactions
Junhao Su, Yuanliang Wan, Junwei Yang, Hengyu Shi, Tianyang Han · Sep 23, 2025 · Citations: 0
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The agent produces a short yet precise reflection: it diagnoses the failure using evidence from the previous step and then proposes a correct, executable follow-up call.
- Towards Hierarchical Multi-Step Reward Models for Enhanced Reasoning in Large Language Models
Teng Wang, Zhangyi Jiang, Zhenqi He, Shenyang Tong, Wenhan Yang · Mar 16, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Empirical results on the PRM800K dataset show that HRM, together with HNC, provides more stable and reliable evaluations than PRM.
- TRACES: Tagging Reasoning Steps for Adaptive Cost-Efficient Early-Stopping
Yannis Belkhiter, Seshu Tirupathi, Giulio Zizzo, John D. Kelleher · Apr 22, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Breaking MCP with Function Hijacking Attacks: Novel Threats for Function Calling and Agentic Models
Yannis Belkhiter, Giulio Zizzo, Sergio Maffeis, Seshu Tirupathi, John D. Kelleher · Apr 22, 2026 · Citations: 0
- MoE-nD: Per-Layer Mixture-of-Experts Routing for Multi-Axis KV Cache Compression
Libo Sun, Peixiong He, Po-Wei Harn, Xiao Qin · Apr 20, 2026 · Citations: 0
- CoEvolve: Training LLM Agents via Agent-Data Mutual Evolution
Shidong Yang, Ziyu Ma, Tongwen Huang, Yiming Hu, Yong Wang · Apr 17, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Peer-Predictive Self-Training for Language Model Reasoning
Shi Feng, Hanlin Zhang, Fan Nie, Sham Kakade, Yiling Chen · Apr 14, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Awakening the Sleeping Agent: Lean-Specific Agentic Data Reactivates General Tool Use in Goedel Prover
Jui-Hui Chung, Hongzhou Lin, Lai Jiang, Shange Tang, Chi Jin · Apr 9, 2026 · Citations: 0
- SortedRL: Accelerating RL Training for LLMs through Online Length-Aware Scheduling
Yiqi Zhang, Huiqiang Jiang, Xufang Luo, Zhihe Yang, Chengruidong Zhang · Mar 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
- TERMINATOR: Learning Optimal Exit Points for Early Stopping in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Alliot Nagle, Jakhongir Saydaliev, Dhia Garbaya, Michael Gastpar, Ashok Vardhan Makkuva · Mar 13, 2026 · Citations: 0
- PostTrainBench: Can LLM Agents Automate LLM Post-Training?
Ben Rank, Hardik Bhatnagar, Ameya Prabhu, Shira Eisenberg, Karina Nguyen · Mar 9, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Tool Verification for Test-Time Reinforcement Learning
Ruotong Liao, Nikolai Röhrich, Xiaohan Wang, Yuhui Zhang, Yasaman Samadzadeh · Mar 2, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Draft-Thinking: Learning Efficient Reasoning in Long Chain-of-Thought LLMs
Jie Cao, Tianwei Lin, Zhenxuan Fan, Bo Yuan, Ziyuan Zhao · Feb 28, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Beyond Max Tokens: Stealthy Resource Amplification via Tool Calling Chains in LLM Agents
Kaiyu Zhou, Yongsen Zheng, Yicheng He, Meng Xue, Xueluan Gong · Jan 16, 2026 · Citations: 0
- TRIM: Hybrid Inference via Targeted Stepwise Routing in Multi-Step Reasoning Tasks
Vansh Kapoor, Aman Gupta, Hao Chen, Anurag Beniwal, Jing Huang · Jan 15, 2026 · Citations: 0
- PILOT: Planning via Internalized Latent Optimization Trajectories for Large Language Models
Haoyu Zheng, Yun Zhu, Yuqian Yuan, Bo Yuan, Wenqiao Zhang · Jan 7, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Remember Me, Refine Me: A Dynamic Procedural Memory Framework for Experience-Driven Agent Evolution
Zouying Cao, Jiaji Deng, Li Yu, Weikang Zhou, Zhaoyang Liu · Dec 11, 2025 · Citations: 0
- SPG: Sandwiched Policy Gradient for Masked Diffusion Language Models
Chenyu Wang, Paria Rashidinejad, DiJia Su, Song Jiang, Sid Wang · Oct 10, 2025 · Citations: 0
- Strategic Scaling of Test-Time Compute: A Bandit Learning Approach
Bowen Zuo, Yinglun Zhu · Jun 15, 2025 · Citations: 0