- AD-Bench: A Real-World, Trajectory-Aware Advertising Analytics Benchmark for LLM Agents
Lingxiang Hu, Yiding Sun, Tianle Xia, Wenwei Li, Ming Xu · Feb 15, 2026 · Citations: 0
Expert Verification Simulation Env Long Horizon
While Large Language Model (LLM) agents have achieved remarkable progress in complex reasoning tasks, evaluating their performance in real-world environments has become a critical problem.
- Team of Thoughts: Efficient Test-time Scaling of Agentic Systems through Orchestrated Tool Calling
Jeffrey T. H. Wong, Zixi Zhang, Junyi Liu, Yiren Zhao · Feb 18, 2026 · Citations: 0
Expert Verification Multi Agent
Existing Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) typically rely on static, homogeneous model configurations, limiting their ability to exploit the distinct strengths of differently post-trained models.
- Step 3.5 Flash: Open Frontier-Level Intelligence with 11B Active Parameters
Ailin Huang, Ang Li, Aobo Kong, Bin Wang, Binxing Jiao · Feb 11, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Tool Use
We introduce Step 3.5 Flash, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model that bridges frontier-level agentic intelligence and computational efficiency.
- SparkMe: Adaptive Semi-Structured Interviewing for Qualitative Insight Discovery
David Anugraha, Vishakh Padmakumar, Diyi Yang · Feb 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
Expert Verification Automatic Metrics Multi Agent
Based on this formulation, we introduce SparkMe, a multi-agent LLM interviewer that performs deliberative planning via simulated conversation rollouts to select questions with high expected utility.
- Document Reconstruction Unlocks Scalable Long-Context RLVR
Yao Xiao, Lei Wang, Yue Deng, Guanzheng Chen, Ziqi Jin · Feb 9, 2026 · Citations: 0
Rubric Rating Automatic Metrics
However, it often relies on gold-standard answers or explicit evaluation rubrics provided by powerful teacher models or human experts, which are costly and time-consuming.
- KLong: Training LLM Agent for Extremely Long-horizon Tasks
Yue Liu, Zhiyuan Hu, Flood Sung, Jiaheng Zhang, Bryan Hooi · Feb 19, 2026 · Citations: 0
Rubric Rating Long Horizon
Then, we introduce Research-Factory, an automated pipeline that generates high-quality training data by collecting research papers and constructing evaluation rubrics.
- From Pixels to Policies: Reinforcing Spatial Reasoning in Language Models for Content-Aware Layout Design
Sha Li, Stefano Petrangeli, Yu Shen, Xiang Chen · Feb 14, 2026 · Citations: 0
Critique Edit Simulation Env
We introduce LaySPA, a reinforcement learning framework that equips large language models (LLMs) with explicit and interpretable spatial reasoning for content-aware graphic layout design.
- Can Large Language Models Replace Human Coders? Introducing ContentBench
Michael Haman · Feb 23, 2026 · Citations: 0
Critique Edit Automatic Metrics
This paper introduces ContentBench, a public benchmark suite that helps answer this replacement question by tracking how much agreement low-cost LLMs achieve and what they cost on the same interpretive coding tasks.
- PrivAct: Internalizing Contextual Privacy Preservation via Multi-Agent Preference Training
Yuhan Cheng, Hancheng Ye, Hai Helen Li, Jingwei Sun, Yiran Chen · Feb 14, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics Multi Agent
We propose PrivAct, a contextual privacy-aware multi-agent learning framework that internalizes contextual privacy preservation directly into models' generation behavior for privacy-compliant agentic actions.
- FrameRef: A Framing Dataset and Simulation Testbed for Modeling Bounded Rational Information Health
Victor De Lima, Jiqun Liu, Grace Hui Yang · Feb 17, 2026 · Citations: 0
Human EvalSimulation Env Long Horizon
Within this framework, we construct framing-sensitive agent personas by fine-tuning language models with framing-conditioned loss attenuation, inducing targeted biases while preserving overall task competence.
- Small Reward Models via Backward Inference
Yike Wang, Faeze Brahman, Shangbin Feng, Teng Xiao, Hannaneh Hajishirzi · Feb 14, 2026 · Citations: 0
Rubric Rating Llm As Judge
However, the dominant LLM-as-a-Judge paradigm relies on the strong reasoning capabilities of large models, while alternative approaches require reference responses or explicit rubrics, limiting flexibility and broader accessibility.
- Hierarchy-of-Groups Policy Optimization for Long-Horizon Agentic Tasks
Shuo He, Lang Feng, Qi Wei, Xin Cheng, Lei Feng · Feb 26, 2026 · Citations: 0
Simulation Env Long Horizon
Group-based reinforcement learning (RL), such as GRPO, has advanced the capabilities of large language models on long-horizon agentic tasks.
- MEDSYN: Benchmarking Multi-EviDence SYNthesis in Complex Clinical Cases for Multimodal Large Language Models
Boqi Chen, Xudong Liu, Jiachuan Peng, Marianne Frey-Marti, Bang Zheng · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
Expert Verification Automatic Metrics
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown great potential in medical applications, yet existing benchmarks inadequately capture real-world clinical complexity.
- SurGo-R1: Benchmarking and Modeling Contextual Reasoning for Operative Zone in Surgical Video
Guanyi Qin, Xiaozhen Wang, Zhu Zhuo, Chang Han Low, Yuancan Xiao · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
Expert Verification Automatic Metrics
Existing AI systems offer binary safety verification or static detection, ignoring the phase-dependent nature of intraoperative reasoning.
- Self-Correcting VLA: Online Action Refinement via Sparse World Imagination
Chenyv Liu, Wentao Tan, Lei Zhu, Fengling Li, Jingjing Li · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
Simulation Env Long Horizon
Reinforcement learning enhances physical grounding through exploration yet typically relies on external reward signals that remain isolated from the agent's internal states.
- The Vision Wormhole: Latent-Space Communication in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems
Xiaoze Liu, Ruowang Zhang, Weichen Yu, Siheng Xiong, Liu He · Feb 17, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Multi Agent
Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) powered by Large Language Models have unlocked advanced collaborative reasoning, yet they remain shackled by the inefficiency of discrete text communication, which imposes significant runtime overhead and…
- SWE-Protégé: Learning to Selectively Collaborate With an Expert Unlocks Small Language Models as Software Engineering Agents
Patrick Tser Jern Kon, Archana Pradeep, Ang Chen, Alexander P. Ellis, Warren Hunt · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
Our approach combines supervised fine-tuning on expert-augmented trajectories with agentic reinforcement learning that explicitly discourages degenerative looping and unproductive expert collaboration.
- Structurally Aligned Subtask-Level Memory for Software Engineering Agents
Kangning Shen, Jingyuan Zhang, Chenxi Sun, Wencong Zeng, Yang Yue · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential as autonomous software engineering (SWE) agents.
- ChartEditBench: Evaluating Grounded Multi-Turn Chart Editing in Multimodal Language Models
Manav Nitin Kapadnis, Lawanya Baghel, Atharva Naik, Carolyn Rosé · Feb 17, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics
In practice, users iteratively refine visualizations through multi-turn interactions that require maintaining common ground, tracking prior edits, and adapting to evolving preferences.
- Bridging the Multilingual Safety Divide: Efficient, Culturally-Aware Alignment for Global South Languages
Somnath Banerjee, Rima Hazra, Animesh Mukherjee · Feb 14, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics
Yet safety pipelines, benchmarks, and alignment still largely target English and a handful of high-resource languages, implicitly assuming safety and factuality ''transfer'' across languages.
- Unlocking Reasoning Capability on Machine Translation in Large Language Models
Sara Rajaee, Sebastian Vincent, Alexandre Berard, Marzieh Fadaee, Kelly Marchisio · Feb 16, 2026 · Citations: 0
Critique Edit Long Horizon
We systematically evaluate several open- and closed-weights RLMs on the WMT24++ benchmark and find that enabling explicit reasoning consistently degrades translation quality across languages and models.
- Rethinking Metrics for Lexical Semantic Change Detection
Roksana Goworek, Haim Dubossarsky · Feb 17, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics
Lexical semantic change detection (LSCD) increasingly relies on contextualised language model embeddings, yet most approaches still quantify change using a small set of semantic change metrics, primarily Average Pairwise Distance (APD) and
- Zooming without Zooming: Region-to-Image Distillation for Fine-Grained Multimodal Perception
Lai Wei, Liangbo He, Jun Lan, Lingzhong Dong, Yutong Cai · Feb 12, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Tool Use
To address this, we propose Region-to-Image Distillation, which transforms zooming from an inference-time tool into a training-time primitive, thereby internalizing the benefits of agentic zooming into a single forward pass of an MLLM.
- AceGRPO: Adaptive Curriculum Enhanced Group Relative Policy Optimization for Autonomous Machine Learning Engineering
Yuzhu Cai, Zexi Liu, Xinyu Zhu, Cheng Wang, Siheng Chen · Feb 8, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
Autonomous Machine Learning Engineering (MLE) requires agents to perform sustained, iterative optimization over long horizons.
- KBVQ-MoE: KLT-guided SVD with Bias-Corrected Vector Quantization for MoE Large Language Models
Zukang Xu, Zhixiong Zhao, Xing Hu, Zhixuan Chen, Dawei Yang · Jan 30, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic MetricsSimulation Env
Mixture of Experts (MoE) models have achieved great success by significantly improving performance while maintaining computational efficiency through sparse expert activation.
- Test-Time Scaling with Diffusion Language Models via Reward-Guided Stitching
Roy Miles, Aysim Toker, Andreea-Maria Oncescu, Songcen Xu, Jiankang Deng · Feb 26, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
This modular pipeline separates exploration (diffusion) from evaluation and solution synthesis, avoiding monolithic unified hybrids while preserving broad search.
- Continuous Telemonitoring of Heart Failure using Personalised Speech Dynamics
Yue Pan, Xingyao Wang, Hanyue Zhang, Liwei Liu, Changxin Li · Feb 23, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
The model's high sensitivity was further corroborated by additional follow-up data, confirming its efficacy in predicting HF deterioration and its potential to secure patient safety in remote, home-based settings.
- REDSearcher: A Scalable and Cost-Efficient Framework for Long-Horizon Search Agents
Zheng Chu, Xiao Wang, Jack Hong, Huiming Fan, Yuqi Huang · Feb 15, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Tool Use
To address these challenges, we propose REDSearcher, a unified framework that codesigns complex task synthesis, midtraining, and posttraining for scalable searchagent optimization.
- Why Code, Why Now: Learnability, Computability, and the Real Limits of Machine Learning
Zhimin Zhao · Feb 15, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference
We propose a five-level hierarchy of learnability based on information structure and argue that the ceiling on ML progress depends less on model size than on whether a task is learnable at all.
- Learning beyond Teacher: Generalized On-Policy Distillation with Reward Extrapolation
Wenkai Yang, Weijie Liu, Ruobing Xie, Kai Yang, Saiyong Yang · Feb 12, 2026 · Citations: 0
Expert Verification
Then, we propose the Generalized On-Policy Distillation (G-OPD) framework, which extends the standard OPD objective by introducing a flexible reference model and a reward scaling factor that controls the relative weight of the reward term…
- MALLVI: A Multi-Agent Framework for Integrated Generalized Robotics Manipulation
Iman Ahmadi, Mehrshad Taji, Arad Mahdinezhad Kashani, AmirHossein Jadidi, Saina Kashani · Feb 18, 2026 · Citations: 0
Simulation Env Multi Agent
MALLVI presents a Multi Agent Large Language and Vision framework that enables closed-loop feedback driven robotic manipulation.
- OR-Agent: Bridging Evolutionary Search and Structured Research for Automated Algorithm Discovery
Qi Liu, Ruochen Hao, Can Li, Wanjing Ma · Feb 14, 2026 · Citations: 0
Simulation Env Multi Agent
We present OR-Agent, a configurable multi-agent research framework designed for automated exploration in rich experimental environments.
- 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 · Feb 26, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Multi Agent
We propose AgentDropoutV2, a test-time rectify-or-reject pruning framework designed to dynamically optimize MAS information flow without retraining.
- A Benchmark for Deep Information Synthesis
Debjit Paul, Daniel Murphy, Milan Gritta, Ronald Cardenas, Victor Prokhorov · Feb 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Tool Use
To address this, we introduce DEEPSYNTH, a novel benchmark designed to evaluate agents on realistic, time-consuming problems that combine information gathering, synthesis, and structured reasoning to produce insights.
- AgenticRAGTracer: A Hop-Aware Benchmark for Diagnosing Multi-Step Retrieval Reasoning in Agentic RAG
Qijie You, Wenkai Yu, Wentao Zhang · Feb 22, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
With the rapid advancement of agent-based methods in recent years, Agentic RAG has undoubtedly become an important research direction.
- Counterfactual Simulation Training for Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness
Peter Hase, Christopher Potts · Feb 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic MetricsSimulation Env
In this paper, we introduce a training method called Counterfactual Simulation Training (CST), which aims to improve CoT faithfulness by rewarding CoTs that enable a simulator to accurately predict a model's outputs over counterfactual…
- From Labor to Collaboration: A Methodological Experiment Using AI Agents to Augment Research Perspectives in Taiwan's Humanities and Social Sciences
Yi-Chih Huang · Feb 19, 2026 · Citations: 0
Demonstrations
Generative AI is reshaping knowledge work, yet existing research focuses predominantly on software engineering and the natural sciences, with limited methodological exploration for the humanities and social sciences.
- GUI-Libra: Training Native GUI Agents to Reason and Act with Action-aware Supervision and Partially Verifiable RL
Rui Yang, Qianhui Wu, Zhaoyang Wang, Hanyang Chen, Ke Yang · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
Open-source native GUI agents still lag behind closed-source systems on long-horizon navigation tasks.
- Classroom Final Exam: An Instructor-Tested Reasoning Benchmark
Chongyang Gao, Diji Yang, Shuyan Zhou, Xichen Yan, Luchuan Song · Feb 23, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
We introduce (Classroom Final Exam), a multimodal benchmark for evaluating the reasoning capabilities of large language models across more than 20 STEM domains.
- Do LLMs and VLMs Share Neurons for Inference? Evidence and Mechanisms of Cross-Modal Transfer
Chenhang Cui, An Zhang, Yuxin Chen, Gelei Deng, Jingnan Zheng · Feb 22, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
Across diverse mathematics and perception benchmarks, SNRF consistently enhances LVLM inference performance while preserving perceptual capabilities.
- Natural Language Declarative Prompting (NLD-P): A Modular Governance Method for Prompt Design Under Model Drift
Hyunwoo Kim, Hanau Yi, Jaehee Bae, Yumin Kim · Feb 26, 2026 · Citations: 0
Critique Edit
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.
- Inner Speech as Behavior Guides: Steerable Imitation of Diverse Behaviors for Human-AI coordination
Rakshit Trivedi, Kartik Sharma, David C Parkes · Feb 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
Demonstrations
Effective human-AI coordination requires artificial agents capable of exhibiting and responding to human-like behaviors while adapting to changing contexts.
- gencat: Generative computerized adaptive testing
Wanyong Feng, Andrew Lan · Feb 23, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference
We train the model in a two-step process, first via Supervised Fine-Tuning and then via preference optimization for knowledge-response alignment.
- IndicJR: A Judge-Free Benchmark of Jailbreak Robustness in South Asian Languages
Priyaranjan Pattnayak, Sanchari Chowdhuri · Feb 18, 2026 · Citations: 0
Red Team
Safety alignment of large language models (LLMs) is mostly evaluated in English and contract-bound, leaving multilingual vulnerabilities understudied.
- LogitsCoder: Towards Efficient Chain-of-Thought Path Search via Logits Preference Decoding for Code Generation
Jizheng Chen, Weiming Zhang, Xinyi Dai, Weiwen Liu, Kounianhua Du · Feb 15, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference
LogitsCoder iteratively generates and refines reasoning steps by first steering token selection toward statistically preferred patterns via Logits Preference Decoding, then selecting and aggregating diverse reasoning paths using Logits Rank…
- A Hierarchical Multi-Agent System for Autonomous Discovery in Geoscientific Data Archives
Dmitrii Pantiukhin, Ivan Kuznetsov, Boris Shapkin, Antonia Anna Jost, Thomas Jung · Feb 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
Here we present PANGAEA-GPT, a hierarchical multi-agent framework designed for autonomous data discovery and analysis.
