- Replacing Multi-Step Assembly of Data Preparation Pipelines with One-Step LLM Pipeline Generation for Table QA
Fengyu Li, Junhao Zhu, Kaishi Song, Lu Chen, Zhongming Yao · Feb 26, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Experiments on two benchmark datasets show that, with the same LLM backbone, Operation-R1 achieves average absolute accuracy gains of 9.55 and 6.08 percentage points over multi-step preparation baselines, with 79\% table compression and a 2
- Search More, Think Less: Rethinking Long-Horizon Agentic Search for Efficiency and Generalization
Qianben Chen, Tianrui Qin, King Zhu, Qiexiang Wang, Chengjun Yu · Feb 26, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Recent deep research agents primarily improve performance by scaling reasoning depth, but this leads to high inference cost and latency in search-intensive scenarios.
- Search-P1: Path-Centric Reward Shaping for Stable and Efficient Agentic RAG Training
Tianle Xia, Ming Xu, Lingxiang Hu, Yiding Sun, Wenwei Li · Feb 26, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Agentic RAG addresses this by enabling LLMs to dynamically decide when and what to retrieve, but current RL-based training methods suffer from sparse outcome rewards that discard intermediate signals and low sample efficiency where failed s
- D-COT: Disciplined Chain-of-Thought Learning for Efficient Reasoning in Small Language Models
Shunsuke Ubukata · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Chain-of-Thought (CoT) distillation from Large Language Models (LLMs) often induces "overthinking" in Small Language Models (SLMs), leading to performance degradation and excessive token consumption.
- Hierarchical LLM-Based Multi-Agent Framework with Prompt Optimization for Multi-Robot Task Planning
Tomoya Kawabe, Rin Takano · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
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We present a hierarchical multi-agent LLM-based planner with prompt optimization: an upper layer decomposes tasks and assigns them to lower-layer agents, which generate PDDL problems solved by a classical planner.
- ARLArena: A Unified Framework for Stable Agentic Reinforcement Learning
Xiaoxuan Wang, Han Zhang, Haixin Wang, Yidan Shi, Ruoyan Li · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Agentic reinforcement learning (ARL) has rapidly gained attention as a promising paradigm for training agents to solve complex, multi-step interactive tasks.
- LiLo-VLA: Compositional Long-Horizon Manipulation via Linked Object-Centric Policies
Yue Yang, Shuo Cheng, Yu Fang, Homanga Bharadhwaj, Mingyu Ding · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
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We introduce a 21-task simulation benchmark consisting of two challenging suites: LIBERO-Long++ and Ultra-Long.
- VecGlypher: Unified Vector Glyph Generation with Language Models
Xiaoke Huang, Bhavul Gauri, Kam Woh Ng, Tony Ng, Mengmeng Xu · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
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On cross-family OOD evaluation, VecGlypher substantially outperforms both general-purpose LLMs and specialized vector-font baselines for text-only generation, while image-referenced generation reaches a state-of-the-art performance, with ma
- Provably Safe Generative Sampling with Constricting Barrier Functions
Darshan Gadginmath, Ahmed Allibhoy, Fabio Pasqualetti · Feb 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
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However, a critical gap remains for their deployment in safety-critical domains: the lack of formal guarantees that generated samples will satisfy hard constraints.
- Learning from Trials and Errors: Reflective Test-Time Planning for Embodied LLMs
Yining Hong, Huang Huang, Manling Li, Li Fei-Fei, Jiajun Wu · Feb 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Drawing upon human reflective practitioners, we introduce Reflective Test-Time Planning, which integrates two modes of reflection: \textit{reflection-in-action}, where the agent uses test-time scaling to generate and score multiple candidat
- Efficient Hierarchical Any-Angle Path Planning on Multi-Resolution 3D Grids
Victor Reijgwart, Cesar Cadena, Roland Siegwart, Lionel Ott · Feb 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Hierarchical, multi-resolution volumetric mapping approaches are widely used to represent large and complex environments as they can efficiently capture their occupancy and connectivity information.
- SELAUR: Self Evolving LLM Agent via Uncertainty-aware Rewards
Dengjia Zhang, Xiaoou Liu, Lu Cheng, Yaqing Wang, Kenton Murray · Feb 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as multi-step decision-making agents, where effective reward design is essential for guiding learning.
- ICON: Indirect Prompt Injection Defense for Agents based on Inference-Time Correction
Che Wang, Fuyao Zhang, Jiaming Zhang, Ziqi Zhang, Yinghui Wang · Feb 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Large Language Model (LLM) agents are susceptible to Indirect Prompt Injection (IPI) attacks, where malicious instructions in retrieved content hijack the agent's execution.
- Semantic Novelty at Scale: Narrative Shape Taxonomy and Readership Prediction in 28,606 Books
W. Frederick Zimmerman · Feb 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
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I introduce semantic novelty--cosine distance between each paragraph's sentence embedding and the running centroid of all preceding paragraphs--as an information-theoretic measure of narrative structure at corpus scale.
- Anatomy of Agentic Memory: Taxonomy and Empirical Analysis of Evaluation and System Limitations
Dongming Jiang, Yi Li, Songtao Wei, Jinxin Yang, Ayushi Kishore · Feb 22, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Agentic memory systems enable large language model (LLM) agents to maintain state across long interactions, supporting long-horizon reasoning and personalization beyond fixed context windows.
- Learning to Reason for Multi-Step Retrieval of Personal Context in Personalized Question Answering
Maryam Amirizaniani, Alireza Salemi, Hamed Zamani · Feb 22, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Personalization in Question Answering (QA) requires answers that are both accurate and aligned with users' background, preferences, and historical context.
- VIGiA: Instructional Video Guidance via Dialogue Reasoning and Retrieval
Diogo Glória-Silva, David Semedo, João Maglhães · Feb 22, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Our evaluation shows that VIGiA outperforms existing state-of-the-art models on all tasks in a conversational plan guidance setting, reaching over 90\% accuracy on plan-aware VQA.
- Capable but Unreliable: Canonical Path Deviation as a Causal Mechanism of Agent Failure in Long-Horizon Tasks
Wilson Y. Lee · Feb 22, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Why do language agents fail on tasks they are capable of solving?
- Semantic Substrate Theory: An Operator-Theoretic Framework for Geometric Semantic Drift
Stephen Russell · Feb 21, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Most semantic drift studies report multiple signals e.g., embedding displacement, neighbor changes, distributional divergence, and recursive trajectory instability, without a shared explanatory theory that relates them.
- KLong: Training LLM Agent for Extremely Long-horizon Tasks
Yue Liu, Zhiyuan Hu, Flood Sung, Jiaheng Zhang, Bryan Hooi · Feb 19, 2026 · Citations: 0
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This paper introduces KLong, an open-source LLM agent trained to solve extremely long-horizon tasks.
- Large Language Models Persuade Without Planning Theory of Mind
Jared Moore, Rasmus Overmark, Ned Cooper, Beba Cibralic, Nick Haber · Feb 19, 2026 · Citations: 0
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A growing body of work attempts to evaluate the theory of mind (ToM) abilities of humans and large language models (LLMs) using static, non-interactive question-and-answer benchmarks.
- Creating a digital poet
Vered Tohar, Tsahi Hayat, Amir Leshem · Feb 18, 2026 · Citations: 0
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In a blinded authorship test with 50 humanities students and graduates (three AI poems and three poems by well-known poets each), judgments were at chance: human poems were labeled human 54% of the time and AI poems 52%, with 95% confidence
- TabAgent: A Framework for Replacing Agentic Generative Components with Tabular-Textual Classifiers
Ido Levy, Eilam Shapira, Yinon Goldshtein, Avi Yaeli, Nir Mashkif · Feb 18, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Agentic systems, AI architectures that autonomously execute multi-step workflows to achieve complex goals, are often built using repeated large language model (LLM) calls for closed-set decision tasks such as routing, shortlisting, gating,
- OpaqueToolsBench: Learning Nuances of Tool Behavior Through Interaction
Skyler Hallinan, Thejas Venkatesh, Xiang Ren, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Ashwin Paranjape · Feb 16, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Tool-calling is essential for Large Language Model (LLM) agents to complete real-world tasks.
- A Geometric Analysis of Small-sized Language Model Hallucinations
Emanuele Ricco, Elia Onofri, Lorenzo Cima, Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro · Feb 16, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Hallucinations -- fluent but factually incorrect responses -- pose a major challenge to the reliability of language models, especially in multi-step or agentic settings.
- PMG: Parameterized Motion Generator for Human-like Locomotion Control
Chenxi Han, Yuheng Min, Zihao Huang, Ao Hong, Hang Liu · Feb 13, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Recent advances in data-driven reinforcement learning and motion tracking have substantially improved humanoid locomotion, yet critical practical challenges remain.
- Think like a Scientist: Physics-guided LLM Agent for Equation Discovery
Jianke Yang, Ohm Venkatachalam, Mohammad Kianezhad, Sharvaree Vadgama, Rose Yu · Feb 12, 2026 · Citations: 0
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We introduce KeplerAgent, an agentic framework that explicitly follows this scientific reasoning process.
- TSR: Trajectory-Search Rollouts for Multi-Turn RL of LLM Agents
Aladin Djuhera, Swanand Ravindra Kadhe, Farhan Ahmed, Heiko Ludwig, Holger Boche · Feb 12, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Advances in large language models (LLMs) are driving a shift toward using reinforcement learning (RL) to train agents from iterative, multi-turn interactions across tasks.
- OmniRAG-Agent: Agentic Omnimodal Reasoning for Low-Resource Long Audio-Video Question Answering
Yifan Zhu, Xinyu Mu, Tao Feng, Zhonghong Ou, Yuning Gong · Feb 3, 2026 · Citations: 0
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To address these issues, we propose OmniRAG-Agent, an agentic omnimodal QA method for budgeted long audio-video reasoning.
- Toward Ultra-Long-Horizon Agentic Science: Cognitive Accumulation for Machine Learning Engineering
Xinyu Zhu, Yuzhu Cai, Zexi Liu, Bingyang Zheng, Cheng Wang · Jan 15, 2026 · Citations: 0
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The advancement of artificial intelligence toward agentic science is currently bottlenecked by the challenge of ultra-long-horizon autonomy, the ability to sustain strategic coherence and iterative correction over experimental cycles spanni
- Fast-ThinkAct: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Reasoning via Verbalizable Latent Planning
Chi-Pin Huang, Yunze Man, Zhiding Yu, Min-Hung Chen, Jan Kautz · Jan 14, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Fast-ThinkAct learns to reason efficiently with latent CoTs by distilling from a teacher, driven by a preference-guided objective to align manipulation trajectories that transfers both linguistic and visual planning capabilities for embodie
- Towards Efficient Agents: A Co-Design of Inference Architecture and System
Weizhe Lin, Hui-Ling Zhen, Shuai Yang, Xian Wang, Renxi Liu · Dec 20, 2025 · Citations: 0
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The rapid development of large language model (LLM)-based agents has unlocked new possibilities for autonomous multi-turn reasoning and tool-augmented decision-making.
- Aerial Vision-Language Navigation with a Unified Framework for Spatial, Temporal and Embodied Reasoning
Huilin Xu, Zhuoyang Liu, Yixiang Luomei, Feng Xu · Dec 9, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Extensive experiments on the AerialVLN and OpenFly benchmark validate the effectiveness of our method.
- Bridging Symbolic Control and Neural Reasoning in LLM Agents: Structured Cognitive Loop with a Governance Layer
Myung Ho Kim · Nov 21, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Large language model agents suffer from fundamental architectural problems: entangled reasoning and execution, memory volatility, and uncontrolled action sequences.
- BEAT: Visual Backdoor Attacks on VLM-based Embodied Agents via Contrastive Trigger Learning
Qiusi Zhan, Hyeonjeong Ha, Rui Yang, Sirui Xu, Hanyang Chen · Oct 31, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have propelled embodied agents by enabling direct perception, reasoning, and planning task-oriented actions from visual inputs.
- The Tool Decathlon: Benchmarking Language Agents for Diverse, Realistic, and Long-Horizon Task Execution
Junlong Li, Wenshuo Zhao, Jian Zhao, Weihao Zeng, Haoze Wu · Oct 29, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Real-world language agents must handle complex, multi-step workflows across diverse Apps.
- RELOOP: Recursive Retrieval with Multi-Hop Reasoner and Planners for Heterogeneous QA
Ruiyi Yang, Hao Xue, Imran Razzak, Hakim Hacid, Flora D. Salim · Oct 23, 2025 · Citations: 0
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A Head Agent provides guidance that leads retrieval, while an Iteration Agent selects and expands HSeq via structure-respecting actions (e.g., parent/child hops, table row/column neighbors, KG relations); Finally the head agent composes can
- MoMaGen: Generating Demonstrations under Soft and Hard Constraints for Multi-Step Bimanual Mobile Manipulation
Chengshu Li, Mengdi Xu, Arpit Bahety, Hang Yin, Yunfan Jiang · Oct 21, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Imitation learning from large-scale, diverse human demonstrations has been shown to be effective for training robots, but collecting such data is costly and time-consuming.
- PRoH: Dynamic Planning and Reasoning over Knowledge Hypergraphs for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Xiangjun Zai, Xingyu Tan, Xiaoyang Wang, Qing Liu, Xiwei Xu · Oct 14, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Experiments across multiple domains demonstrate that PRoH achieves state-of-the-art performance, surpassing the prior SOTA model HyperGraphRAG by an average of 19.73% in F1 and 8.41% in Generation Evaluation (G-E) score, while maintaining s
- Error Notebook-Guided, Training-Free Part Retrieval in 3D CAD Assemblies via Vision-Language Models
Yunqing Liu, Nan Zhang, Zhiming Tan · Sep 1, 2025 · Citations: 0
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We additionally contribute a CAD dataset with human preference annotations.
- EO-1: An Open Unified Embodied Foundation Model for General Robot Control
Delin Qu, Haoming Song, Qizhi Chen, Zhaoqing Chen, Xianqiang Gao · Aug 28, 2025 · Citations: 0
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The human ability to seamlessly perform multimodal reasoning and physical interaction in the open world is a core goal for general purpose embodied intelligent systems.
- Hybrid Deep Searcher: Scalable Parallel and Sequential Search Reasoning
Dayoon Ko, Jihyuk Kim, Haeju Park, Sohyeon Kim, Dahyun Lee · Aug 26, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Large reasoning models (LRMs) combined with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) have enabled deep research agents capable of multi-step reasoning with external knowledge retrieval.
- CoAct-1: Computer-using Multi-Agent System with Coding Actions
Linxin Song, Yutong Dai, Viraj Prabhu, Jieyu Zhang, Taiwei Shi · Aug 5, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Autonomous agents that operate computers via Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) often struggle with efficiency and reliability on complex, long-horizon tasks.
- A Survey on the Optimization of Large Language Model-based Agents
Shangheng Du, Jiabao Zhao, Jinxin Shi, Zhentao Xie, Xin Jiang · Mar 16, 2025 · Citations: 0
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With the rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs), LLM-based agents have been widely adopted in various fields, becoming essential for autonomous decision-making and interactive tasks.
- Uncovering Autoregressive LLM Knowledge of Thematic Fit in Event Representation
Safeyah Khaled Alshemali, Daniel Bauer, Yuval Marton · Oct 19, 2024 · Citations: 0
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We set a new state-of-the-art on thematic fit benchmarks, but show that closed and open weight LLMs respond differently to our prompting strategies: Closed models achieve better scores overall and benefit from multi-step reasoning, but they
