- 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.
- Decoupling Strategy and Execution in Task-Focused Dialogue via Goal-Oriented Preference Optimization
Jingyi Xu, Xingyu Ren, Zhoupeng Shou, Yumeng Zhang, Zhiqiang You · Jan 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
To address this, we propose Goal-Oriented Preference Optimization (GOPO), a hierarchical reinforcement learning framework that decouples strategy planning from response generation via an Expert Agent and a Customer Service Agent.
- APEX-Agents
Bertie Vidgen, Austin Mann, Abby Fennelly, John Wright Stanly, Lucas Rothman · Jan 20, 2026 · Citations: 0
Rubric RatingExpert Verification Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
We introduce the AI Productivity Index for Agents (APEX-Agents), a benchmark for assessing whether AI agents can execute long-horizon, cross-application tasks created by investment banking analysts, management consultants, and corporate…
- 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
Pairwise Preference Simulation Env Long Horizon
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
- Embodied Task Planning via Graph-Informed Action Generation with Large Language Model
Xiang Li, Ning Yan, Masood Mortazavi · Jan 29, 2026 · Citations: 0
Simulation Env Long Horizon
We propose GiG, a novel planning framework that structures embodied agents' memory using a Graph-in-Graph architecture.
- 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.
- Tutoring Large Language Models to be Domain-adaptive, Precise, and Safe
Somnath Banerjee · Feb 14, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Long Horizon
The methodological trajectory moves from classical supervised adaptation for task-specific demands to decoding-time alignment for safety, finally leveraging human feedback and preference modeling to achieve sociolinguistic acuity.
- 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.
- MedXIAOHE: A Comprehensive Recipe for Building Medical MLLMs
Baorong Shi, Bo Cui, Boyuan Jiang, Deli Yu, Fang Qian · Feb 13, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise PreferenceRubric Rating Long Horizon
MedXIAOHE achieves state-of-the-art performance across diverse medical benchmarks and surpasses leading closed-source multimodal systems on multiple capabilities.
- 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
Simulation Env Long Horizon
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
- The Trinity of Consistency as a Defining Principle for General World Models
Jingxuan Wei, Siyuan Li, Yuhang Xu, Zheng Sun, Junjie Jiang · Feb 26, 2026 · Citations: 0
Simulation Env Long Horizon
To complement this conceptual framework, we introduce CoW-Bench, a benchmark centered on multi-frame reasoning and generation scenarios.
- 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.
- SELAUR: Self Evolving LLM Agent via Uncertainty-aware Rewards
Dengjia Zhang, Xiaoou Liu, Lu Cheng, Yaqing Wang, Kenton Murray · Feb 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
Simulation Env Long Horizon
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as multi-step decision-making agents, where effective reward design is essential for guiding learning.
- Mobile-Agent-v3.5: Multi-platform Fundamental GUI Agents
Haiyang Xu, Xi Zhang, Haowei Liu, Junyang Wang, Zhaozai Zhu · Feb 15, 2026 · Citations: 0
Simulation Env Long Horizon
The paper introduces GUI-Owl-1.5, the latest native GUI agent model that features instruct/thinking variants in multiple sizes (2B/4B/8B/32B/235B) and supports a range of platforms (desktop, mobile, browser, and more) to enable cloud-edge…
- PMG: Parameterized Motion Generator for Human-like Locomotion Control
Chenxi Han, Yuheng Min, Zihao Huang, Ao Hong, Hang Liu · Feb 13, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
Recent advances in data-driven reinforcement learning and motion tracking have substantially improved humanoid locomotion, yet critical practical challenges remain.
- 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.
- 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
Simulation Env Long Horizon
Extensive experiments on the AerialVLN and OpenFly benchmark validate the effectiveness of our method.
- AMA-Bench: Evaluating Long-Horizon Memory for Agentic Applications
Yujie Zhao, Boqin Yuan, Junbo Huang, Haocheng Yuan, Zhongming Yu · Feb 26, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
To bridge this gap, we introduce AMA-Bench (Agent Memory with Any length), which evaluates long-horizon memory for LLMs in real agentic applications.
- 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.
- D-COT: Disciplined Chain-of-Thought Learning for Efficient Reasoning in Small Language Models
Shunsuke Ubukata · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
In this study, we propose Disciplined Chain-of-Thought (D-CoT), a novel framework that enforces a structured reasoning process using control tags -- such as <TEMP_LOW> for fact-checking and <TEMP_HIGH> for multi-perspective exploration --…
- 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.
- ARLArena: A Unified Framework for Stable Agentic Reinforcement Learning
Xiaoxuan Wang, Han Zhang, Haixin Wang, Yidan Shi, Ruoyan Li · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
Simulation Env Long Horizon
Agentic reinforcement learning (ARL) has rapidly gained attention as a promising paradigm for training agents to solve complex, multi-step interactive tasks.
- 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
Pairwise Preference Long Horizon
Personalization in Question Answering (QA) requires answers that are both accurate and aligned with users' background, preferences, and historical context.
- 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
Simulation Env Long Horizon
We introduce a 21-task simulation benchmark consisting of two challenging suites: LIBERO-Long++ and Ultra-Long.
- Hierarchical Reward Design from Language: Enhancing Alignment of Agent Behavior with Human Specifications
Zhiqin Qian, Ryan Diaz, Sangwon Seo, Vaibhav Unhelkar · Feb 20, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Long Horizon
When training artificial intelligence (AI) to perform tasks, humans often care not only about whether a task is completed but also how it is performed.
- 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.
- 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
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
Recent deep research agents primarily improve performance by scaling reasoning depth, but this leads to high inference cost and latency in search-intensive scenarios.
- BankMathBench: A Benchmark for Numerical Reasoning in Banking Scenarios
Yunseung Lee, Subin Kim, Youngjun Kwak, Jaegul Choo · Feb 19, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
However, such errors have rarely been captured by existing benchmarks.
- The Sufficiency-Conciseness Trade-off in LLM Self-Explanation from an Information Bottleneck Perspective
Ali Zahedzadeh, Behnam Bahrak · Feb 15, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
Building on the information bottleneck principle, we conceptualize explanations as compressed representations that retain only the information essential for producing correct answers.To operationalize this view, we introduce an evaluation…
- 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.
- 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
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
The rapid development of large language model (LLM)-based agents has unlocked new possibilities for autonomous multi-turn reasoning and tool-augmented decision-making.
- Efficient Hierarchical Any-Angle Path Planning on Multi-Resolution 3D Grids
Victor Reijgwart, Cesar Cadena, Roland Siegwart, Lionel Ott · Feb 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
Simulation Env Long Horizon
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.
- 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.
- GATES: Self-Distillation under Privileged Context with Consensus Gating
Alex Stein, Furong Huang, Tom Goldstein · Feb 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
Held-out in-domain accuracy under asymmetric evaluation improves from 46.0\% to 62.0\%, and average (maj@8) accuracy on public document-free math benchmarks improves from 20.2\% to 35.4\%.
- 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.
- Beyond Words: Evaluating and Bridging Epistemic Divergence in User-Agent Interaction via Theory of Mind
Minyuan Ruan, Ziyue Wang, Kaiming Liu, Yunghwei Lai, Peng Li · Feb 14, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
Large Language Models (LLMs) have developed rapidly and are widely applied to both general-purpose and professional tasks to assist human users.
- 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
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
Large Language Model (LLM) agents are susceptible to Indirect Prompt Injection (IPI) attacks, where malicious instructions in retrieved content hijack the agent's execution.
- 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
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
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…
- VIGiA: Instructional Video Guidance via Dialogue Reasoning and Retrieval
Diogo Glória-Silva, David Semedo, João Maglhães · Feb 22, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
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.
- 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.
- Orthogonalized Policy Optimization:Policy Optimization as Orthogonal Projection in Hilbert Space
Wang Zixian · Jan 18, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
Experiments on MATH benchmarks show that the Hilbert projection formulation prevents gradient saturation typical of KL-constrained methods.
- DeepPresenter: Environment-Grounded Reflection for Agentic Presentation Generation
Hao Zheng, Guozhao Mo, Xinru Yan, Qianhao Yuan, Wenkai Zhang · Feb 26, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
However, existing presentation agents often rely on predefined workflows and fixed templates.
- 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
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
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…
- How Do Latent Reasoning Methods Perform Under Weak and Strong Supervision?
Yingqian Cui, Zhenwei Dai, Bing He, Zhan Shi, Hui Liu · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
First, we observe pervasive shortcut behavior, where they achieve high accuracy without relying on latent reasoning.
- 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.
- Hierarchical LLM-Based Multi-Agent Framework with Prompt Optimization for Multi-Robot Task Planning
Tomoya Kawabe, Rin Takano · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
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.
- ToolMATH: A Math Tool Benchmark for Realistic Long-Horizon Multi-Tool Reasoning
Hyeonje Choi, Jeongsoo Lee, Hyojun Lee, Jay-Yoon Lee · Feb 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
We introduce \ToolMATH, a math-grounded benchmark that evaluates tool-augmented language models in realistic multi-tool environments where the output depends on calling schema-specified tools and sustaining multi-step execution.
- 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.
- 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
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
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.
- 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.
- 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
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
We propose TabAgent, a framework for replacing generative decision components in closed-set selection tasks with a compact textual-tabular classifier trained on execution traces.
- 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
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
Hallucinations -- fluent but factually incorrect responses -- pose a major challenge to the reliability of language models, especially in multi-step or agentic settings.
- 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
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
We introduce KeplerAgent, an agentic framework that explicitly follows this scientific reasoning process.
- Conflict-Aware Fusion: Resolving Logic Inertia in Large Language Models via Structured Cognitive Priors
Qiming Bao, Xiaoxuan Fu, Michael Witbrock · Dec 6, 2025 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
We present a controlled evaluation framework consisting of four stress tests: (1) rule deletion (redundant vs.
- Provably Safe Generative Sampling with Constricting Barrier Functions
Darshan Gadginmath, Ahmed Allibhoy, Fabio Pasqualetti · Feb 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
However, a critical gap remains for their deployment in safety-critical domains: the lack of formal guarantees that generated samples will satisfy hard constraints.
- 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.
- VecGlypher: Unified Vector Glyph Generation with Language Models
Xiaoke Huang, Bhavul Gauri, Kam Woh Ng, Tony Ng, Mengmeng Xu · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
Long Horizon
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…
- 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
Long Horizon
Drawing upon human reflective practitioners, we introduce Reflective Test-Time Planning, which integrates two modes of reflection: reflection-in-action, where the agent uses test-time scaling to generate and score multiple candidate actions…
- SoK: Agentic Skills -- Beyond Tool Use in LLM Agents
Yanna Jiang, Delong Li, Haiyu Deng, Baihe Ma, Xu Wang · Feb 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
Tool Use
Agentic systems increasingly rely on reusable procedural capabilities, a.k.a., agentic skills, to execute long-horizon workflows reliably.
