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Self-evolving Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a scalable path toward super-intelligence by autonomously generating, refining, and learning from their own experiences. However, existing methods for training such models still rely heavily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Chengsong Huang , Wenhao Yu , Xiaoyang Wang , Hongming Zhang , Zongxia Li , Ruosen Li , Jiaxin Huang , Haitao Mi , Dong Yu

Self-evolving has emerged as a key paradigm for improving foundational models such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision Language Models (VLMs) with minimal human intervention. While recent approaches have demonstrated that LLM agents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Zongxia Li , Hongyang Du , Chengsong Huang , Xiyang Wu , Lantao Yu , Yicheng He , Jing Xie , Xiaomin Wu , Zhichao Liu , Jiarui Zhang , Fuxiao Liu

Large Language Model (LLM) Agents, often trained with Reinforcement Learning (RL), are constrained by a dependency on human-curated data, limiting scalability and tethering AI to human knowledge. Existing self-evolution frameworks offer an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Peng Xia , Kaide Zeng , Jiaqi Liu , Can Qin , Fang Wu , Yiyang Zhou , Caiming Xiong , Huaxiu Yao

Large language models (LLMs) are becoming the foundation for autonomous agents that can use tools to solve complex tasks. Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a common approach for injecting such agentic capabilities, but typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Emre Can Acikgoz , Cheng Qian , Jonas Hübotter , Heng Ji , Dilek Hakkani-Tür , Gokhan Tur

Recent breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs) on reasoning tasks rely heavily on massive, high-quality datasets-typically human-annotated and thus difficult to scale. While data synthesis or distillation offers a promising…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Shaobo Wang , Zhengbo Jiao , Zifan Zhang , Yilang Peng , Xu Ze , Boyu Yang , Wei Wang , Hu Wei , Linfeng Zhang

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has shown promise in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models by learning directly from outcome-based rewards. Recent RLVR works that operate under the zero setting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Andrew Zhao , Yiran Wu , Yang Yue , Tong Wu , Quentin Xu , Yang Yue , Matthieu Lin , Shenzhi Wang , Qingyun Wu , Zilong Zheng , Gao Huang

Self-evolution offers a promising path for improving reasoning models without relying on intensive human annotation. However, extending this paradigm to video understanding remains underexplored and challenging: videos are long, dynamic,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ruixu Zhang , Deyi Ji , Lanyun Zhu , Xuanyi Liu , Yuxin Meng , Ruihang Chu , Yujiu Yang

Self-play has enabled large language models to autonomously improve through self-generated challenges. However, existing self-play methods for vision-language models rely on passive interaction with static image collections, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Jinghan He , Junfeng Fang , Feng Xiong , Zijun Yao , Fei Shen , Haiyun Guo , Jinqiao Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

Effective information searching is essential for enhancing the reasoning and generation capabilities of large language models (LLMs). Recent research has explored using reinforcement learning (RL) to improve LLMs' search capabilities by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Hao Sun , Zile Qiao , Jiayan Guo , Xuanbo Fan , Yingyan Hou , Yong Jiang , Pengjun Xie , Yan Zhang , Fei Huang , Jingren Zhou

Recent advances in multimodal learning have significantly enhanced the reasoning capabilities of vision-language models (VLMs). However, state-of-the-art approaches rely heavily on large-scale human-annotated datasets, which are costly and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Han Wang , Yi Yang , Jingyuan Hu , Minfeng Zhu , Wei Chen

Self-evolving LLMs excel in verifiable domains but struggle in open-ended tasks, where reliance on proxy LLM judges introduces capability bottlenecks and reward hacking. To overcome this, we introduce G-Zero, a verifier-free,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chengsong Huang , Haolin Liu , Tong Zheng , Runpeng Dai , Langlin Huang , Jinyuan Li , Zongxia Li , Zhepei Wei , Yu Meng , Jiaxin Huang

Recent progress in multimodal large language models has led to strong performance on reasoning tasks, but these improvements largely rely on high-quality annotated data or teacher-model distillation, both of which are costly and difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Zhengxian Wu , Kai Shi , Chuanrui Zhang , Zirui Liao , Jun Yang , Ni Yang , Qiuying Peng , Luyuan Zhang , Hangrui Xu , Tianhuang Su , Zhenyu Yang , Haonan Lu , Haoqian Wang

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has transformed the landscape of agentic information seeking capabilities through the integration of tools such as search engines and web browsers. However, current mainstream approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Dingchu Zhang , Yida Zhao , Jialong Wu , Baixuan Li , Wenbiao Yin , Liwen Zhang , Yong Jiang , Yufeng Li , Kewei Tu , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang

Medical Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse healthcare tasks. However, current post-training strategies, such as supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning, heavily depend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Dunyuan Xu , Xikai Yang , Juzheng Miao , Yaoqian Li , Jinpeng Li , Pheng-Ann Heng

Although reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising approach for improving vision-language models (VLMs) and multimodal large language models (MLLMs), current methods rely heavily on manually curated datasets and costly human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Qinsi Wang , Bo Liu , Tianyi Zhou , Jing Shi , Yueqian Lin , Yiran Chen , Hai Helen Li , Kun Wan , Wentian Zhao

Large language models hold promise as scientific assistants, yet existing agents either rely solely on algorithm evolution or on deep research in isolation, both of which face critical limitations. Pure algorithm evolution, as in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Gang Liu , Yihan Zhu , Jie Chen , Meng Jiang

Autonomous agents powered by large language models (LLMs) have the potential to significantly enhance human productivity by reasoning, using tools, and executing complex tasks in diverse environments. However, current approaches to…

Self-evolving agents should not train on examples they cannot justify. Data-free self-evolving search agents offer a scalable route to systems that generate their own questions, answer them, and improve from their own feedback without human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yamato Arai , Yuma Ichikawa

Current large language models (LLMs) are constrained by human-derived training data and limited by a single level of abstraction that impedes definitive truth judgments. This paper introduces a novel framework in which AI models…

Experience-driven self-evolving agents aim to overcome the static nature of large language models by distilling reusable experience from past interactions, thus enabling adaptation to novel tasks at deployment time. This process places…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhiyuan Fan , Wenwei Jin , Feng Zhang , Bin Li , Yihong Dong , Yao Hu , Jiawei Li
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