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Target tracking is a popular problem with many potential applications. There has been a lot of effort on improving the quality of the detection of targets using cameras through different techniques. In general, with higher computational…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-25 Rodrigo Aldana-López , Rosario Aragüés , Carlos Sagüés

Reinforcement learning has emerged as an effective paradigm for training large language models to interleave reasoning with search engine calls. However, existing approaches face a fundamental credit assignment problem: methods like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Chris Samarinas , Haw-Shiuan Chang , Hamed Zamani

In human neuroscience, machine learning can help reveal lower-dimensional neural representations relevant to subjects' behavior. However, state-of-the-art models typically require large datasets to train, so are prone to overfitting on…

Fact tracing seeks to identify specific training examples that serve as the knowledge source for a given query. Existing approaches to fact tracing rely on assessing the similarity between each training sample and the query along a certain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Si Chen , Feiyang Kang , Ning Yu , Ruoxi Jia

Training trustworthy agentic LLMs requires data that shows the grounded reasoning process, not just the final answer. Existing datasets fall short: question-answering data is outcome-only, chain-of-thought data is not tied to specific…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Saber Zerhoudi , Michael Granitzer , Jelena Mitrovic

We present TRACE, a novel system for live *common ground* tracking in situated collaborative tasks. With a focus on fast, real-time performance, TRACE tracks the speech, actions, gestures, and visual attention of participants, uses these…

Large language models increasingly rely on either reinforcement learning or multi-agent prompting to improve reasoning, yet these two paradigms remain difficult to combine. Directly applying single-agent reinforcement learning to multi-turn…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chusen Li , Zhou Liu , Shuigeng Zhou , Wentao Zhang

The advent of complex, interconnected long-horizon LLM systems has made it incredibly tricky to identify where and when these systems break down. Evaluation capabilities that currently exist today are limited in that they often focus on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Chenyang Zhu , Spencer Hong , Jingyu Wu , Kushal Chawla , Charlotte Tang , Youbing Yin , Nathan Wolfe , Erin Babinsky , Daben Liu

Recently, deep neural networks have expanded the state-of-art in various scientific fields and provided solutions to long standing problems across multiple application domains. Nevertheless, they also suffer from weaknesses since their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Felipe Kenji Nakano , Konstantinos Pliakos , Celine Vens

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents that reason, use tools, and act over multiple steps. Yet most hallucination benchmarks still evaluate only the final output, missing failures that originate in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Harshada Badave , Santosh Borse , Andrea Gomez , Harshitha Narahari , Sara Carter , Vishwa Bhatt , Aishani Rachakonda , Shuxin Lin , Dhaval Patel

In high stakes applications such as healthcare and finance analytics, the interpretability of predictive models is required and necessary for domain practitioners to trust the predictions. Traditional machine learning models, e.g., logistic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-27 Kaiping Zheng , Shaofeng Cai , Horng Ruey Chua , Wei Wang , Kee Yuan Ngiam , Beng Chin Ooi

The central challenge in robotic manipulation of deformable objects lies in aligning high-level semantic instructions with physical interaction points under complex appearance and texture variations. Due to near-infinite degrees of freedom,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Wanjun Jia , Kang Li , Fan Yang , Mengfei Duan , Wenrui Chen , Yiming Jiang , Hui Zhang , Kailun Yang , Zhiyong Li , Yaonan Wang

As scientific literature grows rapidly, automated survey generation has become a key capability for AI scientists and human researchers. However, existing systems suffer from limited analytical depth due to reliance on abstracts and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Ziyue Yang , Da Ma , Hanqi Li , Zijian Wang , Tiancheng Huang , Zijian Hu , Chenrun Wang , Yunzhe Zhang , Xiaobao Wu , Kai Yu , Lu Chen

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in complex reasoning tasks, yet their decision-making processes remain difficult to interpret. Existing explanation methods often lack trustworthy structural insight and are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yujiao Yang

As multi-agent AI systems are increasingly deployed in real-world settings - from automated customer support to DevOps remediation - failures become harder to diagnose due to cascading effects, hidden dependencies, and long execution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Zhaohui Geoffrey Wang

Reliable and robust evaluation methods are a necessary first step towards developing machine learning models that are themselves robust and reliable. Unfortunately, current evaluation protocols typically used to assess classifiers fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Michael W. Spratling

In Agentic AI, Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in the orchestration layer to coordinate multiple agents and to interact with external services, retrieval components, and shared memory. In this setting, failures are not…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Ciprian Paduraru , Petru-Liviu Bouruc , Alin Stefanescu

Tool use enables large language models to solve complex tasks through sequences of API calls, yet existing reinforcement learning approaches fail to scale to multi-step composition settings. Outcome-based rewards provide only sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Anay Kulkarni , ChiaEn Lu , Dheeraj Mekala , Jayanth Srinivasa , Gaowen Liu , Jingbo Shang

Motivated by the challenge presented by non-Markovian objectives in reinforcement learning (RL), we present a novel framework to track and represent the progress of autonomous agents through complex, multi-stage tasks. Given a specification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Noel Brindise , Cedric Langbort , Melkior Ornik

Despite rapid progress in building conversational AI agents, robustness is still largely untested. Small shifts in user behavior, such as being more impatient, incoherent, or skeptical, can cause sharp drops in agent performance, revealing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Muyu He , Anand Kumar , Tsach Mackey , Meghana Rajeev , James Zou , Nazneen Rajani