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Prompt Engineering (PE) has emerged as a critical technique for guiding Large Language Models (LLMs) in solving intricate tasks. Its importance is highlighted by its potential to significantly enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Yifan Luo , Yiming Tang , Chengfeng Shen , Zhennan Zhou , Bin Dong

Context: Reactive programming (RP) is a declarative programming paradigm suitable for expressing the handling of events. It enables programmers to create applications that react automatically to changes over time. Whenever a time-varying…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Bjarno Oeyen , Joeri De Koster , Wolfgang De Meuter

Test-time scaling has been widely adopted to enhance the capabilities of Large Language Model (LLM) agents in software engineering (SWE) tasks. However, the standard approach of repeatedly sampling trajectories from scratch is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yifeng Ding , Lingming Zhang

We investigate the task of learning to follow natural language instructions by jointly reasoning with visual observations and language inputs. In contrast to existing methods which start with learning from demonstrations (LfD) and then use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Wenhan Xiong , Xiaoxiao Guo , Mo Yu , Shiyu Chang , Bowen Zhou , William Yang Wang

Recent advances in coding agents have made them capable of planning, editing, running, and testing complex code bases. Despite their growing ability in coding tasks, these systems still struggle to infer and track user intent, especially…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xuhui Zhou , Valerie Chen , Zora Zhiruo Wang , Graham Neubig , Maarten Sap , Xingyao Wang

Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on reusable skills: capability packages that combine instructions, control flow, constraints, and tool calls. In current agent systems, however, skills are still represented by text-heavy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Qiliang Liang , Hansi Wang , Zhong Liang , Yang Liu

This paper introduces language-based agent control (LBAC), a new programming model for agentic applications that brings techniques from programming languages and language-based security to the problem of agent control. In conventional…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Timothy Zhou , Loris D'Antoni , Nadia Polikarpova

Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle with mathematical reasoning tasks requiring precise, verifiable computation. While Reinforcement Learning (RL) from outcome-based rewards enhances text-based reasoning, understanding how agents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Xinji Mai , Haotian Xu , Zhong-Zhi Li , Xing W , Weinong Wang , Jian Hu , Yingying Zhang , Wenqiang Zhang

We present the LLM Economist, a novel framework that uses agent-based modeling to design and assess economic policies in strategic environments with hierarchical decision-making. At the lower level, bounded rational worker agents --…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Seth Karten , Wenzhe Li , Zihan Ding , Samuel Kleiner , Yu Bai , Chi Jin

Building software repositories typically requires significant manual effort. Recent advances in large language model (LLM) agents have accelerated automation in software engineering (SWE). We introduce RepoLaunch, the first agent capable of…

Failure is inevitable for embodied navigation in complex environments. To enhance the resilience, replanning (RP) is a viable option, where the robot is allowed to fail, but is capable of adjusting plan until success. However, existing RP…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Guoliang Li , Ruihua Han , Chengyang Li , He Li , Shuai Wang , Wenchao Ding , Hong Zhang , Chengzhong Xu

Large language models (LLMs) can now translate a researcher's plain-language goal into executable computation, yet scientific workflows demand determinism, provenance, and governance that are difficult to guarantee when an LLM decides what…

The increasing complexity of modern chemical processes, coupled with workforce shortages and intricate fault scenarios, demands novel automation paradigms that blend symbolic reasoning with adaptive control. In this work, we introduce a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Javal Vyas , Mehmet Mercangoz

Large language model agents increasingly depend on memory to sustain long horizon interaction, but existing frameworks remain limited. Most expose only a few basic primitives such as encode, retrieve, and delete, while higher order…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Yi Wang , Lihai Yang , Boyu Chen , Gongyi Zou , Kerun Xu , Bo Tang , Feiyu Xiong , Siheng Chen , Zhiyu Li

This paper presents a comprehensive framework for modeling and verifying multi-agent systems. The paper introduce an Epistemic Process Calculus for multi-agent systems, which formalizes the syntax and semantics to capture the essential…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Qixian Yu , Zining Cao , Zong Hui , Yuan Zhou

Programming by Example (PBE) is the task of inducing computer programs from input-output examples. It can be seen as a type of machine learning where the hypothesis space is the set of legal programs in some programming language. Recent…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-03-03 John K. Feser , Marc Brockschmidt , Alexander L. Gaunt , Daniel Tarlow

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents have recently shown impressive capabilities in complex reasoning and tool use via multi-step interactions with their environments. While these agents have the potential to tackle complicated tasks,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Jiaye Lin , Yifu Guo , Yuzhen Han , Sen Hu , Ziyi Ni , Licheng Wang , Mingguang Chen , Hongzhang Liu , Ronghao Chen , Yangfan He , Daxin Jiang , Binxing Jiao , Chen Hu , Huacan Wang

Reinforcement learning (RL) agent development traditionally requires substantial expertise and iterative effort, often leading to high failure rates and limited accessibility. This paper introduces Agent$^2$, an LLM-driven…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yuan Wei , Xiaohan Shan , Ran Miao , Jianmin Li

Current approaches to memory in Large Language Models (LLMs) predominantly rely on static Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), which often results in scattered retrieval and fails to capture the structural dependencies required for complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Zhengxuan Lu , Dongfang Li , Yukun Shi , Beilun Wang , Longyue Wang , Baotian Hu

Controllers for structured LM reasoning (e.g., Chain-of-Thought, self-consistency, and Tree-of-Thoughts) often entangle what to try next with how to execute it, exposing only coarse global knobs and yielding brittle, compute-inefficient,…

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