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RL-based agentic search enables LLMs to solve complex questions via dynamic planning and external search. While this approach significantly enhances accuracy with agent policies optimized via large-scale reinforcement learning, we identify…

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Meta-learning and few-shot prompting are viable methods to induce certain types of compositional behaviour. However, these methods can be very sensitive to the choice of support examples used. Choosing good supports from the training data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Sam Spilsbury , Pekka Marttinen , Alexander Ilin

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in formal theorem proving, yet state-of-the-art performance often necessitates prohibitive test-time compute via massive roll-outs or extended context windows. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Guchan Li , Rui Tian , Hongning Wang

Graphical User Interface (GUI) grounding requires mapping natural language instructions to precise pixel coordinates. However, due to visually homogeneous elements and dense layouts, models typically grasp semantic intent yet struggle with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Wenkai Wang , Xiyun Li , Hongcan Guo , Wenhao Yu , Tianqing Fang , Haitao Mi , Dong Yu , Shengyu Zhang

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become a standard paradigm for post-training language models, but in practice, verifiers are rarely perfect. Recent theoretical work predicts that verifier noise affects the rate of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Ryo Mitsuhashi , Patrick Chen , Isabelle Tseng , Jasin Cekinmez , Addison J. Wu

Recommender systems often benefit from complex feature embeddings and deep learning algorithms, which deliver sophisticated recommendations that enhance user experience, engagement, and revenue. However, these methods frequently reduce the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Irina Arévalo , Jose L Salmeron

Agentic repository-level code understanding is essential for automating complex software engineering tasks, yet the field lacks reliable benchmarks. Existing evaluations often overlook the long tail topics and rely on popular repositories…

Recently, small models with latent recursion have obtained promising results on complex reasoning tasks. These results are typically explained by the theory that such recursion increases a networks depth, allowing it to compactly emulate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Arip Asadulaev , Rayan Banerjee , Fakhri Karray , Martin Takac

Deep research systems, agentic AI that solve complex, multi-step tasks by coordinating reasoning, search across the open web and user files, and tool use, are moving toward hierarchical deployments with a Planner, Coordinator, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Wenjun Li , Zhi Chen , Jingru Lin , Hannan Cao , Wei Han , Sheng Liang , Zhi Zhang , Kuicai Dong , Dexun Li , Chen Zhang , Yong Liu

Test-time computation has become a primary driver of progress in large language model (LLM) reasoning, but it is increasingly bottlenecked by expensive verification. In many reasoning systems, a large fraction of verifier calls are spent on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Shuhui Qu

We propose a new strategy for applying large pre-trained language models to novel tasks when labeled training data is limited. Rather than apply the model in a typical zero-shot or few-shot fashion, we treat the model as the basis for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Ryan Smith , Jason A. Fries , Braden Hancock , Stephen H. Bach

This paper introduces a framework that integrates reinforcement learning (RL) with autonomous agents to enable continuous improvement in the automated process of software test cases authoring from business requirement documents within…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mohanakrishnan Hariharan

We construct an efficient recursive ensemble algorithm for the multi-class classification problem, inspired by SAMME (Zhu, Zou, Rosset, and Hastie (2009)). We strengthen the weak learnability condition in Zhu, Zou, Rosset, and Hastie (2009)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-27 In-Koo Cho , Jonathan Libgober

Repeated sampling with a verifier is the standard way to allocate test-time compute for code generation, with pass@$K$ as the canonical metric. Yet the standard policy class draws $K$ independent samples from a single answer distribution,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yilong Li , Suman Banerjee , Tong Che

Recent trends in test-time scaling for reasoning models (e.g., OpenAI o1, DeepSeek R1) have led to a popular belief that extending thinking traces using prompts like "Wait" or "Let me rethink" can improve performance. This raises a natural…

Large language models are highly capable of answering difficult questions by retrieving, recombining, and attending to information in long contexts. For agentic tasks, an additional capability is required: the preservation of an exact state…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Tianxiang Dai , Jonathan Fan

Large language models have achieved strong performance on medical reasoning benchmarks, yet their deployment in clinical settings demands rigorous verification to ensure factual accuracy. While reward models offer a scalable approach for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Hang Zhang , Ruheng Wang , Yuelyu Ji , Mingu Kwak , Xizhi Wu , Chenyu Li , Li Zhang , Wenqi Shi , Yifan Peng , Yanshan Wang

The saturation-based reasoning methods are among the most theoretically developed ones and are used by most of the state-of-the-art first-order logic reasoners. In the last decade there was a sharp increase in performance of such systems,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-02-18 Alexandre Riazanov

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a pivotal mechanism for enhancing the complex reasoning capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, prevailing paradigms typically rely on solitary rollout strategies where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Lingzhuang Sun , Ruitong Liu , Yuxia Zhu , Xiaohan Xu , Jingxuan Wei , Xiangxiang Zhang , Bihui Yu , Wentao Zhang

Agents, language model-based systems capable of reasoning, planning, and acting are widely adopted in real-world tasks, yet how their performance changes as these systems scale across key dimensions remains underexplored. We introduce…