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Scaling test-time compute by iteratively updating a latent state has emerged as a powerful paradigm for reasoning. Yet the internal mechanisms that enable these iterative models to generalize beyond memorized patterns remain unclear. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Benhao Huang , Zhengyang Geng , Zico Kolter

In this paper, we study a distributed parameter estimation problem with an asynchronous communication protocol over multi-agent systems. Different from traditional time-driven communication schemes, in this work, data can be transmitted…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Xingkang He , Qian Liu , Junfeng Wu , Karl Henrik Johansson

When language model agents tackle complex software engineering tasks, they often degrade over long trajectories, which we define as *agent drift*. We focus on two recurring failure modes *overthinking* and *overacting*, i.e., where the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yuan Sui , Yulin Chen , Yibo Li , Xue Jiang , Yufei He , Yihong Dong , Xiaoxin He , Tianyu Gao , Bryan Hooi

Autonomous agents powered by large language models (LLMs) perform complex tasks through long-horizon reasoning and tool interaction, where a fundamental trade-off arises between execution efficiency and reasoning robustness. Models at…

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How do we communicate with others to achieve our goals? We use our prior experience or advice from others, or construct a candidate utterance by predicting how it will be received. However, our experiences are limited and biased, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Ryan Liu , Howard Yen , Raja Marjieh , Thomas L. Griffiths , Ranjay Krishna

Despite rapid development, large language models (LLMs) still encounter challenges in multi-turn decision-making tasks (i.e., agent tasks) like web shopping and browser navigation, which require making a sequence of intelligent decisions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Zhiheng Xi , Chenyang Liao , Guanyu Li , Yajie Yang , Wenxiang Chen , Zhihao Zhang , Binghai Wang , Senjie Jin , Yuhao Zhou , Jian Guan , Wei Wu , Tao Ji , Tao Gui , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang

Recent advancements in software engineering agents have demonstrated promising capabilities in automating program improvements. However, their reliance on closed-source or resource-intensive models introduces significant deployment…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Yingwei Ma , Yongbin Li , Yihong Dong , Xue Jiang , Rongyu Cao , Jue Chen , Fei Huang , Binhua Li

Emergent communication enables partially observant Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) to coordinate effectively in decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) settings. However, existing approaches often struggle with unstable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Mahmoud Abouelyazid , Eman Hammad

Multi-agent systems (MAS) built on large language models promise improved problem-solving through collaboration, yet they often fail to consistently outperform strong single-agent baselines due to error propagation at inter-agent message…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Bohan Lin , Kuo Yang , Zelin Tan , Yingchuan Lai , Chen Zhang , Guibin Zhang , Xinlei Yu , Miao Yu , Xu Wang , Yudong Zhang , Yang Wang

Scaling test-time compute with multi-path chain-of-thought improves reasoning accuracy, but its effectiveness depends critically on the exploration-exploitation trade-off. Existing approaches address this trade-off in rigid ways:…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shengxuan Qiu , Haochen Huang , Shuzhang Zhong , Pengfei Zuo , Meng Li

Large language models often struggle to recognize their knowledge limits in closed-book question answering, leading to confident hallucinations. While decomposed prompting is typically used to improve accuracy, we investigate its impact on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Dhruv Madhwal , Lyuxin David Zhang , Dan Roth , Tomer Wolfson , Vivek Gupta

Vehicle-to-everything communications-assisted autonomous driving has witnessed remarkable advancements in recent years, with pragmatic communications (PragComm) emerging as a promising paradigm for real-time collaboration among vehicles and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jiahao Huang , Jianhang Zhu , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

While Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting empowers Large Language Models (LLMs), ensuring reasoning reliability remains an open challenge. Contrary to the prevailing cascading failure hypothesis which posits that early errors are most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Dongxu Zhang , Yujun Wu , Yiding Sun , Jinnan Yang , Ning Yang , Jihua Zhu , Miao Xin , Baoliang Tian

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agentic systems have shown growing promise in tackling complex, multi-step tasks through autonomous planning, reasoning, and interaction with external environments. However, the stochastic nature of LLM…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Shuo Yan , Xiaolin Wen , Shaolun Ruan , Yanjie Zhang , Jiaming Mi , Yushi Sun , Huamin Qu , Rui Sheng

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) achieve strong performance on mathematical reasoning tasks but remain unreliable on challenging instances. Existing test-time scaling methods, such as repeated sampling, self-correction, and tree search,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Zhimin Lin , Yixin Ji , Jinpeng Li , Yu Luo , Dong Li , Junhua Fang , Juntao Li , Min Zhang

Scaling test time compute has shown remarkable success in improving the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). In this work, we conduct the first systematic exploration of applying test-time scaling methods to language agents…

Recently, scaling test-time compute on Large Language Models (LLM) has garnered wide attention. However, there has been limited investigation of how various reasoning prompting strategies perform as scaling. In this paper, we focus on a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Yexiang Liu , Zekun Li , Zhi Fang , Nan Xu , Ran He , Tieniu Tan

The remarkable growth in large language model (LLM) capabilities has spurred exploration into multi-agent systems, with debate frameworks emerging as a promising avenue for enhanced problem-solving. These multi-agent debate (MAD)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Yongjin Yang , Euiin Yi , Jongwoo Ko , Kimin Lee , Zhijing Jin , Se-Young Yun

Recent progress on long-horizon agentic tasks has been driven largely by scaling up individual agents through stronger models, better tools, and more effective scaffolding. In contrast, much less is understood about scaling out: whether…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yuyang Hu , Hongjin Qian , Shuting Wang , Jiongnan Liu , Tong Zhao , Xiaoxi Li , Zheng Liu , Zhicheng Dou

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising paradigm for next-generation networks. However, its typical end-to-end joint source--channel coding (JSCC) architecture also raises serious privacy concerns. To guide future secure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Shunpu Tang , Qianqian Yang , Zhiguo Shi , Jiming Chen , Xuemin Shen