English
Related papers

Related papers: EVE-Agent: Evidence-Verifiable Self-Evolving Agent…

200 papers

Deep research agents face vast, interdependent, and pervasively uncertain information. Existing systems explore what evolving intermediate representations should look like, but leave their evolution to the LLM's implicit reasoning. Without…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Haolang Zhao , Yunbo Long , Lukas Beckenbauer , Alexandra Brintrup

Achieving general-purpose robotics requires empowering robots to adapt and evolve based on their environment and feedback. Traditional methods face limitations such as extensive training requirements, difficulties in cross-task…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Jianzong Wang , Botao Zhao , Yayun He , Junqing Peng , Xulong Zhang

Evidence plays a crucial role in automated fact-checking. When verifying real-world claims, existing fact-checking systems either assume the evidence sentences are given or use the search snippets returned by the search engine. Such methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Xuming Hu , Junzhe Chen , Zhijiang Guo , Philip S. Yu

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

Visuomotor policies based on generative architectures such as diffusion and flow-based matching have shown strong performance but degrade under distribution shifts, demonstrating limited recovery capabilities without costly finetuning. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Yusuf Ali , Gryphon Patlin , Karthik Kothuri , Muhammad Zubair Irshad , Wuwei Liang , Zsolt Kira

Extending the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) with functions or tools for environment interaction has led to the emergence of the agent paradigm. In industry, training an LLM is not always feasible because of the scarcity of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Saptarshi Sengupta , Harsh Vashistha , Kristal Curtis , Akshay Mallipeddi , Abhinav Mathur , Joseph Ross , Liang Gou

Training models through self-play alone (without any human data) has been a longstanding goal in AI, but its effectiveness for training large language models remains unclear, particularly in code generation where rewards based on unit tests…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Alex Wilf , Pranjal Aggarwal , Bryan Parno , Daniel Fried , Louis-Philippe Morency , Paul Pu Liang , Sean Welleck

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

Language models encode substantial evaluative knowledge from pretraining, yet current post-training methods rely on external supervision (human annotations, proprietary models, or scalar reward models) to produce reward signals. Each…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Shuyue Stella Li , Rui Xin , Teng Xiao , Yike Wang , Rulin Shao , Zoey Hao , Melanie Sclar , Sewoong Oh , Faeze Brahman , Pang Wei Koh , Yulia Tsvetkov

The need for interpretable models has fostered the development of self-explainable classifiers. Prior approaches are either based on multi-stage optimization schemes, impacting the predictive performance of the model, or produce…

Self-evolving agents offer a promising path toward scalable autonomy. However, in this work, we show that in competitive environments, self-evolution can instead give rise to a serious and previously underexplored risk: the spontaneous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Zonghao Ying , Haowen Dai , Tianyuan Zhang , Yisong Xiao , Quanchen Zou , Aishan Liu , Jian Yang , Yaodong Yang , Xianglong Liu

We present a general framework for evolutionary learning to emergent unbiased state representation without any supervision. Evolutionary frameworks such as self-play converge to bad local optima in case of multi-agent reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-03 Shohei Ohsawa

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become the mainstream technique for training LLM agents. However, RLVR highly depends on well-crafted task queries and corresponding ground-truth answers to provide accurate rewards,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Hongliang Lu , Yuhang Wen , Pengyu Cheng , Ruijin Ding , Jiaqi Guo , Haotian Xu , Chutian Wang , Haonan Chen , Xiaoxi Jiang , Guanjun Jiang

Optimizing large-scale machine learning systems, such as recommendation models for global video platforms, requires navigating a massive hyperparameter search space and, more critically, designing sophisticated optimizers, architectures,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Haochen Wang , Yi Wu , Daryl Chang , Li Wei , Lukasz Heldt

Claim verification is the task of determining whether a claim is supported or refuted by evidence. Self-improvement methods, where reasoning chains are generated and those leading to correct results are selected for training, have succeeded…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Haisong Gong , Jing Li , Junfei Wu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM)-driven image restoration agent demonstrates effectiveness in degradation coupling scenarios by flexibly selecting tools and determining removal orders. However, their zero-shot planning often fails…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Kailin Zhuang , Jiawei Wu , Zhi Jin

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has significantly advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) in verifiable domains, but aligning models for open-ended generation remains profoundly challenging due to the lack of definitive rewards. Current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xin Guan , Xiaomeng Hu , Shen Huang , Zhenyi Wang , Bo Zhang , Zijian Li , Pengjun Xie , Bo Liu , Jiuxin Cao

Smartphones have become indispensable in modern life, yet navigating complex tasks on mobile devices often remains frustrating. Recent advancements in large multimodal model (LMM)-based mobile agents have demonstrated the ability to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Zhenhailong Wang , Haiyang Xu , Junyang Wang , Xi Zhang , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Fei Huang , Heng Ji

When a vision model performs image recognition, which visual attributes drive its predictions? Detecting unintended reliance on specific visual features is critical for ensuring model robustness, preventing overfitting, and avoiding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Christy Li , Josep Lopez Camuñas , Jake Thomas Touchet , Jacob Andreas , Agata Lapedriza , Antonio Torralba , Tamar Rott Shaham

Reusable skills play a key role in improving LLM-based agents, but existing skill-evolution methods often fail to ensure that evolved skills both cover the knowledge required by the task and remain aligned with the target task. As a result,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Dingzirui Wang , Xuanliang Zhang , Keyan Xu , Qingfu Zhu , Wanxiang Che , Yang Deng