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An impediment to using Large Language Models (LLMs) for reasoning output verification is that LLMs struggle to reliably identify errors in thinking traces, particularly in long outputs, domains requiring expert knowledge, and problems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Kate Sanders , Nathaniel Weir , Sapana Chaudhary , Kaj Bostrom , Huzefa Rangwala

Answering complex natural language questions often necessitates multi-step reasoning and integrating external information. Several systems have combined knowledge retrieval with a large language model (LLM) to answer such questions. These…

Retrieval is increasingly moving from one-shot matching toward interactive reasoning, where language agents iteratively inspect evidence, reformulate queries, and search again. Training such agents raises a credit-assignment challenge:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Mingchen Li , Hansi Zeng , Zhuo Qian , Jiatan Huang , Hamed Zamani , Hong Yu

Open-ended evaluation is essential for deploying large language models in real-world settings. In studying HealthBench, we observe that using the model itself as a grader and generating rubric-based reward signals substantially improves…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Zhiling Ye , Yun Yue , Haowen Wang , Xudong Han , Jiadi Jiang , Cheng Wei , Lei Fan , Jiaxin Liang , Shuowen Zhang , Ji Li , Chunxiao Guo , Jian Wang , Peng Wei , Jinjie Gu

Accurate document retrieval is crucial for the success of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications, including open-domain question answering and code completion. While large language models (LLMs) have been employed as dense…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Tong Niu , Shafiq Joty , Ye Liu , Caiming Xiong , Yingbo Zhou , Semih Yavuz

Deep Research agents tackle knowledge-intensive tasks through multi-round retrieval and decision-oriented generation. While reinforcement learning (RL) has been shown to improve performance in this paradigm, its contributions remain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yinuo Xu , Shuo Lu , Jianjie Cheng , Meng Wang , Qianlong Xie , Xingxing Wang , Ran He , Jian Liang

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances the text generation capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by integrating external knowledge and up-to-date information. However, traditional RAG systems are limited by static workflows…

This paper proposes a group deliberation oriented multi-agent conversational model to address the limitations of single large language models in complex reasoning tasks. The model adopts a three-level role division architecture consisting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Zheyu Shi , Dong Qiu , Shanlong Yu

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards has enabled strong post-training gains in domains such as math and coding, though many open-ended settings rely on rubric-based rewards. We study reward hacking in rubric-based RL, where a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Anas Mahmoud , MohammadHossein Rezaei , Zihao Wang , Anisha Gunjal , Bing Liu , Yunzhong He

Deep research agents have achieved remarkable progress on complex information seeking tasks. Even long ReAct style rollouts explore only a single trajectory, while recent state of the art systems scale inference time compute via parallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Zhen Zhang , Liangcai Su , Zhuo Chen , Xiang Lin , Haotian Xu , Simon Shaolei Du , Kaiyu Yang , Bo An , Lidong Bing , Xinyu Wang

Pointwise reward modeling offers critical signals for LLM post-training, yet struggles with absolute scoring in subjective, non-verifiable settings. Rubric-based methods address this by decomposing evaluation into explicit criteria, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Haoxiang Jiang , Zihan Dong , Tianci Liu , Wanying Wang , Ran Xu , Tony Yu , Linjun Zhang , Haoyu Wang

This paper proposes a query-level meta-agent named FlowReasoner to automate the design of query-level multi-agent systems, i.e., one system per user query. Our core idea is to incentivize a reasoning-based meta-agent via external execution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Hongcheng Gao , Yue Liu , Yufei He , Longxu Dou , Chao Du , Zhijie Deng , Bryan Hooi , Min Lin , Tianyu Pang

Scalar reward models compress multi-dimensional human preferences into a single opaque score, creating an information bottleneck that often leads to brittleness and reward hacking in open-ended alignment. We argue that robust alignment for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Ruipeng Jia , Yunyi Yang , Yuxin Wu , Yongbo Gai , Siyuan Tao , Mengyu Zhou , Jianhe Lin , Xiaoxi Jiang , Guanjun Jiang

Walk-based models have shown their advantages in knowledge graph (KG) reasoning by achieving decent performance while providing interpretable decisions. However, the sparse reward signals offered by the KG during traversal are often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Deren Lei , Gangrong Jiang , Xiaotao Gu , Kexuan Sun , Yuning Mao , Xiang Ren

The reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) remain a topic of debate. Some methods such as ReAct-based prompting, have gained popularity for claiming to enhance sequential decision-making abilities of agentic LLMs. However, it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Mudit Verma , Siddhant Bhambri , Subbarao Kambhampati

In recent research advancements within the community, large language models (LLMs) have sparked great interest in creating autonomous agents. However, current prompt-based agents often heavily rely on large-scale LLMs. Meanwhile, although…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xueyang Feng , Bo Lan , Quanyu Dai , Lei Wang , Jiakai Tang , Xu Chen , Zhenhua Dong , Ji-Rong Wen

Retrieval-augmented agents can query external evidence, yet their reliability in multi-step reasoning remains limited: noisy retrieval may derail multi-hop question answering, while outcome-only reinforcement learning provides credit…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jiangming Shu , Yuxiang Zhang , Ye Ma , Xueyuan Lin , Jitao Sang

The recent DeepSeek-R1 has showcased the emergence of reasoning capabilities in LLMs through reinforcement learning (RL) with rule-based rewards. Despite its success in language models, its application in multi-modal domains, particularly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zhengxi Lu , Yuxiang Chai , Yaxuan Guo , Xi Yin , Liang Liu , Hao Wang , Han Xiao , Shuai Ren , Guanjing Xiong , Hongsheng Li

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enables large language models (LLMs) to access external knowledge sources, but the effectiveness of RAG relies on the coordination between the retriever and the generator. Since these components are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Junlin Wang , Zehao Wu , Shaowei Lu , Yanlan Li , Xinghao Huang

Robotic agents performing domestic chores by natural language directives are required to master the complex job of navigating environment and interacting with objects in the environments. The tasks given to the agents are often composite…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Suvaansh Bhambri , Byeonghwi Kim , Jonghyun Choi