Large reasoning models (LRMs) achieve strong performance by externalizing explicit reasoning traces before producing the answer, yet suffer from overthinking challenge that allocates uniformly heavy computation to queries of varying difficulty. While proprietary models mitigate this via opaque routing, open-source LRMs...
Taehyeon Kim, Hyunsoo Lee, Youngsoo Jang et al.· 0 citations
Gaussian process bandits exploit similarities among configurations to optimize prompts, retrieval systems, and agent workflows. In these applications, however, inexpensive model-based evaluations can disagree with trusted task outcomes. We study selective verification when an action is chosen before a diagnostic is obs...
Large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems (MAS) are commonly organized around two coordination regimes. Centralized coordination provides explicit control but can create a bottleneck at a single coordination locus, whereas decentralized coordination offers local autonomy but must achieve effective collaborat...
Yiqing Peng, Hehai Lin, Zixuan Wang et al.· 0 citations
Policies trained offline from teleoperated demonstrations can degrade outside their training distribution. This gap is particularly acute in long-horizon whole-body mobile manipulation, where long horizons amplify compounding errors and coordinated arm, torso, and base motion makes exhaustive demonstration coverage imp...
Wen-Si Ai, Christopher Luey, Karthik Dharmarajan et al.· 0 citations
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Failure-attribution benchmarks ask an LLM judge which step or agent caused a failure. A high score should mean the judge checked the faulty step against the run (a cross-step check). However, spurious signals (surface cues) that predict the annotation can produce a high score. In this paper, we propose four tests to se...
Estimating potential outcomes under alternative treatment sequences is essential for personalized decision-making, but remains challenging with high-dimensional covariates and time-varying confounding. In this study, we propose HiSTOR (High-dimensional Structured Treatment-Outcome Representation), an end-to-end framewo...
Multi-sample reasoning measures candidate coverage, the probability that at least one of $K$ candidates is correct. However, minimizing the average loss of individual attempts does not directly optimize candidate coverage. We therefore formulate finite-$K$ posterior learning, which trains a distribution over solver par...
Sungjun Lim, Adrian Robert Minut, Nico Carlsen Daheim et al.· 0 citations
Exploration bounds learning efficiency in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR). Current methods explore mostly through independent sampling, without fully using the information gathered along the way, such as known wrong answers and environment feedback. We propose LEAF, which injects a dynamic, proble...
Yutong Chen, Zhichao Xu, Rui Liu et al.· 0 citations
Rubric-based reinforcement learning (RL) evaluates responses against explicit criteria to construct rewards, offering a viable way to train large language models on open-ended tasks. However, standard methods compress criterion-level feedback into scalar rewards and assign uniform token advantages, leaving structured r...
Guang-Cheng Zhu, Ying-Fan Ma, Xing Zheng et al.· 0 citations
Agent skills turn natural-language instructions into actions, creating a security challenge: legitimate automation and malicious behaviour can look deceptively similar. A practical screen must catch nearly every attack while keeping the review load manageable. We present SkillScreen, a compact decision model trained to...
Jerrold Huang, Junwei Quan, Saiyue Lyu et al.· 0 citations
Large language model (LLM) agents excel at complex, multi-step tasks but suffer from catastrophic forgetting during continual learning--acquiring new skills often degrades previously mastered capabilities. Existing post-training paradigms face a fundamental trade-off: Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) is sample-efficient bu...
Yu-Qian Fu, Kai-Wen Jiang, Zi-Jun Song et al.· 0 citations
Imitation learning typically treats every demonstration state as equally important, optimizing a behavior-cloning objective uniformly across the dataset. Yet not all states are created equal: in a small number of critical states, even a slight deviation from the expert action can lead to a failure, while in many other...
Yusuf Umut Ciftci, Joonwon Kang, Ajay Suresha Sathya et al.· 0 citations
