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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

AREX-2: Advancing Self-Improving Agents through Long-Horizon Reflective Tasks

Results show that long-horizon reflective data is an effective route toward self-improving agents, and synthesize long-horizon improvement trajectories from machine learning and algorithmic programming tasks, two domains that offer verifiable feedback and reward sustained iteration.

Hong-Jin Qian, Chao-Fan Li, Kun Luo et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

IGSD: Environment-Verified Hindsight Self-Distillation for Search Agents

On-policy self-distillation densifies agent training without external teachers: a policy conditioned on privileged hindsight provides step-level guidance for its own unprivileged rollouts. For search agents, however, hindsight can make the teacher prefer a query that does not improve retrieval from the student's state....

Ang-Qing Jiang, Gao-Ming Zhang, Chao-Qun Zhang et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

Think-to-Personalize: Unifying Reasoning and Retrieval for User-Centric Personalized Dense Retrieval

Dense retrieval has become a cornerstone of modern local-lifestyle e-commerce search by encoding queries and items into semantic embedding spaces. While recent advancements have transitioned from BERT-based embedding models to Large Language Models (LLMs), most approaches still treat LLMs as static text encoders, negle...

Ang-Qing Jiang, Gao-Ming Zhang, Jian-Chun Song et al. · 2 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Repo-To-Skill: Distilling GitHub Repositories Into AI4AI Skills

DisCo is presented, a skill-powered research agent that creates skills and uses them during research, and yields the AREX-Skill Library, with 5,000+ verified skills distilled from 1,000 widely used ML repositories and organized into 20 areas and 178 capability families.

Jianlyu Chen, Yuyang Hu, Hong-Jin Qian et al. · 1 citation
Jul 2026

DIRECTOR: Dynamic Index-based Recommendation with Transport-Optimized Retrieval

This work proposes Dynamic Index-based RECommendation with Transport-Optimized Retrieval with Transport-Optimized Retrieval (DIRECTOR), a transport-guided parallel reranking framework that consistently outperforms strong reranking baselines, achieving significant improvement in large-scale industrial recommendation sce...

Yuanhao Pu, Chenghao Zhang, Chao Feng et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Preference Shapes Relevance: Cross-component Hierarchical Semantic Alignment for Personalized Generative Retrieval

A Hierarchical Semantic Alignment module to align query's latent space with item's quantization path and synchronize multi-granular semantics, and a personalized GR framework that models user behavior by synergizing discrete SIDs for structural guidance and continuous representations for fine-grained semantic refinemen...

Gao-Ming Zhang, Ang-Qing Jiang, Jian-Chun Song et al. · 0 citations
2025

Accurate KV Cache Eviction via Anchor Direction Projection for Efficient LLM Inference

A novel method, namely AnDPro, is proposed, which introduces a projection-based scoring function to more accurately measure token importance and guide more accurate token selection in key-Value cache eviction.

Zijie Geng, Jie Wang, Ziqi Liu et al. · 6 citations
Preprint Jul 2026

Rethinking Heterogeneous LLM Merging: A Weighted Model Averaging Perspective

The results show that simple parameter averaging, when paired with lightweight dimensional adaptation and carefully controlled ratios, is a surprisingly strong baseline for heterogeneous LLM merging, suggesting that the limits of direct weighted fusion may also bound what more complex heterogeneous merging methods can...

Jiahe Fan, Yinghao Hou, Sixiang Chen et al. · 0 citations

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