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Zhuokai Zhao

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#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Scaling Multi-Agent Intelligence with Substrate-Centric Coordination

Existing large language model (LLM) based multi-agent systems have been shown to scale poorly, and we identify three problems: reading burden that grows with the group, useful information diluted by shared work of unknown quality, and fragility to failed agents. We argue that the problems are largely due to agent-centr...

Zhen-Ting Qi, Zhuo-Kai Zhao, Ru-Lin Shao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Verify Less, Evolve More: Training Idea-Level Critics for Verification-Efficient ML Evolving Agents

As large language models become more powerful, self-evolving agents are able to tackle challenging tasks including AI for machine learning (AI4ML). In AI4ML, while empirical verification is available, it often requires computationally costly model training and evaluation, limiting the speed and scale of agent evolution...

Jiamu Bai, Li-Zhu Zhang, Xin Yu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Discovered, Not Designed: Population Evolution for Collaborative and Compute-Intensive Model Discovery

LLM-driven evolution enables iterative model development, but two practical goals remain underexplored: finding model designs that transfer across related tasks and sustaining improvement when training is expensive. We introduce Population Evolution (PE), a collaborative, hierarchical framework that connects ongoing lo...

Bo Peng, Li-Zhu Zhang, Yu-Hang Zhou et al. · 0 citations
Jul 2026

SVR-R1: Bootstrapping Multi-modal Reasoning with Self-verification in Reinforcement Learning

Self-Verified Reasoner (SVR-R1), a multi-turn RL framework that turns a model's own verification into a learning signal for multimodal reasoning, is introduced, offering a simple yet effective recipe for bootstrapping multimodal reasoning.

Mingyuan Wu, Jingcheng Yang, Shengyi Qian et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Knowledge Distillation During Mid-Training Favors Reasoning over Factual Recall

Switch Distillation is proposed, a simple mid-training objective that distills on tokens where the teacher is confident, using teacher predictive entropy as a lightweight routing signal, and otherwise falls back to cross-entropy, which consistently outperforms existing distillation objectives across teacher sizes.

Jacqueline He, Howard Yen, S. Li et al. · 0 citations
Jul 2026

Remember When It Matters: Proactive Memory Agent for Long-Horizon Agents

Ablations show that selective intervention outperforms passive bank exposure, always-on injection, advisor-only guidance, advisor-only guidance, and general retrieval, and general retrieval and that selective intervention outperforms passive bank exposure, always-on injection, advisor-only guidance, and general retriev...

Yi-Fan Wu, Lizhu Zhang, Yu-Hang Zhou et al. · 2 citations

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