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  1. Direct Diversity Optimization for Diverse Successful Trajectories in Preference Post-Training

    Sep 9, 2026Junwon Ko, Dong-Jae Lee, Minchan Kwon +2Offline RLPreference Optimization

    School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST Daejeon, Republic of Korea

  2. Co-Evolving Harnesses and Models: On-Policy Correction Helps Weaker Models Catch Up Where Imitation Fails

    Sep 8, 2026Zhou Yu, Bin Bi, Shiva Kumar Pentyala +8Agent Harness OptimizationImitation Learning

    Salesforce AI

  3. Feyospace-v1: How the Cyber Mercury Seven Trained Frontier Cyber Models

    Sep 8, 2026Zongjie Li, Alan Z. W, John Nicolas J +4Training Data CurationCybersecurity

    Vera Praxis Lab

  4. Miles v0.1: Production-Level Post-Training

    Sep 8, 2026RadixArk, :, Tom Chen +11Reinforcement LearningLLM Agent Training

    RadixArk

  5. Train What You Deploy:Token-Faithful Post-Training of a Production Coding

    Sep 7, 2026Cheng Li, Jiexiong Liu, Yixuan Chen +1RL for Code GenerationProximal Policy Optimization

    KunlunMeta

  6. MARBO: Relational Belief Grounding for LLM Agents in Social Deduction Games

    Sep 6, 2026Yechan Hwang, Sangjun Bae, Jeongmo Kim +2Game-Playing AgentsSocial Deduction Games

    Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence, UNIST, Ulsan, South Korea.

  7. First Things First: Teaching LLM-Based Agents to Prioritize Must-Haves before Nice-to-Haves

    Sep 4, 2026Tianjie Ju, Xinyue Xu, Wanxuan Sun +4RL for Language Model ReasoningAI Agent Benchmarks

    School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · ByteDance

  8. Iris: Climbing to the Search Frontier

    Sep 3, 2026Ziyuan Liu, Hengqi Liu, Zichuan Wang +8Multi-Hop QAWeb Search Agents

    AllSpark Team

  9. Terminal-Universe: Turning Agent Trajectories into Scalable Terminal Environments

    Sep 3, 2026Jie Wu, Zhenru Zhang, Beichen Zhang +11Software Engineering AgentsLLM Agent Trajectory Synthesis

    1Qwen Team, Alibaba Group · 2Tsinghua University

  10. PersuaRL: Reinforcement Learning-Driven Multi-Expert Selection for Persuasive Dialogue Generation in Insurance

    Sep 1, 2026Rohan Kirti, Akash Ghosh, Aryan Vats +5RL for Language ModelsLLM Agent Training

    Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India · Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, India · Accenture Labs, Bangalore, India

  11. MemoryWalker: Stop Training Agents on Contexts They Never Saw

    Sep 1, 2026Zinco J, Xunjie Zhu, Shen Huang +3Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsConsistency Distillation

    Token Foundry, Alibaba Group

  12. WHALE: A Simple Recipe for Joint Harness-Weight Optimization

    Aug 31, 2026Haechan Kim, Yoonho Lee, Gisang Lee +2Agent Harness OptimizationLLM Agent Training

    KRAFTON · KAIST · Stanford University

  13. From Final Artifacts to Trajectories: Retrospective Process Supervision for Evidence-Grounded Long-Form Generation

    Aug 31, 2026Junjie Huang, Jiarui Qin, Di Yin +4LLM Agent Trajectory SynthesisProcess Supervision

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Tencent Youtu Lab

  14. SimCRAFT: Distilling Remote Sensing Agents via Synthetic Trajectories and Contextual Retrieval-Augmented Fine-Tuning

    Aug 31, 2026Haoran Wang, Jing Yao, Xu Yang +4Fine-TuningRemote Sensing

    State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511453, China +1

  15. CAST: Critique-Aware Supervision for Training Reliable Long-Horizon Tool-Calling Agents

    Aug 31, 2026Amir Saeidi, Zehua Zhang, Rishitosh Singh +6LLM AgentsLLM Agent Training

    Arizona State University · Cisco Research

  16. Beyond Task Completion: Training Capable and Safe Computer-Use Agents

    Aug 27, 2026Zeyu Kang, Zhenyun Yin, Yang Zhang +5Computer-Use AgentsAI Agent Safety

    Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · Harbin Institute of Technology · Fudan University +2

  17. JIT-Agent: Scaling Harness Intelligence via Just-in-Time Harness Evolution

    Aug 26, 2026Guibin Zhang, Leo Lu, Fangzhou Xie +15Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsAgent Harness Optimization

    JIT-Agent Team

  18. CyberFactory: Scaling Cyber Security Capabilities with Instances from the Wild

    Aug 24, 2026Jian Yang, Haau-Sing Li, Shawn Guo +10CybersecuritySoftware Security

    Beihang University · ELLIS · IQuest Research +1

  19. Competing at Every Price Point with Agentic Evolution over a Menu of LLMs

    Aug 17, 2026Andrew BorthwickLLM AgentsLLM Agent Training

    Independent Researcher

  20. Training Agents to Evolve with Their Harness: TaoLive Digital Avatar Agent Technical Report

    Aug 16, 2026TaoLive AIGC LLM Team, Yuhan Sun, Wenhao Lin +7LLM Agent TrainingLLM Agent Harnesses

    TaoLive AIGC LLM Team

  21. Training AI Scientists to Replicate Research

    Aug 13, 2026Damon Falck, Samer Sabri, Anja Surina +8AI Agents for Scientific DiscoveryAI Agent Benchmarks

    1Inherent

  22. One Frozen Simulator Is Not Enough: Simulator Collapse in Multi-Agent RL

    Aug 12, 2026Simon Yu, Nicholas Tomlin, Marwa Abdulhai +7Multi-Agent LLM SystemsHuman Behavior Simulation

    1Northeastern University · 2New York University · 3UC Berkeley +2

  23. ExRole: From Team Trajectories to Executable Roles in Multi-Agent Language Models

    Aug 12, 2026Zhou Liu, Chaoyang Han, Zewei Pan +2LLM Agent TrainingMulti-Agent LLMs

    Peking University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  24. From Numbers to Judgment: Specialist LLM Agents and Reinforcement Learning for European Listed Real Estate

    Aug 11, 2026Pardis Taghavi, Santosh BhavaniNumerical Reasoning in Language ModelsMulti-Agent LLM Systems

    Santosh Bhavani∗

  25. MERA: Model Evolution and Routing with Skill Adaptation for Agentic Systems at Scale

    Aug 11, 2026Yuhang Yao, Zeyu Wang, Wanyi Chen +8Continual Learning for LLM AgentsLLM Fine-Tuning

    Carnegie Mellon University · University of California, Los Angeles · Soochow University +3

  26. Open Evaluation Agent: Efficient and Promptable Evaluation of Visual Generative Models

    Aug 10, 2026Shulin Tian, Ziqi Huang, Fan Zhang +3Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsAI Agent Evaluation

    Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

  27. Beyond the Capability Boundary: Zeroth-Order Optimization for Self-Evolving LLM Agents

    Aug 10, 2026Bingzhen Liu, Xiaomeng Fan, Yuwei Wu +4Zeroth-Order OptimizationLLM Agent Training

    Beijing Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Technology, School of Computer Science & Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology · Guangdong Laboratory of Machine Perception and Intelligent Computing, Shenzhen MSU-BIT University · Alaya Lab

  28. Fisher-R1: Training LLM Agents for Reliable Hypothesis Testing

    Aug 7, 2026Jiacheng Miao, Jin Mu, Guanhua Chen +1AI Agent BenchmarksLLM Agent Training

    Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University · Department of Genetics, Stanford University · Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin–Madison +3

  29. CyberForge: Verified Vulnerability Injection at Repository Level for Cybersecurity Agent Training

    Aug 6, 2026Amine Lbath, Manan Suri, Aurelien Delaitre +4Automated Program RepairSoftware Vulnerability Detection

    National Institute of Standards and Technology · Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS · University of Maryland, College Park

  30. CalibForge: Adversarial Solver Calibration for Scaling Learnable Terminal Tasks

    Aug 6, 2026Fanzhe Meng, Guoxin Chen, Jiale Zhao +6LLM Agent TrainingAgent Benchmarks

    1Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China · 2Independent Researcher · 3AweAI Team

  31. EnvACE: Internalizing Environment Dynamics via World Rehearsal for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

    Aug 6, 2026Zishan Xu, Zhiyuan Yao, Yuxin Chen +9LLM World ModelsAgentic RL

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Zhejiang University · National University of Singapore +4

  32. StepReflect: Structured UI Transition Reflection for Mobile GUI Agents

    Aug 6, 2026Linqiang Guo, Wei Liu, Li Gu +3Mobile GUI AutomationGUI Agents

    Peter · Concordia University Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  33. Recursive Synthesis for Long-Horizon Terminal Tasks

    Aug 5, 2026Zhongzhi Li, Yucheng Shi, Zongxia Li +8Terminal AgentsSynthetic Benchmark Generation

    Tencent HY LLM Frontier · University of Georgia · University of Maryland, College Park +5

  34. ABSeeker: Training Long-Horizon Search Agents via Answer-Backtracked Credit Assignment

    Aug 5, 2026Yijun Lu, Rui Ye, Jiajun Wang +4Credit Assignment in RLStep-Level Credit Assignment in RL

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  35. State2State: Environment-Derived Mid-Training for LLM Agents

    Aug 5, 2026Xuanyu Lei, Yiqi Zhu, Chenliang Li +6LLM Agent TrainingGoal-Conditioned RL

    Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Dept. of Comp. Sci. & Tech., Institute for AI, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Institute of Intelligent Computing, Alibaba Group

  36. A-SR: Self-Evolving Agentic LLMs for Symbolic Regression via Hierarchical Coordination

    Aug 5, 2026Wenxiao Zhao, Dong Liu, Kaiyi Xu +9Multi-Agent LLM SystemsLLM Agent Training

    Shanghai AI Laboratory · University of California at Los Angeles · Tongji University

  37. Getting the Parameters Right: A Difficulty-Graded Benchmark and Probe-Guided Training for LLM Tool Calls

    Aug 4, 2026Guoyao Yu, Xiaoqing Sun, Ziqi Huang +13Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsAI Agent Benchmarks

  38. Qwen-CUA: Native Computer Use for (almost) Everything

    Aug 3, 2026Dunjie Lu, Shuai Bai, Tianyi Bai +43Computer-Use Agent BenchmarksComputer-Use Agents

  39. Trajectories That Segment Themselves: Agent-Declared Boundaries as a Training Unit

    Aug 3, 2026Jingxi WeiLLM Agent TrainingLong-Horizon Agent Tasks

  40. Look Ahead Before You Distill: Future Trajectory Validation of Teacher Guidance for Agentic On-Policy Distillation

    Aug 3, 2026Chishui Chen, Yaoyou Fan, Te Sun +11LLM Agent TrainingOn-Policy Distillation

    Meituan LongCat Interaction · Peking University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University +6

  41. CRISP: Critical Step Perception for Training Efficient Deep Search Agents

    Aug 3, 2026Haosi Mo, Zihao Yan, Ruiqing Zhang +4LLM AgentsLLM Agent Training

    Baidu Inc., China · Institute of Computing and Intelligence, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China

  42. SearchMaster: Grounded and Regulated Self-Play for Search Agents

    Aug 3, 2026Wentao Tan, Qiong Cao, Jiaqi Wang +1Multi-Hop QATool-Augmented Language Model Agents

    JD Future Academy, Beijing

  43. SyncPlan: Long-Horizon LLM Coordination with Explicit Synchronization and Adaptive Correction

    Aug 3, 2026Shen You, Xiaoming Zhu, Weining Weng +17Multi-Agent CoordinationLLM Planning

    1City University of Hong Kong · 2Tencent · 3Shenzhen University +1

  44. Search-GRT: Guided Retrieval Training of Search Agents to Optimize for Complex Question Answering

    Aug 2, 2026Aounon Kumar, Sudipta Paul, Vivek Kulkarni +2Multi-Hop QAAgentic RAG

    AI Center-Mountain View, Samsung Electronics

  45. Deep Research Pretraining via Predictive Navigation

    Aug 1, 2026Jiang Zhou, Zhiyuan Fan, Xing Wu +3Deep Research AgentsLLM Agent Training

    Hunyuan Team, Tencent

  46. Learning to Coordinate Symbolic Tools: LLM Agents for Verified Sum-of-Squares Certificates

    Jul 31, 2026Bohan Chen, Shivam N. Patel, Richard Hoffmann +2LLM Agent VerificationTool-Using Agents

    1California Institute of Technology · 2OpenAI

  47. MAGA: Multi-Platform Self-Fusion of GUI Agents via Structured Action Distillation

    Jul 31, 2026Hang Yan, Zhangxuan GU, Beitong Zhou +5Multi-Teacher Knowledge DistillationLLM Agent Training

    1Xi’an Jiaotong University · 2Ant Group · 3Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  48. Qwen-UI-Agent Technical Report: Toward Next-Generation Real-World Centric Foundation GUI Agents

    Jul 30, 2026Hanzhang Zhou, Panrong Tong, Xu Zhang +13Mobile GUI AutomationComputer-Use Agents

    MAI-UI Team Alibaba Token Hub, Alibaba Group

  49. Echoverse: Deep, Evolving Environments for Training Computer-Use Agents at Scale

    Jul 30, 2026Yash Pandya, Sahil Gupta, Sarthak Harne +10Computer-Use Agent BenchmarksComputer-Use Agents

    Microsoft Research · Work done while at Microsoft Research.

  50. SKILL-KD: Contrastive Skill Distillation for LLM Agents

    Jul 30, 2026Qiming Shi, Yibo Dou, Jiawen Zhu +5LLM Agent Skill LearningLLM Agent Training

    State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University · School of Software and Microelectronics, Peking University · School of Software Technology, Zhejiang University +1

  51. ClawTrack: Towards Trace-Level Evaluation and Improvement of Real-World Autonomous Agents

    Jul 30, 2026Xingjian Wu, Xuhang Zhu, Xingchen Liu +6AI Agent ReliabilityLLM Agent Evaluation

    Meituan

  52. Meta-Task: Turning Terminal Task Synthesis into a Terminal Task for Scalable Agent Training

    Jul 30, 2026Zhihong Pan, Jiyuan He, Kai Zhang +5Synthetic Data GenerationTerminal Agents

    State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Intelligence, University of Science and Technology of China · Meituan

  53. MindForge: Teaching Small Language Models Whole-Life-Cycle Software Engineering via Source-Free Program Synthesis

    Jul 29, 2026Yihao Chen, Shi Chang, Khaled Chawa +4Program SynthesisAutomated Software Engineering

    2Queen’s University · 1Huawei Canada · University of Manitoba

  54. WikiLoop: Jointly Learning to Build and Navigate Agent-Native Wikis with Downstream Feedback

    Jul 29, 2026Haoliang Ming, Feifei Li, Wenhui QueMulti-Hop QAKG Construction

    WeChat, Tencent Inc., Beijing, China

  55. Speculate While You Reason: Teaching Agents to Predict Their Next Tool Call via Joint Agent-Speculator RL

    Jul 28, 2026Jiabao Ji, Yujian Liu, Li An +4Tool-Using AgentsLLM Agent Training

    University of California, Santa Barbara · Linkedin Inc

  56. A Control System, a Dataset, and a Recipe for Making Frozen LLM Agents Learn a Domain

    Jul 28, 2026Debjyoti PaulAgent Harness OptimizationLLM Agent Training

  57. Matryoshka Agent: Unfolding Sub-Agents for Long-Horizon Machine Learning Engineering

    Jul 27, 2026Rushi Qiang, Changhao Li, Haotian Sun +3LLM Agent OrchestrationLLM Agents

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  58. ACM: Agentic Context Management for Long Horizon Tasks

    Jul 26, 2026Xiaochuan Li, Ryan Ming, Meng Chu +3LLM Agent TrainingLong-Horizon Agent Tasks

    Carnegie Mellon University · Meta

  59. AgentOmnia: Scaling Agentic Models for Full-Scenario Applications

    Jul 25, 2026Hao Jiang, Gangtao Xin, Yingdi Huang +35Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsAgentic RL

    Huawei Cloud Post-Training Team

  60. SearchArt: Training Long-Horizon Search Agent with Scalable Synthetic and Verified Task

    Jul 25, 2026Lang Mei, Xiaohan Yu, Chong Chen +27Synthetic Data GenerationLLM Agents

    Huawei Cloud Post-Training Team