VEPA is introduced, a framework for the verified evolution of formal agent guardrails that represents the guardrail as a formal policy of executable symbolic rules over typed agent events and consistently outperforms baselines while expanding the scope of deterministic formal-policy enforcement.
Duy Nguyen, Lesly Miculicich, Bhavana Dalvi et al.· 0 citations
Self-evolving LLM agents typically improve how they act through accumulated experience, reflection, or skills. Yet even procedurally capable agents can fail when their beliefs about environment dynamics are incomplete, incorrect, or outdated. We study a complementary axis of self-evolution: evolving those beliefs durin...
Janet Wang, Jiang Guo, Yi Xiang et al.· 0 citations
Aligning two independently pretrained unimodal encoders typically demands millions of paired examples. In this paper, we study the regime where only $N \sim 100$--$500$ pairs are available, while unpaired data on either side is abundant. Our method expresses every representation by its similarities to the $N$ paired an...
Hardware datasheets contain engineering specifications essential for component selection, system integration, and hardware compatibility verification. However, manual inspection is tedious and error-prone because datasheets are lengthy and heterogeneous, with dense information fragmented across tables, figures, and tex...
Hao-Ran Qiao, Robert P. Dick· 0 citations
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Data-centric scaling of RLVR has focused on collecting or generating verifiable training problems. However, corpus size alone does not determine whether the dataset provides a useful learning signal for a target policy. To guide the synthesis of effective RLVR data, we experimentally characterize dataset effectiveness...
Ximing Lu, Aviral Kumar, Jan Kautz et al.· 0 citations
LLM agents can execute increasingly complex tasks, but effective assistance also requires aligning their actions with goals and constraints that users may leave unstated. We study this problem as interactive intent alignment through clarification. Yet clarification is useful only when the agent can turn the answer into...
Jiatan Huang, Zheyuan Zhang, Ziming Li et al.· 0 citations
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) provides reliable supervision for software engineering agents through executable tests, but binary rewards fail to distinguish trajectories with substantially different debugging quality. We investigate whether the current policy can judge its own trajectories and u...
Yi-Ran Wu, Andrew Zhao, Yu-Rui Chang et al.· 0 citations
Agentic large language models now tackle complex tasks, yet strategic reasoning over long horizons is under-studied: most agentic benchmarks are short and episodic, and performance on long tasks is hard to dissect into stored knowledge, reasoning and luck. We introduce SpireBench, in which models play the complete comm...
EvoSyn is proposed, a learning-feedback-driven multi-agent framework that organizes synthesis around a revisable state specifying what interaction factors can be deliberately generated and where synthesis effort should be allocated.
Wei Yang, Qing Ping, You-Zhi Luo et al.· 0 citations
Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is often proposed for scheduling directed-acyclic-graph (DAG) workflows, yet most studies never run the comparison that could refute it - giving a much simpler method the same search effort. We run that comparison under a controlled protocol. All arms receive an identical budget - the sam...
EliteTable is a self-improving program-search algorithm guided by large language models (LLMs) that uses a fixed-capacity table of high-scoring solutions to guide new proposals, edits of existing solutions, and remixes of several solutions. Performance was evaluated across six Gymnasium control tasks, each with ten gen...
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) tools have often been presented as methods to increase trust in machine learning models by making aspects of their algorithms more human-understandable. However, evidence accumulated over the last decade points to an overall failure of this objective, instead promoting overreli...
Marco Zullich, Emily Schiller, Ivan Gentile et al.· 0 citations