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Ding-Chu Zhang

7 accepted papers

2026

Repurposing Synthetic Data for Fine-grained Search Agent Supervision

ICLR 2026poster

LLM-based search agents are increasingly trained on entity-centric synthetic data to solve complex, knowledge-intensive tasks. However, prevailing training methods like Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) discard this rich entity information, relying instead on sparse, outcome-based rewards. T…

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2026

Step Back to Leap Forward: Self-Backtracking for Symbolic Reasoning and Planning in Language Models

AAAI 2026technical

Although autoregressive language models demonstrated remarkable performance across various tasks, their effectiveness in symbolic reasoning and decision-making scenarios remains constrained. Recent research indicates that training language models to emulate symbolic search algorithms (e.g. depth-fi

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2026

WebSailor-V2: Bridging the Chasm to Proprietary Agents via Synthetic Data and Scalable Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2026poster

To significantly advance the capabilities of open-source web agents, we present WebSailor-V2, a complete post-training pipeline encompassing data construction, Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), and Reinforcement Learning (RL). Our methodology features two key innovations: (1) On the data front, we devel…

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2025

AutoEvolve: Automatically Evolving Queries for Applicable and Scalable Retrieval-Augmented Generation Benchmarking

EMNLP 2025

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enables large language models (LLMs) to address queries beyond their internal knowledge by integrating domain knowledge in specialized corpus, which necessitates the generation of benchmarks on specific corpus to evaluate RAG systems. However, existing automated

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2025

EvolveSearch: An Iterative Self-Evolving Search Agent

EMNLP 2025

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has transformed the landscape of agentic information seeking capabilities through the integration of tools such as search engines and web browsers. However, current mainstream approaches for enabling LLM web search proficiency face significant ch

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2025

WebDancer: Towards Autonomous Information Seeking Agency

NeurIPS 2025poster

Addressing intricate real-world problems necessitates in-depth information seeking and multi-step reasoning. Recent progress in agentic systems, exemplified by Deep Research, underscores the potential for autonomous multi-step research. In this work, we present a cohesive paradigm for building end…

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