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Fangkai Yang

21 accepted papers

2026

A Tale of Two Graphs: Separating Knowledge Exploration from Outline Structure for Open-Ended Deep Research

ICML 2026poster

Open-Ended Deep Research (OEDR) pushes LLM agents beyond short-form QA toward long-horizon workflows that iteratively search, connect, and synthesize evidence into structured reports. However, existing OEDR agents largely follow either linear "search-then-generate" accumulation or outline-centric pl…

Cited by 1SourceScholar
2026

Closing the Loop: Universal Repository Representation with RPG-Encoder

ICML 2026poster

Current repository agents encounter a reasoning disconnect due to fragmented representations, as existing methods rely on isolated API documentation or dependency graphs that lack semantic depth. We consider repository comprehension and generation to be inverse processes within a unified cycle: gene…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

DoVer: Intervention-Driven Auto Debugging for LLM Multi-Agent Systems

ICLR 2026poster

Large language model (LLM)–based multi-agent systems are challenging to debug because failures often arise from long, branching interaction traces. The prevailing practice is to leverage LLMs for log-based failure localization, attributing errors to a specific agent and step. However, this paradigm…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Learning GUI Grounding with Spatial Reasoning from Visual Feedback

ICML 2026poster

Graphical User Interface (GUI) grounding is commonly framed as a coordinate prediction task – given a natural language instruction, generate on-screen coordinates for actions such as clicks and keystrokes. However, recent Vision Language Models (VLMs) often fail to predict accurate numeric coordinat…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Pretrain Value, Not Reward: Decoupled Value Policy Optimization

ICLR 2026poster

In this paper, we explore how directly pretraining a value model simplifies and stabilizes reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). In reinforcement learning, value estimation is the key to policy optimization, distinct from reward supervision. The value function predicts the \emph{retur…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

RePrompt: Reasoning-Augmented Reprompting for Text-to-Image Generation via Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2026poster

Despite recent progress in text-to-image (T2I) generation, existing models often struggle to faithfully capture user intentions from short and under-specified prompts. While prior work has attempted to enhance prompts using large language models (LLMs), these methods frequently generate stylistic or…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

AXIS: Efficient Human-Agent-Computer Interaction with API-First LLM-Based Agents

ACL 2025long

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have enabled LLM-based agents to directly interact with application user interfaces (UIs), enhancing agents’ performance in complex tasks. However, these agents often suffer from high latency and low reliability due to the extensive sequential UI interactions…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

AdaptFlow: Adaptive Workflow Optimization via Meta-Learning

EMNLP 2025

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have sparked growing interest in agentic workflows—structured sequences of LLM invocations designed to solve complex tasks. However, existing approaches often rely on static templates or manually designed workflows, which limit adaptability to diverse

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

ExeCoder: Empowering Large Language Models with Executability Representation for Code Translation

EMNLP 2025

Code translation is a crucial activity in the software development and maintenance process, and researchers have recently begun to focus on using pre-trained large language models (LLMs) for code translation. However, existing LLMs only learn the contextual semantics of code during pre-training, neg

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

ICL-Bandit: Relevance Labeling in Advertisement Recommendation Systems via LLM

EMNLP 2025

Measuring the relevance between user queries and advertisements is a critical task for advertisement (ad) recommendation systems, such as Microsoft Bing Ads and Google Ads. Traditionally, this requires expert data labeling, which is both costly and time-consuming. Recent advances have explored using

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Skeleton-Guided-Translation: A Benchmarking Framework for Code Repository Translation with Fine-Grained Quality Evaluation

EMNLP 2025

Code translation benchmarks are essential for evaluating the accuracy and efficiency of LLM-based systems. Existing benchmarks mainly target individual functions, overlooking repository-level challenges like intermodule coherence and dependency management. Recent repository-level efforts exist, but

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Thread: A Logic-Based Data Organization Paradigm for How-To Question Answering with Retrieval Augmented Generation

EMNLP 2025

Recent advances in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) have substantially improved question-answering systems, particularly for factoid ‘5Ws’ questions. However, significant challenges remain when addressing ‘1H’ questions, specifically how-to questions, which are integral for decision-making and r

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Token-level Proximal Policy Optimization for Query Generation

EMNLP 2025

Query generation is a critical task for web search engines (e.g. Google, Bing) and recommendation systems. Recently, state-of-the-art query generation methods leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) for their strong capabilities in context understanding and text generation. However, they still face ch

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

WarriorCoder: Learning from Expert Battles to Augment Code Large Language Models

ACL 2025long

Despite recent progress achieved by code large language models (LLMs), their remarkable abilities are largely dependent on fine-tuning on the high-quality data, posing challenges for data collection and annotation. To address this, current methods often design various data flywheels to collect compl…

2024

AutoRAG-HP: Automatic Online Hyper-Parameter Tuning for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

EMNLP 2024finding

Recent advancements in Large Language Models have transformed ML/AI development, necessitating a reevaluation of AutoML principles for the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. To address the challenges of hyper-parameter optimization and online adaptation in RAG, we propose the AutoRAG-HP f…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2024

Call Me When Necessary: LLMs can Efficiently and Faithfully Reason over Structured Environments

ACL 2024findings

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown potential in reasoning over structured environments, e.g., knowledge graphs and tables. Such tasks typically require multi-hop reasoning, i.e., match natural language utterance with instances in the environment. Previous works adopt LLMs to incrementally build…

2024

EfficientRAG: Efficient Retriever for Multi-Hop Question Answering

EMNLP 2024main

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) methods encounter difficulties when addressing complex questions like multi-hop queries.While iterative retrieval methods improve performance by gathering additional information, current approaches often rely on multiple calls of large language models (LLMs).In t…

2024

SELF-GUARD: Empower the LLM to Safeguard Itself

NAACL 2024long

With the increasing risk posed by jailbreak attacks, recent studies have investigated various methods to improve the safety of large language models (LLMs), mainly falling into two strategies: safety training and safeguards. Safety training involves fine-tuning the LLM with adversarial samples, whic…

2023

Measuring Acoustics with Collaborative Multiple Agents

IJCAI 2023poster

As humans, we hear sound every second of our life. The sound we hear is often affected by the acoustics of the environment surrounding us. For example, a spacious hall leads to more reverberation. Room Impulse Responses (RIR) are commonly used to characterize environment acoustics as a function of t…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2019

Task-Motion Planning with Reinforcement Learning for Adaptable Mobile Service Robots

IROS 2019poster

Task-motion planning (TMP) addresses the problem of efficiently generating executable and low-cost task plans in a discrete space such that the (initially unknown) action costs are determined by motion plans in a corresponding continuous space. A task-motion plan for a mobile service robot that beha…

Cited by 44SourceScholar