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Runnan Fang

10 accepted papers

2026

Scaling Agents via Continual Pre-training

ICLR 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) have evolved into agentic systems capable of autonomous tool use and multi-step reasoning for complex problem-solving. However, post-training approaches building upon general-purpose foundation models consistently underperform in agentic tasks, particularly in open-sourc…

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2026

Towards Personalized Deep Research: Benchmarks and Evaluations

ICLR 2026poster

Deep Research Agents (DRAs) can autonomously conduct complex investigations and generate comprehensive reports, demonstrating strong real-world potential. However, existing evaluations mostly rely on close-ended benchmarks, while open-ended deep research benchmarks remain scarce and typically neglec…

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2025

Benchmarking Agentic Workflow Generation

ICLR 2025poster

Large Language Models (LLMs), with their exceptional ability to handle a wide range of tasks, have driven significant advancements in tackling reasoning and planning tasks, wherein decomposing complex problems into executable workflows is a crucial step in this process. Existing workflow evaluation…

2025

OmniThink: Expanding Knowledge Boundaries in Machine Writing through Thinking

EMNLP 2025

Machine writing with large language models often relies on retrieval-augmented generation. However, these approaches remain confined within the boundaries of the model’s predefined scope, limiting the generation of content with rich information. Specifically, vanilla-retrieved information tends to l

2025

SynWorld: Virtual Scenario Synthesis for Agentic Action Knowledge Refinement

ACL 2025short

In the interaction between agents and their environments, agents expand their capabilities by planning and executing actions. However, LLM-based agents face substantial challenges when deployed in novel environments or required to navigate unconventional action spaces. To empower agents to autonomou…

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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2025

WebWalker: Benchmarking LLMs in Web Traversal

ACL 2025long

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) demonstrates remarkable performance across tasks in open-domain question-answering. However, traditional search engines may retrieve shallow content, limiting the ability of LLMs to handle complex, multi-layered information. To address this, we introduce WebWalke…

2024

Agent Planning with World Knowledge Model

NeurIPS 2024poster

Recent endeavors towards directly using large language models (LLMs) as agent models to execute interactive planning tasks have shown commendable results. Despite their achievements, however, they still struggle with brainless trial-and-error in global planning and generating hallucinatory actions i…

2024

AutoAct: Automatic Agent Learning from Scratch for QA via Self-Planning

ACL 2024long

Language agents have achieved considerable performance on various complex question-answering tasks by planning with external tools. Despite the incessant exploration in this field, existing language agent systems still struggle with costly, non-reproducible data reliance and face the challenge of co…

2024

EasyInstruct: An Easy-to-use Instruction Processing Framework for Large Language Models

ACL 2024system demonstrations

In recent years, instruction tuning has gained increasing attention and emerged as a crucial technique to enhance the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). To construct high-quality instruction datasets, many instruction processing approaches have been proposed, aiming to achieve a delicate…