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Yida Zhao

8 accepted papers

2026

AgentFold: Long-Horizon Web Agents with Proactive Context Folding

ICLR 2026poster

LLM-based web agents show immense promise for information seeking, yet their effectiveness on long-horizon tasks is hindered by a fundamental trade-off in context management. Prevailing ReAct-based agents suffer from context saturation as they accumulate noisy, raw histories, while methods that fixe…

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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

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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2026

WebWatcher: Breaking New Frontiers of Vision-Language Deep Research Agent

ICLR 2026poster

Web agents such as deep research have demonstrated superhuman cognitive abilities, capable of solving highly challenging information-seeking problems. However, most research remains largely text-centric, overlooking visual information in the real world. This makes multimodal deep research highly cha…

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2025

A Systematic Study of Compositional Syntactic Transformer Language Models

ACL 2025long

Syntactic language models (SLMs) enhance Transformers by incorporating syntactic biases through the modeling of linearized syntactic parse trees alongside surface sentences. This paper focuses on compositional SLMs that are based on constituency parse trees and contain explicit bottom-up composition…

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

Cited by 42SourcePDFScholar
2024

Dependency Transformer Grammars: Integrating Dependency Structures into Transformer Language Models

ACL 2024long

Syntactic Transformer language models aim to achieve better generalization through simultaneously modeling syntax trees and sentences. While prior work has been focusing on adding constituency-based structures to Transformers, we introduce Dependency Transformer Grammars (DTGs), a new class of Trans…