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Zile Qiao

11 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…

Cited by 65SourceScholar
2026

Expanding the Capability Frontier of LLM Agents with ZPD-Guided Data Synthesis

ICLR 2026poster

Unlocking advanced reasoning in large language model agents is hindered by a scarcity of training data situated at the very frontier of their capabilities. We address this with a novel data synthesis approach inspired by the educational theory of the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), which concept…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

IterResearch: Rethinking Long-Horizon Agents via Markovian State Reconstruction

ICLR 2026poster

Recent advances in deep-research agents have shown promise for autonomous knowledge construction through dynamic reasoning over external sources. However, existing approaches rely on a mono-contextual paradigm that accumulates all information in a single, expanding context window, leading to context…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
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…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
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…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

C-3PO: Compact Plug-and-Play Proxy Optimization to Achieve Human-like Retrieval-Augmented Generation

ICML 2025poster

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems face a fundamental challenge in aligning independently developed retrievers and large language models (LLMs). Existing approaches typically involve modifying either component or introducing simple intermediate modules, resulting in practical limitations a…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2025

DecoupleSearch: Decouple Planning and Search via Hierarchical Reward Modeling

EMNLP 2025

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems have emerged as a pivotal methodology for enhancing Large Language Models (LLMs) through the dynamic integration of external knowledge. To further improve RAG’s flexibility, Agentic RAG introduces autonomous agents into the workflow. However, Agentic RAG

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

KBM: Delineating Knowledge Boundary for Adaptive Retrieval in Large Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle with dynamically changing knowledge and handling unknown static information. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is employed to tackle these challenges and has a significant impact on improving LLM performance. In fact, we find that not all questions need

2025

Supportiveness-based Knowledge Rewriting for Retrieval-augmented Language Modeling

NAACL 2025findings

Retrieval-augmented language models (RALMs) have recently shown great potential in mitigating the limitations of implicit knowledge in LLMs, such as untimely updating of the latest expertise and unreliable retention of long-tail knowledge. However, since the external knowledge base, as well as the r…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2023

Improving Knowledge Graph Completion with Generative Hard Negative Mining

ACL 2023findings

Contrastive learning has recently shown great potential to improve text-based knowledge graph completion (KGC). In this paper, we propose to learn a more semantically structured entity representation space in text-based KGC via hard negatives mining. Specifically, we novelly leverage a sequence-to-s…

Cited by 16SourcePDFScholar
2022

Exploiting Hybrid Semantics of Relation Paths for Multi-hop Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs

COLING 2022main

Answering natural language questions on knowledge graphs (KGQA) remains a great challenge in terms of understanding complex questions via multi-hop reasoning. Previous efforts usually exploit large-scale entity-related text corpus or knowledge graph (KG) embeddings as auxiliary information to facili…

Cited by 11SourcePDFScholar