@inproceedings{zhuang-etal-2025-hephaestus, title = "Hephaestus: Improving Fundamental Agent Capabilities of Large Language Models through Continual Pre-Training", author = "Zhuang, Yuchen and Yang, Jingfeng and Jiang, Haoming and Liu, Xin and Cheng, Kewei and Lokegaonkar, Sanket and Gao, Yifan and Ping, Qing and Liu, Tianyi and Huang, Binxuan and Li, Zheng and Wang, Zhengyang and Chen, Pei and Wang, Ruijie and Zhang, Rongzhi and Zalmout, Nasser and Nigam, Priyanka and Yin, Bing and Zhang, Chao", editor = "Chiruzzo, Luis and Ritter, Alan and Wang, Lu", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)", month = apr, year = "2025", address = "Albuquerque, New Mexico", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-long.308/", pages = "6041--6068", ISBN = "979-8-89176-189-6" }