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2026
DeepSearch-World: Self-Distillation for Deep Search Agents in a Verifiable Environment
Xinyu Geng | Xuanhua He | Sixiang Chen | Yanjing Xiao | Fan Zhang | Shijue Huang | Haitao Mi | Zhenwen Liang | Tianqing Fang | Yi R. Fung
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Xinyu Geng | Xuanhua He | Sixiang Chen | Yanjing Xiao | Fan Zhang | Shijue Huang | Haitao Mi | Zhenwen Liang | Tianqing Fang | Yi R. Fung
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Training tool-use agents to improve from their own experience remains challenging, as supervised fine-tuning relies on fixed teacher-distilled trajectories, while sparse-reward reinforcement learning provides weak supervision for long-horizon interactions. We present DeepSearch-Evolve, a self-distillation framework for web agents built on DeepSearch-World, a deterministic and verifiable environment with reproducible search and page-reading tools. DeepSearch-World contains 420K multi-hop QA tasks constructed from entity-level random walks and supports key agentic cognitive behaviors useful for self-evolving, including progress verification, grounded reflection, and failure recovery. DeepSearch-Evolve iteratively performs trajectory generation, filtering, data mixing, and fine-tuning to train stronger agents. Without distillation from more capable models, DeepSearch-World-9B achieves competitive performance compared with open-source agents, reaching 31.2% on BrowseComp, 61.5% on GAIA, and 93.4% on HotpotQA, showing that verifiable environments enable scalable self-evolution for long-horizon web agents. We will release the environment, 420K training pool, validation set, model, and code to facilitate future research on self-improving deep search agents.
2025
A Survey on Multi-modal Intent Recognition: Recent Advances and New Frontiers
Zhihong Zhu | Fan Zhang | Yunyan Zhang | Jinghan Sun | Zhiqi Huang | Qingqing Long | Bowen Xing | Xian Wu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
Zhihong Zhu | Fan Zhang | Yunyan Zhang | Jinghan Sun | Zhiqi Huang | Qingqing Long | Bowen Xing | Xian Wu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
Multi-modal intent recognition (MIR) requires integrating non-verbal cues from real-world contexts to enhance human intention understanding, which has attracted substantial research attention in recent years. Despite promising advancements, a comprehensive survey summarizing recent advances and new frontiers remains absent. To this end, we present a thorough and unified review of MIR, covering different aspects including (1) Extensive survey: we take the first step to present a thorough survey of this research field covering textual, visual (image/video), and acoustic signals. (2) Unified taxonomy: we provide a unified framework including evaluation protocol and advanced methods to summarize the current progress in MIR. (3) Emerging frontiers: We discuss some future directions such as multi-task, multi-domain, and multi-lingual MIR, and give our thoughts respectively. (4) Abundant resources: we collect abundant open-source resources, including relevant papers, data corpora, and leaderboards. We hope this survey can shed light on future research in MIR.
Can We Trust AI Doctors? A Survey of Medical Hallucination in Large Language and Large Vision-Language Models
Zhihong Zhu | Yunyan Zhang | Xianwei Zhuang | Fan Zhang | Zhongwei Wan | Yuyan Chen | Qingqing Long | Yefeng Zheng | Xian Wu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
Zhihong Zhu | Yunyan Zhang | Xianwei Zhuang | Fan Zhang | Zhongwei Wan | Yuyan Chen | Qingqing Long | Yefeng Zheng | Xian Wu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
Hallucination has emerged as a critical challenge for large language models (LLMs) and large vision-language models (LVLMs), particularly in high-stakes medical applications. Despite its significance, dedicated research on medical hallucination remains unexplored. In this survey, we first provide a unified perspective on medical hallucination for both LLMs and LVLMs, and delve into its causes. Subsequently, we review recent advancements in detecting, evaluating, and mitigating medical hallucinations, offering a comprehensive overview of evaluation benchmarks, metrics, and strategies developed to tackle this issue. Moreover, we delineate the current challenges and delve into new frontiers, thereby shedding light on future research. We hope this work coupled with open-source resources can provide the community with quick access and spur breakthrough research in medical hallucination.
A Survey on Foundation Language Models for Single-cell Biology
Fan Zhang | Hao Chen | Zhihong Zhu | Ziheng Zhang | Zhenxi Lin | Ziyue Qiao | Yefeng Zheng | Xian Wu
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Fan Zhang | Hao Chen | Zhihong Zhu | Ziheng Zhang | Zhenxi Lin | Ziyue Qiao | Yefeng Zheng | Xian Wu
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
The recent advancements in language models have significantly catalyzed progress in computational biology. A growing body of research strives to construct unified foundation models for single-cell biology, with language models serving as the cornerstone. In this paper, we systematically review the developments in foundation language models designed specifically for single-cell biology. Our survey offers a thorough analysis of various incarnations of single-cell foundation language models, viewed through the lens of both pre-trained language models (PLMs) and large language models (LLMs). This includes an exploration of data tokenization strategies, pre-training/tuning paradigms, and downstream single-cell data analysis tasks. Additionally, we discuss the current challenges faced by these pioneering works and speculate on future research directions. Overall, this survey provides a comprehensive overview of the existing single-cell foundation language models, paving the way for future research endeavors.