Fanci Meng
Author directory2026
LatentEvolve: Self-Evolving Test-Time Scaling in Latent Space
Fanci Meng | Guibin Zhang | Zherui Li | Kun Wang | Zhenfei Yin | Shuicheng Yan
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Fanci Meng | Guibin Zhang | Zherui Li | Kun Wang | Zhenfei Yin | Shuicheng Yan
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Test-time Scaling (TTS) has been demonstrated to significantly enhance the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) during the inference phase without altering model parameters. However, existing TTS methods are largely independent, implying that LLMs have not yet evolved to progressively learn how to scale more effectively. With the objective of evolving LLMs to learn “how to scale test-time computation,” we propose LatentEvolve, a self-evolving latent TTS framework inspired by the complementary learning system (CLS) theory. Analogous to the human brain’s dual system of a fast-recall hippocampus and a slow-consolidating neocortex, LatentEvolve comprises two evolutionary components: daytime scaling, which rapidly retrieves historical latent representations to better guide current LLM reasoning; and nighttime scaling, which integrates past latent optimizations in a manner akin to the human brain’s consolidation of experiences during sleep. The alternation of daytime and nighttime processes facilitates a fast and slow evolution of LLM TTS, mirroring human cognitive dynamics in a fully unsupervised manner. Extensive experiments across eight benchmarks and five model backbones demonstrate that our LatentEvolve surpasses state-of-the-art TTS methods such as LatentSeek and TTRL by up to 13.33% and exhibits exceptional cross-domain and cross-backbone generalization.
2025
G-Safeguard: A Topology-Guided Security Lens and Treatment on LLM-based Multi-agent Systems
Shilong Wang | Guibin Zhang | Miao Yu | Guancheng Wan | Fanci Meng | Chongye Guo | Kun Wang | Yang Wang
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Shilong Wang | Guibin Zhang | Miao Yu | Guancheng Wan | Fanci Meng | Chongye Guo | Kun Wang | Yang Wang
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Large Language Model (LLM)-based Multi-agent Systems (MAS) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in various complex tasks, ranging from collaborative problem-solving to autonomous decision-making. However, as these systems become increasingly integrated into critical applications, their vulnerability to adversarial attacks, misinformation propagation, and unintended behaviors have raised significant concerns. To address this challenge, we introduce G-Safeguard, a topology-guided security lens and treatment for robust LLM-MAS, which leverages graph neural networks to detect anomalies on the multi-agent utterance graph and employ topological intervention for attack remediation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that G-Safeguard: (I) exhibits significant effectiveness under various attack strategies, recovering over 40% of the performance for prompt injection; (II) is highly adaptable to diverse LLM backbones and large-scale MAS; (III) can seamlessly combine with mainstream MAS with security guarantees.