Jiaqi Lv
Author directory2026
Beyond Next-Observation Prediction: Agent-Authored World Modeling for Sequential Decision Making
Guangfeng Cai | Kaibing Yang | Shuo He | Yu Li | Shengtian Yang | Jiaqi Lv | Lei Feng
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Guangfeng Cai | Kaibing Yang | Shuo He | Yu Li | Shengtian Yang | Jiaqi Lv | Lei Feng
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Recent studies on world modeling for Large Language Model (LLM) agents typically formulate the learning objective as next-observation prediction. However, this objective ties supervision to what a transition happens to reveal, which may omit the dynamics most relevant to the agent’s current decision. To bridge this gap, we propose Agent-Authored World Modeling (AAWM), a training procedure that constructs supervision from the policy’s own decision needs. Specifically, at each state, the agent identifies what it needs to understand about the environment before acting. These needs drive the retrieval of relevant transition evidence across trajectories, which is then synthesized into training targets that capture decision-oriented dynamics instead of reconstructing the next observation. This aligns the training objective with the dynamics the policy needs before acting, not with the contents of the next observation. Experimental results validate the effectiveness of AAWM across multiple environments and training settings. These results show that decision-aware world-model targets provide a more effective learning signal than next-observation prediction.
ChatHLS: Towards Systematic Design Automation and Optimization for High-Level Synthesis
Runkai Li | Jia Xiong | Xiuyuan He | Jieru Zhao | Jiaqi Lv | Haowen Fang | Lei Qi | Xi Wang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Runkai Li | Jia Xiong | Xiuyuan He | Jieru Zhao | Jiaqi Lv | Haowen Fang | Lei Qi | Xi Wang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
High-Level Synthesis (HLS) improves IC development productivity by enabling hardware design from C-like languages. However, strict coding constraints and design-specific optimizations limit its widespread adoption. While recent efforts employ large language models (LLMs) to assist HLS design, they often struggle with synthesizability rules and directive semantics. To this end, we introduce ChatHLS, a multi-agent HLS design framework that leverages specialized LLMs for automated debugging and directive tuning. ChatHLS incorporates an adaptive error case expansion mechanism, combined with a reasoning-to-instruction analysis method to accurately diagnose HLS errors. To optimize hardware performance, it enables QoR-aware reasoning to learn the impact of HLS directives on the quality of results (QoR). Experimental results demonstrate that ChatHLS outperforms Gemini-3-pro with a 32.6% relative improvement in debugging, while achieving significant speedups across various HLS kernels and neural network accelerators. These results underscore the potential of ChatHLS for agile hardware development.