Nianchen Deng
Author directory2026
Towards Self-Evolving Agents: Enabling Autonomy through Interactive Experience Refinement
Cheng Yang | Xuemeng Yang | Licheng Wen | Daocheng Fu | Jianbiao Mei | Rong Wu | Pinlong Cai | Yufan Shen | Nianchen Deng | Jia Xu | Botian Shi | Yu Qiao | Haifeng Li
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Cheng Yang | Xuemeng Yang | Licheng Wen | Daocheng Fu | Jianbiao Mei | Rong Wu | Pinlong Cai | Yufan Shen | Nianchen Deng | Jia Xu | Botian Shi | Yu Qiao | Haifeng Li
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Large Language Models often struggle with complex, multi-step operational tasks because they remain static during inference and cannot learn from past experience. To address this, we propose MUSE, a framework that enables iterative self-improvement through a hierarchical Memory Module. MUSE organizes cross-domain insights to facilitate the orchestration of long-horizon workflows. The core of our approach is an autonomous post-execution critique mechanism: after completing each sub-task, the system analyzes its operational logs and distills raw execution data into structured, reusable knowledge. This allows the agent to evolve dynamically rather than relying on fixed parameters. Evaluated on the rigorous TAC productivity benchmark, MUSE achieves new state-of-the-art results, significantly outperforming previous methods using only the streamlined Gemini-2.5 Flash model. Our analysis demonstrates that MUSE’s performance scales with the accumulation of insights and exhibits strong cross-task transferability, marking a key step toward autonomous systems capable of lifelong learning in professional environments. Demo videos can be found in our supplementary materials.
IterCAD: An Iterative Multimodal Agent for Visually-Grounded CAD Generation and Editing
Tao Hu | Jiaxin Ai | Licheng Wen | Xueheng Li | Shu Zou | Siqi Li | Nianchen Deng | Xinyu Cai | Hongbin Zhou | Pinlong Cai | Daocheng Fu | Yu Yang | Hairong Zhang | Botian Shi | Xuemeng Yang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Tao Hu | Jiaxin Ai | Licheng Wen | Xueheng Li | Shu Zou | Siqi Li | Nianchen Deng | Xinyu Cai | Hongbin Zhou | Pinlong Cai | Daocheng Fu | Yu Yang | Hairong Zhang | Botian Shi | Xuemeng Yang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Computer-Aided Design is pivotal in modern manufacturing, yet existing automated methods predominantly rely on open-loop, one-shot generation, creating a mismatch with iterative real-world practices. In this paper, we present IterCAD, a unified multimodal agent framework for closed-loop, interactive CAD generation and editing. We formulate the task as a multi-turn interaction between a multimodal agent and an executable CAD sandbox, covering three tasks: Drawing-to-Code, Text-to-Code, and Interactive Editing. To support this, we develop a data synthesis pipeline incorporating advanced industrial manufacturing features to generate standard-compliant multi-view engineering drawings, complex code-editing tasks, and high-fidelity interaction trajectories. We optimize the agent via progressive SFT followed by geometry-aware reinforcement learning with viable-prefix masking to enhance code executability and geometric fidelity. Finally, we introduce the IterCAD-Bench evaluation suite and propose the Chamfer Distance Tolerance-Recall (CD-TR) curve alongside its AUC-TR metric, establishing a survivor-bias-free standard that unifies code validity and geometric precision. Extensive experiments demonstrate that IterCAD achieves highly competitive performance across multiple benchmarks, significantly outperforming existing approaches in both code executability and geometric precision, while exhibiting superior capabilities in closed-loop iterative refinement.