Yanwei Yue
Author directory2026
OPD-Evolver: Cultivating Holistic Agent Evolver via On-Policy Distillation
Guibin Zhang | Xun Xu | Yanwei Yue | Zikun Su | Wangchunshu Zhou | Xiaobin Hu | Shuicheng Yan
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Guibin Zhang | Xun Xu | Yanwei Yue | Zikun Su | Wangchunshu Zhou | Xiaobin Hu | Shuicheng Yan
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Memory has become a standard substrate for self-evolving agents, yet retaining experience is not the same as learning how to evolve through it. Existing memory agents can store trajectories, retrieve reflections, or accumulate skills, but often lack the holistic competence to select useful experience, act on it, write reusable knowledge, and maintain a growing repository. We introduce OPD-Evolver, a slow-fast co-evolution framework that cultivates such an agent evolver through on-policy self-distillation. In the fast loop, OPD-Evolver interacts with a four-level memory hierarchy to read, use, write, and maintain experience for rapid test-time evolution. In the slow loop, outcome-calibrated memory attribution and privileged hindsight distill these four abilities into the deployable policy. Across multi-domain benchmarks, OPD-Evolver surpasses memory systems such as ReasoningBank by up to 11.5 points, and training-based methods such as Complementary RL by ~6.45 on average. Further analysis shows that OPD-Evolver internalizes high-value experience and memory management, enabling OPD-Evolver-9B to challenge giant counterparts such as Qwen3.5-397B-A17B and Step-3.5-Flash, pointing beyond memory-augmented agents toward genuinely qualified agent evolvers.
COSMOS: Connectivity-Oriented Submodular Maximization for Optimal Subgraph Retrieval
Boci Peng | Xiao Liu | Boren Hu | Yun Zhu | Xuanbo Fan | Yanwei Yue | Chunyu Yang | Yan Zhang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Boci Peng | Xiao Liu | Boren Hu | Yun Zhu | Xuanbo Fan | Yanwei Yue | Chunyu Yang | Yan Zhang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Retrieving coherent evidence subgraphs is critical for Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA). Existing paradigms often treat facts independently, rely on biased heuristics, or employ myopic search, failing to optimize collective subgraph utility. In this paper, we propose COSMOS (Connectivity-Oriented Submodular Maximization for Optimal Subgraph Retrieval), a unified framework that formalizes evidence retrieval as a constrained submodular maximization problem. This formulation mathematically captures the trade-off between information relevance and structural complexity. To tractably solve this combinatorial challenge, COSMOS employs a decompose-and-conquer strategy, which first performs a seed-guided greedy expansion to maximize local semantic utility, followed by a topology-aware component aggregation to bridge disjoint evidence clusters via Maximum Spanning Tree aggregation. Guided by theoretical bounds, we introduce Structure-Aware Contrastive Tuning to align semantic space with KG topology. Experimental results on WebQSP, CWQ, and M3GQA benchmarks demonstrate that COSMOS achieves state-of-the-art performance.
2025
MasRouter: Learning to Route LLMs for Multi-Agent Systems
Yanwei Yue | Guibin Zhang | Boyang Liu | Guancheng Wan | Kun Wang | Dawei Cheng | Yiyan Qi
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Yanwei Yue | Guibin Zhang | Boyang Liu | Guancheng Wan | Kun Wang | Dawei Cheng | Yiyan Qi
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Multi-agent systems (MAS) powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) have been demonstrated to push the boundaries of LLM capabilities, yet they often incur significant costs and face challenges in dynamic LLM selection. Current LLM routing methods effectively reduce overhead in single-agent scenarios by customizing LLM selection for each query, but they overlook the critical decisions regarding collaboration modes and agent roles in MAS. In response to this challenge, we first introduce the problem of Multi-Agent System Routing (MASR), which integrates all components of MAS into a unified routing framework. Toward this goal, we propose MasRouter, the first high-performing, cost-effective, and inductive MASR solution. MasRouter employs collaboration mode determination, role allocation, and LLM routing through a cascaded controller network, progressively constructing a MAS that balances effectiveness and efficiency. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MasRouter is (1) high-performing, achieving a 1.8 improvement over the state-of-the-art method on MBPP; (2) economical, reducing overhead by up to 52.07 compared to SOTA methods on HumanEval; and (3) plug-and-play, seamlessly integrating with mainstream MAS frameworks, reducing overhead by 17.21 via customized routing.