Zhiqi Bai
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MMG2Skill: Can Agents Distill In-the-Wild Guides into Self-Evolving Skills?
Xinyu Che | Junqi Xiong | Yunfei Ge | Xinping Lei | Shihao Li | Hang Yan | Han Li | Yuanxing Zhang | Zhiqi Bai | Jinghua Hao | Ming Sun | Han Li | Jiaheng Liu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Xinyu Che | Junqi Xiong | Yunfei Ge | Xinping Lei | Shihao Li | Hang Yan | Han Li | Yuanxing Zhang | Zhiqi Bai | Jinghua Hao | Ming Sun | Han Li | Jiaheng Liu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Abundant procedural knowledge on the Web holds great potential for helping agents solve long-horizon tasks. However, such knowledge is often multimodal, heterogeneous, noisy, and implicitly assumes human executors, making it difficult to use directly as the skills required by agents. To bridge the gap between human-oriented guides and agent-executable skills, we formalize this problem as guide-to-skill learning: converting in-the-wild guides into executable skills and continuously improving them from trajectories observable to the agent. To evaluate the capability of existing agents on this task, we introduce MMG2Skill-Bench, the first benchmark designed for this problem. We further propose MMG2Skill, a closed-loop framework that compiles guides into editable skills, conditions a fixed vision-language model (VLM) agent on these skills during execution, and revises the skills from trajectory-level root-cause feedback without using benchmark scores. Across GUI control, open-ended gameplay, and strategic card play with six VLM backbones, MMG2Skill consistently outperforms vanilla baseline agents in every model–domain setting, achieving macro-average gains of +12.8 to +25.3 percentage points across backbones. Ablation studies show that directly prompting agents with raw guides can degrade performance, while both structured skill construction and trajectory-driven revision are necessary for the observed improvements. On success-inferable tasks, analyzer-based early stopping further prevents late-stage performance regressions and saves 25%–53% of attempts when the success signal is properly calibrated.
DR3-Eval: Towards Realistic and Reproducible Deep Research Evaluation
Qianqian Xie | He Zhu | Xueming Han | Qingheng Xiong | Tiantian Xia | Fanyu Meng | Jiakai Wang | Zhiqi Bai | Chengkang Jiang | Zhaohui Wang | Yubin Guo | Yuqing Wen | Jiayang Mao | Zijie Zhang | Shihao Li | Yanghai Wang | Yuxiang Ren | Junlan Feng | Jiaheng Liu
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Qianqian Xie | He Zhu | Xueming Han | Qingheng Xiong | Tiantian Xia | Fanyu Meng | Jiakai Wang | Zhiqi Bai | Chengkang Jiang | Zhaohui Wang | Yubin Guo | Yuqing Wen | Jiayang Mao | Zijie Zhang | Shihao Li | Yanghai Wang | Yuxiang Ren | Junlan Feng | Jiaheng Liu
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Deep Research Agents (DRAs) aim to solve complex, long-horizon research tasks involving planning, retrieval, multimodal understanding, and report generation, yet their evaluation remains challenging due to dynamic web environments and ambiguous task definitions. We propose **DR3-Eval**, a realistic and reproducible benchmark for evaluating deep research agents on multimodal, multi-file report generation. DR3-Eval is constructed from authentic user-provided materials and paired with a per-task static research sandbox corpus that simulates open-web complexity while remaining fully verifiable, containing supportive documents, distractors, and noise. Moreover, we introduce a multi-dimensional evaluation framework measuring Information Recall, Factual Accuracy, Citation Coverage, Instruction Following, and Depth Quality, and validate its alignment with human judgments. Experiments with our developed multi-agent system DR3-Agent based on multiple state-of-the-art language models demonstrate that DR3-Eval is highly challenging and reveals critical failure modes in retrieval robustness and hallucination control.
TVIR: Building Deep Research Agents Towards Text-Visual Interleaved Report Generation
Xinkai Ma | Zhiqi Bai | Dingling Zhang | Pei Liu | Yishuo Yuan | He Zhu | Jiakai Wang | Qianqian Xie | Yifan Zhao | Xinlong Yang | Hao Cong | Zhiheng Yao | Fengxia Xie | Zihao Xu | Haoran Xu | Zhaohui Wang | Minghao Liu | Shirong Lin | Yingshui Tan | Yuchi Xu | Wenbo Su | Zhaoxiang Zhang | Bo Zheng | Jiaheng Liu
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Xinkai Ma | Zhiqi Bai | Dingling Zhang | Pei Liu | Yishuo Yuan | He Zhu | Jiakai Wang | Qianqian Xie | Yifan Zhao | Xinlong Yang | Hao Cong | Zhiheng Yao | Fengxia Xie | Zihao Xu | Haoran Xu | Zhaohui Wang | Minghao Liu | Shirong Lin | Yingshui Tan | Yuchi Xu | Wenbo Su | Zhaoxiang Zhang | Bo Zheng | Jiaheng Liu
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Deep Research Agents have shown strong capability in multi-step information retrieval, reasoning, and long-form report generation, but existing benchmarks and systems remain predominantly text-centric, with limited evaluation of whether visual elements are factually reliable and well aligned with the surrounding analysis. To address this gap, we introduce TVIR (Text–Visual Interleaved Report Generation), which includes TVIR-Bench, a benchmark of 100 expert-curated multimodal deep research tasks that require visual elements to serve specific analytical sub-goals, and TVIR-Agent, a hierarchical multi-agent framework for constructing structured outlines, retrieving images, generating charts with traceable sources, and composing reports through context-aware sequential writing. We further develop a dual-path evaluation framework that combines Textual Assessment and Visual Assessment. Experiments across nine deep research systems show that TVIR-Agent achieves strong overall performance, underscoring the importance of explicit multimodal design and evaluation for evidence-driven report generation.
2024
ConceptMath: A Bilingual Concept-wise Benchmark for Measuring Mathematical Reasoning of Large Language Models
Yanan Wu | Jie Liu | Xingyuan Bu | Jiaheng Liu | Zhanhui Zhou | Yuanxing Zhang | Chenchen Zhang | Zhiqi Bai | Haibin Chen | Tiezheng Ge | Wanli Ouyang | Wenbo Su | Bo Zheng
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
Yanan Wu | Jie Liu | Xingyuan Bu | Jiaheng Liu | Zhanhui Zhou | Yuanxing Zhang | Chenchen Zhang | Zhiqi Bai | Haibin Chen | Tiezheng Ge | Wanli Ouyang | Wenbo Su | Bo Zheng
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
This paper introduces ConceptMath, a bilingual (English and Chinese), fine-grained benchmark that evaluates concept-wise mathematical reasoning of Large Language Models (LLMs). Unlike traditional benchmarks that evaluate general mathematical reasoning with an average accuracy, ConceptMath systemically organizes math problems under a hierarchy of math concepts, so that mathematical reasoning can be evaluated at different granularity with concept-wise accuracies. Based on our ConcepthMath, we then evaluate a broad range of LLMs, and we observe existing LLMs, though achieving high average accuracies on traditional benchmarks, exhibit significant performance variations across different math concepts and may even fail catastrophically on the most basic ones. Besides, we also introduce an efficient fine-tuning strategy to enhance the weaknesses of existing LLMs. Finally, we hope ConceptMath could guide the developers to understand the fine-grained mathematical abilities of their models and facilitate the growth of foundation models. Code is available at https://github.com/conceptmath/conceptmath.
E2-LLM: Efficient and Extreme Length Extension of Large Language Models
Jiaheng Liu | Zhiqi Bai | Yuanxing Zhang | Chenchen Zhang | Yu Zhang | Ge Zhang | Jiakai Wang | Haoran Que | Yukang Chen | Wenbo Su | Tiezheng Ge | Jie Fu | Wenhu Chen | Bo Zheng
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
Jiaheng Liu | Zhiqi Bai | Yuanxing Zhang | Chenchen Zhang | Yu Zhang | Ge Zhang | Jiakai Wang | Haoran Que | Yukang Chen | Wenbo Su | Tiezheng Ge | Jie Fu | Wenhu Chen | Bo Zheng
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
Training Large Language Models (LLMs) to process extensive context lengths incurs prohibitive computational costs. Prevailing techniques for extending context capabilities in LLMs typically require not only additional training procedures but also access to datasets with long context (e.g., sequences of 32K tokens), presupposing substantial GPU expenditures. To address the aforementioned issues, we introduce a novel solution named Efficient and Extreme length extension for Large Language Models (E2-LLM). E2-LLM entails a singular training process over considerably short sequences (e.g., 4K tokens), which greatly mitigates the cost of continual-pretraining or fine-tuning. Within the training phase, we incorporate a dual augmentation strategy with Rotary Position Embeddings (RoPE) that adjusts the scale and position indices across distinct training samples. E 2 -LLM is meticulously designed to enhance the model’s robustness to diverse relative positions. The experimental results on multiple benchmark datasets demonstrate the superior performance of E 2 -LLM on demanding tasks of processing long contexts.
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- Jiaheng Liu 5
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- Qianqian Xie 2
- Chenchen Zhang 2
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