China Mobile Research Institute, Beijing, China
Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) can generate syntactically valid optimization programs, yet often struggle to reliably choose an effective modeling strategy, leading to incorrect formulations and inefficient solver behavior. We propose SAGE, a strategy-aware framework that makes Modeling Strategy explicit in both data construction and post-training. SAGE builds a solver-verified multi-strategy dataset and trains a student model with supervised fine-tuning followed by Segment-Weighted GRPO using a composite reward over format compliance, correctness, and solver efficiency. Across eight benchmarks spanning synthetic and real-world settings, SAGE improves average pass@1 from 72.7 to 80.3 over the strongest open-source baseline. With multiple generations, SAGE discovers more distinct correct formulations and improves component-level diversity at pass@16 by 19-29%. At the largest scale, SAGE produces more compact constraint systems with 14.2% fewer constraints than the baseline, consistent with solver-efficient modeling. Overall, these results show that making Modeling Strategy explicit improves automated optimization modeling. Code is available at https://github.com/rachhhhing/SAGE.
Abstract:LLM-guided evolutionary search has emerged as a promising paradigm for automated algorithm discovery, yet most systems track search progress primarily through executable programs and scalar fitness. Even when natural-language reflection is used, it is often used locally in mutation prompts or stored without an explicit population-level organization of strategic directions. As a result, evolutionary search can struggle to distinguish syntactically different implementations of the same idea, preserve lower-fitness but strategically promising directions, or detect when an entire family of strategies has saturated. We introduce \model, a modular strategy-space layer that elevates natural-language strategy descriptions from transient prompt context to first-class population-level evolutionary state in LLM-driven program search. \model augments each candidate program with an explicit natural language strategy description and uses this representation in three ways: Strategy Articulation turns mutation into a diagnose-direct-implement process; Stratified Experience Retrieval organizes the archive into strategy clusters and selects inspirations by behavioral complementarity; and Strategic Landscape Navigation periodically summarizes effective, saturated, and underexplored strategy families to guide future mutations. Across mathematical algorithm discovery, systems optimization, and agent-scaffold benchmarks, \model improves the underlying evolutionary backbones in most settings, with particularly large gains (21% relative improvement) on open-ended system optimization tasks. These results suggest that persistent strategy representations provide a practical mechanism for improving the robustness and efficiency of LLM-guided evolutionary search, suggesting a path toward compound AI systems that accumulate algorithmic knowledge over time.
Abstract: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 DR$^{3}$-Eval, a realistic and reproducible benchmark for evaluating deep research agents on multimodal, multi-file report generation. DR$^{3}$-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 DR$^{3}$-Agent based on multiple state-of-the-art language models demonstrate that DR$^{3}$-Eval is highly challenging and reveals critical failure modes in retrieval robustness and hallucination control. Our code and data are publicly available.
Abstract:Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable perceptual and reasoning abilities. However, they struggle to perceive fine-grained geometric structures, constraining their ability of geometric understanding and visual reasoning. To address this, we propose GeoTikzBridge, a framework that enhances local geometric perception and visual reasoning through tikz-based code generation. Within this framework, we build two models supported by two complementary datasets. The GeoTikzBridge-Base model is trained on GeoTikz-Base dataset, the largest image-to-tikz dataset to date with 2.5M pairs (16 $\times$ larger than existing open-sourced datasets). This process is achieved via iterative data expansion and a localized geometric transformation strategy. Subsequently, GeoTikzBridge-Instruct is fine-tuned on GeoTikz-Instruct dataset which is the first instruction-augmented tikz dataset supporting visual reasoning. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that our models achieve state-of-the-art performance among open-sourced MLLMs. Furthermore, GeoTikzBridge models can serve as plug-and-play reasoning modules for any MLLM(LLM), enhancing reasoning performance in geometric problem-solving. Datasets and codes are publicly available at: https://github.com/sjy-1995/GeoTikzBridge-Advancing-Multimodal-Code-Generation-for-Geometric-Perception-and-Reasoning.
Abstract:Enhancing the ability of large language models (LLMs) to follow complex instructions is critical for their deployment in real-world applications. However, existing evaluation methods often oversimplify instruction complexity as a mere additive combination of atomic constraints, failing to adequately capture the high-dimensional complexity arising from the intricate interplay of content and format, logical workflow control, and real-world applications. This leads to a significant gap between current evaluation practices and practical demands. To bridge this gap, we introduce CCR-Bench, a novel benchmark designed to assess LLMs' adherence to complex instructions. CCR-Bench is characterized by: (1) deep entanglement of content and formatting requirements in task specifications; (2) instructions that involve intricate task decomposition, conditional reasoning, and procedural planning; and (3) evaluation samples derived entirely from real-world industrial scenarios. Extensive experiments on CCR-Bench demonstrate that even state-of-the-art models exhibit substantial performance deficiencies, clearly quantifying the gap between current LLM capabilities and the demands of realworld instruction understanding. We believe that CCR-Bench offers a more rigorous and realistic evaluation framework, advancing the development of LLMs toward the next generation of models capable of understanding and executing complex tasks in industrial applications.
Abstract:Graph-based tasks in the zero-shot setting remain a significant challenge due to data scarcity and the inability of traditional Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to generalize to unseen domains or label spaces. While recent advancements have transitioned toward leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) as predictors to enhance GNNs, these methods often suffer from cross-modal alignment issues. A recent paradigm (i.e., Graph-R1) overcomes the aforementioned architectural dependencies by adopting a purely text-based format and utilizing LLM-based graph reasoning, showing improved zero-shot generalization. However, it employs a task-agnostic, one-size-fits-all subgraph extraction strategy, which inevitably introduces significant structural noise--irrelevant neighbors and edges--that distorts the LLMs' receptive field and leads to suboptimal predictions. To address this limitation, we introduce GraphSSR, a novel framework designed for adaptive subgraph extraction and denoising in zero-shot LLM-based graph reasoning. Specifically, we propose the SSR pipeline, which dynamically tailors subgraph extraction to specific contexts through a "Sample-Select-Reason" process, enabling the model to autonomously filter out task-irrelevant neighbors and overcome the one-size-fits-all issue. To internalize this capability, we develop SSR-SFT, a data synthesis strategy that generates high-quality SSR-style graph reasoning traces for supervised fine-tuning of LLMs. Furthermore, we propose SSR-RL, a two-stage reinforcement learning framework that explicitly regulates sampling and selection operations within the proposed SSR pipeline designed for adaptive subgraph denoising. By incorporating Authenticity-Reinforced and Denoising-Reinforced RL, we guide the model to achieve accurate predictions using parsimonious, denoised subgraphs for reasoning.
Abstract:Unsupervised speech emotion recognition (SER) focuses on addressing the problem of data sparsity and annotation bias of emotional speech. Reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising method which enhances the performance through rule-based or model-based verification functions rather than human annotations. We treat the sample selection during the learning process as a long-term procedure and whether to select a sample as the action to make policy, thus achieving the application of RL to measure sample quality in SER. We propose a modified Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) to adapt it to classification problems, which takes the samples in a batch as a group and uses the average reward of these samples as the baseline to calculate the advantage. And rather than using a verifiable reward function as in GRPO, we put forward self-reward functions and teacher-reward functions to encourage the model to produce high-confidence outputs. Experiments indicate that the proposed method improves the performance of baseline without RL by 19.8%.
Abstract:Long reasoning models often struggle in multilingual settings: they tend to reason in English for non-English questions; when constrained to reasoning in the question language, accuracies drop substantially. The struggle is caused by the limited abilities for both multilingual question understanding and multilingual reasoning. To address both problems, we propose TRIT (Translation-Reasoning Integrated Training), a self-improving framework that integrates the training of translation into multilingual reasoning. Without external feedback or additional multilingual data, our method jointly enhances multilingual question understanding and response generation. On MMATH, our method outperforms multiple baselines by an average of 7 percentage points, improving both answer correctness and language consistency. Further analysis reveals that integrating translation training improves cross-lingual question alignment by over 10 percentage points and enhances translation quality for both mathematical questions and general-domain text, with gains up to 8.4 COMET points on FLORES-200.
Abstract:Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown strong promise for LLM-based machine translation, with recent methods such as GRPO demonstrating notable gains; nevertheless, translation-oriented RL remains challenged by noisy learning signals arising from Monte Carlo return estimation, as well as a large trajectory space that favors global exploration over fine-grained local optimization. We introduce \textbf{PEGRL}, a \textit{two-stage} RL framework that uses post-editing as an auxiliary task to stabilize training and guide overall optimization. At each iteration, translation outputs are sampled to construct post-editing inputs, allowing return estimation in the post-editing stage to benefit from conditioning on the current translation behavior, while jointly supporting both global exploration and fine-grained local optimization. A task-specific weighting scheme further balances the contributions of translation and post-editing objectives, yielding a biased yet more sample-efficient estimator. Experiments on English$\to$Finnish, English$\to$Turkish, and English$\leftrightarrow$Chinese show consistent gains over RL baselines, and for English$\to$Turkish, performance on COMET-KIWI is comparable to advanced LLM-based systems (DeepSeek-V3.2).
Abstract:Recent progress of voice conversion~(VC) has achieved a new milestone in speaker cloning and linguistic preservation. But the field remains fragmented, relying on specialized models for linguistic-preserving, expressive, and singing scenarios. We propose OneVoice, a unified zero-shot framework capable of handling all three scenarios within a single model. OneVoice is built upon a continuous language model trained with VAE-free next-patch diffusion, ensuring high fidelity and efficient sequence modeling. Its core design for unification lies in a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) designed to explicitly model shared conversion knowledge and scenario-specific expressivity. Expert selection is coordinated by a dual-path routing mechanism, including shared expert isolation and scenario-aware domain expert assignment with global-local cues. For precise conditioning, scenario-specific prosodic features are fused into each layer via a gated mechanism, allowing adaptive usage of prosody information. Furthermore, to enable the core idea and alleviate the imbalanced issue (abundant speech vs. scarce singing), we adopt a two-stage progressive training that includes foundational pre-training and scenario enhancement with LoRA-based domain experts. Experiments show that OneVoice matches or surpasses specialized models across all three scenarios, while verifying flexible control over scenarios and offering a fast decoding version as few as 2 steps. Code and model will be released soon.