Papers by Hanrui Wang

2 papers
WorkForceAgent-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLM-based Web Agents via Reinforcement Learning (2026.findings-eacl)

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Challenge: Existing web agents relying on supervised fine-tuning struggle with generalization and robustness due to insufficient reasoning capabilities when handling the inherently dynamic nature of web interactions.
Approach: They propose a large language model-empowered web agent that trains using a rule-based reinforcement learning framework to enhance single-step reasoning and planning for business-oriented web navigation tasks.
Outcome: The proposed agent outperforms baseline LLM-based agents on the WorkArena benchmark by 10.26–16.59%.
HAT: Hardware-Aware Transformers for Efficient Natural Language Processing (2020.acl-main)

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Challenge: Extensive experiments on four machine translation tasks demonstrate that HAT can discover efficient models for different hardware (CPU, GPU, IoT device).
Approach: They propose to construct a large design space with arbitrary encoder-decoder attention and heterogeneous layers and then train a SuperTransformer that efficiently produces many SubTransformers with weight sharing.
Outcome: The proposed framework can find efficient models for different hardware (CPU, GPU, IoT device) it achieves 3 speedup, 3.7 smaller size over baseline Transformer; 2.7 speed up, 3.6 smaller sizes over Evolved Transformer with 12,041 less search cost and no performance loss.

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