Papers by Thai Quoc Hoang
ActionStudio: A Lightweight Framework for Data and Training of Large Action Models (2025.emnlp-main)
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Jianguo Zhang, Thai Quoc Hoang, Ming Zhu, Zuxin Liu, Shiyu Wang, Tulika Manoj Awalgaonkar, Akshara Prabhakar, Haolin Chen, Weiran Yao, Zhiwei Liu, Juntao Tan, Juan Carlos Niebles, Shelby Heinecke, Huan Wang, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong
| Challenge: | Existing infrastructure for efficient agentic data processing and model training remains underdeveloped. |
| Approach: | They propose a lightweight and extensible data and training framework for large action models . they propose to unify diverse agent trajectories using Unified Format 2.0 . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework shows 9 higher throughput than existing frameworks and performs well across public and realistic agent benchmarks. |
LAM SIMULATOR: Advancing Data Generation for Large Action Model Training via Online Exploration and Trajectory Feedback (2025.findings-acl)
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Thai Quoc Hoang, Kung-Hsiang Huang, Shirley Kokane, Jianguo Zhang, Zuxin Liu, Ming Zhu, Jake Grigsby, Tian Lan, Michael S Ryoo, Chien-Sheng Wu, Shelby Heinecke, Huan Wang, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong, Juan Carlos Niebles
| Challenge: | Large Action Models (LAMs) face challenges due to the need for high-quality training data, especially for multi-steps tasks that involve planning, executing tool calls, and responding to feedback. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for online exploration of agentic tasks with high-quality feedback . they use a dynamic task query generator and an extensive collection of tools to create a high-level feedback environment for LLM Agents. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves 49.3% performance improvement over baselines on toolbench and CRMArena. |
xLAM: A Family of Large Action Models to Empower AI Agent Systems (2025.naacl-long)
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Jianguo Zhang, Tian Lan, Ming Zhu, Zuxin Liu, Thai Quoc Hoang, Shirley Kokane, Weiran Yao, Juntao Tan, Akshara Prabhakar, Haolin Chen, Zhiwei Liu, Yihao Feng, Tulika Manoj Awalgaonkar, Rithesh R N, Zeyuan Chen, Ran Xu, Juan Carlos Niebles, Shelby Heinecke, Huan Wang, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong
| Challenge: | Autonomous agents powered by large language models (LLMs) have attracted significant research interest, but there are few standards for developing specialized models for agent tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a series of large action models with dense and mixture-of-expert architectures that unifies, augments, and synthesizes diverse datasets to enhance agent generalizability and performance. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models outperform GPT-4, Claude-3, and many other models in terms of tool use and outperformed GPT-based models on multiple agent ability benchmarks. |