Papers by Xueyuan Lin
RoadMapper: A Multi-Agent System for Roadmap Generation of Solving Complex Research Problems (2026.findings-acl)
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Jiacheng Liu, Zichen Tang, Zhongjun Yang, Xinyi Hu, Xueyuan Lin, Linwei Jia, Ruofei Bai, Rongjin Li, Shiyao Peng, Haocheng Gao, Haihong E
| Challenge: | Existing tools to generate structured content for research tasks are limited in their ability to generate high-quality roadmaps. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate the ability of large language models (LLMs) to generate high-quality roadmaps for solving complex research problems. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system can improve LLMs’ ability for roadmap generation while saving 84% of the time required by human experts. |
Prompt-R1: Collaborative Automatic Prompting Framework via End-to-end Reinforcement Learning (2026.findings-acl)
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Wenjin Liu, Haoran Luo, Xueyuan Lin, Haoming Liu, Tiesunlong Shen, Jiapu Wang, Rui Mao, Erik Cambria
| Challenge: | Existing large language models are limited in understanding, reasoning, calculation, and generation, limiting their performance in complex reasoning and dynamic tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a plug-and-play framework that integrates a small-scale LLM (as agent) with large-scale large-level LLMs (a as environment) they propose generating prompts that are used to interact with LLM, and a double constraint reward that optimizes correctness and quality of generation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework significantly outperforms baseline large-scale large-language models across various tasks. |
LongFaith: Enhancing Long-Context Reasoning in LLMs with Faithful Synthetic Data (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Long-context processing ability has emerged as a significant challenge for large language models. |
| Approach: | They propose a pipeline for synthesizing faithful long-context reasoning instruction datasets . they integrate ground truth and citation-based reasoning prompts integrating them . |
| Outcome: | The proposed pipeline eliminates distractions and improves reasoning chains. |
Select2Reason: Efficient Instruction-Tuning Data Selection for Long-CoT Reasoning (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Large reasoning models exhibit human-like behaviors such as exploration, verification, reflection, and correction. |
| Approach: | They propose a supervised fine-tuning framework for long chain-of-thoughts reasoning . they leverage a difficulty-aware reward model to estimate the learning value of questions . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework performs fine-tuning on large reasoning models on 10% of the data selected. |
Memory as Action: Autonomous Context Curation for Long-Horizon Agentic Tasks (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to managing working memory are based on external mechanisms that lack awareness of the agent’s reasoning state, leading to suboptimal decisions. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that treats working memory management as learnable policy actions and enables joint optimization of information retention and task performance through end-to-end reinforcement learning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework matches models 16 larger while reducing average context length by 51%, with learned strategies that adapt to model capabilities and generalize across task complexities. |