Jihao Zhao, Ding Chen, Yanfang Chen, Bo Tang, Feiyu Xiong, Junchi Yan, Zhiyu Li
LLM service selection requires performance evidence that reflects the demands of the current task. Aggregate scores obscure differences in capability and difficulty, while semantically related examples can involve different combinations of skills. We present RouteAlign, which uses task requirements to structure both the measurement of model performance and the selection of services. Task requirements describe capability demand and difficulty, enabling alignment with corresponding model performance measurements. Historical requirements determine how outcomes contribute to global profiles and local capability estimates; incoming requirements determine how those measurements inform the current decision. A shared scorer integrates the evidence, and a generation-cost preference controls selection among eligible services. Evaluation across diverse tasks and heterogeneous LLM services shows that RouteAlign extends the empirical quality-cost frontier toward higher task quality. Comparisons with open Jev-style decision backends show consistent quality gains, with lower generation cost than their strongest tested configuration. Ablations support the contribution of local performance evidence, while catalog-update experiments demonstrate effective reuse of the fitted scorer with refreshed model measurements.
Xuenmin Hu, Qingxue Qian, Wei Luo, Benyi Ma, Bo Tang, Long Chen
Legged robots equipped with manipulators have shown significant potential in the fields of daily life and industry in complex environments. However, existing methods mainly focus on global navigation or manipulation independently, while overlooking the last-mile navigation problem, where the robot must jointly determine the base placement, approach direction, and grasp execution to achieve reliable object grasping, and different manipulation stages require distinct control behaviors. To address these challenges, we propose Last-Mile Grasp-Navigation (LMGN), a unified policy learning model for Quadruped robot loco-manipulation. An Explicit Distance and Directional Reachability (ED-DR) representation is first introduced to explicitly represent the features of grasp-compatible base placement and approach direction. We then develop a semantically aligned Hierarchical Mixture-of-Experts (HMoE) policy that models stage-aware behaviors across the stages of base adjustment, pre-grasp alignment and grasp execution, and object lift. Finally, a new optimization method that jointly aligns navigation and manipulation, stage-dependent expert routing, and action-level consistency is proposed to optimize the HMoE policy. Extensive experiments on the Habitat and Isaac Gym simulators demonstrate that LMGN consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods, denoting that integrating grasp-aware reachability with stage-aware policy learning significantly improves the success rates of last-mile navigation and target grasp for robots.
Requested-value control is stricter than continuous steering: given $c$ on a human-rating scale, the generated image should attain that value from only limited ratings. We present ScoreDial, which fits a differentiable regressor $R$ to 100-479 human-rated images; once $R$ is fixed, a requested value $c$ is defined on its output scale, and learned target conditioning is paired with error-adaptive guidance that repeatedly reduces $|R(\mathbf{x})-c|$ during sampling. Across tire slip resistance, interior visual complexity, food desire-to-eat, and soap translucency, using one set of sampler settings, ScoreDial reaches requested values and achieves $R$-MAE at most 0.013 over a range of width 0.8 and Spearman $ρ=0.980$, the maximum attainable under our protocol. Because $R$ also drives sampling, we evaluate agreement with $R$ separately from matched sweeps, an independent auditor fitted to the same ratings on a backbone no deployed regressor uses, and blinded human judgments. MPGD-flow also reaches the requested values under $R$, but ScoreDial has larger auditor displacement on every attribute, the largest among all compared methods, and a stronger MPGD-flow setting gives up target agreement without closing this gap. On every attribute, removing target conditioning leaves low $R$-MAE but more than halves auditor displacement, separating precise score correction from attribute movement. Blinded rating studies with 15 raters per attribute show mean human ratings track $c$ on tire and soap, with linear $R^2=0.665$ and $R^2=0.786$, and in forced-choice comparisons of matched sweeps, raters chose ScoreDial's as the clearer progression in at least 84% of judgments against every baseline. Code: https://github.com/Kamijo-Gen/ScoreDial.
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) links can lose tens of decibels within milliseconds when a person or vehicle crosses the line of sight, and reactive handover recovers only after the outage has begun. Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) promises to let the network see blockers coming and move users to another cell in advance. This paper asks how much such foresight is worth relative to the best reactive handover, and what sensing accuracy is needed to harvest it. We formulate cost-aware cell selection with knowledge of the future signal-to- noise ratio as a sequential decision problem, define the value of foresight through a policy-independent bound, and develop an ISAC-assisted handover framework in which a radio unit senses blockers with its own communication waveform and a simulated Open RAN xApp plans handovers. Ray-traced experiments in a 28 GHz street canyon, reported on held-out scenarios, show that, with a short look-ahead, perfect foresight closes most of the gap between service-aware (Layer-3) reactive handover and an instantaneous oracle. Harvesting this value, however, requires the user and nearby blockers to be localized to about a decimeter, well beyond what our radar tracker and meter- level user positioning provide; with realistic errors, even an uncertainty-aware planner largely defers to reactive handover.
Xuemin Hu, Kaixin Li, Qingqing Xia, Yuxin Wang, Wei Xie, Bo Tang, Long Chen
Coordinated whole-body control of humanoid robots remains challenging due to high-dimensional coupled dynamics and substantial physical heterogeneity across joint degrees of freedom (JDoFs). Existing multi-agent reinforcement learning methods either employ coarse agent partitions or directly apply generic heterogeneous-agent algorithms, while hierarchical controllers commonly optimize high-level planning and low-level execution independently, leading to uncoordinated motion. In this paper, we propose H^2MARL, a hierarchical heterogeneous multi-agent reinforcement learning framework with two key mechanisms. We first formulate humanoid whole-body control using a JDoF-level physical-heterogeneity-aware policy factorization, where each torque-actuated JDoF is conditioned on an explicit descriptor of its actuation, kinematic, and dynamic properties. Moreover, we develop a closed-loop policy-executor co-optimization mechanism that jointly adapts the high-level pose planner and the low-level joint executor using shared interaction trajectories, thereby reducing the distribution mismatch between planning and execution. Extensive experiments in MuJoCo and Isaac Gym demonstrate that H^2MARL consistently improves locomotion stability, gait coordination, and motion quality over homogeneous, coarse-grained, and independently optimized alternatives.
Zhishang Xiang, Yunbo Tang, Zhongqiao Liu, Junkai Chen, Zerui Chen, Qingguo Hu, Yuxuan Zhang, William Grant 等 10 位作者
Long-term memory enables large language model (LLM) agents to provide continuous personalized assistance by retaining user information across interactions. Existing systems support this process through fact extraction, organization, updating, and retrieval, but largely maintain memories as independent facts. This fact-centric paradigm may overlook how new facts update, constrain, or conflict with earlier ones, while leaving their applicability, role, and priority for the current request implicit. In this paper, we introduce EvoMemState, a state-centric framework that augments persistent facts with two complementary states: Relational States that capture how facts remain valid and relate to one another as memory evolves, and a Reasoning State that determines how these facts should be applied to the current request. Specifically, EvoMemState consists of three key components: (i) Ontology-Guided Memory State Induction extracts Persistent Facts and constructs Relational States that maintain their validity, scope, and evolving relations. (ii) RL-Based State Evolution internalizes memory-use experience into a policy through reinforcement learning to generate a request-specific Reasoning State. (iii) State-Aware Reasoning then combines the relevant facts with their Relational States and the generated Reasoning State to guide the personal agent. Extensive experiments on long-term dialogue and memory-use benchmarks demonstrate consistent improvements over existing memory systems in retrieval completeness and memory-grounded response accuracy. Our code and implementation details are available at https://github.com/XMUDeepLIT/EvoMemState.git.
Large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems (MAS) tackle challenging tasks by dividing work among agents and coordinating their contributions toward shared objectives. Evaluating these systems therefore requires benchmarks that assess not only task-solving performance but also the ability to handle interdependent work. However, existing benchmarks often emphasize task difficulty without substantial collaboration requirements or evaluate only a limited range of predefined collaboration patterns. In this paper, we introduce MAC-Bench, a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating multi-agent collaboration through interconnected tasks. Rather than imposing predefined agent roles or communication protocols, MAC-Bench embeds collaboration requirements directly into task dependencies and shared-resource constraints. Specifically, we mine reusable collaboration structures from selected benchmark tasks at two levels. Local collaboration patterns capture recurring interactions among subtasks, while global task structures characterize how these interactions contribute to complete workflows. Through coarse-to-fine composition, these structures are recombined into task graphs combining different collaboration requirements. Tasks are instantiated in executable environments with automated verification of partial progress and complete task resolution.
Lingfeng Zhang Tsinghua University and Xiaomi Corporation, Xiaoshuai Hao Xiaomi Corporation, Yingbo Tang Institute of automation, Chinese academy of science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Haoxiang Fu, Xinyu Zheng, Pengwei Wang, Zhongyuan Wang BAAI, Wenbo Ding Tsinghua Univeresity 等 9 位作者
Embodied navigation is a fundamental capability of embodied intelligence, enabling robots to move and interact within physical environments. However, existing navigation tasks primarily focus on predefined object navigation or instruction following, which significantly differs from human needs in real-world scenarios involving complex, open-ended scenes. To bridge this gap, we introduce a challenging long-horizon navigation task that requires understanding high-level human instructions and performing spatial-aware object navigation in real-world environments. Existing embodied navigation methods struggle with such tasks due to their limitations in comprehending high-level human instructions and localizing objects with an open vocabulary. In this paper, we propose NavA^3, a hierarchical framework divided into two stages: global and local policies. In the global policy, we leverage the reasoning capabilities of Reasoning-VLM to parse high-level human instructions and integrate them with global 3D scene views. This allows us to reason and navigate to regions most likely to contain the goal object. In the local policy, we have collected a dataset of 1.0 million samples of spatial-aware object affordances to train the NaviAfford model (PointingVLM), which provides robust open-vocabulary object localization and spatial awareness for precise goal identification and navigation in complex environments. Extensive experiments demonstrate that NavA^3 achieves SOTA results in navigation performance and can successfully complete long-horizon navigation tasks across different robot embodiments in real-world settings, paving the way for universal embodied navigation. The dataset and code will be made available.
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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表
Jihao Zhao, Ding Chen China Telecom Corporation Limited Research Institute, Zhaoxin Fan Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Kerun Xu, Mengting Hu Nankai University, Bo Tang, Feiyu Xiong MemTensor (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd., Zhiyu li
Existing long-term personalized dialogue systems struggle to reconcile unbounded interaction streams with finite context constraints, often succumbing to memory noise accumulation, reasoning degradation, and persona inconsistency. To address these challenges, this paper proposes Inside Out, a framework that utilizes a globally maintained PersonaTree as the carrier of long-term user profiling. By constraining the trunk with an initial schema and updating the branches and leaves, PersonaTree enables controllable growth, achieving memory compression while preserving consistency. Moreover, we train a lightweight MemListener via reinforcement learning with process-based rewards to produce structured, executable, and interpretable ADD, UPDATE, DELETE, NO_OP operations, thereby supporting the dynamic evolution of the personalized tree. During response generation, PersonaTree is directly leveraged to enhance outputs in latency-sensitive scenarios; when users require more details, the agentic mode is triggered to introduce details on-demand under the constraints of the PersonaTree. Experiments show that PersonaTree outperforms full-text concatenation and various personalized memory systems in suppressing contextual noise and maintaining persona consistency. Notably, the small MemListener model achieves memory-operation decision performance comparable to, or even surpassing, powerful reasoning models such as DeepSeek-R1-0528 and Gemini-3-Pro.
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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表