Ax Akshay K. Jagadish, Milena Rmus, Kristin Witte, Marvin Mathony, Marcel Binz, Eric Schulz 3/24/2026

Can we automatize scientific discovery in the cognitive sciences?

Proposes automating scientific discovery in cognitive sciences using agentic AI to explore computational models faster than manual researcher-driven cycles.

Ax Jianing Wang, Jianfei Zhang, Qi Guo, Linsen Guo, Rumei Li, Chao Zhang, Chong Peng, Cunguang Wang, Dengchang Zhao, Jiarong Shi, Jingang Wang, Liulin Feng, Mengxia Shen, Qi Li, Shengnan An, Shun Wang, Wei Shi, Xiangyu Xi, Xiaoyu Li, Xuezhi Cao, Yi Lu, Yunke Zhao, Zhengyu Chen, Zhimin Lin, Wei Wang, Peng Pei, Xunliang Cai 3/24/2026

LongCat-Flash-Prover: Advancing Native Formal Reasoning via Agentic Tool-Integrated Reinforcement Learning

Open-source 560B MoE model advancing formal reasoning in Lean4 via agentic tool-integrated reinforcement learning, decomposing tasks into auto-formalization, sketching, and proving.

Ax Yu Luo, Rongchen Gao, Lu Teng, Xidao Wen, Jiamin Jiang, Qingliang Zhang, Yongqian Sun, Shenglin Zhang, Jiasong Feng, Tong Liu, Wenjie Zhang, Dan Pei 3/24/2026

Graph of States: Solving Abductive Tasks with Large Language Models

Proposes Graph of States framework for LLMs to perform abductive reasoning through structured state representation and explicit state control, addressing gaps in logical reasoning.

Ax Junkeun Yi, Damon Mosk-Aoyama, Baihe Huang, Ritu Gala, Charles Wang, Sugam Dipak Devare, Khushi Bhardwaj, Abhibha Gupta, Oleksii Kuchaiev, Jiantao Jiao, Jian Zhang, Venkat Srinivasan 3/24/2026

PivotRL: High Accuracy Agentic Post-Training at Low Compute Cost

PivotRL framework improving agentic post-training efficiency by combining supervised fine-tuning with reinforcement learning.

Ax Zhongyi Li, Wan Tian, Jingyu Chen, Kangyao Huang, Huiming Zhang, Hui Yang, Tao Ren, Jinyang Jiang, Yijie Peng, Yikun Ban, Fuzhen Zhuang 3/24/2026

Adaptive Robust Estimator for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Research on robust credit assignment for multi-agent LLM collaboration using reinforcement learning with heavy-tailed reward handling.

Ax Qihui Zhu, Shouwei Ruan, Xiao Yang, Hao Jiang, Yao Huang, Shiji Zhao, Hanwei Fan, Hang Su, Xingxing Wei 3/24/2026

Mind over Space: Can Multimodal Large Language Models Mentally Navigate?

Study of multimodal LLM spatial reasoning capabilities, showing limitations in mental navigation and long-range spatiotemporal planning despite embodied agent deployment.

Ax Sheng Liu, Long Chen, Zeyun Zhao, Qinglin Gou, Qingyue Wei, Arjun Masurkar, Kevin M. Spiegler, Philip Kuball, Stefania C. Bray, Megan Bernath, Deanna R. Willis, Jiang Bian, Lei Xing, Eric Topol, Kyunghyun Cho, Yu Huang, Ruogu Fang, Narges Razavian, James Zou 3/24/2026

A Multidisciplinary AI Board for Multimodal Dementia Characterization and Risk Assessment

Multi-agent AI team (Cerebra) coordinating specialized agents for clinical decision support on heterogeneous patient data across EHR, notes, and medical imaging.

Ax Mohammad Asadi, Jack W. O'Sullivan, Fang Cao, Tahoura Nedaee, Kamyar Fardi, Fei-Fei Li, Ehsan Adeli, Euan Ashley 3/24/2026

Mirage The Illusion of Visual Understanding

Research revealing gaps in multimodal AI systems' visual understanding mechanisms, showing frontier models generate plausible but unsupported reasoning traces.