Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in reasoning and tool use. However, the fundamental cognitive faculties essential for problem-solving—perception, reasoning, and memory—remain the stable core of intelligence. Unlike memorizing specific patterns, humans succeed in novel environments by applying these intrinsic faculties to adapt and optimize. Yet, whether LLMs possess this essential capacity—namely, the ability to continuously refine solutions in response to dynamic environmental feedback—remains underexplored. To address this challenge, we introduce OPT-BENCH, a benchmark for evaluating self-improvement capabilities in large-scale search spaces. By combining 20 machine learning tasks with 10 classic NP-hard problems, OPT-BENCH provides a rigorous setting to assess whether agents can adapt through intrinsic self-reflection rather than rote tool application. We further propose OPT-Agent, a framework that emulates human-like cognitive adaptation. It operates via a general perception–memory–reasoning loop, iteratively refining solutions based on environmental feedback. Through extensive experiments on 19 LLMs from 7 model families, including reasoning models, general models, and open-source models ranging from 3B to 235B parameters, we demonstrate stronger models are more effective at leveraging feedback signals for self-improvement. However, this upper-bound adaptability remains fundamentally constrained by the models’ base capacity, and even the most advanced LLMs still fall short of human expert performance.

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success on reasoning benchmarks through Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR), excelling at tasks such as math, coding, logic and puzzles. However, existing benchmarks evaluate only correctness, overlooking optimality—the ability to find the best solutions under constraints. We propose , the first comprehensive framework for training and evaluating LLMs on NP-hard optimization problems through quality-aware RLVR. provides three key components: a scalable training infrastructure with instance generators, quality verifiers, and optimal baselines across 10 tasks; a rigorous benchmark with 1,000 instances evaluating both feasibility (Success Rate) and quality (Quality Ratio); and quality-aware rewards enabling continuous improvement beyond binary correctness. Training on Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-1M with 15K examples achieves 93.1% SR and 46.6% QR, significantly outperforming GPT-4o (29.6% SR, 14.6% QR). Beyond optimization, training on transfers to diverse tasks: mathematics (+2.2%), logic (+1.2%), knowledge (+4.1%), and instruction-following (+6.1%). Our analysis reveals quality-aware rewards improve solutions by 28.8% over binary rewards, and task diversity drives generalization more than data quantity—offering insights into RLVR scaling for complex reasoning.

“多媒体信息在人类社会的发展历程中有着至关重要的作用,构建具有多模态信息处理能力的智能系统也是通往通用人工智能的必经之路。随着预训练技术的发展以及对于通用模型的需求,多模态的研究也从早期的任务特定的方法转移到了构建统一泛用的多模态基座模型上。初步的统一多模态模型探索受到BERT启发,从表征学习的角度出发构建能为不同下游任务提供有效初始化的多模态预训练模型,这类方法尽管有效但仍然在泛用性方面受限于预训练中微调范式,无法更广泛高效地应用。近年来随着大语言模型的发展,以大语言模型为基座的多模态大模型则展现出了巨大的潜力:此类模型有着强大的信息感知,交互,以及推理能力并且能有效泛化到多样的场景下,为新时代的通用人工智能系统提供了切实可行的思路。本文将从构建统一多模态模型的角度出发,介绍和梳理相关工作的发展,从多模态预训练到多模态大模型,介绍对应的架构,训练,评测方法以及发展趋势,为读者提供一个全面的概览。”