Zhan Ling
2026
Beyond the Context Window: Scaling Agentic RL via End-to-end Optimized Context Compression
Miao Lu | Weiwei Sun | Weihua Du | Zhan Ling | Xuesong Yao | Kang Liu | Jiecao Chen
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Miao Lu | Weiwei Sun | Weihua Du | Zhan Ling | Xuesong Yao | Kang Liu | Jiecao Chen
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
We study reinforcement learning (RL) fine-tuning of large language model (LLM) agents for long-horizon multi-turn tool use, where context length quickly becomes a fundamental bottleneck. Existing multi-turn RL pipelines suffer from degraded instruction following, excessive rollout costs, and most importantly, strict context limits. In this work, to address these challenges, we introduce summarization-based context management to training. In specific, it periodically compresses the tool using history by LLM-generated summaries that retain task-relevant information to keep a compact context while enabling the agent to scale beyond the fixed context window. Building on this formulation, we derive a policy gradient representation that seamlessly enables standard LLM RL infrastructures to optimize both tool-use behaviors as well as summarization strategies in an end-to-end fashion. We instantiate this framework with SUmmarization augmented Policy Optimization (), an LLM RL algorithm that enables long-horizon training beyond a fixed context limit. Experiments on interactive function calling and searching tasks demonstrate that significantly improves the success rate while maintaining the same or even lower working context length compared to baselines. We also demonstrate that for complex searching tasks can further improve the evaluation performance when scaling test-time maximum round of summarization beyond that of training time.
2024
ActPlan-1K: Benchmarking the Procedural Planning Ability of Visual Language Models in Household Activities
Ying Su | Zhan Ling | Haochen Shi | Cheng Jiayang | Yauwai Yim | Yangqiu Song
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Ying Su | Zhan Ling | Haochen Shi | Cheng Jiayang | Yauwai Yim | Yangqiu Song
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Large language models(LLMs) have been adopted to process textual task description and accomplish procedural planning in embodied AI tasks because of their powerful reasoning ability. However, there is still lack of study on how vision language models(VLMs) behave when multi-modal task inputs are considered. Counterfactual planning that evaluates the model’s reasoning ability over alternative task situations are also under exploited. In order to evaluate the planning ability of both multi-modal and counterfactual aspects, we propose ActPlan-1K. ActPlan-1K is a multi-modal planning benchmark constructed based on ChatGPT and household activity simulator iGibson2. The benchmark consists of 153 activities and 1,187 instances. Each instance describing one activity has a natural language task description and multiple environment images from the simulator. The gold plan of each instance is action sequences over the objects in provided scenes. Both the correctness and commonsense satisfaction are evaluated on typical VLMs. It turns out that current VLMs are still struggling at generating human-level procedural plans for both normal activities and counterfactual activities. We further provide automatic evaluation metrics by finetuning over BLEURT model to facilitate future research on our benchmark.