Ziyu Ma
2026
Thinking with Map: Reinforced Parallel Map-Augmented Agent for Geolocalization
Yuxiang Ji | Yong Wang | Ziyu Ma | Yiming Hu | Hailang Huang | Xuecai Hu | Guanhua Chen | Liaoni Wu | Xiangxiang Chu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Yuxiang Ji | Yong Wang | Ziyu Ma | Yiming Hu | Hailang Huang | Xuecai Hu | Guanhua Chen | Liaoni Wu | Xiangxiang Chu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
The image geolocalization task aims to predict the location where an image was taken anywhere on Earth using visual clues.Existing large vision-language model (LVLM) approaches leverage world knowledge, chain-of-thought reasoning, and agentic capabilities, but overlook a common strategy used by humans — using maps.In this work, we first equip the model Thinking with Map ability and formulate it as an agent-in-the-map loop.We develop a two-stage optimization scheme for it, including agentic reinforcement learning (RL) followed by parallel test-time scaling (TTS).The RL strengthens the agentic capability of model to improve sampling efficiency, and the parallel TTS enables the model to explore multiple candidate paths before making the final prediction, which is crucial for geolocalization.To evaluate our method on up-to-date and in-the-wild images, we further present MAPBench, a comprehensive geolocalization training and evaluation benchmark composed entirely of real-world images.Experimental results show that our method outperforms existing open- and closed-source models on most metrics, specifically improving Acc@500m from 8.0% to 22.1% compared to Gemini-3-Pro with Google Search/Map grounded mode.
CoEvolve: Training LLM Agents via Agent-Data Mutual Evolution
Shidong Yang | Ziyu Ma | Tongwen Huang | Yiming Hu | Yong Wang | Xiangxiang Chu
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Shidong Yang | Ziyu Ma | Tongwen Huang | Yiming Hu | Yong Wang | Xiangxiang Chu
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Reinforcement learning for LLM agents is typically conducted on a static data distribution, which fails to adapt to the agent’s evolving behavior and leads to poor coverage of complex environment interactions. To address these challenges, we propose CoEvolve, an agent-data mutual evolution framework that enables LLM agents to improve through closed-loop, interaction-driven training. Specifically, CoEvolve extracts feedback signals such as forgetting and uncertainty from rollout trajectories to identify failure-prone interaction patterns, and utilizes them to guide LLM-based task synthesis. The synthesized tasks are validated through environment interaction and utilized to update the data distribution, enabling joint adaptation of the agent and its data. Extensive experiments on AppWorld and BFCL across Qwen2.5-7B, Qwen3-4B, and Qwen3-30B-A3B demonstrate consistent and significant improvements over strong base models, yielding absolute gains of 19.43%, 15.58%, and 18.14%, respectively.