Customer-obsessed science

Many applications of LLM-based text regression require predicting a full conditional distribution rather than a single point value. We study distributional regression under empirical-quantile supervision, where each input is paired with multiple observed quantile outcomes, and the target distribution is represented by a dense grid of quantiles. We address two key limitations of current approaches: the lack

Multi-hop reasoning remains a fundamental challenge for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. Recent approaches-from adaptive retrieval to agentic pipelines-struggle to maintain coherent intermediate reasoning states as chains grow longer. We introduce State-Aware RAG, a framework that addresses this limitation through an explicit working memory that serves as a dynamic cognitive workspace for reasoning

Training large foundation models for agentic tasks is increasingly impractical due to the high computational costs, long iteration cycles, and rapid obsolescence as new models are continuously released. Instead of post-training massive models for every new task or domain, we propose Supplement Generation Training (SGT), a more efficient and sustainable strategy. SGT trains a smaller LLM to generate useful

Tool-calling agents are increasingly deployed in real-world customer-facing workflows. Yet most studies on tool-calling agents focus on idealized settings with general, fixed, and well-specified tasks. In real-world applications, user requests are often (1) ambiguous, (2) changing over time, or (3) infeasible due to policy constraints, and training and evaluation data that cover these diverse, complex interaction

Conventional adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming systems typically rely on static bitrate ladders to optimize Quality of Experience (QoE). While operationally simple, this 'one-size-fits-all' approach neglects content-specific characteristics, often compromising streaming efficiency. Per-title optimization methods address this by predicting the rate-distortion convex hull directly from the source content,