University of Southern California（南加州大学）

2504.10369 2025-09-23 cs.AR cs.AI cs.LG cs.PL

SymRTLO: Enhancing RTL Code Optimization with LLMs and Neuron-Inspired Symbolic Reasoning

Yiting Wang, Wanghao Ye, Ping Guo, Yexiao He, Ziyao Wang, Bowei Tian, Shwai He, Guoheng Sun, Zheyu Shen, Sihan Chen, Ankur Srivastava, Qingfu Zhang, Gang Qu, Ang Li

机构 * University of Maryland, College Park（马里兰大学科帕克分校）； City University of Hong Kong（香港城市大学）； University of Southern California（南加州大学）

Comments NeurIPS 2025

2506.00073 2025-09-23 cs.AI cs.CL cs.CY cs.HC cs.MA

The Automated but Risky Game: Modeling and Benchmarking Agent-to-Agent Negotiations and Transactions in Consumer Markets

Shenzhe Zhu, Jiao Sun, Yi Nian, Tobin South, Alex Pentland, Jiaxin Pei

机构 * Stanford University（斯坦福大学）； University of Toronto（多伦多大学）； Google DeepMind（谷歌DeepMind）； University of Southern California（南加州大学）； Massachusetts Institute of Technology（麻省理工学院）

2409.15520 2025-09-23 cs.LG cs.DC

MobiZO: Enabling Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning at the Edge via Inference Engines

Lei Gao, Amir Ziashahabi, Yue Niu, Salman Avestimehr, Murali Annavaram

机构 * University of Southern California（南加州大学）

2409.00399 2025-09-23 cs.CL cs.CR

Rethinking Backdoor Detection Evaluation for Language Models

Jun Yan, Wenjie Jacky Mo, Xiang Ren, Robin Jia

机构 * University of Southern California（南加州大学）； University of California, Davis（加州大学戴维斯分校）

Comments Accepted to EMNLP 2025

2509.16457 2025-09-23 cs.CL cs.AI cs.CY

Implicit Behavioral Alignment of Language Agents in High-Stakes Crowd Simulations

Yunzhe Wang, Gale M. Lucas, Burcin Becerik-Gerber, Volkan Ustun

机构 * University of Southern California（南加州大学）； USC Institute for Creative Technologies（USC创意技术研究所）

Comments Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025), Main Conference

2509.16400 2025-09-23 cs.CL cs.CY

'Rich Dad, Poor Lad': How do Large Language Models Contextualize Socioeconomic Factors in College Admission ?

Huy Nghiem, Phuong-Anh Nguyen-Le, John Prindle, Rachel Rudinger, Hal Daumé

机构 * University of Maryland（马里兰大学）； University of Southern California（南加州大学）

Comments EMNLP 2025, ver 1, 35 pages

2509.16394 2025-09-23 cs.CL cs.AI cs.HC

Evaluating Behavioral Alignment in Conflict Dialogue: A Multi-Dimensional Comparison of LLM Agents and Humans

Deuksin Kwon, Kaleen Shrestha, Bin Han, Elena Hayoung Lee, Gale Lucas

机构 * University of Southern California（南加州大学）； USC for Institute of Creative Technologies（南加州大学创意技术研究所）

Comments Accepted to EMNLP 2025 (Main Conference)

2509.06355 2025-09-23 cs.AI cs.LG cs.MA

A Data-Driven Discretized CS:GO Simulation Environment to Facilitate Strategic Multi-Agent Planning Research

Yunzhe Wang, Volkan Ustun, Chris McGroarty

机构 * USC Institute for Creative Technologies（USC创意技术研究所）； Dept. of Computer Science University of Southern California（计算机科学系大学南加州大学）； U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command（美国陆军作战能力发展指挥部）

Comments Accepted at the Winter Simulation Conference 2025, December, Seattle USA

2505.10911 2025-09-23 cs.RO

ReWiND: Language-Guided Rewards Teach Robot Policies without New Demonstrations

Jiahui Zhang, Yusen Luo, Abrar Anwar, Sumedh Anand Sontakke, Joseph J Lim, Jesse Thomason, Erdem Biyik, Jesse Zhang

机构 * Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California（南加州大学计算机科学系）； Amazon Robotics（亚马逊机器人技术）； Kim Jaechul School of Artificial Intelligence, KAIST（韩国科学技术院人工智能学院）

Comments CoRL 2025 Oral

2503.07129 2025-09-23 cs.CL cs.AI

ASTRA: A Negotiation Agent with Adaptive and Strategic Reasoning via Tool-integrated Action for Dynamic Offer Optimization

Deuksin Kwon, Jiwon Hae, Emma Clift, Daniel Shamsoddini, Jonathan Gratch, Gale M. Lucas

机构 * University of Southern California（美国南加州大学）； St. Olaf College（圣奥拉夫学院）； Northwestern University（西北大学）； USC for Institute of Creative Technologies（美国南加州大学创意技术研究所）

Comments Accepted to EMNLP 2025 (Main Conference)