Yunze Xiao

Autonomous agents based on large language models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving to handle multi-turn tasks, but ensuring their trustworthiness remains a critical challenge. A fundamental pillar of this trustworthiness is calibration, which refers to an agent’s ability to express confidence that reli...

We present TartanMaroon, a deployable multi-agent academic advising system that handles the full complexity spectrum of student queries, from factual lookups to constrained multi-semester planning. We make three contributions: (1) a proposal–critique negotiation protocol in which a Planning Agent...

LLM agents are increasingly used for social simulation, yet emotion is often treated as a transient cue, causing emotional amnesia and weak long-horizon continuity. We present Sentipolis, a framework for emotionally stateful agents that integrates continuous Pleasure-Arousal-Dominance (PAD) repre...

Accurate estimation of item (question or task) difficulty is critical for educational assessment but suffers from the cold start problem. While Large Language Models demonstrate superhuman problem-solving capabilities, it remains an open question whether they can perceive the cognitive struggles...