Shunyu Yao

According to our database, Shunyu Yao authored at least 33 papers between 2018 and 2025.

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2025

When Models Know More Than They Can Explain: Quantifying Knowledge Transfer in Human-AI Collaboration.

Quan Shi, Carlos E. Jimenez, Shunyu Yao, Nick Haber, Diyi Yang, Karthik Narasimhan

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2025, 2025

{τ}-bench: A Benchmark for \underline{T}ool-\underline{A}gent-\underline{U}ser Interaction in Real-World Domains.

Shunyu Yao, Noah Shinn, Pedram Razavi, Karthik R. Narasimhan

Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025

Prompting Large Language Models to Tackle the Full Software Development Lifecycle: A Case Study.

Bowen Li, Wenhan Wu, Ziwei Tang, Lin Shi, John Yang, Jinyang Li, Shunyu Yao, Chen Qian, Binyuan Hui, Qicheng Zhang, Zhiyin Yu, He Du, Ping Yang, Dahua Lin, Chao Peng, Kai Chen

Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2025

Contextual Experience Replay for Self-Improvement of Language Agents.

Yitao Liu, Chenglei Si, Karthik R. Narasimhan, Shunyu Yao

Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2025

2024

Cognitive Architectures for Language Agents.

Theodore R. Sumers, Shunyu Yao, Karthik Narasimhan, Thomas L. Griffiths

Trans. Mach. Learn. Res., 2024

When a language model is optimized for reasoning, does it still show embers of autoregression? An analysis of OpenAI o1.

R. Thomas McCoy, Shunyu Yao, Dan Friedman, Mathew D. Hardy, Thomas L. Griffiths

CoRR, 2024

τ-bench: A Benchmark for Tool-Agent-User Interaction in Real-World Domains.

Shunyu Yao, Noah Shinn, Pedram Razavi, Karthik Narasimhan

CoRR, 2024

Can Language Models Solve Olympiad Programming?

Quan Shi, Michael Tang, Karthik Narasimhan, Shunyu Yao

CoRR, 2024

DevBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Software Development.

Bowen Li, Wenhan Wu, Ziwei Tang, Lin Shi, John Yang, Jinyang Li, Shunyu Yao, Chen Qian, Binyuan Hui, Qicheng Zhang, Zhiyin Yu, He Du, Ping Yang, Dahua Lin, Chao Peng, Kai Chen

CoRR, 2024

OS-Copilot: Towards Generalist Computer Agents with Self-Improvement.

Zhiyong Wu, Chengcheng Han, Zichen Ding, Zhenmin Weng, Zhoumianze Liu, Shunyu Yao, Tao Yu, Lingpeng Kong

CoRR, 2024

SWE-agent: Agent-Computer Interfaces Enable Automated Software Engineering.

John Yang, Carlos E. Jimenez, Alexander Wettig, Kilian Lieret, Shunyu Yao, Karthik Narasimhan, Ofir Press

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024, 2024

COLLIE: Systematic Construction of Constrained Text Generation Tasks.

Shunyu Yao, Howard Chen, Austin W. Hanjie, Runzhe Yang, Karthik R. Narasimhan

Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2024

SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-world Github Issues?

Carlos E. Jimenez, John Yang, Alexander Wettig, Shunyu Yao, Kexin Pei, Ofir Press, Karthik R. Narasimhan

Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2024

Language Agents: Foundations, Prospects, and Risks.

Yu Su, Diyi Yang, Shunyu Yao, Tao Yu

Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: EMNLP 2024, 2024

Referral Augmentation for Zero-Shot Information Retrieval.

Michael Tang, Shunyu Yao, John Yang, Karthik Narasimhan

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024

2023

FireAct: Toward Language Agent Fine-tuning.

Baian Chen, Chang Shu, Ehsan Shareghi, Nigel Collier, Karthik Narasimhan, Shunyu Yao

CoRR, 2023

Embers of Autoregression: Understanding Large Language Models Through the Problem They are Trained to Solve.

R. Thomas McCoy, Shunyu Yao, Dan Friedman, Matthew Hardy, Thomas L. Griffiths

CoRR, 2023

EC^2: Emergent Communication for Embodied Control.

Yao Mu, Shunyu Yao, Mingyu Ding, Ping Luo, Chuang Gan

CoRR, 2023

Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models.

Shunyu Yao, Dian Yu, Jeffrey Zhao, Izhak Shafran, Tom Griffiths, Yuan Cao, Karthik Narasimhan

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, 2023

InterCode: Standardizing and Benchmarking Interactive Coding with Execution Feedback.

John Yang, Akshara Prabhakar, Karthik Narasimhan, Shunyu Yao

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, 2023

Reflexion: language agents with verbal reinforcement learning.

Noah Shinn, Federico Cassano, Ashwin Gopinath, Karthik Narasimhan, Shunyu Yao

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, 2023

ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models.

Shunyu Yao, Jeffrey Zhao, Dian Yu, Nan Du, Izhak Shafran, Karthik R. Narasimhan, Yuan Cao

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations, 2023

EC²: Emergent Communication for Embodied Control.

Yao Mu, Shunyu Yao, Mingyu Ding, Ping Luo, Chuang Gan

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2023

2022

WebShop: Towards Scalable Real-World Web Interaction with Grounded Language Agents.

Shunyu Yao, Howard Chen, John Yang, Karthik Narasimhan

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2022, 2022

Linking Emergent and Natural Languages via Corpus Transfer.

Shunyu Yao, Mo Yu, Yang Zhang, Karthik R. Narasimhan, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Chuang Gan

Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2022

Multi-Stage Episodic Control for Strategic Exploration in Text Games.

Jens Tuyls, Shunyu Yao, Sham M. Kakade, Karthik Narasimhan

Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2022

Revisiting the Roles of "Text" in Text Games.

Yi Gu, Shunyu Yao, Chuang Gan, Josh Tenenbaum, Mo Yu

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, 2022

2021

Reading and Acting while Blindfolded: The Need for Semantics in Text Game Agents.

Shunyu Yao, Karthik Narasimhan, Matthew J. Hausknecht

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2021

Self-Attention Networks Can Process Bounded Hierarchical Languages.

Shunyu Yao, Binghui Peng, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Karthik Narasimhan

Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2021

2020

Keep CALM and Explore: Language Models for Action Generation in Text-based Games.

Shunyu Yao, Rohan Rao, Matthew J. Hausknecht, Karthik Narasimhan

Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2020

The fine structure of surprise in intuitive physics: when, why, and how much?

Kevin Smith, Lingjie Mei, Shunyu Yao, Jiajun Wu, Elizabeth S. Spelke, Josh Tenenbaum, Tomer D. Ullman

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

2019

Modeling Expectation Violation in Intuitive Physics with Coarse Probabilistic Object Representations.

Kevin Smith, Lingjie Mei, Shunyu Yao, Jiajun Wu, Elizabeth S. Spelke, Josh Tenenbaum, Tomer D. Ullman

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2019, 2019

2018

3D-Aware Scene Manipulation via Inverse Graphics.

Shunyu Yao, Tzu-Ming Harry Hsu, Jun-Yan Zhu, Jiajun Wu, Antonio Torralba, Bill Freeman, Josh Tenenbaum

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2018, 2018