Pillar 2 · Reasoning control

Agentic workflows

Compose specialized reasoning into systems. We study how agents select, reuse, route, and coordinate reasoning components so complex workflows become adaptive, efficient, and auditable.

Research question

Can an agent assemble the right workflow for each query instead of using one fixed pipeline?

We study how agents select, reuse, route, and coordinate reasoning components so complex workflows become adaptive, efficient, and auditable.

  • Workflow optimization
  • Precompute and reuse
  • Model routing
  • Multi-agent coordination

Representative projects

Compose specialized reasoning into systems.

Each project connects its central idea with papers, code, datasets, demonstrations, and public explanations.

Representative result from Agentic Critical Training
Agentic workflows2026

Agentic Critical Training

Structured critical cycles teach agents to propose, inspect, and revise multi-stage solutions as a coherent workflow.

Representative result from FusionRoute
Agentic workflows2026

FusionRoute

Token-level routing lets language models collaborate dynamically rather than assigning an entire query to only one model.

Representative result from Collab
Agentic workflows2025

Collab

A controlled mixture-of-agents workflow combines model proposals during decoding to improve alignment and capability.

Selected publications

The papers behind the projects.

Browse the full publication database for the broader body of work in reasoning control.

Reasoning controlpreprint2026

FlowBank: Query-Adaptive Agentic Workflows Optimization through Precompute-and-Reuse

Lingzhi Yuan, Chenghao Deng, Fangxu Yu, Souradip Chakraborty, Mohammad Rostami, Furong Huang

BibTeX
@misc{yuan2026flowbank663c,
  title = {FlowBank: Query-Adaptive Agentic Workflows Optimization through Precompute-and-Reuse},
  author = {Lingzhi Yuan and Chenghao Deng and Fangxu Yu and Souradip Chakraborty and Mohammad Rostami and Furong Huang},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2606.11290},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11290},
}
Reasoning controlpreprint2026

Agentic Critical Training

Weize Liu, Minghui Liu, Sy-Tuyen Ho, Souradip Chakraborty, Xiyao Wang, Furong Huang

BibTeX
@misc{liu2026agenticb95b,
  title = {Agentic Critical Training},
  author = {Weize Liu and Minghui Liu and Sy-Tuyen Ho and Souradip Chakraborty and Xiyao Wang and Furong Huang},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2603.08706},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.08706},
}
Reasoning controlconference2026

Token-Level LLM Collaboration via FusionRoute

Nuoya Xiong, Yuhang Zhou, Hanqing Zeng, Zhaorun Chen, Furong Huang, Shuchao Bi, Lizhu Zhang, Zhuokai Zhao

Forty-third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026

BibTeX
@inproceedings{xiong2026token015c,
  title = {Token-Level LLM Collaboration via FusionRoute},
  author = {Nuoya Xiong and Yuhang Zhou and Hanqing Zeng and Zhaorun Chen and Furong Huang and Shuchao Bi and Lizhu Zhang and Zhuokai Zhao},
  booktitle = {Forty-third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2601.05106},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05106},
}
Reasoning controlconference2025

Collab: Controlled Decoding using Mixture of Agents for LLM Alignment

Souradip Chakraborty, Sujay Bhatt, Udari Madhushani Sehwag, Soumya Suvra Ghosal, Jiahao Qiu, Mengdi Wang, Dinesh Manocha, Furong Huang, Alec Koppel, Sumitra Ganesh

The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025

BibTeX
@inproceedings{chakraborty2025collabbdbe,
  title = {Collab: Controlled Decoding using Mixture of Agents for LLM Alignment},
  author = {Souradip Chakraborty and Sujay Bhatt and Udari Madhushani Sehwag and Soumya Suvra Ghosal and Jiahao Qiu and Mengdi Wang and Dinesh Manocha and Furong Huang and Alec Koppel and Sumitra Ganesh},
  booktitle = {The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025},
  year = {2025},
  eprint = {2503.21720},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.21720},
}