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openJiuwen: Beyond Static Harnesses for Long-Horizon Coding Agents

Long-horizon coding agents operate over evolving repository states while increasingly relying on heterogeneous capabilities, delegated agents, and multi-agent coordination. These trends pose two complementary challenges for the agent harness. First, developers need to compose capabilities, reconfigure execution logic, and scale increasingly complex agent systems without repeatedly rebuilding orchestration. Second, complex coding tasks continuously produce new evidence---such as semantic diagnostics, execution outcomes, task progress, and changing context relevance---that should dynamically influence subsequent runtime decisions. We characterize these challenges as Structural Composability and Runtime Adaptivity. We present openJiuwen, an open-source harness designed for both developer composability and adaptive task execution. openJiuwen provides a shared execution substrate and Rail-based capability composition across single agents, delegated sub-agents, and Swarm Flow, enabling developers to construct sophisticated agent harnesses under common execution semantics. It further adapts framework-controlled runtime decisions around a fixed model policy, allowing evolving evidence to dynamically affect context, feedback, and task control toward successful completion. We systematically evaluate openJiuwen on SWE-bench Verified and Terminal-Bench 2.1, where it achieves 82.6% and 87.19%, respectively, exceeding the strongest selected official-leaderboard point estimates by 3.4 and 3.39 percentage points. These results show that openJiuwen achieves strong performance on complex coding tasks while providing a composable and adaptive harness design.

cs.AI

Beyond Score Prediction: LLM-Based Essay Scoring and Feedback Generation via Reinforcement Learning with Rubric Rewards

Large language models (LLMs) have been widely applied to automated essay scoring (AES) and automated feedback generation (AFG). However, existing studies rely primarily on prompt engineering or supervised fine-tuning, while systematic research on reinforcement learning (RL) post-training and automated evaluation of feedback quality remains limited. We propose RLAES, a unified LLM framework that jointly optimizes essay scoring and feedback generation through RL. To make feedback quality measurable, interpretable, and usable for training, we introduce Rubric-based Feedback Evaluation (RFE), an essay-grounded feedback evaluation framework comprising 166 fine-grained binary rubric items and an LLM-as-judge. Building on RFE, we propose Adaptive Gated Feedback Optimization (AGFO), which activates rubric-based feedback rewards on demand during RL, reducing evaluation overhead while improving feedback quality. We also propose Adjacent Contrastive Reasoning (ACR) to improve ordinal score calibration by explicitly contrasting adjacent score levels. Experimental results show that the RFE framework captures essay-feedback consistency, exhibits strong pairwise discriminative power, and closely aligns with expert preferences. On the ASAP benchmark, RLAES-AGFO achieves the best scoring performance among LLM-based methods (QWK = 0.803), while maintaining feedback quality comparable to GPT-5.5 and avoiding the feedback degradation observed under score-only RL. Code and datasets are publicly available at https://github.com/hellomuyi/RLAES.

cs.CL

HyperParallel-MoE: Multi-Core Interleaved Scheduling for Fast MoE Training on Ascend NPUs

Modern Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models increasingly rely on large-scale AI accelerator clusters for efficient training. Ascend NPUs expose heterogeneous on-chip compute resources, including matrix-oriented AIC units and vector-oriented AIV units with explicit cross-queue synchronization support. However, existing training frameworks largely execute MoE operators in a serialized kernel-by-kernel manner, leaving substantial heterogeneous parallelism underutilized. This paper presents HyperParallel-MoE, a compilation and scheduling framework for MoE training on Ascend NPUs. HyperParallel-MoE transforms operator-level MoE execution into a statically scheduled tile-level heterogeneous taskflow spanning AIC and AIV resources. It introduces AIV-driven one-sided communication to eliminate host-side collective synchronization, dependency-preserving tile task generation to unify communication and computation under a common task abstraction, and event-driven static scheduling to coordinate cross-queue execution with low runtime overhead. HyperParallel-MoE further executes the compiled taskflow within a unified runtime that concurrently drives AIC and AIV workers inside a single kernel launch, enabling fine-grained overlap among communication, matrix computation, and vector computation while preserving existing optimized operators. We implement HyperParallel-MoE in the MindSpore and MindFormers stack and evaluate it using DeepSeek-style MoE models on Ascend A3 clusters. Across multiple expert-parallel configurations, HyperParallel-MoE reduces Dispatch-to-Combine MoE-FFN latency by up to 1.58x, demonstrating that tile-level heterogeneous scheduling can substantially improve MoE training efficiency on modern NPUs. The source code is available at https://gitcode.com/mindspore/hyper-parallel/tree/master/hyper_parallel/core/multicore

cs.DC

Swarm Skills: A Portable, Self-Evolving Multi-Agent System Specification for Coordination Engineering

As artificial intelligence engineering paradigms shift from single-agent Prompt and Context Engineering toward multi-agent \textbf{Coordination Engineering}, the ability to codify and systematically improve how multiple agents collaborate has emerged as a critical bottleneck. While single-agent skills can now be distributed as portable assets, multi-agent coordination protocols remain locked within framework-internal code or static configurations, preventing them from being shared across systems or autonomously improved over time. We propose \textbf{Swarm Skills}, a portable specification that extends the Anthropic Skills standard with multi-agent semantics. Swarm Skills turns multi-agent workflows into first-class, distributable assets that consist of roles, workflows, execution bounds, and a built-in semantic structure for self-evolution. To operationalize the specification's evolving nature, we present a companion self-evolution algorithm that automatically distills successful execution trajectories into new Swarm Skills and continuously patches existing ones based on multi-dimensional scoring (Effectiveness, Utilization, and Freshness), eliminating the need for human-in-the-loop oversight during the refinement process. Through an architectural compatibility analysis and a comprehensive qualitative case study using the open-source JiuwenSwarm reference implementation, we demonstrate how Swarm Skills achieves zero-adapter cross-agent portability via progressive disclosure, enabling agent teams to self-evolve their coordination strategies without framework lock-in.

cs.CL

DVM: A Bytecode Virtual Machine Approach for Dynamic Tensor Computation

Dynamism is common in AI computation, e.g., the dynamic tensor shapes and the dynamic control flows in models. Due to the long compilation time, existing runtime compilation damages the model efficiency, while the offline compilers either suffer from the long compilation time and device memory footprint to cover all the possible execution instances of a dynamic model, or sacrifice optimization opportunities for usability. In this paper, we rethink the feasibility of runtime compilation for dynamic models and identify that the key for it to work is to speed up the compilation or hide the compilation overhead. To do this, we propose a real-time compiler, DVM. In DVM, we design a runtime operator compiler based on a bytecode virtual machine to perform effective and efficient compilation for each dynamic operator instance given its input. Specifically, instead of compiling programs into machine code, we encode the operator program into bytecode on the CPU and decode the bytecode into virtual instructions for direct execution on the NPU. Based on the runtime operator compiler, we further propose an operator fuser, which performs symbol-deduction-based fusion on static graphs and runtime fusion on dynamic graphs. Both pattern- and stacking-based fusion are supported to increase fusion opportunities. Evaluation on operators, subgraphs, and models shows that, compared with TorchInductor, PyTorch-eager and MindSpore-graph-O0, we are up to 11.77$\times$ better in terms of the operator/model efficiency and up to 5 orders of magnitude faster in terms of the maximum compilation time.

cs.PL

HyperParallel: A Supernode-Affinity AI Framework

The emergence of large-scale, sparse, multimodal, and agentic AI models has coincided with a shift in hardware toward supernode architectures that integrate hundreds to thousands of accelerators with ultra-low-latency interconnects and unified memory pools. However, existing AI frameworks are not designed to exploit these architectures efficiently, leading to high programming complexity, load imbalance, and poor memory utilization. In this paper, we propose a supernode-affinity AI framework that treats the supernode as a single logical computer and embeds hardware-aware orchestration into the framework. Implemented in MindSpore, our HyperParallel architecture comprises HyperOffload for automated hierarchical memory management, HyperMPMD for fine-grained MPMD parallelism across heterogeneous workloads, and HyperShard for declarative parallel strategy specification. Together, these techniques significantly improve training and inference efficiency while reducing parallel programming and system tuning overhead, demonstrating the necessity of supernode affinity for next-generation AI frameworks.

cs.DC

HyperOffload: Graph-Driven Hierarchical Memory Management for Large Language Models on SuperNode Architectures

The rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) towards long-context reasoning and sparse architectures has pushed memory requirements far beyond the capacity of individual device HBM. While emerging supernode architectures offer terabyte-scale shared memory pools via high-bandwidth interconnects, existing software stacks fail to exploit this hardware effectively. Current runtime-based offloading and swapping techniques operate with a local view, leading to reactive scheduling and exposed communication latency that stall the computation pipeline. In this paper, we propose the SuperNode Memory Management Framework (\textbf{HyperOffload}). It employs a compiler-assisted approach that leverages graph-driven memory management to treat remote memory access as explicit operations in the computation graph, specifically designed for hierarchical SuperNode architectures. Unlike reactive runtime systems, SuperNode represents data movement using cache operators within the compiler's Intermediate Representation (IR). This design enables a global, compile-time analysis of tensor lifetimes and execution dependencies. Leveraging this visibility, we develop a global execution-order refinement algorithm that statically schedules data transfers to hide remote memory latency behind compute-intensive regions. We implement SuperNode within the production deep learning framework MindSpore, adding a remote memory backend and specialized compiler passes. Evaluation on representative LLM workloads shows that SuperNode reduces peak device memory usage by up to 26\% for inference while maintaining end-to-end performance. Our work demonstrates that integrating memory-augmented hardware into the compiler's optimization framework is essential for scaling next-generation AI workloads.

cs.DC

AKG kernel Agent: A Multi-Agent Framework for Cross-Platform Kernel Synthesis

Modern AI models demand high-performance computation kernels. The growing complexity of LLMs, multimodal architectures, and recommendation systems, combined with techniques like sparsity and quantization, creates significant computational challenges. Moreover, frequent hardware updates and diverse chip architectures further complicate this landscape, requiring tailored kernel implementations for each platform. However, manual optimization cannot keep pace with these demands, creating a critical bottleneck in AI system development. Recent advances in LLM code generation capabilities have opened new possibilities for automating kernel development. In this work, we propose AKG kernel agent (AI-driven Kernel Generator), a multi-agent system that automates kernel generation, migration, and performance tuning. AKG kernel agent is designed to support multiple domain-specific languages (DSLs), including Triton, TileLang, CPP, and CUDA-C, enabling it to target different hardware backends while maintaining correctness and portability. The system's modular design allows rapid integration of new DSLs and hardware targets. When evaluated on KernelBench using Triton DSL across GPU and NPU backends, AKG kernel agent achieves an average speedup of 1.46$\times$ over PyTorch Eager baselines implementations, demonstrating its effectiveness in accelerating kernel development for modern AI workloads.

cs.AI

Personal LLM Agents: Insights and Survey about the Capability, Efficiency and Security

Since the advent of personal computing devices, intelligent personal assistants (IPAs) have been one of the key technologies that researchers and engineers have focused on, aiming to help users efficiently obtain information and execute tasks, and provide users with more intelligent, convenient, and rich interaction experiences. With the development of smartphones and IoT, computing and sensing devices have become ubiquitous, greatly expanding the boundaries of IPAs. However, due to the lack of capabilities such as user intent understanding, task planning, tool using, and personal data management etc., existing IPAs still have limited practicality and scalability. Recently, the emergence of foundation models, represented by large language models (LLMs), brings new opportunities for the development of IPAs. With the powerful semantic understanding and reasoning capabilities, LLM can enable intelligent agents to solve complex problems autonomously. In this paper, we focus on Personal LLM Agents, which are LLM-based agents that are deeply integrated with personal data and personal devices and used for personal assistance. We envision that Personal LLM Agents will become a major software paradigm for end-users in the upcoming era. To realize this vision, we take the first step to discuss several important questions about Personal LLM Agents, including their architecture, capability, efficiency and security. We start by summarizing the key components and design choices in the architecture of Personal LLM Agents, followed by an in-depth analysis of the opinions collected from domain experts. Next, we discuss several key challenges to achieve intelligent, efficient and secure Personal LLM Agents, followed by a comprehensive survey of representative solutions to address these challenges.

cs.HC

PanGu-$α$: Large-scale Autoregressive Pretrained Chinese Language Models with Auto-parallel Computation

Large-scale Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) have become the new paradigm for Natural Language Processing (NLP). PLMs with hundreds of billions parameters such as GPT-3 have demonstrated strong performances on natural language understanding and generation with \textit{few-shot in-context} learning. In this work, we present our practice on training large-scale autoregressive language models named PanGu-$α$, with up to 200 billion parameters. PanGu-$α$ is developed under the MindSpore and trained on a cluster of 2048 Ascend 910 AI processors. The training parallelism strategy is implemented based on MindSpore Auto-parallel, which composes five parallelism dimensions to scale the training task to 2048 processors efficiently, including data parallelism, op-level model parallelism, pipeline model parallelism, optimizer model parallelism and rematerialization. To enhance the generalization ability of PanGu-$α$, we collect 1.1TB high-quality Chinese data from a wide range of domains to pretrain the model. We empirically test the generation ability of PanGu-$α$ in various scenarios including text summarization, question answering, dialogue generation, etc. Moreover, we investigate the effect of model scales on the few-shot performances across a broad range of Chinese NLP tasks. The experimental results demonstrate the superior capabilities of PanGu-$α$ in performing various tasks under few-shot or zero-shot settings.

cs.CL