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Published as a conference paper at NeurIPS 2026

Lemon: Evidence-Risk-Aware Adaptive Organization for Long-Horizon LLM Agents

Zimo Yin, Haipeng Jiang, Kailong Ren, Zhetao Sun, Guangyi Lv, Congli Yin, Likang Wu, Hongke Zhao, Ming He, Peng Wang, Jianping Fan

Abstract

Large language model agents now combine tools, long context, memory, and multi-step workflows, yet they still fail when execution loses track of the evidence required for a reliable answer. Common failure modes include missing support, unresolved contradictions, and evidence lost under context pressure. We present Lemon, an evidence-risk-aware framework that makes such risks an explicit control variable. At the intra-instance level, a single state-conditioned controller jointly schedules reasoning, tool invocation, worker expansion, verification, context compression, and memory operations. A recoverable evidence substrate pairs anchored context compression with reusable semantic memory, preserving raw tool outputs while storing transferable process fragments. We further extend Lemon to an inter-instance setting in which heterogeneous personalized agents expose expertise, exchange evidence-bearing proposals, critique unsupported claims, and internalize useful collaboration artifacts. Empirically, Lemon reaches 91.36% accuracy on GAIA and 80% on xbench-DeepSearch. In an open-source reproducibility comparison on GAIA, Lemon uses 49.9% to 88.4% fewer tokens per task than three top-ranked agent baselines.

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