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Publications (8)

cs.IR2026

Resources for Automated Evaluation of Assistive RAG Systems that Help Readers with News Trustworthiness Assessment

Dake Zhang, Mark D. Smucker, Charles L. A. Clarke

Many readers today struggle to assess the trustworthiness of online news because reliable reporting coexists with misinformation. The TREC 2025 DRAGUN (Detection, Retrieval, and Au…

stat.ME2025

Auto-Doubly Robust Estimation of Causal Effects on a Network

Jizhou Liu, Dake Zhang, Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen

This paper develops new methods for causal inference in observational studies on a single large network of interconnected units, addressing two key challenges: long-range dependenc…

cs.IR2023

ReadProbe: A Demo of Retrieval-Enhanced Large Language Models to Support Lateral Reading

Dake Zhang, Ronak Pradeep

With the rapid growth and spread of online misinformation, people need tools to help them evaluate the credibility and accuracy of online information. Lateral reading, a strategy t…

cs.LG2024

Traversing Pareto Optimal Policies: Provably Efficient Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning

Shuang Qiu, Dake Zhang, Rui Yang +2

This paper investigates multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL), which focuses on learning Pareto optimal policies in the presence of multiple reward functions. Despite MORL'…

cs.CL2014

A Joint Probabilistic Classification Model of Relevant and Irrelevant Sentences in Mathematical Word Problems

Suleyman Cetintas, Luo Si, Yan Ping Xin +3

Estimating the difficulty level of math word problems is an important task for many educational applications. Identification of relevant and irrelevant sentences in math word probl…

physics.geo-ph2025

Data-driven solar forecasting enables near-optimal economic decisions

Zhixiang Dai, Minghao Yin, Xuanhong Chen +27

Solar energy adoption is critical to achieving net-zero emissions. However, it remains difficult for many industrial and commercial actors to decide on whether they should adopt di…