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Publications (11)

cs.CL2025

VisRAG2.0: Mitigating Visual Hallucinations via Evidence-Guided Multi-Image Reasoning in Visual Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Yubo Sun, Chunyi Peng, Yukun Yan +6

Visual Retrieval-Augmented Generation (VRAG) has emerged as a promising paradigm for equipping Vision-Language Models (VLMs) with external visual evidence, enabling them to go beyo…

cs.RO2025

Unified Linear Parametric Map Modeling and Perception-aware Trajectory Planning for Mobile Robotics

Hongyu Nie, Xu Liu, Zhaotong Tan +2

Autonomous navigation in mobile robots, reliant on perception and planning, faces major hurdles in large-scale, complex environments. These include heavy computational burdens for…

cs.IR2023

Text Matching Improves Sequential Recommendation by Reducing Popularity Biases

Zhenghao Liu, Sen Mei, Chenyan Xiong +5

This paper proposes Text mAtching based SequenTial rEcommendation model (TASTE), which maps items and users in an embedding space and recommends items by matching their text repres…

cs.IR2026

HiEviDR-Bench: A Benchmark for Hierarchical Evidence Aggregation in Deep Research

Yubo Sun, Chunyi Peng, Yukun Yan +6

Deep research requires models to retrieve, connect, and synthesize evidence from large-scale heterogeneous sources to answer complex queries and produce analytical reports. Existin…

cs.CL2025

ClueAnchor: Clue-Anchored Knowledge Reasoning Exploration and Optimization for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Hao Chen, Yukun Yan, Sen Mei +9

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) augments Large Language Models (LLMs) with external knowledge to improve factuality. However, existing RAG systems frequently underutilize the…

cs.CL2025

RAG-DDR: Optimizing Retrieval-Augmented Generation Using Differentiable Data Rewards

Xinze Li, Sen Mei, Zhenghao Liu +9

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has proven its effectiveness in mitigating hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs) by retrieving knowledge from external resources. To a…

cs.AI2026

AgentCPM-Report: Interleaving Drafting and Deepening for Open-Ended Deep Research

Yishan Li, Wentong Chen, Yukun Yan +12

Generating deep research reports requires large-scale information acquisition and the synthesis of insight-driven analysis, posing a significant challenge for current language mode…

cs.IR2025

LISRec: Modeling User Preferences with Learned Item Shortcuts for Sequential Recommendation

Haidong Xin, Zhenghao Liu, Sen Mei +7

User-item interaction histories are pivotal for sequential recommendation systems but often include noise, such as unintended clicks or actions that fail to reflect genuine user pr…

cs.CL2026

SEEK: Steering LLM Reasoning for RAG via Internal Reasoning Sketches

Xinze Li, Yuqing Lan, Zhenghao Liu +7

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances Large Language Models (LLMs) by incorporating external knowledge into the generation process. Benefiting from the reasoning capabiliti…

cs.IR2025

UltraRAG: A Modular and Automated Toolkit for Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Yuxuan Chen, Dewen Guo, Sen Mei +12

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) significantly enhances the performance of large language models (LLMs) in downstream tasks by integrating external knowledge. To facilitate res…

cs.IR2024

MARVEL: Unlocking the Multi-Modal Capability of Dense Retrieval via Visual Module Plugin

Tianshuo Zhou, Sen Mei, Xinze Li +5

This paper proposes Multi-modAl Retrieval model via Visual modulE pLugin (MARVEL), which learns an embedding space for queries and multi-modal documents to conduct retrieval. MARVE…