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20202026
most citedBackdoor Attacks on Dense Retrieval via Public and Unintentional Triggers

3 citations · 10 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.CL2026

MemPilot: Orchestrating On-Demand Multimodal Memory Curation for LLM Agents

Haozhen Zhang, Haodong Yue, Quanyu Long +6

Memory has become integral to the LLM agent ecosystem, supporting information retention and reuse across interactions. However, most existing agent memory systems construct memory…

cs.CL2026

From Traces to Agentic Worlds: Agentic Language World Models for Interactive Environment Simulation

Quanyu Long, Xiao Chen, Jianda Chen +4

Realistic environment replicas are increasingly valuable for training and evaluating LLM agents, yet the original systems may be inaccessible or impractical to reproduce. We explor…

cs.CV2026

The Shape of Time: Video-Token Contrast for Temporal Understanding in VideoLMs

Yumeng Shi, Quanyu Long, Yin Wu +1

Seeing frames in order does not mean representing time. Modern VideoLMs receive ordered video streams, yet their main supervision acts on generated text rather than video-token rep…

cs.LG2026

When Continual Learning Moves to Memory: A Study of Experience Reuse in LLM Agents

Qisheng Hu, Quanyu Long, Wenya Wang

Memory-augmented LLM agents offer an appealing shortcut to continual learning: rather than updating model parameters, they accumulate experience in external memory, seemingly sides…

cs.AI2026

Agentic World Modeling: Foundations, Capabilities, Laws, and Beyond

Meng Chu, Xuan Billy Zhang, Kevin Qinghong Lin +47

As AI systems move from generating text to accomplishing goals through sustained interaction, the ability to model environment dynamics becomes a central bottleneck. Agents that ma…

cs.CL2026

Self-Verification Dilemma: Experience-Driven Suppression of Overused Checking in LLM Reasoning

Quanyu Long, Kai Jie Jiang, Jianda Chen +3

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) achieve strong performance by generating long reasoning traces with reflection. Through a large-scale empirical analysis, we find that a substantial f…

cs.CL2026

Learning Query-Aware Budget-Tier Routing for Runtime Agent Memory

Haozhen Zhang, Haodong Yue, Tao Feng +8

Memory is increasingly central to Large Language Model (LLM) agents operating beyond a single context window, yet most existing systems rely on offline, query-agnostic memory const…

cs.CL2026

MemSkill: Learning and Evolving Memory Skills for Self-Evolving Agents

Haozhen Zhang, Quanyu Long, Jianzhu Bao +4

Most Large Language Model (LLM) agent memory systems rely on a small set of static, hand-designed operations for extracting memory. These fixed procedures hard-code human priors ab…

cs.AI2026

Programming over Thinking: Efficient and Robust Multi-Constraint Planning

Derrick Goh Xin Deik, Quanyu Long, Zhengyuan Liu +2

Multi-constraint planning involves identifying, evaluating, and refining candidate plans while satisfying multiple, potentially conflicting constraints. Existing large language mod…

cs.LG2025

From Competition to Synergy: Unlocking Reinforcement Learning for Subject-Driven Image Generation

Ziwei Huang, Ying Shu, Hao Fang +5

Subject-driven image generation models face a fundamental trade-off between identity preservation (fidelity) and prompt adherence (editability). While online reinforcement learning…

cs.CV2025

Causality Matters: How Temporal Information Emerges in Video Language Models

Yumeng Shi, Quanyu Long, Yin Wu +1

Video language models (VideoLMs) have made significant progress in multimodal understanding. However, temporal understanding, which involves identifying event order, duration, and…

cs.AI2025

Coordinating Search-Informed Reasoning and Reasoning-Guided Search in Claim Verification

Qisheng Hu, Quanyu Long, Wenya Wang

Multi-hop claim verification is inherently challenging, requiring multi-step reasoning to construct verification chains while iteratively searching for information to uncover hidde…

cs.CL2025

Reinforcing Compositional Retrieval: Retrieving Step-by-Step for Composing Informative Contexts

Quanyu Long, Jianda Chen, Zhengyuan Liu +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across numerous tasks, yet they often rely on external context to handle complex tasks. While retrieval-augme…

cs.CV2025

Static or Dynamic: Towards Query-Adaptive Token Selection for Video Question Answering

Yumeng Shi, Quanyu Long, Wenya Wang

Video question answering benefits from the rich information in videos, enabling various applications. However, the large volume of tokens generated from long videos presents challe…

cs.AI2025

BOOST: Bootstrapping Strategy-Driven Reasoning Programs for Program-Guided Fact-Checking

Qisheng Hu, Quanyu Long, Wenya Wang

Large language model pipelines have improved automated fact-checking for complex claims, yet many approaches rely on few-shot in-context learning with demonstrations that require s…

cs.CL2025

Visual-RAG: Benchmarking Text-to-Image Retrieval Augmented Generation for Visual Knowledge Intensive Queries

Yin Wu, Quanyu Long, Jing Li +2

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a paradigm that augments large language models (LLMs) with external knowledge to tackle knowledge-intensive question answering. While severa…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

T2I-FactualBench: Benchmarking the Factuality of Text-to-Image Models with Knowledge-Intensive Concepts

Ziwei Huang, Wanggui He, Quanyu Long +8

Evaluating the quality of synthesized images remains a significant challenge in the development of text-to-image (T2I) generation. Most existing studies in this area primarily focu…

cs.IR2024

Decomposition Dilemmas: Does Claim Decomposition Boost or Burden Fact-Checking Performance?

Qisheng Hu, Quanyu Long, Wenya Wang

Fact-checking pipelines increasingly adopt the Decompose-Then-Verify paradigm, where texts are broken down into smaller claims for individual verification and subsequently combined…

cs.CL2024

Large Language Models Know What Makes Exemplary Contexts

Quanyu Long, Jianda Chen, Wenya Wang +1

In-context learning (ICL) has proven to be a significant capability with the advancement of Large Language models (LLMs). By instructing LLMs using few-shot demonstrative examples,…

cs.CL2024

Does In-Context Learning Really Learn? Rethinking How Large Language Models Respond and Solve Tasks via In-Context Learning

Quanyu Long, Yin Wu, Wenya Wang +1

In-context Learning (ICL) has emerged as a powerful capability alongside the development of scaled-up large language models (LLMs). By instructing LLMs using few-shot demonstrative…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Backdoor Attacks on Dense Retrieval via Public and Unintentional Triggers

Quanyu Long, Yue Deng, LeiLei Gan +2

Dense retrieval systems have been widely used in various NLP applications. However, their vulnerabilities to potential attacks have been underexplored. This paper investigates a no…

cs.CL2023

Adapt in Contexts: Retrieval-Augmented Domain Adaptation via In-Context Learning

Quanyu Long, Wenya Wang, Sinno Jialin Pan

Large language models (LLMs) have showcased their capability with few-shot inference known as in-context learning. However, in-domain demonstrations are not always readily availabl…

cs.CL2022

Domain Confused Contrastive Learning for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

Quanyu Long, Tianze Luo, Wenya Wang +1

In this work, we study Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) in a challenging self-supervised approach. One of the difficulties is how to learn task discrimination in the absence of…

cs.CL2020★ 2 cited

Generative Imagination Elevates Machine Translation

Quanyu Long, Mingxuan Wang, Lei Li

There are common semantics shared across text and images. Given a sentence in a source language, whether depicting the visual scene helps translation into a target language? Existi…