collaborators

10 papers

cs.LG2026

BRIDGE: Bridging Reasoning In Distillation Gap Elimination via Structure-Aware Masking

Bowen Yu, Sheng Zhang, Binhao Wang +8

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has significantly improved LLMs' mathematical problem-solving capabilities, but distilling such capabilities into smaller models remains challengin…

cs.IR2026

R-Searcher: Calibrating Retrieval and Reasoning Boundaries for Agentic Search

Sheng Zhang, Junyi Li, Wenlin Zhang +6

Recent search agents for multi-hop reasoning often fail by either retrieving incomplete evidence or reasoning over irrelevant portions of the retrieved content, leading to a retrie…

cs.AI2026

DeepResearch-9K: A Challenging Benchmark Dataset of Deep-Research Agent

Tongzhou Wu, Yuhao Wang, Xinyu Ma +4

Deep-research agents are capable of executing multi-step web exploration, targeted retrieval, and sophisticated question answering. Despite their powerful capabilities, deep-resear…

cs.IR2026

OneReason Technical Report

OneRec Team, Biao Yang, Boyang Ding +81

Generative recommendation models in the OneRec family have been widely deployed in many real-world services, such as short-video, live-streaming, advertising, and e-commerce. Howev…

cs.IR2026

MemSearch-o1: Empowering Large Language Models with Reasoning-Aligned Memory Growth in Agentic Search

Sheng Zhang, Junyi Li, Yingyi Zhang +7

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have scaled the potential for reasoning and agentic search, wherein models autonomously plan, retrieve, and reason over external kno…

cs.CL2026

AdaSwitch: Balancing Exploration and Guidance in Knowledge Distillation via Adaptive Switching

Jingyu Peng, Maolin Wang, Hengyi Cai +5

Small language models (SLMs) are crucial for applications with strict latency and computational constraints, yet achieving high performance remains challenging. Knowledge distillat…