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20202026
most citedA Few Brief Notes on DeepImpact, COIL, and a Conceptual Framework for Information Retrieval Techniques

69 citations · 196 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.CL2026

ORBIT: Scalable and Verifiable Data Generation for Search Agents on a Tight Budget

Nandan Thakur, Zijian Chen, Xueguang Ma +1

Search agents, which integrate language models (LMs) with web search, are becoming crucial for answering complex user queries. Constructing training datasets for deep research task…

cs.CL2026

AgentIR: Reasoning-Aware Retrieval for Deep Research Agents

Zijian Chen, Xueguang Ma, Shengyao Zhuang +3

Deep Research agents are rapidly emerging as primary consumers of modern retrieval systems. Unlike human users who issue and refine queries without documenting their intermediate t…

cs.CL20252 cited

BrowseComp-Plus: A More Fair and Transparent Evaluation Benchmark of Deep-Research Agent

Zijian Chen, Xueguang Ma, Shengyao Zhuang +17

Deep-Research agents, which integrate large language models (LLMs) with search tools, have shown success in improving the effectiveness of handling complex queries that require ite…

cs.IR2025

MAGMaR Shared Task System Description: Video Retrieval with OmniEmbed

Jiaqi Samantha Zhan, Crystina Zhang, Shengyao Zhuang +2

Effective video retrieval remains challenging due to the complexity of integrating visual, auditory, and textual modalities. In this paper, we explore unified retrieval methods usi…

cs.CL2025

General-Reasoner: Advancing LLM Reasoning Across All Domains

Xueguang Ma, Qian Liu, Dongfu Jiang +3

Reinforcement learning (RL) has recently demonstrated strong potential in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). Particularly, the "Zero" reinforceme…

cs.IR2025

Tevatron 2.0: Unified Document Retrieval Toolkit across Scale, Language, and Modality

Xueguang Ma, Luyu Gao, Shengyao Zhuang +3

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have driven interest in billion-scale retrieval models with strong generalization across retrieval tasks and languages. Addition…