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most citedProgram of Thoughts Prompting: Disentangling Computation from Reasoning for Numerical Reasoning Tasks

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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.CL2025★ 2 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.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.CL2025

DRAMA: Diverse Augmentation from Large Language Models to Smaller Dense Retrievers

Xueguang Ma, Xi Victoria Lin, Barlas Oguz +3

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong effectiveness and robustness while fine-tuned as dense retrievers. However, their large parameter size brings significant infe…

cs.CL2024★ 34 cited

MMLU-Pro: A More Robust and Challenging Multi-Task Language Understanding Benchmark

Yubo Wang, Xueguang Ma, Ge Zhang +14

In the age of large-scale language models, benchmarks like the Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) have been pivotal in pushing the boundaries of what AI can achieve in…

cs.CL2023★ 6 cited

Found in the Middle: Permutation Self-Consistency Improves Listwise Ranking in Large Language Models

Raphael Tang, Xinyu Zhang, Xueguang Ma +2

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit positional bias in how they use context, which especially complicates listwise ranking. To address this, we propose permutation self-consistenc…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

Few-shot In-context Learning for Knowledge Base Question Answering

Tianle Li, Xueguang Ma, Alex Zhuang +3

Question answering over knowledge bases is considered a difficult problem due to the challenge of generalizing to a wide variety of possible natural language questions. Additionall…

cs.CL2023★ 5 cited

TheoremQA: A Theorem-driven Question Answering dataset

Wenhu Chen, Ming Yin, Max Ku +6

The recent LLMs like GPT-4 and PaLM-2 have made tremendous progress in solving fundamental math problems like GSM8K by achieving over 90% accuracy. However, their capabilities to s…

cs.CL2022★ 112 cited

Program of Thoughts Prompting: Disentangling Computation from Reasoning for Numerical Reasoning Tasks

Wenhu Chen, Xueguang Ma, Xinyi Wang +1

Recently, there has been significant progress in teaching language models to perform step-by-step reasoning to solve complex numerical reasoning tasks. Chain-of-thoughts prompting…

cs.CL2021★ 13 cited

Mr. TyDi: A Multi-lingual Benchmark for Dense Retrieval

Xinyu Zhang, Xueguang Ma, Peng Shi +1

We present Mr. TyDi, a multi-lingual benchmark dataset for mono-lingual retrieval in eleven typologically diverse languages, designed to evaluate ranking with learned dense represe…

cs.CL2021★ 27 cited

A Replication Study of Dense Passage Retriever

Xueguang Ma, Kai Sun, Ronak Pradeep +1

Text retrieval using learned dense representations has recently emerged as a promising alternative to "traditional" text retrieval using sparse bag-of-words representations. One re…

cs.CL2020★ 3 cited

Scientific Claim Verification with VERT5ERINI

Ronak Pradeep, Xueguang Ma, Rodrigo Nogueira +1

This work describes the adaptation of a pretrained sequence-to-sequence model to the task of scientific claim verification in the biomedical domain. We propose VERT5ERINI that expl…