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most citedBridging the Gap Between Indexing and Retrieval for Differentiable Search Index with Query Generation

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25 papers

cs.CL2026

MultiTalk: Scaling Full-Duplex Speech Models to Long, Multi-Party, Bilingual Conversation

Ke Wang, Houxing Ren, Zimu Lu +4

End-to-end full-duplex speech models have brought open-source machine conversation closer to human-like interaction, yet existing systems remain limited in two intertwined dimensio…

cs.CL2026

Edit-Based Refinement for Parallel Masked Diffusion Language Models

Houxing Ren, Mingjie Zhan, Zimu Lu +5

Masked diffusion language models enable parallel token generation and offer improved decoding efficiency over autoregressive models. However, their performance degrades significant…

cs.CL2026

Towards Robust Real-World Spreadsheet Understanding with Multi-Agent Multi-Format Reasoning

Houxing Ren, Mingjie Zhan, Zimu Lu +4

Spreadsheets are central to real-world applications such as enterprise reporting, auditing, and scientific data management. Despite their ubiquity, existing large language model ba…

cs.CL2026

From Solver to Tutor: Evaluating the Pedagogical Intelligence of LLMs with KMP-Bench

Weikang Shi, Houxing Ren, Junting Pan +8

Large Language Models (LLMs) show significant potential in AI mathematical tutoring, yet current evaluations often rely on simplistic metrics or narrow pedagogical scenarios, faili…

cs.SE2026

FullStack-Agent: Enhancing Agentic Full-Stack Web Coding via Development-Oriented Testing and Repository Back-Translation

Zimu Lu, Houxing Ren, Yunqiao Yang +4

Assisting non-expert users to develop complex interactive websites has become a popular task for LLM-powered code agents. However, existing code agents tend to only generate fronte…

cs.CL2026

SlidesGen-Bench: Evaluating Slides Generation via Computational and Quantitative Metrics

Yunqiao Yang, Wenbo Li, Houxing Ren +6

The rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) has fostered diverse paradigms for automated slide generation, ranging from code-driven layouts to image-centric synthesis. Howe…

cs.CV2025

MathCanvas: Intrinsic Visual Chain-of-Thought for Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning

Weikang Shi, Aldrich Yu, Rongyao Fang +11

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have excelled in textual reasoning, they struggle with mathematical domains like geometry that intrinsically rely on visual aids. Existing approa…

cs.CL2025

VoiceAssistant-Eval: Benchmarking AI Assistants across Listening, Speaking, and Viewing

Ke Wang, Houxing Ren, Zimu Lu +2

The growing capabilities of large language models and multimodal systems have spurred interest in voice-first AI assistants, yet existing benchmarks are inadequate for evaluating t…

cs.CL2025

WebGen-Agent: Enhancing Interactive Website Generation with Multi-Level Feedback and Step-Level Reinforcement Learning

Zimu Lu, Houxing Ren, Yunqiao Yang +5

Agent systems powered by large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on repository-level code-generation tasks. However, for tasks such as website codebas…

cs.CL2025

Alignment with Fill-In-the-Middle for Enhancing Code Generation

Houxing Ren, Zimu Lu, Weikang Shi +7

The code generation capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced applications like tool invocation and problem-solving. However, improving performance in code-related…

cs.CL2025

Probability-Consistent Preference Optimization for Enhanced LLM Reasoning

Yunqiao Yang, Houxing Ren, Zimu Lu +6

Recent advances in preference optimization have demonstrated significant potential for improving mathematical reasoning capabilities in large language models (LLMs). While current…

cs.CV2025

MathCoder-VL: Bridging Vision and Code for Enhanced Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning

Ke Wang, Junting Pan, Linda Wei +8

Natural language image-caption datasets, widely used for training Large Multimodal Models, mainly focus on natural scenarios and overlook the intricate details of mathematical figu…

cs.CL2025

WebGen-Bench: Evaluating LLMs on Generating Interactive and Functional Websites from Scratch

Zimu Lu, Yunqiao Yang, Houxing Ren +7

LLM-based agents have demonstrated great potential in generating and managing code within complex codebases. In this paper, we introduce WebGen-Bench, a novel benchmark designed to…

cs.CL2024

MathCoder2: Better Math Reasoning from Continued Pretraining on Model-translated Mathematical Code

Zimu Lu, Aojun Zhou, Ke Wang +5

Code has been shown to be effective in enhancing the mathematical reasoning abilities of large language models due to its precision and accuracy. Previous works involving continued…

cs.CL2024

Empowering Character-level Text Infilling by Eliminating Sub-Tokens

Houxing Ren, Mingjie Zhan, Zhongyuan Wu +1

In infilling tasks, sub-tokens, representing instances where a complete token is segmented into two parts, often emerge at the boundaries of prefixes, middles, and suffixes. Tradit…

cs.CL2024

ReflectionCoder: Learning from Reflection Sequence for Enhanced One-off Code Generation

Houxing Ren, Mingjie Zhan, Zhongyuan Wu +3

Code generation plays a crucial role in various tasks, such as code auto-completion and mathematical reasoning. Previous work has proposed numerous methods to enhance code generati…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

MathGenie: Generating Synthetic Data with Question Back-translation for Enhancing Mathematical Reasoning of LLMs

Zimu Lu, Aojun Zhou, Houxing Ren +5

Large language models (LLMs) have exhibited great potential in mathematical reasoning. However, there remains a performance gap in this area between existing open-source models and…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

MathCoder: Seamless Code Integration in LLMs for Enhanced Mathematical Reasoning

Ke Wang, Houxing Ren, Aojun Zhou +7

The recently released GPT-4 Code Interpreter has demonstrated remarkable proficiency in solving challenging math problems, primarily attributed to its ability to seamlessly reason…

cs.IR2023

Typos-aware Bottlenecked Pre-Training for Robust Dense Retrieval

Shengyao Zhuang, Linjun Shou, Jian Pei +4

Current dense retrievers (DRs) are limited in their ability to effectively process misspelled queries, which constitute a significant portion of query traffic in commercial search…

cs.IR2023

Empowering Dual-Encoder with Query Generator for Cross-Lingual Dense Retrieval

Houxing Ren, Linjun Shou, Ning Wu +2

In monolingual dense retrieval, lots of works focus on how to distill knowledge from cross-encoder re-ranker to dual-encoder retriever and these methods achieve better performance…

cs.IR2023

Lexicon-Enhanced Self-Supervised Training for Multilingual Dense Retrieval

Houxing Ren, Linjun Shou, Jian Pei +3

Recent multilingual pre-trained models have shown better performance in various multilingual tasks. However, these models perform poorly on multilingual retrieval tasks due to lack…

cs.LG2022★ 4 cited

Self-supervised Trajectory Representation Learning with Temporal Regularities and Travel Semantics

Jiawei Jiang, Dayan Pan, Houxing Ren +3

Trajectory Representation Learning (TRL) is a powerful tool for spatial-temporal data analysis and management. TRL aims to convert complicated raw trajectories into low-dimensional…

cs.IR2022★ 3 cited

Unsupervised Context Aware Sentence Representation Pretraining for Multi-lingual Dense Retrieval

Ning Wu, Yaobo Liang, Houxing Ren +4

Recent research demonstrates the effectiveness of using pretrained language models (PLM) to improve dense retrieval and multilingual dense retrieval. In this work, we present a sim…

cs.IR2022★ 23 cited

Bridging the Gap Between Indexing and Retrieval for Differentiable Search Index with Query Generation

Shengyao Zhuang, Houxing Ren, Linjun Shou +4

The Differentiable Search Index (DSI) is an emerging paradigm for information retrieval. Unlike traditional retrieval architectures where index and retrieval are two different and…