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11 papers

cs.CL2026

OpenReward: Learning to Reward Long-form Agentic Tasks via Reinforcement Learning

Ziyou Hu, Zhengliang Shi, Minghang Zhu +5

Reward models (RMs) have become essential for aligning large language models (LLMs), serving as scalable proxies for human evaluation in both training and inference. However, exist…

cs.CL2026

ReportLogic: Evaluating Logical Quality in Deep Research Reports

Jujia Zhao, Zhaoxin Huan, Zihan Wang +4

Users increasingly rely on Large Language Models (LLMs) for Deep Research, using them to synthesize diverse sources into structured reports that support understanding and action. I…

cs.IR2026

Unifying Search and Recommendation in LLMs via Gradient Multi-Subspace Tuning

Jujia Zhao, Zihan Wang, Shuaiqun Pan +2

Search and recommendation (S&R) are core to online platforms, addressing explicit intent through queries and modeling implicit intent from behaviors, respectively. Their complement…

cs.IR2026

Differentiable Semantic ID for Generative Recommendation

Junchen Fu, Xuri Ge, Alexandros Karatzoglou +4

Generative recommendation provides a novel paradigm in which each item is represented by a discrete semantic ID (SID) learned from rich content. Most existing methods treat SIDs as…

cs.IR2026

RankSteer: Activation Steering for Pointwise LLM Ranking

Yumeng Wang, Catherine Chen, Suzan Verberne

Large language models (LLMs) have recently shown strong performance as zero-shot rankers, yet their effectiveness is highly sensitive to prompt formulation, particularly role-play…

cs.IR2026

LANCER: LLM Reranking for Nugget Coverage

Jia-Huei Ju, François G. Landry, Eugene Yang +2

Unlike short-form retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), such as factoid question answering, long-form RAG requires retrieval to provide documents covering a wide range of relevant…