3 papers
cs.CL2026
An Empirical Study of Many-Shot In-Context Learning for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages
Yinhan Lu, Gaganpreet Jhajj, Chen Zhang +2
In-context learning (ICL) allows large language models (LLMs) to adapt to new tasks from a few examples, making it promising for languages underrepresented in pre-training. Recent…
cs.CL2026
Simplifying the Modeling of Arbitrary Conditionals in Natural Language
Yinhan Lu, Eric Elmoznino, Léo Gagnon +3
Causal Transformers model sequences through an autoregressive factorization of the joint distribution, which enables efficient left-to-right decoding and conditional likelihood com…
cs.IR2026
Beyond Semantic Similarity: Rethinking Retrieval for Agentic Search via Direct Corpus Interaction
Zhuofeng Li, Haoxiang Zhang, Cong Wei +16
Modern retrieval systems, whether lexical or semantic, expose a corpus through a fixed similarity interface that compresses access into a single top-k retrieval step before reasoni…