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15 papers

cs.AI2026

SAFARI: Scaling Long Horizon Agentic Fault Attribution via Active Investigation

Chenyang Zhu, Jiayu Yao, Kushal Chawla +10

As autonomous agents tackle increasingly complex multi-step, multi-agent tasks, their execution trajectories have scaled beyond the constraints of even the largest context windows.…

cs.CL2026

Alignment-Weighted DPO: A principled reasoning approach to improve safety alignment

Mengxuan Hu, Vivek V. Datla, Anoop Kumar +4

Recent advances in alignment techniques such as Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) have impro…

cs.AI2026

RAFFLES: Reasoning-based Attribution of Faults for LLM Systems

Chenyang Zhu, Spencer Hong, Jingyu Wu +6

The advent of complex, interconnected long-horizon LLM systems has made it incredibly tricky to identify where and when these systems break down. Evaluation capabilities that curre…

cs.CL2026

DF-RAG: Query-Aware Diversity for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Saadat Hasan Khan, Spencer Hong, Jingyu Wu +4

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a common technique for grounding language model outputs in domain-specific information. However, RAG is often challenged by reasoning-intens…

cs.CL2025

FB-RAG: Improving RAG with Forward and Backward Lookup

Kushal Chawla, Alfy Samuel, Anoop Kumar +1

Traditional Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) struggles with complex queries that lack strong signals to retrieve the most relevant context, forcing a trade-off between choosing…

cs.CL2025

LLM Optimization Unlocks Real-Time Pairwise Reranking

Jingyu Wu, Aditya Shrivastava, Jing Zhu +3

Efficiently reranking documents retrieved from information retrieval (IR) pipelines to enhance overall quality of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system remains an important y…