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cs.CL2026

CoRect: Context-Aware Logit Contrast for Hidden State Rectification to Resolve Knowledge Conflicts

Xuhua Ma, Richong Zhang, Zhijie Nie

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) often struggles with knowledge conflicts, where model-internal parametric knowledge overrides retrieved evidence, leading to unfaithful outputs…

cs.CL2026

AR-BENCH: Benchmarking Legal Reasoning with Judgment Error Detection, Classification and Correction

Yifei Li, Richong Zhang, Wanyu Tu +4

Legal judgments may contain errors due to the complexity of case circumstances and the abstract nature of legal concepts, while existing appellate review mechanisms face efficiency…

cs.CL2026

inversedMixup: Data Augmentation via Inverting Mixed Embeddings

Fanshuang Kong, Richong Zhang, Qiyu Sun +3

Mixup generates augmented samples by linearly interpolating inputs and labels with a controllable ratio. However, since it operates at the latent embedding level, the resulting sam…

cs.CL2025

Text2Token: Unsupervised Text Representation Learning with Token Target Prediction

Ruize An, Richong Zhang, Zhijie Nie +3

Unsupervised text representation learning (TRL) is a fundamental task in natural language processing, which is beneficial for improving search and recommendations with the web's un…

cs.CL2025

Dynamic Task Vector Grouping for Efficient Multi-Task Prompt Tuning

Pieyi Zhang, Richong Zhang, Zhijie Nie

Multi-task prompt tuning utilizes multiple high-resource source tasks to improve performance on low-source target tasks. Existing approaches transfer the soft prompt trained by com…

cs.CL2025

A Graph-based Verification Framework for Fact-Checking

Yani Huang, Richong Zhang, Zhijie Nie +2

Fact-checking plays a crucial role in combating misinformation. Existing methods using large language models (LLMs) for claim decomposition face two key limitations: (1) insufficie…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

General Table Question Answering via Answer-Formula Joint Generation

Zhongyuan Wang, Richong Zhang, Zhijie Nie +1

Advanced table question answering (TableQA) methods prompt large language models (LLMs) to generate answer text, SQL query, Python code, or custom operation, which impressively imp…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

When Text Embedding Meets Large Language Model: A Comprehensive Survey

Zhijie Nie, Zhangchi Feng, Mingxin Li +4

Text embedding has become a foundational technology in natural language processing (NLP) during the deep learning era, driving advancements across a wide array of downstream tasks.…

cs.CL2024

Improving General Text Embedding Model: Tackling Task Conflict and Data Imbalance through Model Merging

Mingxin Li, Zhijie Nie, Yanzhao Zhang +3

Text embeddings are vital for tasks such as text retrieval and semantic textual similarity (STS). Recently, the advent of pretrained language models, along with unified benchmarks…

cs.CL2024

EasyRAG: Efficient Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework for Automated Network Operations

Zhangchi Feng, Dongdong Kuang, Zhongyuan Wang +3

This paper presents EasyRAG, a simple, lightweight, and efficient retrieval-augmented generation framework for automated network operations. Our framework has three advantages. The…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Tool-Assisted Agent on SQL Inspection and Refinement in Real-World Scenarios

Zhongyuan Wang, Richong Zhang, Zhijie Nie +1

Recent Text-to-SQL methods leverage large language models (LLMs) by incorporating feedback from the database management system. While these methods effectively address execution er…

cs.CL2024

A Text is Worth Several Tokens: Text Embedding from LLMs Secretly Aligns Well with The Key Tokens

Zhijie Nie, Richong Zhang, Zhanyu Wu

Text embeddings from large language models (LLMs) have achieved excellent results in tasks such as information retrieval, semantic textual similarity, etc. In this work, we show an…

cs.CL2024

Towards Better Understanding of Contrastive Sentence Representation Learning: A Unified Paradigm for Gradient

Mingxin Li, Richong Zhang, Zhijie Nie

Sentence Representation Learning (SRL) is a crucial task in Natural Language Processing (NLP), where contrastive Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) is currently a mainstream approach.…

cs.CL2023

Narrowing the Gap between Supervised and Unsupervised Sentence Representation Learning with Large Language Model

Mingxin Li, Richong Zhang, Zhijie Nie +1

Sentence Representation Learning (SRL) is a fundamental task in Natural Language Processing (NLP), with the Contrastive Learning of Sentence Embeddings (CSE) being the mainstream t…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Code-Style In-Context Learning for Knowledge-Based Question Answering

Zhijie Nie, Richong Zhang, Zhongyuan Wang +1

Current methods for Knowledge-Based Question Answering (KBQA) usually rely on complex training techniques and model frameworks, leading to many limitations in practical application…