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most citedSummary of a Haystack: A Challenge to Long-Context LLMs and RAG Systems

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22 papers

cs.LG2026

The Illusion of Certainty: Decoupling Capability and Calibration in On-Policy Distillation

Jiaxin Zhang, Xiangyu Peng, Qinglin Chen +3

On-policy distillation (OPD) is an increasingly important paradigm for post-training language models. However, we identify a pervasive Scaling Law of Miscalibration: while OPD effe…

cs.AI2026

Agentic Confidence Calibration

Jiaxin Zhang, Caiming Xiong, Chien-Sheng Wu

AI agents are rapidly advancing from passive language models to autonomous systems executing complex, multi-step tasks. Yet their overconfidence in failure remains a fundamental ba…

cs.AI2026

Agentic Uncertainty Quantification

Jiaxin Zhang, Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Kung-Hsiang Huang +2

Although AI agents have demonstrated impressive capabilities in long-horizon reasoning, their reliability is severely hampered by the ``Spiral of Hallucination,'' where early epist…

cs.AI2026

From Passive Metric to Active Signal: The Evolving Role of Uncertainty Quantification in Large Language Models

Jiaxin Zhang, Wendi Cui, Zhuohang Li +4

While Large Language Models (LLMs) show remarkable capabilities, their unreliability remains a critical barrier to deployment in high-stakes domains. This survey charts a functiona…

cs.CL2025

GUI-KV: Efficient GUI Agents via KV Cache with Spatio-Temporal Awareness

Kung-Hsiang Huang, Haoyi Qiu, Yutong Dai +2

Graphical user interface (GUI) agents built on vision-language models have emerged as a promising approach to automate human-computer workflows. However, they also face the ineffic…

cs.CL2025

Benchmarking Deep Search over Heterogeneous Enterprise Data

Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Xiangyu Peng, Shilpa Bhagavath +3

We present a new benchmark for evaluating Deep Search--a realistic and complex form of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) that requires source-aware, multi-hop reasoning over div…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

CRMArena-Pro: Holistic Assessment of LLM Agents Across Diverse Business Scenarios and Interactions

Kung-Hsiang Huang, Akshara Prabhakar, Onkar Thorat +6

While AI agents hold transformative potential in business, effective performance benchmarking is hindered by the scarcity of public, realistic business data on widely used platform…

cs.CL2025

BingoGuard: LLM Content Moderation Tools with Risk Levels

Fan Yin, Philippe Laban, Xiangyu Peng +7

Malicious content generated by large language models (LLMs) can pose varying degrees of harm. Although existing LLM-based moderators can detect harmful content, they struggle to as…

cs.CL2025

Turning Conversations into Workflows: A Framework to Extract and Evaluate Dialog Workflows for Service AI Agents

Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Xiangyu Peng, Shilpa Bhagavath +3

Automated service agents require well-structured workflows to provide consistent and accurate responses to customer queries. However, these workflows are often undocumented, and th…

cs.AI2025

Why Vision Language Models Struggle with Visual Arithmetic? Towards Enhanced Chart and Geometry Understanding

Kung-Hsiang Huang, Can Qin, Haoyi Qiu +4

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in multimodal tasks, yet they often struggle with visual arithmetic, seemingly simple capabilities like object count…

cs.CL2024

Unanswerability Evaluation for Retrieval Augmented Generation

Xiangyu Peng, Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Caiming Xiong +1

Existing evaluation frameworks for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems focus on answerable queries, but they overlook the importance of appropriately rejecting unanswerabl…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

SiReRAG: Indexing Similar and Related Information for Multihop Reasoning

Nan Zhang, Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Alexander Fabbri +5

Indexing is an important step towards strong performance in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. However, existing methods organize data based on either semantic similarit…

cs.CL2024

CRMArena: Understanding the Capacity of LLM Agents to Perform Professional CRM Tasks in Realistic Environments

Kung-Hsiang Huang, Akshara Prabhakar, Sidharth Dhawan +6

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems are vital for modern enterprises, providing a foundation for managing customer interactions and data. Integrating AI agents into CRM…

cs.CL2024

Do RAG Systems Cover What Matters? Evaluating and Optimizing Responses with Sub-Question Coverage

Kaige Xie, Philippe Laban, Prafulla Kumar Choubey +2

Evaluating retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems remains challenging, particularly for open-ended questions that lack definitive answers and require coverage of multiple sub…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Scaling Knowledge Graph Construction through Synthetic Data Generation and Distillation

Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Xin Su, Man Luo +9

Document-level knowledge graph (KG) construction faces a fundamental scaling challenge: existing methods either rely on expensive large language models (LLMs), making them economic…

cs.CL2024

ReGenesis: LLMs can Grow into Reasoning Generalists via Self-Improvement

Xiangyu Peng, Congying Xia, Xinyi Yang +3

Post-training Large Language Models (LLMs) with explicit reasoning trajectories can enhance their reasoning abilities. However, acquiring such high-quality trajectory data typicall…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Shared Imagination: LLMs Hallucinate Alike

Yilun Zhou, Caiming Xiong, Silvio Savarese +1

Despite the recent proliferation of large language models (LLMs), their training recipes -- model architecture, pre-training data and optimization algorithm -- are often very simil…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

Summary of a Haystack: A Challenge to Long-Context LLMs and RAG Systems

Philippe Laban, Alexander R. Fabbri, Caiming Xiong +1

LLMs and RAG systems are now capable of handling millions of input tokens or more. However, evaluating the output quality of such systems on long-context tasks remains challenging,…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Prompt Leakage effect and defense strategies for multi-turn LLM interactions

Divyansh Agarwal, Alexander R. Fabbri, Ben Risher +3

Prompt leakage poses a compelling security and privacy threat in LLM applications. Leakage of system prompts may compromise intellectual property, and act as adversarial reconnaiss…

cs.CL2024

Granular Change Accuracy: A More Accurate Performance Metric for Dialogue State Tracking

Taha Aksu, Nancy F. Chen

Current metrics for evaluating Dialogue State Tracking (DST) systems exhibit three primary limitations. They: i) erroneously presume a uniform distribution of slots throughout the…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Lexical Repetitions Lead to Rote Learning: Unveiling the Impact of Lexical Overlap in Train and Test Reference Summaries

Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Alexander R. Fabbri, Caiming Xiong +1

Ideal summarization models should generalize to novel summary-worthy content without remembering reference training summaries by rote. However, a single average performance score o…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Are You Sure? Challenging LLMs Leads to Performance Drops in The FlipFlop Experiment

Philippe Laban, Lidiya Murakhovs'ka, Caiming Xiong +1

The interactive nature of Large Language Models (LLMs) theoretically allows models to refine and improve their answers, yet systematic analysis of the multi-turn behavior of LLMs r…