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most citedA Comprehensive Survey of Small Language Models in the Era of Large Language Models: Techniques, Enhancements, Applications, Collaboration with LLMs, and Trustworthiness

18 citations · 40 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cs.CV2026

MMKG-R1: Constructing Multimodal Knowledge Graphs via Reinforcement Learning

Zongyu Wu, Yilong Wang, Xiaochen Wang +5

Multimodal knowledge graphs (MMKGs) organize information across different modalities to support multimodal Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), which aims to improve the per…

cs.AI2026

Multi-Granularity Context-Enhanced RAG over Multimodal Knowledge Graphs

Zongyu Wu, Yilong Wang, Xiaochen Wang +5

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is widely used to mitigate hallucination issues in large language models (LLMs) and multimodal large language models (MLLMs). In particular, kn…

cs.CL2026

Tevatron-Elastic: A Unified Abstraction for Training Elastic Retrievers and Rerankers

Yu Wang, Shengyao Zhuang, Xueguang Ma +4

A single model scale challenges the flexibility of a production retrieval system: some settings need it faster, others need a smaller index, and the right trade-off changes with th…

cs.AI2026

Harness Updating Is Not Harness Benefit: Disentangling Evolution Capabilities in Self-Evolving LLM Agents

Minhua Lin, Juncheng Wu, Zijun Wang +14

LLM agents are increasingly deployed as systems built around editable external harnesses, including prompts, skills, memories and tools, that shape task execution without changing…

cs.AI2026

Position: Agentic Evolution is the Path to Evolving LLMs

Minhua Lin, Hanqing Lu, Zhan Shi +11

As Large Language Models (LLMs) move from curated training sets into open-ended real-world environments, a fundamental limitation emerges: static training cannot keep pace with con…

cs.AI2025

A Comprehensive Survey on Reinforcement Learning-based Agentic Search: Foundations, Roles, Optimizations, Evaluations, and Applications

Minhua Lin, Zongyu Wu, Zhichao Xu +6

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has transformed information access and reasoning through open-ended natural language interaction. However, LLMs remain limited by static…

cs.CL2025

Beyond Correctness: Rewarding Faithful Reasoning in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Zhichao Xu, Zongyu Wu, Yun Zhou +9

Inspired by the success of reinforcement learning (RL) in Large Language Model (LLM) training for domains like math and code, recent work has begun training LLMs to dynamically pla…

cs.AI2025

AgentTTS: Large Language Model Agent for Test-time Compute-optimal Scaling Strategy in Complex Tasks

Fali Wang, Hui Liu, Zhenwei Dai +8

Test-time scaling (TTS) enhances the performance of large language models (LLMs) by allocating additional compute resources during inference. However, existing research primarily i…

cs.IR2025

GPR: Empowering Generation with Graph-Pretrained Retriever

Xiaochen Wang, Zongyu Wu, Yuan Zhong +3

Graph retrieval-augmented generation (GRAG) places high demands on graph-specific retrievers. However, existing retrievers often rely on language models pretrained on plain text, l…

cs.CV2025

Image Corruption-Inspired Membership Inference Attacks against Large Vision-Language Models

Zongyu Wu, Minhua Lin, Zhiwei Zhang +4

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated outstanding performance in many downstream tasks. However, LVLMs are trained on large-scale datasets, which can pose privacy…

cs.LG2025

Bridging Source and Target Domains via Link Prediction for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation on Graphs

Yilong Wang, Tianxiang Zhao, Zongyu Wu +1

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown great ability for node classification on graphs. However, the success of GNNs relies on abundant labeled data, while obtaining high-quality…

cs.CV2025

LanP: Rethinking the Impact of Language Priors in Large Vision-Language Models

Zongyu Wu, Yuwei Niu, Hongcheng Gao +12

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown impressive performance in various tasks. However, LVLMs suffer from hallucination, which hinders their adoption in the real world. E…

cs.CL2024★ 18 cited

A Comprehensive Survey of Small Language Models in the Era of Large Language Models: Techniques, Enhancements, Applications, Collaboration with LLMs, and Trustworthiness

Fali Wang, Zhiwei Zhang, Xianren Zhang +11

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated emergent abilities in text generation, question answering, and reasoning, facilitating various tasks and domains. Despite their profi…

cs.AI2024

Decoding Time Series with LLMs: A Multi-Agent Framework for Cross-Domain Annotation

Minhua Lin, Zhengzhang Chen, Yanchi Liu +6

Time series data is ubiquitous across various domains, including manufacturing, finance, and healthcare. High-quality annotations are essential for effectively understanding time s…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Catastrophic Failure of LLM Unlearning via Quantization

Zhiwei Zhang, Fali Wang, Xiaomin Li +6

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable proficiency in generating text, benefiting from extensive training on vast textual corpora. However, LLMs may also acquire unwant…

cs.LG2024

Are You Using Reliable Graph Prompts? Trojan Prompt Attacks on Graph Neural Networks

Minhua Lin, Zhiwei Zhang, Enyan Dai +4

Graph Prompt Learning (GPL) has been introduced as a promising approach that uses prompts to adapt pre-trained GNN models to specific downstream tasks without requiring fine-tuning…

cs.AI2024

Divide-Verify-Refine: Can LLMs Self-Align with Complex Instructions?

Xianren Zhang, Xianfeng Tang, Hui Liu +4

Recent studies show LLMs struggle with complex instructions involving multiple constraints (e.g., length, format, sentiment). Existing works address this issue by fine-tuning, whic…

cs.LG2024★ 5 cited

LLM and GNN are Complementary: Distilling LLM for Multimodal Graph Learning

Junjie Xu, Zongyu Wu, Minhua Lin +2

Recent progress in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) has greatly enhanced the ability to model complex molecular structures for predicting properties. Nevertheless, molecular data encom…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Robustness Inspired Graph Backdoor Defense

Zhiwei Zhang, Minhua Lin, Junjie Xu +3

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved promising results in tasks such as node classification and graph classification. However, recent studies reveal that GNNs are vulnerable…

cs.CV2024

Test-Time Multimodal Backdoor Detection by Contrastive Prompting

Yuwei Niu, Shuo He, Qi Wei +3

While multimodal contrastive learning methods (e.g., CLIP) can achieve impressive zero-shot classification performance, recent research has revealed that these methods are vulnerab…

cs.CV2024

Universal Prompt Optimizer for Safe Text-to-Image Generation

Zongyu Wu, Hongcheng Gao, Yueze Wang +2

Text-to-Image (T2I) models have shown great performance in generating images based on textual prompts. However, these models are vulnerable to unsafe input to generate unsafe conte…

cs.LG2023★ 14 cited

Counterfactual Learning on Graphs: A Survey

Zhimeng Guo, Teng Xiao, Zongyu Wu +3

Graph-structured data are pervasive in the real-world such as social networks, molecular graphs and transaction networks. Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved great success i…