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20222025
most citedWeakly-Supervised Scientific Document Classification via Retrieval-Augmented Multi-Stage Training

15 citations · 41 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.AI2025

Scaling Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Tool-Integrated Reasoning in VLMs

Meng Lu, Ran Xu, Yi Fang +14

While recent vision-language models (VLMs) demonstrate strong image understanding, their ability to "think with images", i.e., to reason through multi-step visual interactions, rem…

cs.CL2025

AceSearcher: Bootstrapping Reasoning and Search for LLMs via Reinforced Self-Play

Ran Xu, Yuchen Zhuang, Zihan Dong +7

Search-augmented LLMs often struggle with complex reasoning tasks due to ineffective multi-hop retrieval and limited reasoning ability. We propose AceSearcher, a cooperative self-p…

cs.CL2025

RAG in the Wild: On the (In)effectiveness of LLMs with Mixture-of-Knowledge Retrieval Augmentation

Ran Xu, Yuchen Zhuang, Yue Yu +3

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) by integrating external knowledge retrieved at inference time. While RAG demonstrates strong performance…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

Collab-RAG: Boosting Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Complex Question Answering via White-Box and Black-Box LLM Collaboration

Ran Xu, Wenqi Shi, Yuchen Zhuang +4

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems often struggle to handle multi-hop question-answering tasks accurately due to irrelevant context retrieval and limited complex reasonin…

cs.CL2025

RoseRAG: Robust Retrieval-augmented Generation with Small-scale LLMs via Margin-aware Preference Optimization

Tianci Liu, Haoxiang Jiang, Tianze Wang +5

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance but face high computational costs and latency, limiting their deployment in resource-constrained settings. In cont…

cs.CL2024

MedAdapter: Efficient Test-Time Adaptation of Large Language Models towards Medical Reasoning

Wenqi Shi, Ran Xu, Yuchen Zhuang +5

Despite their improved capabilities in generation and reasoning, adapting large language models (LLMs) to the biomedical domain remains challenging due to their immense size and co…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

BMRetriever: Tuning Large Language Models as Better Biomedical Text Retrievers

Ran Xu, Wenqi Shi, Yue Yu +6

Developing effective biomedical retrieval models is important for excelling at knowledge-intensive biomedical tasks but still challenging due to the deficiency of sufficient public…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

RAM-EHR: Retrieval Augmentation Meets Clinical Predictions on Electronic Health Records

Ran Xu, Wenqi Shi, Yue Yu +5

We present RAM-EHR, a Retrieval AugMentation pipeline to improve clinical predictions on Electronic Health Records (EHRs). RAM-EHR first collects multiple knowledge sources, conver…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

EHRAgent: Code Empowers Large Language Models for Few-shot Complex Tabular Reasoning on Electronic Health Records

Wenqi Shi, Ran Xu, Yuchen Zhuang +7

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in planning and tool utilization as autonomous agents, but few have been developed for medical problem-solvi…

cs.LG2023

How Many Validation Labels Do You Need? Exploring the Design Space of Label-Efficient Model Ranking

Zhengyu Hu, Jieyu Zhang, Yue Yu +2

This paper presents LEMR (Label-Efficient Model Ranking) and introduces the MoraBench Benchmark. LEMR is a novel framework that minimizes the need for costly annotations in model s…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Knowledge-Infused Prompting: Assessing and Advancing Clinical Text Data Generation with Large Language Models

Ran Xu, Hejie Cui, Yue Yu +6

Clinical natural language processing requires methods that can address domain-specific challenges, such as complex medical terminology and clinical contexts. Recently, large langua…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Open Visual Knowledge Extraction via Relation-Oriented Multimodality Model Prompting

Hejie Cui, Xinyu Fang, Zihan Zhang +7

Images contain rich relational knowledge that can help machines understand the world. Existing methods on visual knowledge extraction often rely on the pre-defined format (e.g., su…

cs.CL2023★ 15 cited

Weakly-Supervised Scientific Document Classification via Retrieval-Augmented Multi-Stage Training

Ran Xu, Yue Yu, Joyce C. Ho +1

Scientific document classification is a critical task for a wide range of applications, but the cost of obtaining massive amounts of human-labeled data can be prohibitive. To addre…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

R-Mixup: Riemannian Mixup for Biological Networks

Xuan Kan, Zimu Li, Hejie Cui +6

Biological networks are commonly used in biomedical and healthcare domains to effectively model the structure of complex biological systems with interactions linking biological ent…

cs.AI2023★ 4 cited

A Review on Knowledge Graphs for Healthcare: Resources, Applications, and Promises

Hejie Cui, Jiaying Lu, Ran Xu +14

This comprehensive review aims to provide an overview of the current state of Healthcare Knowledge Graphs (HKGs), including their construction, utilization models, and applications…

cs.CL2022★ 7 cited

Cold-Start Data Selection for Few-shot Language Model Fine-tuning: A Prompt-Based Uncertainty Propagation Approach

Yue Yu, Rongzhi Zhang, Ran Xu +3

Large Language Models have demonstrated remarkable few-shot performance, but the performance can be sensitive to the selection of few-shot instances. We propose PATRON, a new metho…