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most citedSearch-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with Reinforcement Learning

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27 papers

cs.LG2026

Sparse Autoencoders Are a Shared Coordinate System for Symbolic Matching

Xiaocong Yang, Xuanyu Meng, Yuji Zhang +2

Large language models (LLMs) hold broad knowledge in one set of weights, but lack interpretability and trustworthy reasoning, especially in high-stakes use cases. A neuro-symbolic…

cs.LG2026

Generate, Filter, Control, Replay: A Comprehensive Survey of Rollout Strategies for LLM Reinforcement Learning

Rohan Surana, Gagan Mundada, Xunyi Jiang +19

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a central post-training tool for improving the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). In these systems, the rollout, the trajec…

cs.IR2026

Improving Scientific Document Retrieval with Academic Concept Index

Jeyun Lee, Junhyoung Lee, Wonbin Kweon +7

Adapting general-domain retrievers to scientific domains is challenging due to the scarcity of large-scale domain-specific relevance annotations and the substantial mismatch in voc…

cs.CL2025

Controlling Performance and Budget of a Centralized Multi-agent LLM System with Reinforcement Learning

Bowen Jin, TJ Collins, Donghan Yu +10

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit complementary strengths across domains and come with varying inference costs, motivating the design of multi-agent LLM systems where specialize…

cs.CL2025

An Empirical Study on Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning-Search Interleaved LLM Agents

Bowen Jin, Jinsung Yoon, Priyanka Kargupta +2

Reinforcement learning (RL) has demonstrated strong potential in training large language models (LLMs) capable of complex reasoning for real-world problem solving. More recently, R…

cs.LG2025

Hypercube-Based Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Scientific Question-Answering

Jimeng Shi, Sizhe Zhou, Bowen Jin +5

Large language models (LLMs) often need to incorporate external knowledge to solve theme-specific problems. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has shown its high promise, empower…

cs.CL2025

Hybrid Latent Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning

Zhenrui Yue, Bowen Jin, Huimin Zeng +6

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have introduced latent reasoning as a promising alternative to autoregressive reasoning. By performing internal computation with hid…

cs.IR2025

CoRank: LLM-Based Compact Reranking with Document Features for Scientific Retrieval

Runchu Tian, Xueqiang Xu, Bowen Jin +2

Scientific retrieval is essential for advancing scientific knowledge discovery. Within this process, document reranking plays a critical role in refining first-stage retrieval resu…

cs.AI2025

GRAPHGPT-O: Synergistic Multimodal Comprehension and Generation on Graphs

Yi Fang, Bowen Jin, Jiacheng Shen +3

The rapid development of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has enabled the integration of multiple modalities, including texts and images, within the large language model (L…

cs.CL2025★ 12 cited

Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with Reinforcement Learning

Bowen Jin, Hansi Zeng, Zhenrui Yue +5

Efficiently acquiring external knowledge and up-to-date information is essential for effective reasoning and text generation in large language models (LLMs). Prompting advanced LLM…

cs.IR2025

Improving Scientific Document Retrieval with Concept Coverage-based Query Set Generation

SeongKu Kang, Bowen Jin, Wonbin Kweon +4

In specialized fields like the scientific domain, constructing large-scale human-annotated datasets poses a significant challenge due to the need for domain expertise. Recent metho…

cs.CL2025

LLM Alignment as Retriever Optimization: An Information Retrieval Perspective

Bowen Jin, Jinsung Yoon, Zhen Qin +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized artificial intelligence with capabilities in reasoning, coding, and communication, driving innovation across industries. Their true…

cs.LG2025★ 4 cited

Deep Learning and Foundation Models for Weather Prediction: A Survey

Jimeng Shi, Azam Shirali, Bowen Jin +10

Physics-based numerical models have been the bedrock of atmospheric sciences for decades, offering robust solutions but often at the cost of significant computational resources. De…

cs.LG2024

Can Graph Neural Networks Learn Language with Extremely Weak Text Supervision?

Zihao Li, Lecheng Zheng, Bowen Jin +5

While great success has been achieved in building vision models with Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) over internet-scale image-text pairs, building transferable Grap…

cs.AI2024

InstructG2I: Synthesizing Images from Multimodal Attributed Graphs

Bowen Jin, Ziqi Pang, Bingjun Guo +3

In this paper, we approach an overlooked yet critical task Graph2Image: generating images from multimodal attributed graphs (MMAGs). This task poses significant challenges due to t…

cs.CL2024★ 5 cited

Long-Context LLMs Meet RAG: Overcoming Challenges for Long Inputs in RAG

Bowen Jin, Jinsung Yoon, Jiawei Han +1

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) empowers large language models (LLMs) to utilize external knowledge sources. The increasing capacity of LLMs to process longer input sequences…

cs.LG2024

CoDiCast: Conditional Diffusion Model for Global Weather Prediction with Uncertainty Quantification

Jimeng Shi, Bowen Jin, Jiawei Han +2

Accurate weather forecasting is critical for science and society. Yet, existing methods have not managed to simultaneously have the properties of high accuracy, low uncertainty, an…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

A Comprehensive Survey of Scientific Large Language Models and Their Applications in Scientific Discovery

Yu Zhang, Xiusi Chen, Bowen Jin +4

In many scientific fields, large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized the way text and other modalities of data (e.g., molecules and proteins) are handled, achieving superior…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Graph Chain-of-Thought: Augmenting Large Language Models by Reasoning on Graphs

Bowen Jin, Chulin Xie, Jiawei Zhang +8

Large language models (LLMs), while exhibiting exceptional performance, suffer from hallucinations, especially on knowledge-intensive tasks. Existing works propose to augment LLMs…

cs.IR2024

Improving Retrieval in Theme-specific Applications using a Corpus Topical Taxonomy

SeongKu Kang, Shivam Agarwal, Bowen Jin +3

Document retrieval has greatly benefited from the advancements of large-scale pre-trained language models (PLMs). However, their effectiveness is often limited in theme-specific ap…

cs.CL2024

Seed-Guided Fine-Grained Entity Typing in Science and Engineering Domains

Yu Zhang, Yunyi Zhang, Yanzhen Shen +5

Accurately typing entity mentions from text segments is a fundamental task for various natural language processing applications. Many previous approaches rely on massive human-anno…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

A Unified Taxonomy-Guided Instruction Tuning Framework for Entity Set Expansion and Taxonomy Expansion

Yanzhen Shen, Yu Zhang, Yunyi Zhang +1

Entity set expansion, taxonomy expansion, and seed-guided taxonomy construction are three representative tasks that can be applied to automatically populate an existing taxonomy wi…

cs.CL2024

Grasping the Essentials: Tailoring Large Language Models for Zero-Shot Relation Extraction

Sizhe Zhou, Yu Meng, Bowen Jin +1

Relation extraction (RE) aims to identify semantic relationships between entities within text. Despite considerable advancements, existing models predominantly require extensive an…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Ontology Enrichment for Effective Fine-grained Entity Typing

Siru Ouyang, Jiaxin Huang, Pranav Pillai +3

Fine-grained entity typing (FET) is the task of identifying specific entity types at a fine-grained level for entity mentions based on their contextual information. Conventional me…