collaborators

11 papers

cs.IR2026

Revisiting Text Ranking in Deep Research

Chuan Meng, Litu Ou, Sean MacAvaney +1

Deep research has emerged as an important task that aims to address hard queries that need extensive open-web exploration. To tackle it, most prior work equips large language model…

cs.CL2026

Storyline Trees: Hierarchical Representations for Long-Form Narratives

Litu Ou, Mirella Lapata

Long-form narratives are challenging for long-context models because their structure is implicit: events, characters, and plotlines interact across hundreds of pages without the ex…

cs.CL2026

Tongyi DeepResearch Technical Report

Tongyi DeepResearch Team, Baixuan Li, Bo Zhang +54

We present Tongyi DeepResearch, an agentic large language model, which is specifically designed for long-horizon, deep information-seeking research tasks. To incentivize autonomous…

cs.CL2026

ReSum: Unlocking Long-Horizon Search Intelligence via Context Summarization

Xixi Wu, Kuan Li, Yida Zhao +13

Large Language Model (LLM)-based web agents excel at knowledge-intensive tasks but face a fundamental conflict between the need for extensive exploration and the constraints of lim…

cs.CL2026

Uncertainty-Aware Gradient Signal-to-Noise Data Selection for Instruction Tuning

Zhihang Yuan, Chengyu Yue, Long Huang +2

Instruction tuning is a standard paradigm for adapting large language models (LLMs), but modern instruction datasets are large, noisy, and redundant, making full-data fine-tuning c…

cs.CL2025

BrowseConf: Confidence-Guided Test-Time Scaling for Web Agents

Litu Ou, Kuan Li, Huifeng Yin +8

Confidence in LLMs is a useful indicator of model uncertainty and answer reliability. Existing work mainly focused on single-turn scenarios, while research on confidence in complex…