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most citedSeven Failure Points When Engineering a Retrieval Augmented Generation System

9 citations · 19 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.SE2026

Intent-Level Quantum Programming with Assertion-Guided Execution and Inspectable Intermediate Representation

Ilesh Vora, Srikanth Thudumu, John Carlson +2

Quantum programs are difficult to validate: circuits are typically expressed as imperative gate sequences with limited inspectability, execution modalities must be selected manuall…

cs.CV2026

Pretraining Objective Matters in Extreme Low-Data FGVC: A Backbone-Controlled Study

Alexander Hackett, Srikanth Thudumu, Ginny Fisher +1

Extreme low-data fine-grained classification is common in expert domains where labeling is expensive, yet practitioners still need principled guidance for selecting pretrained enco…

cs.MA2025

Goal-Oriented Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Decentralized Agent Teams

Hung Du, Hy Nguyen, Srikanth Thudumu +2

Connected and autonomous vehicles across land, water, and air must often operate in dynamic, unpredictable environments with limited communication, no centralized control, and part…

quant-ph2025

Supervised Quantum Machine Learning: A Future Outlook from Qubits to Enterprise Applications

Srikanth Thudumu, Jason Fisher, Hung Du

Supervised Quantum Machine Learning (QML) represents an intersection of quantum computing and classical machine learning, aiming to use quantum resources to support model training…

cs.AI2025

OpenAg: Democratizing Agricultural Intelligence

Srikanth Thudumu, Jason Fisher

Agriculture is undergoing a major transformation driven by artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and knowledge representation technologies. However, current agricultural…

cs.LG2025

The M-factor: A Novel Metric for Evaluating Neural Architecture Search in Resource-Constrained Environments

Srikanth Thudumu, Hy Nguyen, Hung Du +6

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to automate the design of deep neural networks. However, existing NAS techniques often focus on maximising accuracy, neglecting model efficien…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Overcoming Semantic Dilution in Transformer-Based Next Frame Prediction

Hy Nguyen, Srikanth Thudumu, Hung Du +2

Next-frame prediction in videos is crucial for applications such as autonomous driving, object tracking, and motion prediction. The primary challenge in next-frame prediction lies…

cs.MA2025

Contextual Knowledge Sharing in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Decentralized Communication and Coordination

Hung Du, Srikanth Thudumu, Hy Nguyen +2

Decentralized Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (Dec-MARL) has emerged as a pivotal approach for addressing complex tasks in dynamic environments. Existing Multi-Agent Reinforceme…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

CSAOT: Cooperative Multi-Agent System for Active Object Tracking

Hy Nguyen, Bao Pham, Hung Du +3

Object Tracking is essential for many computer vision applications, such as autonomous navigation, surveillance, and robotics. Unlike Passive Object Tracking (POT), which relies on…

cs.LG2025

Local Control Networks (LCNs): Optimizing Flexibility in Neural Network Data Pattern Capture

Hy Nguyen, Duy Khoa Pham, Srikanth Thudumu +3

The widespread use of Multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) often relies on a fixed activation function (e.g., ReLU, Sigmoid, Tanh) for all nodes within the hidden layers. While effective…

cs.LG2025

Dual-Branch HNSW Approach with Skip Bridges and LID-Driven Optimization

Hy Nguyen, Nguyen Hung Nguyen, Nguyen Linh Bao Nguyen +4

The Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) algorithm is widely used for approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search, leveraging the principles of navigable small-world graphs. How…

cs.SE2024

Large language models for generating rules, yay or nay?

Shangeetha Sivasothy, Scott Barnett, Rena Logothetis +4

Engineering safety-critical systems such as medical devices and digital health intervention systems is complex, where long-term engagement with subject-matter experts (SMEs) is nee…

cs.MA2024★ 7 cited

A Survey on Context-Aware Multi-Agent Systems: Techniques, Challenges and Future Directions

Hung Du, Srikanth Thudumu, Rajesh Vasa +1

Research interest in autonomous agents is on the rise as an emerging topic. The notable achievements of Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated the considerable potential to…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

LLMs for Test Input Generation for Semantic Caches

Zafaryab Rasool, Scott Barnett, David Willie +4

Large language models (LLMs) enable state-of-the-art semantic capabilities to be added to software systems such as semantic search of unstructured documents and text generation. Ho…

cs.SE2024★ 9 cited

Seven Failure Points When Engineering a Retrieval Augmented Generation System

Scott Barnett, Stefanus Kurniawan, Srikanth Thudumu +2

Software engineers are increasingly adding semantic search capabilities to applications using a strategy known as Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). A RAG system involves findin…