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most citedBootstrapping Contrastive Learning Enhanced Music Cold-Start Matching

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

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16 papers

cs.CL2026

Lychee-Reranker: Fast but Not Late Interaction for Compressed Document Reranking

Xinping Zhao, Jiaxin Xu, Ziqi Dai +10

As retrieval systems scale, effective and efficient reranking becomes increasingly important. However, most existing encoder- and decoder-based rerankers jointly process every quer…

cs.AI2026

Bidirectional Curriculum Generation: A Multi-Agent Framework for Data-Efficient Mathematical Reasoning

Boren Hu, Xiao Liu, Boci Peng +4

Enhancing mathematical reasoning in Large Language Models typically demands massive datasets, yet data efficiency remains a critical bottleneck. While Curriculum Learning attempts…

cs.CL2026

LMEB: Long-horizon Memory Embedding Benchmark

Xinping Zhao, Xinshuo Hu, Jiaxin Xu +9

Embedding models are increasingly used as retrievers in memory-augmented systems, but are typically evaluated on traditional passage retrieval benchmarks. It remains unclear whethe…

cs.CL2025

On The Role of Pretrained Language Models in General-Purpose Text Embeddings: A Survey

Meishan Zhang, Xin Zhang, Xinping Zhao +3

Text embeddings have attracted growing interest due to their effectiveness across a wide range of natural language processing (NLP) tasks, including retrieval, classification, clus…

cs.CL2025

Learning to Extract Rational Evidence via Reinforcement Learning for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Xinping Zhao, Shouzheng Huang, Yan Zhong +4

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) effectively improves the accuracy of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, retrieval noises significantly undermine the quality of LLMs' gener…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

KaLM-Embedding-V2: Superior Training Techniques and Data Inspire A Versatile Embedding Model

Xinping Zhao, Xinshuo Hu, Zifei Shan +14

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs)-based text embedding models primarily focus on data scaling or synthesis, yet limited exploration of training techniques and dat…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Perception, Reason, Think, and Plan: A Survey on Large Multimodal Reasoning Models

Yunxin Li, Zhenyu Liu, Zitao Li +19

Reasoning lies at the heart of intelligence, shaping the ability to make decisions, draw conclusions, and generalize across domains. In artificial intelligence, as systems increasi…

cs.CL2025

Take Off the Training Wheels Progressive In-Context Learning for Effective Alignment

Zhenyu Liu, Dongfang Li, Xinshuo Hu +4

Recent studies have explored the working mechanisms of In-Context Learning (ICL). However, they mainly focus on classification and simple generation tasks, limiting their broader a…

cs.CL2025★ 3 cited

KaLM-Embedding: Superior Training Data Brings A Stronger Embedding Model

Xinshuo Hu, Zifei Shan, Xinping Zhao +10

As retrieval-augmented generation prevails in large language models, embedding models are becoming increasingly crucial. Despite the growing number of general embedding models, pri…

cs.IR2024

RaSeRec: Retrieval-Augmented Sequential Recommendation

Xinping Zhao, Baotian Hu, Yan Zhong +5

Although prevailing supervised and self-supervised learning augmented sequential recommendation (SeRec) models have achieved improved performance with powerful neural network archi…

cs.CL2024

SEER: Self-Aligned Evidence Extraction for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Xinping Zhao, Dongfang Li, Yan Zhong +4

Recent studies in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) have investigated extracting evidence from retrieved passages to reduce computational costs and enhance the final RAG perform…

cs.CL2024

Medico: Towards Hallucination Detection and Correction with Multi-source Evidence Fusion

Xinping Zhao, Jindi Yu, Zhenyu Liu +5

As we all know, hallucinations prevail in Large Language Models (LLMs), where the generated content is coherent but factually incorrect, which inflicts a heavy blow on the widespre…

cs.IR2024

Enhancing Attributed Graph Networks with Alignment and Uniformity Constraints for Session-based Recommendation

Xinping Zhao, Chaochao Chen, Jiajie Su +2

Session-based Recommendation (SBR), seeking to predict a user's next action based on an anonymous session, has drawn increasing attention for its practicability. Most SBR models on…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

FunnelRAG: A Coarse-to-Fine Progressive Retrieval Paradigm for RAG

Xinping Zhao, Yan Zhong, Zetian Sun +5

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) prevails in Large Language Models. It mainly consists of retrieval and generation. The retrieval modules (a.k.a. retrievers) aim to find useful…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

LLaSA: Large Language and E-Commerce Shopping Assistant

Shuo Zhang, Boci Peng, Xinping Zhao +4

The e-commerce platform has evolved rapidly due to its widespread popularity and convenience. Developing an e-commerce shopping assistant for customers is crucial to aiding them in…

cs.IR2023★ 4 cited

Bootstrapping Contrastive Learning Enhanced Music Cold-Start Matching

Xinping Zhao, Ying Zhang, Qiang Xiao +2

We study a particular matching task we call Music Cold-Start Matching. In short, given a cold-start song request, we expect to retrieve songs with similar audiences and then fastly…