3 papers
cs.CL2025
Pathways of Thoughts: Multi-Directional Thinking for Long-form Personalized Question Answering
Alireza Salemi, Cheng Li, Mingyang Zhang +7
Personalization is well studied in search and recommendation, but personalized question answering remains underexplored due to challenges in inferring preferences from long, noisy,…
cs.CL2025
Reasoning-Enhanced Self-Training for Long-Form Personalized Text Generation
Alireza Salemi, Cheng Li, Mingyang Zhang +6
Personalized text generation requires a unique ability of large language models (LLMs) to learn from context that they often do not encounter during their standard training. One wa…
cs.CL2024
Retrieval Augmented Generation or Long-Context LLMs? A Comprehensive Study and Hybrid Approach
Zhuowan Li, Cheng Li, Mingyang Zhang +2
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has been a powerful tool for Large Language Models (LLMs) to efficiently process overly lengthy contexts. However, recent LLMs like Gemini-1.5…