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most citedKnowledge-tuning Large Language Models with Structured Medical Knowledge Bases for Reliable Response Generation in Chinese

19 citations · 36 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.CL2026

Taking the PULSE of Medical Reasoning: Step-Level Retrieval Timing for Knowledge-Grounded Inference

Danyang Zhao, Sendong Zhao, Yanrui Du +6

Reliable medical reasoning requires LLMs to dynamically access external biomedical evidence to improve factual trustworthiness and reasoning accuracy. However, indiscriminate retri…

cs.CL2026

How Reliable Are System-One Decisions in Medicine? A Comparative Study of Jev, Jev-like Models, and LLMs

Yanrui Du, Danyang Zhao, Sendong Zhao +6

Jev has attracted considerable attention for its rapid, generalizable decision-making, yet its medical reliability remains underexplored. To address this gap, our study compares va…

cs.LG2026

SL-BiLEM: Structured Learnable Behavior-in-the-Loop Epidemic Modeling for Forecasting and Policy Evaluation

Haochun Wang, Sendong Zhao, Jingbo Wang +3

Epidemic forecasting faces a fundamental challenge: human behavior dynamically responds to disease spread, creating feedback loops that induce distribution shifts at policy interve…

cs.CL2026

From Latent Signals to Reflection Behavior: Tracing Meta-Cognitive Activation Trajectory in R1-Style LLMs

Yanrui Du, Yibo Gao, Sendong Zhao +6

R1-style LLMs have attracted growing attention for their capacity for self-reflection, yet the internal mechanisms underlying such behavior remain unclear. To bridge this gap, we a…

cs.LG2026

medR: Reward Engineering for Clinical Offline Reinforcement Learning via Tri-Drive Potential Functions

Qianyi Xu, Gousia Habib, Feng Wu +5

Reinforcement Learning (RL) offers a powerful framework for optimizing dynamic treatment regimes (DTRs). However, clinical RL is fundamentally bottlenecked by reward engineering: t…

cs.CL2026

S3-CoT: Self-Sampled Succinct Reasoning Enables Efficient Chain-of-Thought LLMs

Yanrui Du, Sendong Zhao, Yibo Gao +9

Large language models (LLMs) equipped with chain-of-thought (CoT) achieve strong performance and offer a window into LLM behavior. However, recent evidence suggests that improvemen…

cs.AI2026

OptiSet: Unified Optimizing Set Selection and Ranking for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Yi Jiang, Sendong Zhao, Jianbo Li +4

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) improves generation quality by incorporating evidence retrieved from large external corpora. However, most existing methods rely on statically…

cs.CV2025

Med-Banana: Learning Quality-Controlled Medical Image Editing from Success-and-Failure Trajectories

Zhihui Chen, Qingyuan Lei, Kai He +2

Text-guided medical image editing must satisfy the requested pathology while preserving anatomy, modality-specific appearance, and clinical plausibility. However, existing datasets…

cs.CL2025

MoGU V2: Toward a Higher Pareto Frontier Between Model Usability and Security

Yanrui Du, Fenglei Fan, Sendong Zhao +3

As Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly permeate human life, their security has emerged as a critical concern, particularly their ability to maintain harmless responses to mal…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Anchoring Refusal Direction: Mitigating Safety Risks in Tuning via Projection Constraint

Yanrui Du, Fenglei Fan, Sendong Zhao +6

Instruction Fine-Tuning (IFT) has been widely adopted as an effective post-training strategy to enhance various abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, prior studies ha…

cs.CL2024

Toward Secure Tuning: Mitigating Security Risks from Instruction Fine-Tuning

Yanrui Du, Sendong Zhao, Jiawei Cao +6

Instruction fine-tuning has emerged as a critical technique for customizing Large Language Models (LLMs) to specific applications. However, recent studies have highlighted signific…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

MolFusion: Multimodal Fusion Learning for Molecular Representations via Multi-granularity Views

Muzhen Cai, Sendong Zhao, Haochun Wang +4

Artificial Intelligence predicts drug properties by encoding drug molecules, aiding in the rapid screening of candidates. Different molecular representations, such as SMILES and mo…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

MoGU: A Framework for Enhancing Safety of Open-Sourced LLMs While Preserving Their Usability

Yanrui Du, Sendong Zhao, Danyang Zhao +6

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in various applications. As their usage grows, concerns regarding their safety are rising, especially in maintaining harmless…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

MolTailor: Tailoring Chemical Molecular Representation to Specific Tasks via Text Prompts

Haoqiang Guo, Sendong Zhao, Haochun Wang +2

Deep learning is now widely used in drug discovery, providing significant acceleration and cost reduction. As the most fundamental building block, molecular representation is essen…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Analyzing the Inherent Response Tendency of LLMs: Real-World Instructions-Driven Jailbreak

Yanrui Du, Sendong Zhao, Ming Ma +2

Extensive work has been devoted to improving the safety mechanism of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, LLMs still tend to generate harmful responses when faced with malicious…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Make Your Decision Convincing! A Unified Two-Stage Framework: Self-Attribution and Decision-Making

Yanrui Du, Sendong Zhao, Haochun Wang +5

Explaining black-box model behavior with natural language has achieved impressive results in various NLP tasks. Recent research has explored the utilization of subsequences from th…

cs.CL2023★ 19 cited

Knowledge-tuning Large Language Models with Structured Medical Knowledge Bases for Reliable Response Generation in Chinese

Haochun Wang, Sendong Zhao, Zewen Qiang +9

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success in diverse natural language processing (NLP) tasks in general domains. However, LLMs sometimes generate responses…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

GLS-CSC: A Simple but Effective Strategy to Mitigate Chinese STM Models' Over-Reliance on Superficial Clue

Yanrui Du, Sendong Zhao, Yuhan Chen +5

Pre-trained models have achieved success in Chinese Short Text Matching (STM) tasks, but they often rely on superficial clues, leading to a lack of robust predictions. To address t…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

From Artificially Real to Real: Leveraging Pseudo Data from Large Language Models for Low-Resource Molecule Discovery

Yuhan Chen, Nuwa Xi, Yanrui Du +4

Molecule discovery serves as a cornerstone in numerous scientific domains, fueling the development of new materials and innovative drug designs. Recent developments of in-silico mo…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

Don't Ignore Dual Logic Ability of LLMs while Privatizing: A Data-Intensive Analysis in Medical Domain

Yanrui Du, Sendong Zhao, Muzhen Cai +4

Extensive studies have been devoted to privatizing general-domain Large Language Models (LLMs) as Domain-Specific LLMs via feeding specific-domain data. However, these privatizatio…

cs.CL2022

Less Learn Shortcut: Analyzing and Mitigating Learning of Spurious Feature-Label Correlation

Yanrui Du, Jing Yan, Yan Chen +6

Recent research has revealed that deep neural networks often take dataset biases as a shortcut to make decisions rather than understand tasks, leading to failures in real-world app…