most citedWhen to use Graphs in RAG: A Comprehensive Analysis for Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation

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cs.AI2026

Memadapter: Counterfactual Adaptation Against Memory-induced Sycophancy

Ruqing Ning, Haibo Meng, Zhishang Xiang +4

Long-term memory enables LLM-based agents to retain and reuse information across tasks and sessions, supporting personalization and long-horizon interactions. However, persistent m…

cs.CL2026

Cognitive Enhancement: Rethinking the Necessity of Role-Playing for Large Language Models

Xingjie Zhuang, Jialong Tang, Chulun Zhou +5

Role-playing prompting has become a popular yet simple technique for improving LLM reasoning and output quality. However, whether it consistently boosts performance across diverse…

cs.AI2026

CulturalMenuBench: Probing the Knowledge-Application Gap in Multimodal Culinary Reasoning

Bo Zeng, Linfeng Gao, Peiqin Lin +9

Multimodal language models achieve near-ceiling scores on food recognition benchmarks, yet it remains unclear whether this success reflects genuine cultural understanding or mere v…

cs.IR2026

Graph Engineering in the Era of LLM Agents: From Individual Intelligence to System Intelligence

Yuyuan Feng, Zhishang Xiang, Chaobin Yang +32

LLMs have evolved from language generators to autonomous agents capable of complex, long-horizon tasks. This evolution has produced paradigms including Prompt Engineering to elicit…

cs.IR2026

MemSyco-Bench: Benchmarking Sycophancy in Agent Memory

Zhishang Xiang, Zerui Chen, Yunbo Tang +5

Memory has emerged as a cornerstone of modern LLM-based agents, supporting their evolution from single-turn assistants to long-term collaborators. However, memory is not always ben…

cs.AI2026

SAAS: Self-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Over-Search Mitigation in Agentic Search

Yunbo Tang, Chengyi Yang, Shiyu Liu +4

Agentic search enables LLMs to solve complex multi-hop questions through iterative reasoning and external search. Despite the effectiveness, these systems often suffer from a criti…

cs.IR2026

MemGraphRAG: Memory-based Multi-Agent System for Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Chuanjie Wu, Zhishang Xiang, Yunbo Tang +3

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become an essential method for mitigating hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs) by leveraging external knowledge. Although effecti…

cs.CL2026

LegalGraphRAG: Multi-Agent Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Reliable Legal Reasoning

Zerui Chen, Qinggang Zhang, Zhishang Xiang +5

Graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) advances flat document retrieval by structuring knowledge as relational graphs, enabling more coherent and effective reasoning…

cs.AI2026

Graph-based Agent Memory: Taxonomy, Techniques, and Applications

Chang Yang, Chuang Zhou, Yilin Xiao +15

Memory emerges as the core module in the Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents for long-horizon complex tasks (e.g., multi-turn dialogue, game playing, scientific discovery), whe…

cs.LG2026

TTCS: Test-Time Curriculum Synthesis for Self-Evolving

Chengyi Yang, Zhishang Xiang, Yunbo Tang +5

Test-Time Training offers a promising way to improve the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs) by adapting the model using only the test questions. However, existing me…

cs.AI2026

BAPO: Boundary-Aware Policy Optimization for Reliable Agentic Search

Shiyu Liu, Yongjing Yin, Jianhao Yan +7

RL-based agentic search enables LLMs to solve complex questions via dynamic planning and external search. While this approach significantly enhances accuracy with agent policies op…

cs.MM2025

Augmenting Intra-Modal Understanding in MLLMs for Robust Multimodal Keyphrase Generation

Jiajun Cao, Qinggang Zhang, Yunbo Tang +3

Multimodal keyphrase generation (MKP) aims to extract a concise set of keyphrases that capture the essential meaning of paired image-text inputs, enabling structured understanding,…

cs.CL2025

Beyond Black-Box Interventions: Latent Probing for Faithful Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Linfeng Gao, Qinggang Zhang, Baolong Bi +9

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems often fail to maintain contextual faithfulness, generating responses that conflict with the provided context or fail to fully leverage…

cs.CL2025

FaithfulRAG: Fact-Level Conflict Modeling for Context-Faithful Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Qinggang Zhang, Zhishang Xiang, Yilin Xiao +4

Large language models (LLMs) augmented with retrieval systems have demonstrated significant potential in handling knowledge-intensive tasks. However, these models often struggle wi…

cs.CL2025★ 4 cited

When to use Graphs in RAG: A Comprehensive Analysis for Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Zhishang Xiang, Chuanjie Wu, Qinggang Zhang +4

Graph retrieval-augmented generation (GraphRAG) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for enhancing large language models (LLMs) with external knowledge. It leverages graphs to model…