most citedRankers, Judges, and Assistants: Towards Understanding the Interplay of LLMs in Information Retrieval Evaluation

21 citations · 22 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.LG2026

HyperDFlash: Hyper-Connection-Aligned Block Speculative Decoding with Gated Residual Reduction

Luxi Lin, Shuang Peng, Rui Ma +7

We present HyperDFlash, a block-parallel speculative decoding framework tailored to DeepSeek-V4's Hyper-Connections (HC). Despite the strong performance of DeepSeek-V4's native Mul…

cs.RO2026

RoboLineage: Agent-Native Data Lifecycle Governance Across Robot Policy Iterations

Qian Luo, Wentao Guo, Zhennan Qin +4

We present RoboLineage, an agent-native data lifecycle governance system for robot policy iteration. Modern robot policies improve through repeated data collection, review, retrain…

cs.CL2026

RuCL: Stratified Rubric-Based Curriculum Learning for Multimodal Large Language Model Reasoning

Yukun Chen, Jiaming Li, Longze Chen +10

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a prevailing paradigm for enhancing reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, relying sol…

cs.LG2026

Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for History-Aware Dense Retriever in RAG

Yicheng Zhang, Zhen Qin, Zhaomin Wu +2

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enables large language models (LLMs) to produce evidence-based responses, and its performance hinges on the matching between the retriever and…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

Neural Architecture Discovery via Autonomous Evolution

Yixiu Liu, Yang Nan, Weixian Xu +4

Recent progress in LLM agents has advanced the prospect of autonomous research. Yet whether AI can complete difficult long-horizon tasks, especially those that advance AI research…

cs.CV2025

Accelerate TarFlow Sampling with GS-Jacobi Iteration

Ben Liu, Zhen Qin

Image generation models have achieved widespread applications. As an instance, the TarFlow model combines the transformer architecture with Normalizing Flow models, achieving state…

cs.CL2025

Hybrid Latent Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning

Zhenrui Yue, Bowen Jin, Huimin Zeng +6

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have introduced latent reasoning as a promising alternative to autoregressive reasoning. By performing internal computation with hid…

cs.CL2025

Can Pre-training Indicators Reliably Predict Fine-tuning Outcomes of LLMs?

Hansi Zeng, Kai Hui, Honglei Zhuang +4

While metrics available during pre-training, such as perplexity, correlate well with model performance at scaling-laws studies, their predictive capacities at a fixed model size re…

cs.IR2025★ 21 cited

Rankers, Judges, and Assistants: Towards Understanding the Interplay of LLMs in Information Retrieval Evaluation

Krisztian Balog, Donald Metzler, Zhen Qin

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integral to information retrieval (IR), powering ranking, evaluation, and AI-assisted content creation. This widespread adoption neces…

cs.CL2025

LLM Alignment as Retriever Optimization: An Information Retrieval Perspective

Bowen Jin, Jinsung Yoon, Zhen Qin +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized artificial intelligence with capabilities in reasoning, coding, and communication, driving innovation across industries. Their true…