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most citedUncertainty Calibration for Counterfactual Propensity Estimation in Recommendation

4 citations · 8 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.CL2026

EviSD: Evidence-Conditioned Self-Distillation for Search-Augmented Agents

Jianan Xie, Xin Sun, Zhongqi Chen +4

Outcome-based reinforcement learning enables search-augmented language agents to learn from verifiable final answers, but its trajectory-level credit cannot distinguish the contrib…

cs.CL2026

HopRefusalBench: Diagnosing Refusal Failures in Search-Augmented Agents for Multi-Hop Reasoning

Jianan Xie, Xin Sun, Zhongqi Chen +3

Search-augmented large language model agents are increasingly capable of solving knowledge-intensive tasks, but their behavior when a multi-hop question is fundamentally unanswerab…

cs.CL2026

GAPD: Gold-Action Policy Distillation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning in Knowledge Base Question Answering

Xin Sun, Jianan Xie, Zhongqi Chen +6

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a natural fit for agentic knowledge base question answering (KBQA), where a model must issue executable actions, observe knowledge-base feedback, and…

cs.LG2026

Revealing Combinatorial Reasoning of GNNs via Graph Concept Bottleneck Layer

Yue Niu, Zhaokai Sun, Jiayi Yang +5

Despite their success in various domains, the growing dependence on GNNs raises a critical concern about the nature of the combinatorial reasoning underlying their predictions, whi…

cs.CV2026

Multimodal Adaptive Retrieval Augmented Generation through Internal Representation Learning

Ruoshuang Du, Xin Sun, Qiang Liu +4

Visual Question Answering systems face reliability issues due to hallucinations, where models generate answers misaligned with visual input or factual knowledge. While Retrieval Au…

cs.AI2026

ToolWeaver: Weaving Collaborative Semantics for Scalable Tool Use in Large Language Models

Bowen Fang, Wen Ye, Yunyue Su +8

Prevalent retrieval-based tool-use pipelines struggle with a dual semantic challenge: their retrievers often employ encoders that fail to capture complex semantics, while the Large…

cs.CL2026★ 1 cited

Predict the Retrieval! Test time adaptation for Retrieval Augmented Generation

Xin Sun, Zhongqi Chen, Qiang Liu +5

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a powerful approach for enhancing large language models' question-answering capabilities through the integration of external kno…

cs.CL2025

KBQA-R1: Reinforcing Large Language Models for Knowledge Base Question Answering

Xin Sun, Zhongqi Chen, Xing Zheng +6

Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) challenges models to bridge the gap between natural language and strict knowledge graph schemas by generating executable logical forms. Whi…

cs.CL2025

Divide-Then-Align: Honest Alignment based on the Knowledge Boundary of RAG

Xin Sun, Jianan Xie, Zhongqi Chen +7

Large language models (LLMs) augmented with retrieval systems have significantly advanced natural language processing tasks by integrating external knowledge sources, enabling more…

cs.IR2025

Uncovering Competing Poisoning Attacks in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Liuji Chen, Xiaofang Yang, Yuanzhuo Lu +6

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems improve the factual grounding of large language models (LLMs) but remain vulnerable to retrieval poisoning, where adversaries seed the…

cs.LG2024

Pin-Tuning: Parameter-Efficient In-Context Tuning for Few-Shot Molecular Property Prediction

Liang Wang, Qiang Liu, Shaozhen Liu +2

Molecular property prediction (MPP) is integral to drug discovery and material science, but often faces the challenge of data scarcity in real-world scenarios. Addressing this, few…

cs.LG2024

DIVE: Subgraph Disagreement for Graph Out-of-Distribution Generalization

Xin Sun, Liang Wang, Qiang Liu +2

This paper addresses the challenge of out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization in graph machine learning, a field rapidly advancing yet grappling with the discrepancy between sourc…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

GSLB: The Graph Structure Learning Benchmark

Zhixun Li, Liang Wang, Xin Sun +8

Graph Structure Learning (GSL) has recently garnered considerable attention due to its ability to optimize both the parameters of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and the computation g…

cs.AI2023★ 4 cited

Uncertainty Calibration for Counterfactual Propensity Estimation in Recommendation

Wenbo Hu, Xin Sun, Qiang liu +2

Post-click conversion rate (CVR) is a reliable indicator of online customers' preferences, making it crucial for developing recommender systems. A major challenge in predicting CVR…