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most citedDomain Specialization as the Key to Make Large Language Models Disruptive: A Comprehensive Survey

74 citations · 87 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.AI2026

SpecForge: Recursive Self-Improvement for Coding Agents via Behavioral Specifications

Yutong Cheng, Haifeng Chen, Peng Gao +1

Coding agents based on frozen language models can improve their performance by refining the external context they rely on, without updating model weights. We study recursive self-i…

cs.CV2026

Knossos and Ariadne: Benchmarking and Learning Complete Diagram Topology Extraction with Vision-Language Models

Bangwei Guo, Xujiang Zhao, Shengyu Chen +6

Structural diagrams are widely used to represent complex systems and relational information across scientific, engineering, procedural, and spatial domains. Recent vision-language…

cs.AI2026

Pay for the Fault, Not the Flow: Label-Free In-Flow Multi-Agent Workflow Optimization

Xuehang Guo, Haoyu Wang, Shengyu Chen +4

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly construct multi-agent workflows that decompose a complex task and assign specialist agents from a pool. However, building such a workflow…

cs.CV2026

TopoAgent: A Structure-Aware Perception-to-Reasoning Framework for Diagram-to-Graph Topology Extraction with Large Vision-Language Models

Bangwei Guo, Xujiang Zhao, Yanchi Liu +7

Diagram-to-graph topology extraction aims to extract a graph of entities and their connections from a structural diagram. This task remains challenging for current vision-language…

cs.AI2026

MIITA: Memory-Induced Inference-Time Adaptation for Continual Learning with Small Language Models

Dong Li, Yanchi Liu, Xujiang Zhao +6

Continual learning (CL) is essential for small language models (SLMs) to adapt to evolving real-world needs in resource-constrained deployments. However, directly updating their li…

cs.LG2026

SkillRL: Evolving Agents via Recursive Skill-Augmented Reinforcement Learning

Peng Xia, Jianwen Chen, Hanyang Wang +10

Large Language Model (LLM) agents have shown stunning results in complex tasks, yet they often operate in isolation, failing to learn from past experiences. Existing memory-based m…

cs.AI2026

Multi-Agent Procedural Graph Extraction with Structural and Logical Refinement

Wangyang Ying, Yanchi Liu, Xujiang Zhao +5

Automatically extracting workflows as procedural graphs from natural language is promising yet underexplored, demanding both structural validity and logical alignment. While recent…

cs.AI2025

Representation Interventions Enable Lifelong Knowledge Memory Control in LLMs

Xuyuan Liu, Shengyu Chen, Xinshuai Dong +6

Large language models (LLMs) often produce incorrect or outdated content after being employed. Efficient and accurate knowledge updates without costly retraining are a major challe…

cs.CL2025

DeepSieve: Information Sieving via LLM-as-a-Knowledge-Router

Minghao Guo, Qingcheng Zeng, Xujiang Zhao +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at many reasoning tasks but struggle with knowledge-intensive queries due to their inability to dynamically access up-to-date or domain-specific…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

SAUP: Situation Awareness Uncertainty Propagation on LLM Agent

Qiwei Zhao, Xujiang Zhao, Yanchi Liu +7

Large language models (LLMs) integrated into multistep agent systems enable complex decision-making processes across various applications. However, their outputs often lack reliabi…

cs.CL2024

Pruning as a Domain-specific LLM Extractor

Nan Zhang, Yanchi Liu, Xujiang Zhao +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable proficiency across a wide array of NLP tasks. However, the escalation in model size also engenders substantial deployment cos…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Uncertainty Quantification for In-Context Learning of Large Language Models

Chen Ling, Xujiang Zhao, Xuchao Zhang +10

In-context learning has emerged as a groundbreaking ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) and revolutionized various fields by providing a few task-relevant demonstrations in the…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Open-ended Commonsense Reasoning with Unrestricted Answer Scope

Chen Ling, Xuchao Zhang, Xujiang Zhao +7

Open-ended Commonsense Reasoning is defined as solving a commonsense question without providing 1) a short list of answer candidates and 2) a pre-defined answer scope. Conventional…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Improving Open Information Extraction with Large Language Models: A Study on Demonstration Uncertainty

Chen Ling, Xujiang Zhao, Xuchao Zhang +8

Open Information Extraction (OIE) task aims at extracting structured facts from unstructured text, typically in the form of (subject, relation, object) triples. Despite the potenti…

cs.LG2023

Towards Counterfactual Fairness-aware Domain Generalization in Changing Environments

Yujie Lin, Chen Zhao, Minglai Shao +3

Recognizing the prevalence of domain shift as a common challenge in machine learning, various domain generalization (DG) techniques have been developed to enhance the performance o…

cs.AI2023

Adaptation Speed Analysis for Fairness-aware Causal Models

Yujie Lin, Chen Zhao, Minglai Shao +2

For example, in machine translation tasks, to achieve bidirectional translation between two languages, the source corpus is often used as the target corpus, which involves the trai…

cs.CL2023★ 74 cited

Domain Specialization as the Key to Make Large Language Models Disruptive: A Comprehensive Survey

Chen Ling, Xujiang Zhao, Jiaying Lu +21

Large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced the field of natural language processing (NLP), providing a highly useful, task-agnostic foundation for a wide range of app…

cs.AI2023★ 7 cited

Knowledge-enhanced Neural Machine Reasoning: A Review

Tanmoy Chowdhury, Chen Ling, Xuchao Zhang +5

Knowledge-enhanced neural machine reasoning has garnered significant attention as a cutting-edge yet challenging research area with numerous practical applications. Over the past f…