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20242026
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12 papers

cs.CL2026

Measuring Concept Content in Text from LLM Activations: ESG Evidence from Concept Vectors and Linear Probes

Luc Hazenoot, Zhaochun Ren, Amirhossein Zohrehvand

Existing measures of how much a text is about a concept read the surface of the text: dictionary word shares, topic proportions, embedding similarities. They score the words a text…

cs.IR2026

Closing the Indexing-Decoding Gap in Multimodal Generative Retrieval via Prefix Retention Optimization

Yufei Chen, Zihan Wang, Yubao Tang +3

Multimodal generative retrieval formulates multimodal retrieval as discrete identifier generation, eliminating the need for explicit similarity search over external embeddings. Exi…

cs.AI2026

Reinforced Efficient Reasoning via Semantically Diverse Exploration

Ziqi Zhao, Zhaochun Ren, Jiahong Zou +9

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has proven effective in enhancing the reasoning of large language models (LLMs). Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS)-based extensio…

cs.CL2026

Joint Flashback Adaptation for Forgetting-Resistant Instruction Tuning

Yukun Zhao, Lingyong Yan, Zhenyang Li +4

Large language models have achieved remarkable success in various tasks. However, it is challenging for them to learn new tasks incrementally due to catastrophic forgetting. Existi…

cs.IR2026

DiffuGR: Generative Document Retrieval with Diffusion Language Models

Xinpeng Zhao, Zhaochun Ren, Yukun Zhao +9

Generative retrieval (GR) reframes document retrieval as an end-to-end task of generating sequential document identifiers (DocIDs). Existing GR methods predominantly rely on left-t…

cs.CL2025

Evolution without Large Models: Training Language Model with Task Principles

Minghang Zhu, Shen Gao, Zhengliang Shi +5

A common training approach for language models involves using a large-scale language model to expand a human-provided dataset, which is subsequently used for model training.This me…