4 papers
Dual-View Training for Instruction-Following Information Retrieval
Qingcheng Zeng, Puxuan Yu, Aman Mehta +2
Instruction-following information retrieval (IF-IR) studies retrieval systems that must not only find documents relevant to a query, but also obey explicit user constraints such as…
Code-Switching Information Retrieval: Benchmarks, Analysis, and the Limits of Current Retrievers
Qingcheng Zeng, Yuheng Lu, Zeqi Zhou +6
Code-switching is a pervasive linguistic phenomenon in global communication, yet modern information retrieval systems remain predominantly designed for, and evaluated within, monol…
Hold Onto That Thought: Assessing KV Cache Compression On Reasoning
Minghui Liu, Aadi Palnitkar, Tahseen Rabbani +9
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance on long-context tasks, but are often bottlenecked by memory constraints. Namely, the KV cache, which is used t…
LiteWebAgent: The Open-Source Suite for VLM-Based Web-Agent Applications
Danqing Zhang, Balaji Rama, Jingyi Ni +5
We introduce LiteWebAgent, an open-source suite for VLM-based web agent applications. Our framework addresses a critical gap in the web agent ecosystem with a production-ready solu…