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6 papers

cs.CL2026

When Iterative RAG Beats Ideal Evidence: A Diagnostic Study in Scientific Multi-hop Question Answering

Mahdi Astaraki, Mohammad Arshi Saloot, Ali Shiraee Kasmaee +2

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) extends large language models (LLMs) beyond parametric knowledge, yet it is unclear when iterative retrieval-reasoning loops meaningfully outpe…

cs.AI2026

GraphWalk: Enabling Reasoning in Large Language Models through Tool-Based Graph Navigation

Taraneh Ghandi, Hamidreza Mahyar, Shachar Klaiman

The use of knowledge graphs for grounding agents in real-world Q&A applications has become increasingly common. Answering complex queries often requires multi-hop reasoning and the…

cs.CL2025

Towards Domain Specification of Embedding Models in Medicine

Mohammad Khodadad, Ali Shiraee Kasmaee, Mahdi Astaraki +1

Medical text embedding models are foundational to a wide array of healthcare applications, ranging from clinical decision support and biomedical information retrieval to medical qu…

cs.CL2025

Evaluating Multi-Hop Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Chemistry-Centric Case Study

Mohammad Khodadad, Ali Shiraee Kasmaee, Mahdi Astaraki +3

In this study, we introduced a new benchmark consisting of a curated dataset and a defined evaluation process to assess the compositional reasoning capabilities of large language m…

cs.IR2025

ChEmbed: Enhancing Chemical Literature Search Through Domain-Specific Text Embeddings

Ali Shiraee Kasmaee, Mohammad Khodadad, Mehdi Astaraki +4

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems in chemistry heavily depend on accurate and relevant retrieval of chemical literature. However, general-purpose text embedding models f…

cs.CL2025

ChemTEB: Chemical Text Embedding Benchmark, an Overview of Embedding Models Performance & Efficiency on a Specific Domain

Ali Shiraee Kasmaee, Mohammad Khodadad, Mohammad Arshi Saloot +4

Recent advancements in language models have started a new era of superior information retrieval and content generation, with embedding models playing an important role in optimizin…