activity
20242026
collaborators

5 papers

cs.RO2026

Seed2Scale: A Self-Evolving Data Engine for Embodied AI via Small to Large Model Synergy and Multimodal Evaluation

Cong Tai, Zhaoyu Zheng, Haixu Long +12

Existing data generation methods suffer from exploration limits, embodiment gaps, and low signal-to-noise ratios, leading to performance degradation during self-iteration. To addre…

cs.CV2025

MammothModa2: A Unified AR-Diffusion Framework for Multimodal Understanding and Generation

Tao Shen, Xin Wan, Taicai Chen +10

Unified multimodal models aim to integrate understanding and generation within a single framework, yet bridging the gap between discrete semantic reasoning and high-fidelity visual…

cs.IR2025

ThinkQE: Query Expansion via an Evolving Thinking Process

Yibin Lei, Tao Shen, Andrew Yates

Effective query expansion for web search benefits from promoting both exploration and result diversity to capture multiple interpretations and facets of a query. While recent LLM-b…

cs.CL2025

Enhancing Lexicon-Based Text Embeddings with Large Language Models

Yibin Lei, Tao Shen, Yu Cao +1

Recent large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance on general-purpose text embedding tasks. While dense embeddings have dominated related research, we in…

cs.CL2024

LLMs are Also Effective Embedding Models: An In-depth Overview

Chongyang Tao, Tao Shen, Shen Gao +6

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing by achieving state-of-the-art performance across various tasks. Recently, their effectiveness as embedd…