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most citedTool Learning in the Wild: Empowering Language Models as Automatic Tool Agents

6 citations · 21 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.IR2026

SearchJev: A Calibrated System-1 Model for Search Agents

Congfeng Cao, Lipeng Zuo, Konstantinos Papakostas +7

Search agents repeatedly make short decisions about relevance, evidence sufficiency, and search actions. Using generative language models for these decisions introduces latency and…

cs.CL2026

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

Luc Hazenoot, Zhaochun Ren, Amirhossein Zohrehvand

Recent work shows that Large Language Models (LLMs) encode more information in their activations than they show in their responses. We ask whether the information contained in acti…

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.IR2025

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…

cs.IR2025

DeepShop: A Benchmark for Deep Research Shopping Agents

Yougang Lyu, Xiaoyu Zhang, Lingyong Yan +3

Web agents for online shopping have shown great promise in automating user interactions across e-commerce platforms. Benchmarks for assessing such agents do not reflect the complex…

cs.IR2025

Direct Retrieval-augmented Optimization: Synergizing Knowledge Selection and Language Models

Zhengliang Shi, Lingyong Yan, Weiwei Sun +7

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) integrates large language models ( LLM s) with retrievers to access external knowledge, improving the factuality of LLM generation in knowledge…

cs.CL2025

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.LG2025

Divide-Then-Aggregate: An Efficient Tool Learning Method via Parallel Tool Invocation

Dongsheng Zhu, Weixian Shi, Zhengliang Shi +4

Although current Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit impressive capabilities, performing complex real-world tasks still requires tool learning. Mainstream methods, such as CoT/ReA…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

MAIR: A Massive Benchmark for Evaluating Instructed Retrieval

Weiwei Sun, Zhengliang Shi, Jiulong Wu +6

Recent information retrieval (IR) models are pre-trained and instruction-tuned on massive datasets and tasks, enabling them to perform well on a wide range of tasks and potentially…

cs.CL2024★ 6 cited

Tool Learning in the Wild: Empowering Language Models as Automatic Tool Agents

Zhengliang Shi, Shen Gao, Lingyong Yan +6

Augmenting large language models (LLMs) with external tools has emerged as a promising approach to extend their utility, enabling them to solve practical tasks. Previous methods ma…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

Improving the Robustness of Large Language Models via Consistency Alignment

Yukun Zhao, Lingyong Yan, Weiwei Sun +6

Large language models (LLMs) have shown tremendous success in following user instructions and generating helpful responses. Nevertheless, their robustness is still far from optimal…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

How Large Language Models Encode Context Knowledge? A Layer-Wise Probing Study

Tianjie Ju, Weiwei Sun, Wei Du +3

Previous work has showcased the intriguing capability of large language models (LLMs) in retrieving facts and processing context knowledge. However, only limited research exists on…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

KnowTuning: Knowledge-aware Fine-tuning for Large Language Models

Yougang Lyu, Lingyong Yan, Shuaiqiang Wang +6

Despite their success at many natural language processing (NLP) tasks, large language models still struggle to effectively leverage knowledge for knowledge-intensive tasks, manifes…

cs.IR2023★ 3 cited

Instruction Distillation Makes Large Language Models Efficient Zero-shot Rankers

Weiwei Sun, Zheng Chen, Xinyu Ma +6

Recent studies have demonstrated the great potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) serving as zero-shot relevance rankers. The typical approach involves making comparisons betwee…

cs.CL2023

DiQAD: A Benchmark Dataset for End-to-End Open-domain Dialogue Assessment

Yukun Zhao, Lingyong Yan, Weiwei Sun +5

Dialogue assessment plays a critical role in the development of open-domain dialogue systems. Existing work are uncapable of providing an end-to-end and human-epistemic assessment…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Knowing What LLMs DO NOT Know: A Simple Yet Effective Self-Detection Method

Yukun Zhao, Lingyong Yan, Weiwei Sun +6

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown great potential in Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. However, recent literature reveals that LLMs generate nonfactual responses inter…