3 papers
cs.IR2026
RealRoute: Dynamic Query Routing System via Retrieve-then-Verify Paradigm
Jiahe Liu, Qinkai Yu, Jingcheng Niu +5
Despite the success of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) in grounding LLMs with external knowledge, its application over heterogeneous sources (e.g., private databases, global c…
cs.LG2025
Meaningless Tokens, Meaningful Gains: How Activation Shifts Enhance LLM Reasoning
Zeru Shi, Yingjia Wan, Zhenting Wang +4
Motivated by the puzzling observation that inserting long sequences of meaningless tokens before the query prompt can consistently enhance LLM reasoning performance, this work anal…
cs.CL2024
Auto-Prompt Generation is Not Robust: Prompt Optimization Driven by Pseudo Gradient
Zeru Shi, Zhenting Wang, Yongye Su +5
While automatic prompt generation methods have recently received significant attention, their robustness remains poorly understood. In this paper, we introduce PertBench, a compreh…