5 papers
How Specific Do I Need to Be? Effects of User Query Underspecification on Deep Research Agents
Yi Wen, Xiangjue Dong, Bingxuan Li +4
Deep research agents (DRAs) conduct long-horizon reasoning, search, and literature synthesis to provide long-form answers to complex, domain-specific questions. These agents are ty…
MemeBridge: A Dataset for Benchmarking and Mitigating the Bidirectional Cultural Gap in Meme Interpretation
Hangxiao Zhu, Suliu Qin, Zhuoyan Li +3
Communicating across cultures is inherently challenging, especially through culturally dense and ambiguous formats like memes. While people expect large language models (LLMs) to h…
Beyond Semantic Similarity: Rethinking Retrieval for Agentic Search via Direct Corpus Interaction
Zhuofeng Li, Haoxiang Zhang, Cong Wei +16
Modern retrieval systems, whether lexical or semantic, expose a corpus through a fixed similarity interface that compresses access into a single top-k retrieval step before reasoni…
SciImpact: A Multi-Dimensional, Multi-Field Benchmark for Scientific Impact Prediction
Hangxiao Zhu, Yuyu Zhang, Ping Nie +1
The rapid growth of scientific literature calls for automated methods to assess and predict research impact. Prior work has largely focused on citation-based metrics, leaving limit…
Survivors, Complainers, and Borderliners: Upward Bias in Online Discussions of Academic Conference Reviews
Hangxiao Zhu, Yian Yin, Yu Zhang
Online discussion platforms, such as community Q&A sites and forums, have become important hubs where academic conference authors share and seek information about the peer review p…