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most citedContrastive Learning Reduces Hallucination in Conversations

8 citations · 19 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.CL2025

OpenReward: Learning to Reward Long-form Agentic Tasks via Reinforcement Learning

Ziyou Hu, Zhengliang Shi, Minghang Zhu +5

Reward models (RMs) have become essential for aligning large language models (LLMs), serving as scalable proxies for human evaluation in both training and inference. However, exist…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Bridging the Capability Gap: Joint Alignment Tuning for Harmonizing LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems

Minghang Zhu, Zhengliang Shi, Zhiwei Xu +5

The advancement of large language models (LLMs) has enabled the construction of multi-agent systems to solve complex tasks by dividing responsibilities among specialized agents, su…

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.CV2025

Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models via Entity-Centric Multimodal Preference Optimization

Jiulong Wu, Zhengliang Shi, Shuaiqiang Wang +5

Large Visual Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across multiple tasks. However, their trustworthiness is often challenged by hallucinations, which ca…

cs.CL2025

Iterative Self-Incentivization Empowers Large Language Models as Agentic Searchers

Zhengliang Shi, Lingyong Yan, Dawei Yin +3

Large language models (LLMs) have been widely integrated into information retrieval to advance traditional techniques. However, effectively enabling LLMs to seek accurate knowledge…

cs.CL2025

TTPA: Token-level Tool-use Preference Alignment Training Framework with Fine-grained Evaluation

Chengrui Huang, Shen Gao, Zhengliang Shi +2

Existing tool-learning methods usually rely on supervised fine-tuning, they often overlook fine-grained optimization of internal tool call details, leading to limitations in prefer…

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

Retrieval Models Aren't Tool-Savvy: Benchmarking Tool Retrieval for Large Language Models

Zhengliang Shi, Yuhan Wang, Lingyong Yan +4

Tool learning aims to augment large language models (LLMs) with diverse tools, enabling them to act as agents for solving practical tasks. Due to the limited context length of tool…

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

What Affects the Stability of Tool Learning? An Empirical Study on the Robustness of Tool Learning Frameworks

Chengrui Huang, Zhengliang Shi, Yuntao Wen +4

Tool learning methods have enhanced the ability of large language models (LLMs) to interact with real-world applications. Many existing works fine-tune LLMs or design prompts to en…

cs.CL2024

Generate-then-Ground in Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Multi-hop Question Answering

Zhengliang Shi, Weiwei Sun, Shen Gao +3

Multi-Hop Question Answering (MHQA) tasks present a significant challenge for large language models (LLMs) due to the intensive knowledge required. Current solutions, like Retrieva…

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.AI2024

360REA: Towards A Reusable Experience Accumulation with 360° Assessment for Multi-Agent System

Shen Gao, Hao Li, Chengrui Huang +4

Large language model agents have demonstrated remarkable advancements across various complex tasks. Recent works focus on optimizing the agent team or employing self-reflection to…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Learning to Use Tools via Cooperative and Interactive Agents

Zhengliang Shi, Shen Gao, Xiuyi Chen +7

Tool learning empowers large language models (LLMs) as agents to use external tools and extend their utility. Existing methods employ one single LLM-based agent to iteratively sele…

cs.CL2023

RADE: Reference-Assisted Dialogue Evaluation for Open-Domain Dialogue

Zhengliang Shi, Weiwei Sun, Shuo Zhang +3

Evaluating open-domain dialogue systems is challenging for reasons such as the one-to-many problem, i.e., many appropriate responses other than just the golden response. As of now,…

cs.AI2023★ 2 cited

Confucius: Iterative Tool Learning from Introspection Feedback by Easy-to-Difficult Curriculum

Shen Gao, Zhengliang Shi, Minghang Zhu +6

Augmenting large language models (LLMs) with external tools has emerged as a promising approach to extending the capability of LLMs. Although some works employ open-source LLMs for…

cs.CL2022★ 8 cited

Contrastive Learning Reduces Hallucination in Conversations

Weiwei Sun, Zhengliang Shi, Shen Gao +3

Pre-trained language models (LMs) store knowledge in their parameters and can generate informative responses when used in conversational systems. However, LMs suffer from the probl…