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9 papers

cs.IR2026

Co-adaptive Rule Routing and Constraining for Structured Knowledge Retrieval

Zhisheng Qi, Haoyu Han, Jiaxi Li +9

Structured knowledge retrieval acquires task-relevant evidence from structured knowledge sources for downstream tasks. Existing methods rely on unconstrained retrieval or predefine…

physics.chem-ph2026

MolP2SBench: Do LLMs Really Reason from Molecular Properties to Structure?

Yuhang Xie, Zhiyi Shi, Zeyi Zhang +4

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in molecular discovery and structure elucidation, where decisions depend on physical observations. Existing evaluations primarily…

cs.LG2026

Towards Explainable Benchmarking for Data-driven Post-Wildfire Debris Flow Prediction

Zhisheng Qi, Li Zhu, Utkarsh Sahu +3

Post-wildfire debris flows (PFDFs) are destructive sediment-laden hazards triggered when intense rainfall strikes recently burned terrain, destabilizing hillslopes and threatening…

cs.SI2026

Benchmarking Multi-Modal Graph-based Social Media Popularity Prediction

Utkarsh Sahu, Zhisheng Qi, Li Zhu +4

Social media popularity prediction aims to forecast the future reach or influence of online content from early-stage observations. Accurate prediction enables key downstream applic…

cs.IR2026

RL-Index: Reinforcement Learning for Retrieval Index Reasoning

Yongjia Lei, Nedim Lipka, Zhisheng Qi +7

Retrieving external knowledge is crucial for real-world tasks but remains difficult when queries and relevant knowledge are linked by implicit reasoning (e.g., shared theorems or c…

cs.CR2026

Benchmarking Knowledge-Extraction Attack and Defense on Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Zhisheng Qi, Utkarsh Sahu, Li Ma +9

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a cornerstone of knowledge-intensive applications, including enterprise chatbots, healthcare assistants, and agentic memory manageme…

cs.LG2025

Knowledge Homophily in Large Language Models

Utkarsh Sahu, Zhisheng Qi, Mahantesh Halappanavar +6

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been increasingly studied as neural knowledge bases for supporting knowledge-intensive applications such as question answering and fact checking.…

cs.CL2025

A Graph Perspective to Probe Structural Patterns of Knowledge in Large Language Models

Utkarsh Sahu, Zhisheng Qi, Yongjia Lei +6

Large language models have been extensively studied as neural knowledge bases for their knowledge access, editability, reasoning, and explainability. However, few works focus on th…

cs.IR2025

RAG vs. GraphRAG: A Systematic Evaluation and Key Insights

Haoyu Han, Li Ma, Yu Wang +9

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) improves large language models (LLMs) by retrieving relevant information from external sources and has been widely adopted for text-based tasks…