collaborators

10 papers

cs.LG2026

SlimSearcher: Training Efficiency-Aware Web Agents via Adaptive Reward Gating

Zequn Xie, Junjie Wang, Dan Yang +4

Deep research agents have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in complex information-seeking tasks, yet this power comes at a steep computational cost. Driven by accuracy-focused…

cs.AI2026

WebClipper: Efficient Evolution of Web Agents with Graph-based Trajectory Pruning

Junjie Wang, Zequn Xie, Dan Yang +9

Deep Research systems based on web agents have shown strong potential in solving complex information-seeking tasks, yet their search efficiency remains underexplored. We observe th…

cs.IR2026

GroupRank: A Groupwise Paradigm for Effective and Efficient Passage Reranking with LLMs

Meixiu Long, Duolin Sun, Dan Yang +12

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for passage reranking in information retrieval, leveraging their superior reasoning capabilities to address the limitati…

cs.IR2026

DIVER: A Multi-Stage Approach for Reasoning-intensive Information Retrieval

Duolin Sun, Meixiu Long, Dan Yang +9

Retrieval-augmented generation has achieved strong performance on knowledge-intensive tasks where query-document relevance can be identified through direct lexical or semantic matc…

cs.CL2026

CTRL-RAG: Contrastive Likelihood Reward Based Reinforcement Learning for Context-Faithful RAG Models

Zhehao Tan, Yihan Jiao, Dan Yang +8

With the growing use of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), training large language models (LLMs) for context-sensitive reasoning and faithfulness is increasingly important. Exis…

cs.AI2025

A Medical Multimodal Diagnostic Framework Integrating Vision-Language Models and Logic Tree Reasoning

Zelin Zang, Wenyi Gu, Siqi Ma +6

With the rapid growth of large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) in medicine, simply integrating clinical text and medical imaging does not guarantee reliabl…