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cs.IR2026

EviRerank: Adaptive Evidence Construction for Long-Document LLM Reranking

Minghan Li, Eric Gaussier, Juntao Li +1

Decoder-only LLM rerankers struggle with long documents: inference is costly and relevance signals can be diluted by irrelevant context. Motivated by a diagnostic attention analysi…

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Query Expansion in the Age of Pre-trained and Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey

Minghan Li, Xinxuan Lv, Junjie Zou +5

Modern information retrieval must reconcile short, ambiguous queries with increasingly diverse and dynamic corpora. Query expansion (QE) remains a core technique for mitigating voc…

cs.IR2026

S2G-RAG: Structured Sufficiency and Gap Judging for Iterative Retrieval-Augmented QA

Minghan Li, Junjie Zou, Xinxuan Lv +2

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) grounds language models in external evidence, but multi-hop question answering remains difficult because iterative pipelines must control what…

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GLIER: Generative Legal Inference and Evidence Ranking for Legal Case Retrieval

Minghan Li, Tianrui Lv, Chao Zhang +1

The semantic gap between colloquial user queries and professional legal documents presents a fundamental challenge in Legal Case Retrieval (LCR). Existing dense retrieval methods t…

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Retrieval-Feedback-Driven Distillation and Preference Alignment for Efficient LLM-based Query Expansion

Minghan Li, Guodong Zhou

Large language models have recently enabled a generative paradigm for query expansion, but their high inference cost makes direct deployment difficult in practical retrieval system…

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Automatic In-Domain Exemplar Construction and LLM-Based Refinement of Multi-LLM Expansions for Query Expansion

Minghan Li, Ercong Nie, Siqi Zhao +3

Query expansion with large language models is promising but often relies on hand-crafted prompts, manually chosen exemplars, or a single LLM, making it non-scalable and sensitive t…