2 papers
cs.IR2026
The Crowded Embedding Space: A Mean-Field Mechanism for Emergent Marginalization in Retrieval-Augmented Agents
Shwan Ashrafi, Dan Roth
Retrieval-augmented generative agents rely on retrieval for grounding, yet are typically evaluated on a query-by-query basis. This isolates interactions that are geometrically coup…
cs.CL2026
Budget-Aware Anytime Reasoning with LLM-Synthesized Preference Data
Xuanming Zhang, Shwan Ashrafi, Aziza Mirsaidova +5
We study the reasoning behavior of large language models (LLMs) under limited computation budgets. In such settings, producing useful partial solutions quickly is often more practi…