collaborators

5 papers

cs.CL2026

RICE-PO: Turning Retrieval Interactions into Credit Signals for Reasoning Agents

Mingchen Li, Hansi Zeng, Zhuo Qian +4

Retrieval is increasingly moving from one-shot matching toward interactive reasoning, where language agents iteratively inspect evidence, reformulate queries, and search again. Tra…

cs.AI2026

CoSearch: Joint Training of Reasoning and Document Ranking via Reinforcement Learning for Agentic Search

Hansi Zeng, Liam Collins, Bhuvesh Kumar +2

Agentic search -- the task of training agents that iteratively reason, issue queries, and synthesize retrieved information to answer complex questions -- has achieved remarkable pr…

cs.IR2026

TARSE: Test-Time Adaptation via Retrieval of Skills and Experience for Reasoning Agents

Junda Wang, Zonghai Tao, Hansi Zeng +3

Complex clinical decision making often fails not because a model lacks facts, but because it cannot reliably select and apply the right procedural knowledge and the right prior exa…

cs.IR2025

Hypencoder: Hypernetworks for Information Retrieval

Julian Killingback, Hansi Zeng, Hamed Zamani

Existing information retrieval systems are largely constrained by their reliance on vector inner products to assess query-document relevance, which naturally limits the expressiven…

cs.IR2025

Scaling Sparse and Dense Retrieval in Decoder-Only LLMs

Hansi Zeng, Julian Killingback, Hamed Zamani

Scaling large language models (LLMs) has shown great potential for improving retrieval model performance; however, previous studies have mainly focused on dense retrieval trained w…