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5 papers

cs.LG2026

F-GRPO: Factorized Group-Relative Policy Optimization for Unified Candidate Generation and Ranking

Rohan Surana, Gagan Mundada, Junda Wu +9

Traditional retrieval pipelines optimize utility through stages of candidate retrieval and reranking, where ranking operates over a predefined candidate set. Large Language Models…

cs.CL2026

Generating Leakage-Free Benchmarks for Robust RAG Evaluation

Jiayi Liu, Jiaxing Zhang, Bowen Jin +1

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is widely used to augment large language models (LLMs) with external knowledge. However, many benchmark datasets, designed to test RAG performa…

cs.CL2026

RM-R1: Reward Modeling as Reasoning

Xiusi Chen, Gaotang Li, Ziqi Wang +9

Reward modeling is essential for aligning large language models with human preferences through reinforcement learning. To provide accurate reward signals, a reward model (RM) shoul…

cs.AI2026

mCLM: A Modular Chemical Language Model that Generates Functional and Makeable Molecules

Carl Edwards, Chi Han, Gawon Lee +11

Despite their ability to understand chemical knowledge, large language models (LLMs) remain limited in their capacity to propose novel molecules with desired functions (e.g., drug-…

cs.AI2025

Acting Less is Reasoning More! Teaching Model to Act Efficiently

Hongru Wang, Cheng Qian, Wanjun Zhong +7

Tool-integrated reasoning (TIR) augments large language models (LLMs) with the ability to invoke external tools during long-form reasoning, such as search engines and code interpre…