3 papers
cs.IR2026
Beyond Semantic Similarity: Rethinking Retrieval for Agentic Search via Direct Corpus Interaction
Zhuofeng Li, Haoxiang Zhang, Cong Wei +16
Modern retrieval systems, whether lexical or semantic, expose a corpus through a fixed similarity interface that compresses access into a single top-k retrieval step before reasoni…
cs.CL2025
Don't Throw Away Your Pretrained Model
Shangbin Feng, Wenhao Yu, Yike Wang +3
Alignment training has tradeoffs: it helps language models (LMs) gain in reasoning and instruction following but might lose out on skills such as creativity and calibration, where…
cs.CL2025
Bidirectional LMs are Better Knowledge Memorizers? A Benchmark for Real-world Knowledge Injection
Yuwei Zhang, Wenhao Yu, Shangbin Feng +5
Despite significant advances in large language models (LLMs), their knowledge memorization capabilities remain underexplored, due to the lack of standardized and high-quality test…