collaborators

6 papers

cs.IR2026

Retrieval Augmented Conversational Recommendation with Reinforcement Learning

Zhenrui Yue, Honglei Zhuang, Zhen Qin +4

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit enhanced capabilities in language understanding and generation. By utilizing their embedded knowledge, LLMs are increasingly used as conversati…

cs.CL2026

Uncertainty-Aware Variational Reward Factorization via Probabilistic Preference Bases for LLM Personalization

Gyuseok Lee, Wonbin Kweon, Zhenrui Yue +3

Reward factorization personalizes large language models (LLMs) by decomposing rewards into shared basis functions and user-specific weights. Yet, existing methods estimate user wei…

cs.AI2026

Dr. Zero: Self-Evolving Search Agents without Training Data

Zhenrui Yue, Kartikeya Upasani, Xianjun Yang +5

As high-quality data becomes increasingly difficult to obtain, self-evolution without curated training data has emerged as a promising paradigm. This approach allows large language…

cs.CL2025

Hybrid Latent Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning

Zhenrui Yue, Bowen Jin, Huimin Zeng +6

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have introduced latent reasoning as a promising alternative to autoregressive reasoning. By performing internal computation with hid…

cs.CL2025

Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with Reinforcement Learning

Bowen Jin, Hansi Zeng, Zhenrui Yue +5

Efficiently acquiring external knowledge and up-to-date information is essential for effective reasoning and text generation in large language models (LLMs). Prompting advanced LLM…

cs.CL2025

Inference Scaling for Long-Context Retrieval Augmented Generation

Zhenrui Yue, Honglei Zhuang, Aijun Bai +7

The scaling of inference computation has unlocked the potential of long-context large language models (LLMs) across diverse settings. For knowledge-intensive tasks, the increased c…