3 papers
cs.IR2026
When Deep Research Agents Stagnate: Enhancing Reasoning with Retrieval-Aware Agent Control
Heydar Soudani, Elizabeth Lingg, Faegheh Hasibi +1
In this paper, we analyze the reasoning trajectories of a variety of DRAs and show that existing agents often suffer from reasoning stagnation: the majority of iterations contribut…
cs.IR2025
Batched Self-Consistency Improves LLM Relevance Assessment and Ranking
Anton Korikov, Pan Du, Scott Sanner +1
LLM query-passage relevance assessment is typically studied using a one-by-one pointwise (PW) strategy where each LLM call judges one passage at a time. However, this strategy requ…
cs.CL2024
Unlabeled Debiasing in Downstream Tasks via Class-wise Low Variance Regularization
Shahed Masoudian, Markus Frohmann, Navid Rekabsaz +1
Language models frequently inherit societal biases from their training data. Numerous techniques have been proposed to mitigate these biases during both the pre-training and fine-t…