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17 papers

cs.CL2026

Select-And-Extract: A Lightweight Plugin for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Chenming Tang, Jiawei Han

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for language model (LM) systems fundamentally has two failure modes: retrieval failure and reading failure. The former fails to recall the righ…

cs.LG2026

MolE-RAG: Molecular Structure-Enhanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Chemistry

Joey Chan, Wonbin Kweon, Ashley Shin +4

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise for molecular property prediction, but their ability to reason over chemical structures remains limited, as molecular representation…

cs.AI2026

Harness-1: Reinforcement Learning for Search Agents with State-Externalizing Harnesses

Pengcheng Jiang, Zhiyi Shi, Kelly Hong +5

Search agents are often trained as policies over growing transcripts: the model must decide how to search while also remembering what it has seen, which evidence is useful, which c…

cs.CL2026

Learning to Predict Future-Aligned Research Proposals with Language Models

Heng Wang, Pengcheng Jiang, Jiashuo Sun +4

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to assist ideation in research, but evaluating the quality of LLM-generated research proposals remains difficult: novelty and sou…

cs.IR2026

Efficient, Property-Aligned Fan-Out Retrieval via RL-Compiled Diffusion

Pengcheng Jiang, Judith Yue Li, Moonkyung Ryu +8

Many modern retrieval problems are set-valued: given a broad intent, the system must return a collection of results that optimizes higher-order properties (e.g., diversity, coverag…

cs.CL2026

Structure-Augmented Reasoning Generation

Jash Rajesh Parekh, Pengcheng Jiang, Jiawei Han

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly improved complex reasoning capabilities. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has further extended these capabili…