4 papers
Pathways of Thoughts: Multi-Directional Thinking for Long-form Personalized Question Answering
Alireza Salemi, Cheng Li, Mingyang Zhang +7
Personalization is well studied in search and recommendation, but personalized question answering remains underexplored due to challenges in inferring preferences from long, noisy,…
Effective Training Data Synthesis for Improving MLLM Chart Understanding
Yuwei Yang, Zeyu Zhang, Yunzhong Hou +5
Being able to effectively read scientific plots, or chart understanding, is a central part toward building effective agents for science. However, existing multimodal large language…
Reasoning-Enhanced Self-Training for Long-Form Personalized Text Generation
Alireza Salemi, Cheng Li, Mingyang Zhang +6
Personalized text generation requires a unique ability of large language models (LLMs) to learn from context that they often do not encounter during their standard training. One wa…
Retrieval Augmented Generation or Long-Context LLMs? A Comprehensive Study and Hybrid Approach
Zhuowan Li, Cheng Li, Mingyang Zhang +2
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has been a powerful tool for Large Language Models (LLMs) to efficiently process overly lengthy contexts. However, recent LLMs like Gemini-1.5…