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Search-augmented reasoning agents interleave multi-step reasoning with external information retrieval, but uncontrolled retrieval often leads to redundant evidence, context saturation, and unstable learning. Existing approaches rely on…

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Generative retrieval generates identifiers of relevant documents in an end-to-end manner using a sequence-to-sequence architecture for a given query. The relation between generative retrieval and other retrieval methods, especially those…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Shiguang Wu , Wenda Wei , Mengqi Zhang , Zhumin Chen , Jun Ma , Zhaochun Ren , Maarten de Rijke , Pengjie Ren

Recently, retrieval-augmented text generation attracted increasing attention of the computational linguistics community. Compared with conventional generation models, retrieval-augmented text generation has remarkable advantages and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Huayang Li , Yixuan Su , Deng Cai , Yan Wang , Lemao Liu

Retrieval-augmented generation integrates the capabilities of large language models with relevant information retrieved from an extensive corpus, yet encounters challenges when confronted with real-world noisy data. One recent solution is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kun Zhu , Xiaocheng Feng , Xiyuan Du , Yuxuan Gu , Weijiang Yu , Haotian Wang , Qianglong Chen , Zheng Chu , Jingchang Chen , Bing Qin

Large Language Models (LLMs) enhanced with retrieval -- commonly referred to as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) -- have demonstrated strong performance in knowledge-intensive tasks. However, RAG pipelines often fail when retrieved…

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Data augmentation can mitigate limited training data in machine-learning automated scoring engines for constructed response items. This study seeks to determine how well three approaches to large language model prompting produce essays that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Edward W. Wolfe , Justin O. Barber

Retrieval-augmented generation has gained significant attention due to its ability to integrate relevant external knowledge, enhancing the accuracy and reliability of the LLMs' responses. Most of the existing methods apply a dynamic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Liang Xiao , Wen Dai , Shuai Chen , Bin Qin , Chongyang Shi , Haopeng Jing , Tianyu Guo

We propose a simple, unsupervised method that injects pragmatic principles in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) frameworks such as Dense Passage Retrieval to enhance the utility of retrieved contexts. Our approach first identifies which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Haris Riaz , Ellen Riloff , Mihai Surdeanu

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is key to enhancing large language models (LLMs) to systematically access richer factual knowledge. Yet, using RAG brings intrinsic challenges, as LLMs must deal with potentially conflicting knowledge,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Leonardo Ranaldi , Federico Ranaldi , Fabio Massimo Zanzotto , Barry Haddow , Alexandra Birch

This study proposes a multitask learning architecture for extractive summarization with coherence boosting. The architecture contains an extractive summarizer and coherent discriminator module. The coherent discriminator is trained online…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Renlong Jie , Xiaojun Meng , Lifeng Shang , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become a powerful framework for enhancing large language models in knowledge-intensive and reasoning tasks. However, as reasoning chains deepen or search trees expand, RAG systems often face two…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Shuguang Jiao , Xinyu Xiao , Yunfan Wei , Shuhan Qi , Chengkai Huang , Quan Z. Michael Sheng , Lina Yao

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) effectively improves the accuracy of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, retrieval noises significantly undermine the quality of LLMs' generation, necessitating the development of denoising…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xinping Zhao , Shouzheng Huang , Yan Zhong , Xinshuo Hu , Meishan Zhang , Baotian Hu , Min Zhang

Response diversity has become an important criterion for evaluating the quality of open-domain dialogue generation models. However, current evaluation metrics for response diversity often fail to capture the semantic diversity of generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Seungju Han , Beomsu Kim , Buru Chang

With the growing success of Large Language models (LLMs) in information-seeking scenarios, search engines are now adopting generative approaches to provide answers along with in-line citations as attribution. While existing work focuses…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Hanane Djeddal , Pierre Erbacher , Raouf Toukal , Laure Soulier , Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat , Sophia Katrenko , Lynda Tamine

Question generation is a widely used data augmentation approach with extensive applications, and extracting qualified candidate answers from context passages is a critical step for most question generation systems. However, existing methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Zhuoer Wang , Yicheng Wang , Ziwei Zhu , James Caverlee

Adaptive retrieval-augmented generation (ARAG) aims to dynamically determine the necessity of retrieval for queries instead of retrieving indiscriminately to enhance the efficiency and relevance of the sourced information. However, previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Zihan Zhang , Meng Fang , Ling Chen

In this work, we focus on the problem of retrieving relevant arguments for a query claim covering diverse aspects. State-of-the-art methods rely on explicit mappings between claims and premises, and thus are unable to utilize large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Michael Fromm , Max Berrendorf , Sandra Obermeier , Thomas Seidl , Evgeniy Faerman

We investigate the less-explored task of generating open-ended questions that are typically answered by multiple sentences. We first define a new question type ontology which differentiates the nuanced nature of questions better than widely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Shuyang Cao , Lu Wang

Event Extraction bridges the gap between text and event signals. Based on the assumption of trigger-argument dependency, existing approaches have achieved state-of-the-art performance with expert-designed templates or complicated decoding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Jinghui Si , Xutan Peng , Chen Li , Haotian Xu , Jianxin Li

In AI-facilitated teaching, leveraging various query styles to interpret abstract educational content is crucial for delivering effective and accessible learning experiences. However, existing retrieval systems predominantly focus on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Xinyi Wu , Yanhao Jia , Luwei Xiao , Shuai Zhao , Fengkuang Chiang , Erik Cambria