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Kuicai Dong

14 accepted papers

2026

EvoThink: Evolving Thinking in Large Reasoning Models via Self-Pruning and Aha-Moment Preference Optimization

IJCAI 2026

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) often suffer from overthinking due to redundant verification steps. Existing approaches for mitigating overthinking, such as fast-slow thinking switching and reasoning trajectory compression, fail to make a fine-grained distinction between beneficial and redundant steps

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2025

Adaptive Tool Use in Large Language Models with Meta-Cognition Trigger

ACL 2025long

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable emergent capabilities, transforming the execution of functional tasks by leveraging external tools for complex problems that require specialized processing or up-to-date data. While existing research expands LLMs access to diverse tools (e.g., progr…

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2025

Benchmarking Retrieval-Augmented Multimomal Generation for Document Question Answering

NeurIPS 2025poster

Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA) faces dual challenges in processing lengthy multimodal documents (text, images, tables) and performing cross-modal reasoning. Current document retrieval-augmented generation (DocRAG) methods remain limited by their text-centric approaches, frequently missi…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

CoIR: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Code Information Retrieval Models

ACL 2025long

Despite the substantial success of Information Retrieval (IR) in various NLP tasks, most IR systems predominantly handle queries and corpora in natural language, neglecting the domain of code retrieval. Code retrieval is critically important yet remains under-explored, with existing methods and benc…

2025

CtrlA: Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Inherent Control

ACL 2025finding

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has emerged as a promising solution for mitigating hallucinations of large language models (LLMs) with retrieved external knowledge. Adaptive RAG enhances this approach by enabling dynamic retrieval during generation, activating retrieval only when the query exce…

2025

Humanity’s Last Code Exam: Can Advanced LLMs Conquer Human’s Hardest Code Competition?

EMNLP 2025

Code generation is a core capability of large language models (LLMs), yet mainstream benchmarks (e.g., APPs and LiveCodeBench) contain questions with medium-level difficulty and pose no challenge to advanced LLMs. To better reflected the advanced reasoning and code generation ability, We introduce H

2025

LLMTreeRec: Unleashing the Power of Large Language Models for Cold-Start Recommendations

COLING 2025main

The lack of training data gives rise to the system cold-start problem in recommendation systems, making them struggle to provide effective recommendations. To address this problem, Large Language Models(LLMs) can model recommendation tasks as language analysis tasks and provide zero-shot results bas…

2025

MMDocIR: Benchmarking Multimodal Retrieval for Long Documents

EMNLP 2025

Multimodal document retrieval aims to identify and retrieve various forms of multimodal content, such as figures, tables, charts, and layout information from extensive documents. Despite its increasing popularity, there is a notable lack of a comprehensive and robust benchmark to effectively evaluat

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2025

Process vs. Outcome Reward: Which is Better for Agentic RAG Reinforcement Learning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) by integrating external knowledge, yet traditional RAG systems struggle with static workflows and limited adaptability for complex, multistep reasoning tasks. Agentic RAG systems, such as DeepResearch, address these issues th…

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2025

RAPID: Efficient Retrieval-Augmented Long Text Generation with Writing Planning and Information Discovery

ACL 2025finding

Generating knowledge-intensive and comprehensive long texts, such as encyclopedia articles, remains significant challenges for Large Language Models. It requires not only the precise integration of facts but also the maintenance of thematic coherence throughout the article. Existing methods, such as…

2024

MC-indexing: Effective Long Document Retrieval via Multi-view Content-aware Indexing

EMNLP 2024finding

Long document question answering (DocQA) aims to answer questions from long documents over 10k words. They usually contain content structures such as sections, sub-sections, and paragraph demarcations. However, the indexing methods of long documents remain under-explored, while existing systems gene…

2023

From Speculation Detection to Trustworthy Relational Tuples in Information Extraction

EMNLP 2023long findings

Speculation detection is an important NLP task to identify text factuality. However, the extracted speculative information (e.g., speculative polarity, cue, and scope) lacks structure and poses challenges for direct utilization in downstream tasks. Open Information Extraction (OIE), on the other han…

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2022

Syntactic Multi-view Learning for Open Information Extraction

EMNLP 2022main

Open Information Extraction (OpenIE) aims to extract relational tuples from open-domain sentences. Traditional rule-based or statistical models were developed based on syntactic structure of sentence, identified by syntactic parsers. However, previous neural OpenIE models under-explored the useful s…