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  • Claire Cardie

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  • Learning to Ask: Neural Question Generation for Reading Comprehension

    Xinya Du, Junru Shao, Claire Cardie

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2017

    An attention-based sequence learning model for the task and the effect of encoding sentence- vs. paragraph-level information is investigated and results show that the system significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art rule-based system.

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  • Event Extraction by Answering (Almost) Natural Questions

    Xinya Du, Claire Cardie

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2020

    This work introduces a new paradigm for event extraction by formulating it as a question answering (QA) task, which extracts the event arguments in an end-to-end manner and outperforms prior methods substantially.

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  • Harvesting Paragraph-level Question-Answer Pairs from Wikipedia

    Xinya Du, Claire Cardie

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2018

    It is found that the linguistic knowledge introduced by the coreference representation aids question generation significantly, producing models that outperform the current state-of-the-art.

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  • PRD: Peer Rank and Discussion Improve Large Language Model based Evaluations

    Ruosen Li, Teerth Patel, Xinya Du

    arXiv · 2023

    The peer rank (PR) algorithm that takes into account each peer LLM's pairwise preferences of all answer pairs, and outputs a final ranking of models; and peer discussion (PD), where two LLMs are prompt to discuss and try to reach a mutual agreement on the preferences of two answers, are proposed.

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  • Document-Level Event Role Filler Extraction using Multi-Granularity Contextualized Encoding

    Xinya Du, Claire Cardie

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2020

    This work proposes a novel multi-granularity reader to dynamically aggregate information captured by neural representations learned at different levels of granularity, and evaluates the models on the MUC-4 event extraction dataset, showing that the best system performs substantially better than prior work.

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  • LLM4SR: A Survey on Large Language Models for Scientific Research

    Luo, Ziming, Zonglin Yang, Zheng Xu, Wei Yang, Xinya Du

    arXiv · 2025

    This paper presents the first systematic survey dedicated to exploring how LLMs are revolutionizing the scientific research process, and analyzes the unique roles LLMs play across four critical stages of research: hypothesis discovery, experiment planning and implementation, scientific writing, and peer reviewing.

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  • Identifying Where to Focus in Reading Comprehension for Neural Question Generation

    Xinya Du, Claire Cardie

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2017

    A hierarchical neural sentence-level sequence tagging model that is fully data-driven — with no sophisticated NLP pipelines or any hand-crafted rules/features — and compares favorably to a number of baselines when evaluated on the SQuAD data set.

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  • GRIT: Generative Role-filler Transformers for Document-level Event Entity Extraction

    Xinya Du, Alexander M. Rush, Claire Cardie

    Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume · 2021

    A generative transformer-based encoder-decoder framework (GRIT) that is designed to model context at the document level: it can make extraction decisions across sentence boundaries; is implicitly aware of noun phrase coreference structure, and has the capacity to respect cross-role dependencies in the template structure.

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  • MLR-Copilot: Autonomous Machine Learning Research based on Large Language Models Agents

    Ruochen Li, Teerth Patel, Qingyun Wang, Xinya Du

    arXiv · 2024

    MLR-COPILOT, an autonomous Machine Learning Research framework powered by large language model agents, is presented, designed to enhance ML research productivity through automatic generation and implementation of research ideas within constraints.

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  • Few-shot Intent Classification and Slot Filling with Retrieved Examples

    Dian Yu, Luheng He, Yuan Zhang, Xinya Du, Panupong Pasupat, Qi Li

    Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) · 2021

    This paper proposes a span-level retrieval method that learns similar contextualized representations for spans with the same label via a novel batch-softmax objective and uses the labels of the retrieved spans to construct the final structure with the highest aggregated score.

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  • FaithScore: Fine-grained Evaluations of Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models

    Liqiang Jing, Ruosen Li, Yunmo Chen, Xinya Du

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024 · 2024

    A reference-free and fine-grained evaluation metric that measures the faithfulness of the generated free-form answers from large vision-language models (LVLMs), which reveals that current systems are prone to generate hallucinated content unfaithful to the image, which leaves room for future improvements.

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  • Dynamic Global Memory for Document-level Argument Extraction

    Xinya Du, Sha Li, Heng Ji

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2022

    A new global neural generation-based framework for document-level event argument extraction is introduced by constructing a document memory store to record the contextual event information and leveraging it to implicitly and explicitly help with decoding of arguments for later events.

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  • Template Filling with Generative Transformers

    Xinya Du, Alexander M. Rush, Claire Cardie

    Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) · 2021

    Experiments demonstrate that this framework substantially outperforms pipeline-based approaches, and other neural end-to-end baselines that do not model between-event dependencies, and improves performance on documents containing multiple events.

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  • Logical Reasoning over Natural Language as Knowledge Representation: A Survey

    Zonglin Yang, Xinya Du, Rui Mao, Jinjie Ni, Erik Cambria

    arXiv · 2023

    This paper provides a comprehensive overview on a new paradigm of logical reasoning, which uses natural language as knowledge representation and pretrained language models as reasoners, including philosophical definition and categorization of logical reasoning.

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  • FGAIF: Aligning Large Vision-Language Models with Fine-grained AI Feedback

    Liqiang Jing, Xinya Du

    arXiv · 2024

    This work proposes an innovative method to align modalities in LVLMs through Fine-Grained Artificial Intelligence Feedback (FGAIF), which mainly consists of three steps: AI-based Feedback Collection, Fine-grained Reward Model Training, and Reinforcement Learning with Fine-grained Reward.

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  • RESIN-11: Schema-guided Event Prediction for 11 Newsworthy Scenarios

    Xinya Du, Zixuan Zhang, Sha Li, Pengfei Yu, Hongwei Wang, Tuan Lai, Xudong Lin, Ziqi Wang, +22 more

    Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: System Demonstrations · 2022

    This work introduces RESIN-11, a new schema-guided event extraction&prediction framework that can be applied to a large variety of newsworthy scenarios and builds a demo website based on the dockerized system and schema library.

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  • QA-Driven Zero-shot Slot Filling with Weak Supervision Pretraining

    Xinya Du, Luheng He, Qi Li, Dian Yu, Panupong Pasupat, Yuan Zhang

    Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers) · 2021

    This work introduces QA-driven slot filling (QASF), which extracts slot-filler spans from utterances with a span-based QA model, and uses a linguistically motivated questioning strategy to turn descriptions into questions, allowing the model to generalize to unseen slot types.

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  • MEQA: A Benchmark for Multi-hop Event-centric Question Answering with Explanations

    Ruosen Li, Zimu Wang, Tran Cao Son, Lei Xia, Xinya Du

    neural information processing systems · 2024

    A novel semi-automatic question generation strategy by composing event structures from information extraction datasets and the first Multi-hop Event-centric Question Answering (MEQA) benchmark is presented, which shows that MEQA is challenging for the latest state-of-the-art models encompassing large language models (LLMs); and how they fall short of providing faithful explanations of the event-centric reasoning process.

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  • Retrieval-Augmented Generative Question Answering for Event Argument Extraction

    Xinya Du, Heng Ji

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2022

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  • Be Consistent! Improving Procedural Text Comprehension using Label Consistency

    Xinya Du, Bhavana Bharat Dalvi, Niket Tandon, Antoine Bosselut, Wen-tau Yih, Peter E. Clark, Claire Cardie

    Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) · 2019

    This work presents a new learning framework that leverages label consistency during training, allowing consistency bias to be built into the model and significantly improves prediction performance over prior state-of-the-art systems.

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  • Large Language Models for Automated Open-domain Scientific Hypotheses Discovery

    Zonglin Yang, Xinya Du, Junxian Li, Jie Zheng, Soujanya Poria, Erik Cambria

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024 · 2024

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  • Improving Event Duration Prediction via Time-aware Pre-training

    Zonglin Yang, Xinya Du, Alexander M. Rush, Claire Cardie

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020 · 2020

    This work introduces two effective models for duration prediction, which incorporate external knowledge by reading temporal-related news sentences (time-aware pre-training), and demonstrates these models are capable of duration prediction in the unsupervised setting, outperforming the baselines.

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  • Logical Entity Representation in Knowledge-Graphs for Differentiable Rule Learning

    Chi Han, Qizheng He, Charles X. Yu, Xinya Du, Hanghang Tong, Heng Ji

    arXiv · 2023

    Empirical results demonstrate that the proposed Logical Entity RePresentation (LERP) model outperforms other rule learning methods in knowledge graph completion and is comparable or even superior to state-of-the-art black-box methods.

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  • LDC: Learning to Generate Research Idea with Dynamic Control

    Ruochen Li, Liqiang Jing, Chi Han, Jiawei Zhou, Xinya Du

    arXiv · 2024

    A novel framework that employs a two-stage approach combining Supervised Fine-Tuning and controllable Reinforcement Learning to provide a balanced approach to research ideation, achieving high-quality outcomes by dynamically navigating the trade-offs among novelty, feasibility, and effectiveness.

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  • End-to-end Case-Based Reasoning for Commonsense Knowledge Base Completion

    Zonglin Yang, Xinya Du, Erik Cambria, Claire Cardie

    Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2023

    This framework addresses a fundamental question on whether CBR methodology can be utilized to improve deep learning models and generates more valid, informative, and novel knowledge than the state-of-the-art COMET model for CKBC in both the fully supervised and few-shot settings.

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  • Dr.V : A Hierarchical Perception-Temporal-Cognition Framework to Diagnose Video Hallucination by Fine-Grained Spatial-Temporal Grounding

    Meng Luo, Shengqiong Wu, Liqiang Jing, Tianjie Ju, Zheng Li, Jinxiang Lai, Tianlong Wu, Xinya Du, +7 more

    International Journal of Computer Vision · 2026

    Dr.V, a hierarchical framework covering perceptive, temporal, and cognitive levels to diagnose and mitigate video hallucination by fine-grained spatial-temporal grounding, is proposed, offering a practical blueprint for robust video understanding in real-world scenarios.

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  • DSBench: How Far Are Data Science Agents from Becoming Data Science Experts?

    Jing, Liqiang, Huang, Zhehui, Xiaoyang Wang, Wenlin Yao, Wenhao Yu, Kaixin Ma, Zhang, Hongming, Xinya Du, +1 more

    arXiv · 2024

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  • HiPRAG: Hierarchical Process Rewards for Efficient Agentic Retrieval Augmented Generation

    Peilin Wu, Mian Zhang, Kun Wan, Zhao, Wentian, K. K. He, Xinya Du, Zhiyu Chen

    arXiv · 2025

    Hierarchical Process Rewards for Efficient agentic RAG (HiPRAG), a training methodology that incorporates a fine-grained, knowledge-grounded process reward into the RL training, demonstrates the importance and potential of fine-grained control through RL, for improving the efficiency and optimality of reasoning for search agents.

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  • FG-PRM: Fine-grained Hallucination Detection and Mitigation in Language Model Mathematical Reasoning

    Ruosen Li, Ziming Luo, Xinya Du

    arXiv · 2024

    The FG-PRM (Fine-Grained Process Reward Model), an augmented model designed to detect and mitigate hallucinations in a fine-grained, step-level manner, excels in fine-grained hallucination detection and substantially boosts the performance of LLMs on GSM8K and MATH benchmarks.

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  • Automatic Error Analysis for Document-level Information Extraction

    Aliva Das, Xinya Du, Barry Wang, Kejian Shi, Jiayuan Gu, Thomas Porter, Claire Cardie

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2022

    This work builds on the work of Kummerfeld and Klein (2013) to propose a transformation-based framework for automating error analysis in document-level event and (N-ary) relation extraction, and compares two state-of-the-art document- level template-filling approaches on datasets from three domains.

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  • Document-level Event-based Extraction Using Generative Template-filling Transformers.

    Xinya Du, Alexander M. Rush, Claire Cardie

    arXiv · 2020

    A generative transformer-based encoder-decoder framework that is designed to model context at the document level: it can make extraction decisions across sentence boundaries; is implicitly aware of noun phrase coreference structure, and has the capacity to respect cross-role dependencies in the template structure.

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  • CLUE: Non-parametric Verification from Experience via Hidden-State Clustering

    Zhenwen Liang, Ruosen Li, Yujun Zhou, Linfeng Song, Dian Yu, Xinya Du, Haitao Mi, Yu Dan Dong

    arXiv · 2025

    Clue (Clustering and Experience-based Verification), a deliberately minimalist, non-parametric verifier that consistently outperforms LLM-as-a-judge baselines and matches or exceeds modern confidence-based methods in reranking candidates, improving both top-1 and majority-vote accuracy across AIME 24/25 and GPQA.

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  • Leveraging Structured Information for Explainable Multi-hop Question Answering and Reasoning

    Ruosen Li, Xinya Du

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023 · 2023

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  • Document-level Causal Relation Extraction with Knowledge-guided Binary Question Answering

    Zimu Wang, Lei Xia, Wei Wang Xjtlu, Xinya Du

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024 · 2024

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  • FIHA: Autonomous Hallucination Evaluation in Vision-Language Models with Davidson Scene Graphs

    Bowen Yan, Zhengsong Zhang, Liqiang Jing, Eftekhar Hossain, Xinya Du

    arXiv · 2024

    The FIHA (autonomous Fine-graIned Hallucination evAluation evaluation in LVLMs) is introduced, which could access hallucination LVLMs in the LLM-free and annotation-free way and model the dependency between different types of hallucinations.

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  • POE: Process of Elimination for Multiple Choice Reasoning

    Chenkai Ma, Xinya Du

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2023

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  • A Comprehensive Analysis for Visual Object Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models

    Liqiang Jing, Guiming Hardy Chen, Ehsan Aghazadeh, Xin Eric Wang, Xinya Du

    arXiv · 2025

    This paper analyzes each component of LLaVA-like LVLMs -- the large language model, the vision backbone, and the projector -- to identify potential sources of error and their impact, and proposes methods to mitigate hallucination for each problematic component.

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  • Language Models as Inductive Reasoners

    Zonglin Yang, Li Dong, Xinya Du, Hao Cheng, Erik Cambria, Xiaodong Liu, Jianfeng Gao, Furu Wei

    Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2024

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  • Toward Consistent and Informative Event-Event Temporal Relation Extraction

    Xiaomeng Jin, Haoyang Wen, Xinya Du, Heng Ji

    Proceedings of the First Workshop on Matching From Unstructured and Structured Data (MATCHING 2023) · 2023

    This model combines a pretrained language model and a graph neural network to output event embeddings, which captures the contextual information of event graphs and achieves state-of-the-art performance and generates high-quality event graphs.

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  • Cornell Belief and Sentiment System at TAC 2016.

    Vlad Niculae, Kai Sun, Xilun Chen, Cheng Yao, Xinya Du, Esin Durmus, Arzoo Katiyar, Claire Cardie

    Theory and applications of categories · 2016

    The 2016 system of the CornPittMich team for the TAC Belief and Sentimen (BeSt) task for English and Chinese is described, employing a combination of simple, hand-crafted rules and machine learning-based approaches.

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  • FIHA: Automated Fine-grained Hallucinations Evaluations in Large Vision Language Models with Davidson Scene Graphs

    Bowen Yan, Zhengsong Zhang, Liqiang Jing, Eftekhar Hossain, Xinya Du

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025 · 2025

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  • IQA-EVAL: Automatic Evaluation of Human-Model Interactive Question Answering

    Ruosen Li, Ruochen Li, Barry Wang, Xinya Du

    neural information processing systems · 2024

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  • Leveraging Structured Metadata for Improving Question Answering on the Web

    Xinya Du, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Adam Fourney, Robert B. Sim, Paul N. Bennett, Claire Cardie

    Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP) · 2020

    A neural passage selection model is proposed that leverages metadata information with a fine-grained encoding strategy, which learns the representation for metadata predicates in a hierarchical way, which significantly outperform baseline models, which do not incorporate metadata.

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  • Efficient Document-level Event Relation Extraction

    Ruochen Li, Zimu Wang, Xinya Du

    Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP) · 2025

    An innovative two-stage framework is proposed to tackle the challenges of ERE, consisting of a retriever to identify the related event pairs and a cross-encoder to classify the relationships between the retrieved pairs.

    2
  • LMR-BENCH: Evaluating LLM Agent’s Ability on Reproducing Language Modeling Research

    Shuo Yan, Ruochen Li, Ziming Luo, Zimu Wang, D. Li, Liqiang Jing, Kaiyu He, Peilin Wu, +7 more

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2025

    2
  • Multimodal Reference Visual Grounding

    Yangxiao Lu, Ruosen Li, Liqiang Jing, Jikai Wang, Xinya Du, Yunhui Guo, Nicholas Ruozzi, Xiang Mei Yu

    arXiv · 2025

    This work introduces a new task named Multimodal Reference Visual Grounding (MRVG), and introduces a novel method, named MRVG-Net, to solve this visual grounding problem, by efficiently using reference images with few-shot object detection and using Large Language Models (LLMs) for object matching.

    2
  • Do Retrieval-Augmented Language Models Adapt to Varying User Needs?

    Peilin Wu, Xinlu Zhang, Wenhao Yu, Xingyu Liu, Xinya Du, Zhiyu Zoey Chen

    arXiv · 2025

    This paper introduces a novel evaluation framework that systematically assesses RALMs under three user need cases-Context-Exclusive, Context-First, and Memory-First-across three distinct context settings: Context Matching, Knowledge Conflict, and Information Irrelevant.

    2
  • Making Natural Language Reasoning Explainable and Faithful

    Xinya Du

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2024

    This talk will focus on the design of leveraging structured information (that is grounded to the context), for the explainable complex question answering and reasoning, and the multi-module interpretable framework for inductive reasoning, which conducts step-wise faithful reasoning with iterative feedback.

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  • Probing Representations for Document-level Event Extraction

    Barry Wang, Xinya Du, Claire Cardie

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023 · 2023

    2
  • Zero-Shot Classification by Logical Reasoning on Natural Language Explanations

    Chi Han, Hengzhi Pei, Xinya Du, Heng Ji

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023 · 2023

    2
  • SciEvent: Benchmarking Multi-domain Scientific Event Extraction

    Bofu Dong, Pritesh Shah, Sumedh Sonawane, Tiyasha Banerjee, Erin L. Brady, Xinya Du, Ming Jiang

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2025

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  • Search Wisely: Mitigating Sub-optimal Agentic Searches By Reducing Uncertainty

    Peilin Wu, Mian Zhang, Xinlu Zhang, Xinya Du, Zhiyu Chen

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2025

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  • AGent: A Novel Pipeline for Automatically Creating Unanswerable Questions

    Son Quoc Tran, Gia-Huy Do, Phong Nguyen-Thuan Do, Matt Kretchmar, Xinya Du

    arXiv · 2023

    The usefulness of AGent, a novel pipeline that automatically creates new unanswerable questions by re-matching a question with a context that lacks the necessary information for a correct answer, is demonstrated.

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