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Qi Liu

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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Learning to Retrieve via Reinforcement Learning in Embedding Space

Dense retrieval models are typically trained with contrastive objectives that learn effective representations but do not directly optimize retrieval metrics or downstream task performance. To address this problem, we introduce RELER (REinforcement LEarning for Retrieval), a reinforcement learning framework that enables...

Qi Liu, Feng-Ming Liang, Yi-Qun Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

MatrixReward: Reward from Rubric Matrix for Open-Ended Generation

Open-ended query generation lacks standard answers, thus necessitating an effective reward mechanism. Pointwise scoring rubrics provide limited information about the relative quality of sample answers under the same prompt; merging multiple rubric judgments into a single score may also mask the differences between thes...

Zi-Hang Shen, Qi Liu, Zi-Xuan Yang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

RankBuffer: Efficient Ranking-Based Rewards for Open-Ended Generation

RankBuffer is introduced, which maintains an ordered, query-specific buffer of previously judged responses as a reusable quality scale that achieves nearly on-par performance with the strongest ranking-based reward baseline while substantially reducing judging cost.

Zi-Xuan Yang, Yi-Qun Chen, Qi Liu et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

Diagnosing Search Behavior and Failure Modes in Long-Horizon Search Agents

By systematically characterizing the search behavior and failure modes of long-horizon search agents, this work points to practical directions for building better deep research systems, including stronger query formulation, more effective evidence selection and context management, and stopping criteria based on whether...

Qi Liu, Jia-Xin Mao, Fengbin Zhu et al. · 2 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

Fetch-then-Explore: Decoupling Selection from Extraction over a Persistent Workspace for Search Agents

Fetch-then-Explore is proposed, which separates page selection from evidence extraction and keeps what it selects: pages are recorded in a per-question workspace on the filesystem rather than the context window or a transient session, and evidence is pulled from them on demand later.

Qi Liu, Yi-Qun Chen, Zidan Chen et al. · 0 citations
Book Open access Jul 2026

MCP-Focus: Leveraging Function-Oriented Document Enhancement for MCP Server Retrieval

Experiments across multiple dense retrievers show that fine-tuning with MCP-Focus-enhanced documents consistently improves retrieval effectiveness over baseline document methods on multiple benchmarks.

Wenchun Jing, Haiyang Shen, Haoran Wang et al. · 0 citations

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