Fishing for Answers: Exploring One-shot vs. Iterative Retrieval Strategies for Retrieval Augmented Generation

Kavli Affiliate: Gang Su | First 5 Authors: Huifeng Lin, Huifeng Lin, , , | Summary: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) based on Large Language Models (LLMs) is a powerful solution to understand and query the industry’s closed-source documents. However, basic RAG often struggles with complex QA tasks in legal and regulatory domains, particularly when dealing with […]


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A Study of Large Language Models for Patient Information Extraction: Model Architecture, Fine-Tuning Strategy, and Multi-task Instruction Tuning

Kavli Affiliate: Cheng Peng | First 5 Authors: Cheng Peng, Cheng Peng, , , | Summary: Natural language processing (NLP) is a key technology to extract important patient information from clinical narratives to support healthcare applications. The rapid development of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized many NLP tasks in the clinical domain, yet their […]


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Optical Fiber-Waveguide Hybrid Architecture for Mid-Infrared Ring Lasers

Kavli Affiliate: Long Zhang | First 5 Authors: Tinghui An, Tinghui An, , , | Summary: We report a mid-infrared ring laser via fiber-to-waveguide hybrid integration enabled by directional couplers fabricated in fluoride glasses. Directional couplers were inscribed into fluoride glass using femtosecond laser direct writing, forming low-loss waveguides with a high positive refractive index […]


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Optical Fiber-Waveguide Hybrid Architecture for Mid-Infrared Ring Lasers

Kavli Affiliate: Long Zhang | First 5 Authors: Tinghui An, Tinghui An, , , | Summary: We report a mid-infrared ring laser via fiber-to-waveguide hybrid integration enabled by directional couplers fabricated in fluoride glasses. Directional couplers were inscribed into fluoride glass using femtosecond laser direct writing, forming low-loss waveguides with a high positive refractive index […]


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Deconfined Quantum Critical Point in Quantum Hall Bilayers

Kavli Affiliate: Zheng Zhu | First 5 Authors: Guangyu Yu, Guangyu Yu, , , | Summary: Deconfined quantum critical points (DQCPs) represent an unconventional class of quantum criticality beyond the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson-Fisher paradigm. Nevertheless, both their theoretical identification and experimental realization remain challenging. Here we report compelling evidence of a DQCP in quantum Hall bilayers with […]


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Boundary Renormalization Group Flow of Entanglement Entropy at a (2+1)-Dimensional Quantum Critical Point

Kavli Affiliate: Long Zhang | First 5 Authors: Zhiyan Wang, Zhiyan Wang, , , | Summary: We investigate the second order R’enyi entanglement entropy at the quantum critical point of spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on a columnar dimerized square lattice. The universal constant $gamma$ in the area-law scaling $S_2(ell) = alphaell – gamma$ is found […]


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Infinity thick quasiconvexity and applications

Kavli Affiliate: Zheng Zhu | First 5 Authors: Miguel García-Bravo, Miguel García-Bravo, , , | Summary: We investigate geometric properties of a metric measure space where every function in the Newton–Sobolev space $N^1,infty(Z)$ has a Lipschitz representative. We prove that when the metric space is locally complete and the reference measure is infinitesimally doubling, the […]


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Computational approaches for virus host prediction: A review of methods and applications

Kavli Affiliate: Cheng Peng | First 5 Authors: Jiayu Shang, Jiayu Shang, , , | Summary: Accurate prediction of virus-host interactions is critical for understanding viral ecology and developing applications like phage therapy. However, the growing number of computational tools has created a complex landscape, making direct performance comparison challenging due to inconsistent benchmarks and […]


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When Energy and Information Revolutions Meet 2D Janus

Kavli Affiliate: Long Zhang | First 5 Authors: Long Zhang, Long Zhang, , , | Summary: The depletion of energy sources, worsening environmental issues, and the quantum limitations of integrated circuits for information storage in the post-Moore era, are pressing global concerns. Fortunately, two-dimensional (2D) Janus materials, possessing broken spatial symmetry, with emerging pressure-dependent and […]


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LFD: Layer Fused Decoding to Exploit External Knowledge in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Kavli Affiliate: Long Zhang | First 5 Authors: Yang Sun, Yang Sun, , , | Summary: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) incorporates external knowledge into large language models (LLMs), improving their adaptability to downstream tasks and enabling information updates. Surprisingly, recent empirical evidence demonstrates that injecting noise into retrieved relevant documents paradoxically facilitates exploitation of external knowledge […]


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