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Li, R, Chen, C, Hu, Y, Gao, Y, Wang, X & Yilmaz, E 2026, Attributing Response to Context: A Jensen-Shannon Divergence Driven Mechanistic Study of Context Attribution in Retrieval-Augmented Generation. in The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations: ICLR 2026. International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR, Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 23/04/26.
Ma, Y, Lu, X, Sang, J, Jiang, X & Li, R 2026, Behind the Scenes: Mechanistic Interpretability of Lora-Adapted Whisper for Speech Emotion Recognition. in ICASSP 2026 - 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 5286-5290, 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, 3/05/26. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11464049
Yang, C, Xu, R, Li, R, Cao, B & Fan, J 2026, Business as Rulesual: A Benchmark and Framework for Business Rule Flow Modeling with LLMs. in M Liakata, VP Moreira, J Zhang & D Jurgens (eds), Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL, pp. 35198-35220, The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, San Diego, California, United States, 2/07/26. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2026.acl-long.1625
Wu, J, Wu, Z, Li, R, Chen, T, Hasan, A, Kim, Y, Cheung, JP-Y, Zhang, T & Wu, H 2026, Error Correction in Radiology Reports: A Knowledge Distillation-Based Multi-Stage Framework. in S Koenig, C Jenkins & ME Taylor (eds), Proceedings of the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, no. 46: AAAI-26 Special Track AI for Social Impact II, vol. 40, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, pp. 39451-39459, 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Singapore, Singapore, 20/01/26. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v40i46.41295
Cao, B, Lu, H, Ma, C, Wang, T, Li, R & Fan, J 2026, Orthogonal Hierarchical Decomposition for Structure-Aware Table Understanding with Large Language Models. in Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, vol. 306, PMLR, 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 6/07/26.
Yan, L, Li, R, Chen, G, Li, Q, Geng, J, Li, W, Wang, L & Lyu, C 2026, Spurious Rewards Paradox: Mechanistically Understanding How RLVR Activates Memorization Shortcuts in LLMs. in Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, vol. 306, PMLR, 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 6/07/26.
Wang, X, Sen, P, Li, R & Yilmaz, E 2025, Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Conversational Systems. in L Chiruzzo, A Ritter & L Wang (eds), Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025. Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL, pp. 491-503, 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, 29/04/25. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.findings-naacl.30
Li, R & Gao, Y 2025, Anchored Answers: Unravelling Positional Bias in GPT-2's Multiple-Choice Questions. in W Che, J Nabende, E Shutova & MT Pilehvar (eds), Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025. Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL, pp. 2439-2465, 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Vienna, Austria, 27/07/25. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.findings-acl.124
Preprint
Hu, H, Hou, C, Cao, B & Li, R 2026 'Benchmarking Text-to-Python against Text-to-SQL: The Impact of Explicit Logic and Ambiguity' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.15728
Sun, C, Cao, B, Li, T, Hou, C, Li, R & Fan, J 2026 'FGTR: Fine-Grained Multi-Table Retrieval via Hierarchical LLM Reasoning' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.12702
Pucci, G, Hemendinger, E, Li, R, Abercrombie, G, Dinkar, T & Sinclair, A 2026 'Food Noise & False Safety: A Systematic Evaluation of How LLMs Fail to Adapt to Eating Disorder Queries with Clinician Feedback' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.02444
Ma, Y, Sang, J, Li, R, Yu, J & Li, A 2026 'From Semantics to Readout: Mechanistic Understanding of Audio Tokens after Fine-Tuning for Temporal Audio Grounding' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.25355
Jackson, P, Li, R & Edelstein, E 2026 'Nationality encoding in language model hidden states: Probing culturally differentiated representations in persona-conditioned academic text' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.10151
Hu, S, Li, R & Gao, Y 2026 'Race, Ethnicity and Their Implication on Bias in Large Language Models' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.12868
Yan, L, Li, R, Han, X, Li, W, Wang, B, Wang, L, Lyu, C & Chen, G 2026 'Trust No Tool: Evaluating and Defending LLM Agents under Untrusted Tool Feedback' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.17453
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