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HC@AIxIA + HYDRA 20252025Text classification has become increasingly important with the exponential growth of digital text data, finding applications in sentiment analysis, spam detection, topic categorization, and content moderation across various domains. Our research introduced a novel approach that integrates reinforcement learning with a specialized reasoning path. This methodology enabled smaller 7B parameter language models
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VLDB 20252025NL2SQL (natural language to SQL) translates natural language questions into SQL queries, thereby making structured data accessible to non-technical users, serving as the foundation for intelligent data applications. State-of-the-art NL2SQL techniques typically perform translation by retrieving database-specific information, such as the database schema, and invoking a pre-trained large language model (LLM
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2025Existing Reward Models (RMs), typically trained on general preference data, struggle in Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) settings, which require judging responses for faithfulness to retrieved context, relevance to the user query, appropriate refusals when context is insufficient, completeness and conciseness of information. To address the lack of publicly available RAG-centric preference datasets and
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2025Predicting the user’s shopping intent is a crucial task in e-commerce. In particular, determining the product category, which the user wants to shop, is essential for delivering relevant search results and website navigation options. Existing query classification models are reported to have excellent predictive performance on the single-intent queries (e.g. ‘running shoes’), but there is little research
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2025Since the advent of large language models (LLMs), prompt engineering has been a crucial step for eliciting desired responses for various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. However, prompt engineering remains an impediment for end users due to rapid advances in models, tasks, and associated best practices. To mitigate this, Automatic Prompt Optimization (APO) techniques have recently emerged that use
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