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Yilong Lai

Yilong Lai has 2 papers in our library, in 2025, most of them on Dialogue systems, Reasoning, Information retrieval & search; often with Congzhi Zhang, Deyu Zhou, Jialong Wu.

2 papers in our library · 2025

OpenAlex · h-index 0 · 3 works · 0 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 17 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9309

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 Affiliations

🏢Alibaba GroupSan Mateo · United States2025 · 1 papercurrent🎓Southeast UniversityNanjing · China2024 · 2 papers

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 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 5The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksArtificial Intelligence · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 worksInformation Systems · 1 work

🧭 Topics 3Research subjects and languages the work is about.Reasoning · 1 workDialogue systems · 1 workInformation retrieval & search · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20252 papers

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. AdaCQR: Enhancing Query Reformulation for Conversational Search via Sparse and Dense Retrieval Alignment (2025 · 9 citations)
    Conversational search needs to turn a context-dependent user question, often with omissions, coreference or ambiguity, into a self-contained query that standard retrievers can handle.
  2. SEED: Accelerating Reasoning Tree Construction via Scheduled Speculative Decoding (2025 · 8 citations)
    Tree-search-based (TSB) reasoning methods such as Tree-of-Thoughts (ToT) help LLMs plan and reason. However, they are slow because many thoughts must be generated and scored before the tree can grow. Earlier work sped up the search algorithms. This paper targets tree construction itself with SEED, a training-free…

 Co-authors here

4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 17 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 3 citing papers with a page here →.

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