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Jie Liu

Publications 6

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Found but Not Read: When Extracted Text Closes the Retrieval-Reading Gap in Document Vision-Language Models

Retrieval-augmented document question answering assumes that once the right page is found, a vision-language model (VLM) can read it. We show that this assumption often fails, leaving a retrieval-reading gap: evidence found but not used. A paired protocol isolates this gap by comparing answers from the retrieved page i …

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VERA: Verifiable Feasibility Representations with Counterfactual Credit for Constrained Multi-Agent Control

Bo Yin, Dongbo Li, Hongkai Chen et al. · 2026

Constrained multi-agent control requires more than predicting rewarding actions: an action can cease to be executable as contact windows, shared capacity, and deadlines change. We introduce VERA, a centralized-training, decentralized-execution framework that separates feasibility estimation from credit assignment. Each …

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What Can a Leaderboard Certify? Compositional Controllability for Fair Evaluation and Training of Biomedical Literature-Review Agents

Leaderboards rank long-horizon agents by their final outputs. Yet a higher score alone does not establish whether two systems are comparable or which stage accounts for the difference. Unequal evidence, inputs, or budgets can affect scores, and statistical corrections do not remove this mismatch. We introduce compositi …

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