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New research explores data selection for medical QA and learnable retrievers for graph QA

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Two new research papers explore methods for improving question-answering systems. The first paper introduces Representation-Sensitivity Prioritization (RSP) and RSP-Drop, techniques that use Gaussian perturbations to select compact training subsets for medical question-answering models like MedGemma-4B. The second paper proposes TaLenT, a learnable retriever-generator framework for textual graph question answering that uses gold answer signals to supervise evidence selection, aiming to improve recall and compactness. AI

IMPACT These papers contribute to advancing AI's ability to process and answer complex questions in specialized domains like medicine and structured knowledge graphs.

RANK_REASON Two arXiv papers detailing novel methods for improving question-answering systems.

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New research explores data selection for medical QA and learnable retrievers for graph QA

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Yuexin Wu, Dayou Yu, Vasile Rus ·

    Perturbation-Based Data Selection for Medical Question Answering

    arXiv:2610.33440v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Selecting a compact training subset is an important step in adapting medical language models from existing question-answering banks. We investigate perturbation-based data selection using two signals derived from Gaussian perturbati…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Kaifeng Jin, Yuchen Yan, Zhichen Zeng, Xiao Lin, Lihui Liu, Yinglong Xia, Hanghang Tong ·

    Towards a Learnable Retriever for Textual Graph Question Answering

    arXiv:2610.33511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Textual graph question answering (GraphQA) and graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (GraphRAG) have gained increasing attention as a way to ground large language models (LLMs) on structured knowledge. Despite extensive efforts…

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