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author = "Dao Sy, Duy Minh and
Tran, Nguyen and
Huynh, Trung Kiet and
Nguyen Lam, Phu Quy and
Pham, Phu Hoa",
editor = "Kochmar, Ekaterina and
Ghosh, Debanjan and
North, Kai and
Komachi, Mamoru",
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month = jul,
year = "2026",
address = "San Diego, California, USA",
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pages = "409--417",
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abstract = "This paper presents our system developed for SemEval-2026 Task 12: Abductive Event Reasoning (AER). The shared task aims at identifying the most plausible cause of a real-world event from multiple-choice options, given retrieved documents as evidence. In this work, we propose using hybrid retrieval that combines BM25 keyword matching with dense semantic search to capture explicit causal keywords. Moreover, we apply extended LoRA fine-tuning that trains both attention and MLP layers of a 32-billion parameter language model with only 0.81{\%} trainable parameters. For final refinement, we perform development set fine-tuning to leverage validation data before inference. We achieve a tie for fifth place in the shared task: our system achieves a score of 0.90 on the official test set evaluation, ranking tied for fifth among participating teams and representing a +0.27 improvement over our baseline."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T HCMUS RepeatedGames at SemEval-2026 Task 12: CausalRAG: Synergizing Causal Graph Retrieval and Extended LoRA for Abductive Reasoning
%A Dao Sy, Duy Minh
%A Tran, Nguyen
%A Huynh, Trung Kiet
%A Nguyen Lam, Phu Quy
%A Pham, Phu Hoa
%Y Kochmar, Ekaterina
%Y Ghosh, Debanjan
%Y North, Kai
%Y Komachi, Mamoru
%S Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
%D 2026
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C San Diego, California, USA
%@ 979-8-89176-414-9
%F dao-sy-etal-2026-hcmus-repeatedgames
%X This paper presents our system developed for SemEval-2026 Task 12: Abductive Event Reasoning (AER). The shared task aims at identifying the most plausible cause of a real-world event from multiple-choice options, given retrieved documents as evidence. In this work, we propose using hybrid retrieval that combines BM25 keyword matching with dense semantic search to capture explicit causal keywords. Moreover, we apply extended LoRA fine-tuning that trains both attention and MLP layers of a 32-billion parameter language model with only 0.81% trainable parameters. For final refinement, we perform development set fine-tuning to leverage validation data before inference. We achieve a tie for fifth place in the shared task: our system achieves a score of 0.90 on the official test set evaluation, ranking tied for fifth among participating teams and representing a +0.27 improvement over our baseline.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.semeval-1.59/
%P 409-417
Markdown (Informal)
[HCMUS RepeatedGames at SemEval-2026 Task 12: CausalRAG: Synergizing Causal Graph Retrieval and Extended LoRA for Abductive Reasoning](https://aclanthology.org/2026.semeval-1.59/) (Dao Sy et al., SemEval 2026)
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