Ning Lu
Author directory2026
VizRAG: Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Hypergraph Visualization
Yanbin Wei | Yang Chen | Renling Gan | Ziru Liu | Xinyu Fu | Chun Kang | Ning Lu | Rui Liu | Yu Zhang | James Kwok
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Yanbin Wei | Yang Chen | Renling Gan | Ziru Liu | Xinyu Fu | Chun Kang | Ning Lu | Rui Liu | Yu Zhang | James Kwok
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Hypergraph-based RAG systems surpass traditional graph-based approaches by organizing complex n-ary atomic facts among entities, rather than relying solely on binary relationships. Despite the advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) with enhanced visual capabilities, current hypergraph-based RAG frameworks predominantly restrict knowledge retrieval and reconstruction to a unimodal, text-centric paradigm. This limitation prevents them from fully leveraging the powerful visual perception capabilities of modern MLLMs. To address this gap, we systematically explore the integration of hypergraph awareness in RAG systems through visual cues. By incorporating visual representations of hypergraphs into the RAG pipeline, we introduce VizRAG, the first RAG system to support visual hypergraph structure awareness. Experimental results demonstrate that VizRAG significantly outperforms strong baselines, validating the promising potential of hypergraph visualization as a novel approach for RAG systems.
Policy and World Modeling Co-Training for Language Agents
Ning Lu | Baijiong Lin | Shengcai Liu | Jiahao Wu | Haoze Lv | Yanbin Wei | Lingting Zhu | Shengju Qian | Xin Wang | Ying-Cong Chen | Qi Wang | Ke Tang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Ning Lu | Baijiong Lin | Shengcai Liu | Jiahao Wu | Haoze Lv | Yanbin Wei | Lingting Zhu | Shengju Qian | Xin Wang | Ying-Cong Chen | Qi Wang | Ke Tang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Reinforcement learning (RL) improves large language model (LLM) agents by teaching them which actions lead to high rewards, but provides little supervision on what those actions do to the environment. World modeling (WM) can fill this gap, yet existing approaches often require separate simulators, extra training stages, or additional inference-time computation. We observe that on-policy RL rollouts already contain the needed signal: each transition pairs an action with its resulting next observation. Based on this observation, we propose PaW, a Policy and World modeling co-training framework that adds auxiliary WM supervision to the same policy during RL, without changing the inference paradigm. To make auxiliary WM supervision informative and stable, PaW introduces three components: action-entropy-based WM data selection, noise-tolerant WM loss, and reward-adaptive loss balancing. Experiments on three agentic task benchmarks show consistent improvements over strong RL baselines across models and RL algorithms. These results suggest that standard RL rollouts are a practical source of WM supervision for language-agent training.