Zhilin Liang

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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0002-4631-7604ORCID · reported

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Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021

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Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper
Information retrieval · 100%
Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper
Distributed systems · 100%

Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Information retrieval › retrieval-augmented generation
parametric retrieval-augmented generation
1.012026
FedMosaic: Federated Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Parametric Adapters · SIGIR 2026
Information retrieval
retrieval-augmented generation
1.012026
FedMosaic: Federated Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Parametric Adapters · SIGIR 2026
Distributed systems › distributed machine learning
federated learning
1.012026
FedMosaic: Federated Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Parametric Adapters · SIGIR 2026

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

parametric adapters · 2.0clustering · 2.0adapter aggregation · 2.0
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 FedMosaic: Federated Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Parametric Adapters
abstract
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances Large Language Models (LLMs) by grounding generation in external knowledge to improve factuality and reduce hallucinations. Yet most deployments assume a centralized corpus, which is infeasible in privacy-aware domains where knowledge remains siloed. This motivates federated RAG (FedRAG), where a central LLM server collaborates with distributed silos without sharing raw documents. In-context RAG violates this requirement by transmitting verbatim documents, whereas parametric RAG encodes documents into light weight adapters that merge with a frozen LLM at inference, avoiding raw-text exchange. We adopt the parametric approach but face two unique challenges induced by FedRAG: high storage and communication from per-document adapters, and destructive aggregation caused by indiscriminately merging multiple adapters. We present FedMosaic, the first federated RAG framework built on parametric adapters. FedMosaic clusters semantically related documents into multi-document adapters with document-specific masks to reduce overhead while preserving specificity, and performs selective adapter aggregation to combine only relevance-aligned, non-conflicting adapters. Experiments show that FedMosaic achieves an average 10.9% higher accuracy than state-of-the-art methods in four categories, while lowering storage costs by 78.8% to 86.3% and communication costs by 91.4%, and never sharing raw documents.
Zhilin Liang, Yuxiang Wang 0014, Zimu Zhou, Hainan Zhang 0001, Boyi Liu 0002, Yongxin Tong
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