Shuxiu Zhang

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0004-1238-7983ORCID · reported

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

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Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Language models and text generation · 91% Trustworthy machine learning · 9%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › retrieval-augmented generation
knowledge conflict
1.012026
Exploring Knowledge Conflicts for Faithful LLM Reasoning: Benchmark and Method · SIGIR 2026
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › retrieval-augmented generation
knowledge conflict resolution
1.012026
Exploring Knowledge Conflicts for Faithful LLM Reasoning: Benchmark and Method · SIGIR 2026
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
retrieval-augmented generation
1.012026
Exploring Knowledge Conflicts for Faithful LLM Reasoning: Benchmark and Method · SIGIR 2026
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › interpretability
faithful reasoning
0.312026
Exploring Knowledge Conflicts for Faithful LLM Reasoning: Benchmark and Method · SIGIR 2026

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

explanation-based thinking · 1.0benchmark construction · 1.0
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 Exploring Knowledge Conflicts for Faithful LLM Reasoning: Benchmark and Method
abstract
Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success across a wide range of applications especially when augmented by external knowledge through retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Despite their widespread adoption, recent studies have shown that LLMs often struggle to perform faithful reasoning when conflicting knowledge is retrieved. However, existing work primarily focuses on conflicts between external knowledge and the parametric knowledge of LLMs, leaving conflicts across external knowledge largely unexplored. Meanwhile, modern RAG systems increasingly emphasize the integration of unstructured text and (semi-)structured data like knowledge graphs (KGs) to improve knowledge completeness and reasoning faithfulness. To address this gap, we introduce ConflictQA, a novel benchmark that systematically instantiates conflicts between textual evidence and KG evidence. Extensive evaluations across representative LLMs reveal that, facing such cross-source conflicts, LLMs often fail to identify reliable evidence for correct reasoning. Instead, LLMs become more sensitive to prompting choices and tend to rely exclusively on either KG or textual evidence, resulting in incorrect responses. Based on these findings, we further propose XoT, a two-stage explanation-based thinking framework tailored for reasoning over heterogeneous conflicting evidence, and verify its effectiveness with extensive experiments.
Tianzhe Zhao, Jiaoyan Chen 0001, Shuxiu Zhang, Qika Lin, Jun Liu 0002
SIGIR3