Xihang Wang

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2ranked-venue papers
2as first author
2since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0008-7746-8150ORCID · reported

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Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 2 · 2 first-author · 2 since 2021

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Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
2 papers
Information retrieval · 100%

Topics — the 6 heaviest of 6, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Information retrieval › question answering
evidence selection
2.022026
MEG-RAG: Quantifying Multi-modal Evidence Grounding for Evidence Selection in RAG · SIGIR 2026
Purifying Multimodal Retrieval: Fragment-Level Evidence Selection for RAG · SIGIR 2026
Information retrieval › retrieval-augmented generation
multimodal retrieval-augmented generation
2.022026
MEG-RAG: Quantifying Multi-modal Evidence Grounding for Evidence Selection in RAG · SIGIR 2026
Purifying Multimodal Retrieval: Fragment-Level Evidence Selection for RAG · SIGIR 2026
Information retrieval
retrieval-augmented generation
2.022026
MEG-RAG: Quantifying Multi-modal Evidence Grounding for Evidence Selection in RAG · SIGIR 2026
Purifying Multimodal Retrieval: Fragment-Level Evidence Selection for RAG · SIGIR 2026
Information retrieval › reranking
multimodal reranking
1.012026
MEG-RAG: Quantifying Multi-modal Evidence Grounding for Evidence Selection in RAG · SIGIR 2026
Information retrieval
multimodal retrieval
1.012026
Purifying Multimodal Retrieval: Fragment-Level Evidence Selection for RAG · SIGIR 2026
Information retrieval
reranking
1.012026
MEG-RAG: Quantifying Multi-modal Evidence Grounding for Evidence Selection in RAG · SIGIR 2026

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

semantic certainty anchoring · 1.0retrieval-augmented generation · 1.0multimodal reranking · 1.0inverse document frequency · 1.0
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 Purifying Multimodal Retrieval: Fragment-Level Evidence Selection for RAG
Xihang Wang, Chengkai Huang, Cao Liu, Quan Z. Sheng, Lina Yao 0001
SIGIR1
2026 MEG-RAG: Quantifying Multi-modal Evidence Grounding for Evidence Selection in RAG
abstract
Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (MRAG) addresses key limitations of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), such as hallucination and outdated knowledge. However, current MRAG systems struggle to distinguish whether retrieved multimodal data truly supports the semantic core of an answer or merely provides superficial relevance. Existing metrics often rely on heuristic position-based confidence, which fails to capture the informational density of multimodal entities. To address this, we propose Multi-modal Evidence Grounding (MEG), a semantic-aware metric that quantifies the contribution of retrieved evidence. Unlike standard confidence measures, MEG utilizes Semantic Certainty Anchoring, which dynamically filters out high-frequency stopwords via Inverse Document Frequency (IDF) to focus strictly on information-bearing tokens. Building on MEG, we introduce MEG-RAG, a framework that trains a multimodal reranker to align retrieved evidence with the semantic anchors of the ground truth. By prioritizing high-value content based on semantic grounding rather than token probability distributions, MEG-RAG improves the accuracy and multimodal consistency of generated outputs. Extensive experiments on the ??2RAG benchmark show that MEG-RAG consistently outperforms strong baselines and demonstrates robust generalization across different teacher models. The data and code are available at here.
Xihang Wang, Chengkai Huang, Quan Z. Sheng, Lina Yao 0001
SIGIR1