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# Defu Lian — papers of 2026 — 3 papers, the most cited first

3 papers · [all years of Defu Lian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/defu-lian/#years)

**[SPARD: Self-Paced Curriculum for RL Alignment via Integrating Reward Dynamics and Data Utility](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhi-2026-spard-self-paced-curriculum-rl/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Xuyang Zhi, Peilun Zhou, Chengqiang Lu, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*

**[Learning from Emptiness: De-biasing Listwise Rerankers with Content-Agnostic Probability Calibration](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lv-2026-learning-emptiness-de-biasing-listwise/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Hang Lv, Hongchao Gu, Ruiqing Yang, et al.*2026*

**[Let Retrievers Think Before Action: Thought-Augmented Embedding for Dense Retrieval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yan-2026-let-retrievers-think-before-action/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Ruiran Yan, Wen Xiong, Ze Liu, et al.*2026*