BRIEF-Pro: Universal Context Compression with Short-to-Long Synthesis for Fast and Accurate Multi-Hop Reasoning

Jia-Chen Gu, Junyi Zhang, Di Wu, Yuankai Li, Kai-Wei Chang, and Nanyun Peng, in ACL-Findings, 2026.

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@inproceedings{gu2026briefpro,
  title = {BRIEF-Pro: Universal Context Compression with Short-to-Long Synthesis for Fast and Accurate Multi-Hop Reasoning},
  author = {Gu, Jia-Chen and Zhang, Junyi and Wu, Di and Li, Yuankai and Chang, Kai-Wei and Peng, Nanyun},
  booktitle = {ACL-Findings},
  year = {2026}
}

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