arXiv AI By Meixuan Chen, Hehan Li, Ruizhi Zhao, Xin Lu, peizhi xu, Liwei Qian, LI Meifang, shuanglong li, Hanmeng Liu, Xin Pei, Yanbiao Ma

NE-R1: Enhancing Named Entity Recognition Model via Reinforcement Learning

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NE‑R1 is a framework that improves Named Entity Recognition by using a retrieval‑on‑demand mechanism and a two‑stage training process that includes instruction tuning and reinforcement learning with chain‑of‑thought. It balances the use of internal model parameters and external knowledge through a multi‑dimensional reward that considers accuracy and retrieval benefit. The approach achieves state‑of‑the‑art results, improving in‑domain F1 by 2.52% and zero‑shot cross‑domain F1 by 1.18%.

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