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Unleashing the Power of LLMs in Dense Retrieval with Query Likelihood Modeling

arXiv:2504.05216v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Dense retrieval is a crucial task in Information Retrieval (IR), serving as the basis for downstream tasks such as re-ranking and augmenting g

25 Aug 2026

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Dense Expands, Sparse Anchors: Channel-Asymmetric Query Expansion for Hybrid Retrieval

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arXiv:2608.15851v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based query expansion improves retrieval by generating document-like passages. In hybrid retrieval, however, most evaluations fuse fixed top-L den

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18 Aug 2026

Model-agnostic Retrieval-Augmented Extended Forecasting for time series

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arXiv:2608.14054v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time series forecasting with pretrained foundation models has demonstrated strong zero-shot capabilities. However, achieving optimal performance on time

17 Aug 2026

RL-Index: Reinforcement Learning for Retrieval Index Reasoning

arXiv:2606.16316v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieving external knowledge is crucial for real-world tasks but remains difficult when queries and relevant knowledge are linked by implicit

17 Aug 2026

ERSkill: Evolving for Skill-Guided Adaptive Memory Retrieval

arXiv:2608.12720v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Large Language Model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on long-term memory for persistent interactions, the retrieval mechanisms governing this mem

14 Aug 2026

HybridRAG-BN: A Retrieval-Augmented Framework with Fine-Tuned Verification for Bangla KBQA

arXiv:2608.13004v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge-base question answering (KBQA) systems rely on effective retrieval and reasoning mechanisms to generate accurate answers from external knowled

14 Aug 2026

TRACE: Trustworthy Retrieval-Augmented Conversational Engine

arXiv:2608.10176v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Public service chatbots are expected to deliver recommendations from an underlying public service directory, while also making sure that the recommendat

12 Aug 2026

Defending Retrieval-Augmented Intrusion Detection Against Knowledge Poisoning and Prompt Injection

arXiv:2608.08100v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enables large language models to classify network flows and generate human-readable incident reports by retrievin

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11 Aug 2026

SAGE: SLO-Aware Adaptive Retrieval for Production RAG Systems

arXiv:2608.08237v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems in production operate under strict service level objectives (SLOs) on tail latency and infrastructure cos

11 Aug 2026

SkillReason: Reasoning-Enhanced Agent Skill Retrieval for Implicit User Requests

arXiv:2608.08640v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents increasingly rely on reusable skills to extend their capabilities beyond parametric knowl- edge. However, retrieving the app

11 Aug 2026

InsightEmb: Learning Action-Intent Embeddings for Agentic Insight Retrieval

arXiv:2608.04761v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-improving agents accumulate reusable insights from prior trajectories, making retrieval increasingly important for turning accumulated experience

6 Aug 2026

Fenced Citation-Context Retrieval for Case Law: Temporal Leakage and Degree Control Across Two Jurisdictions

arXiv:2607.17142v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Prior case retrieval (PCR) aims to identify the precedent cases relevant to the facts of a query case. Incoming citation context, the text wit

4 Aug 2026

H+ Embedding: Harmonizing Global and Token-Level Retrieval with Context-Dependent Phrases

arXiv:2608.00065v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Terminology-intensive retrieval, especially in medical settings, depends on preserving multi-word entities, abbreviations, numerical constraints, and

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4 Aug 2026

Which RAG Paradigm Wins at Scale? A Scaling Study of Retrieval-Augmented Generation Paradigms

arXiv:2607.26497v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) methods range from lexical and dense retrieval to graph-based indexing and agentic search. They are usually evaluat

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30 Jul 2026

Multimodal Hybrid Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Scientific Document Understanding using Open-Source SLMs

arXiv:2607.24799v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models tend to hallucinate when answering domain-specific ques tions from scientific documents without prior fine-tuning. Currently, me

29 Jul 2026

Cross-Attention Calibrated Deduplication for Retrieval-Augmented Generation System

arXiv:2607.24332v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Common chunking strategies in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems often create redundant chunks. These redundant chunks make the vector databas

28 Jul 2026

TeaRAG: A Token-Efficient Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework

arXiv:2511.05385v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) utilizes external knowledge to augment Large Language Models' (LLMs) reliability. For flexibility, agenti

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24 Jul 2026

CR-Refiner: An Object-Centric Optimal Transport Reranker for Edit-Conditioned 3D Scene Retrieval

arXiv:2607.19115v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Edit-conditioned 3D scene retrieval pairs a reference 3D room with a natural-language modification and retrieves rooms from a corpus that satisfy the ed

23 Jul 2026

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FAIR GraphRAG: A Retrieval-Augmented Generation Approach for Semantic Data Analysis

arXiv:2607.11464v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) addresses the limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs) when providing responses to domain-specific questions.

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15 Jul 2026

Dual-Confidence Contrastive Decoding for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2607.00570v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) increasingly requires models to answer questions from multiple retrieved documents, where only some sources are rel

2 Jul 2026

Efficient Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Token Co-occurrence Graphs

arXiv:2606.30093v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) mitigates hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs) by grounding the generation process on external knowledge.

PIXELRAG: Web Screenshots Beat Text for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2606.28344v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Augmenting large language models (LLMs) with retrieved web text has become a dominant paradigm, yet the web is not natively textual: existing systems

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The Interference Gap: Comparing Retrieval Bounds in Human Memory and RAG Systems

arXiv:2606.28327v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How do retrieval bounds compare between human episodic memory and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems under semantic interference? We present

XRAG: eXamining the Core -- Benchmarking Foundational Components in Advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2412.15529v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) synergizes the retrieval of pertinent data with the generative capabilities of Large Language Models (LLM

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Reducing Redundancy in Whole-Slide Image Patching for Scalable Indexing and Retrieval

arXiv:2606.26157v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid growth of digital pathology has created an urgent need for efficient indexing and retrieval of whole slide images (WSIs). This need is inten

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26 Jun 2026

IMAGINE: Adaptive Schema-Imagery Enhanced Composition for Composed Video Retrieval

arXiv:2606.08144v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Composed Video Retrieval (CVR) is designed to retrieve a target video that matches a reference video modified by a modification text. While existing met

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9 Jun 2026

GenSpan: Generation-Calibrated Motion Span Priors for Multi-Verb Video Corpus Moment Retrieval

arXiv:2603.22121v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Video Corpus Moment Retrieval (VCMR) aims to retrieve both the correct video and its temporal segment corresponding to a natural-language quer

4 Jun 2026

Mixed-Modality Dual Face-Hair Retrieval

arXiv:2606.03470v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Dual Face-Hair Retrieval (DFHR), a new mixed-modality dual-reference task in image retrieval where a query consists of a face image specify

3 Jun 2026

Efficient RAG with Intent-Aware Retrieval and Semantics-Preserving Chunking

arXiv:2606.01240v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The demand for powerful instruction following and reasoning capability of large language models (LLMs) has promoted rapid development of retrieval-augme

2 Jun 2026

Grounded Decoding: Retrieval-Anchored Probability Fusion for Faithful RAG

arXiv:2606.00432v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems scale, it becomes increasingly challenging to ensure faithful grounding in external evidence. Large lang

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2 Jun 2026

Self-Conditioned Positional HNSW for Overlap-Aware Retrieval in Chunked-Document RAG Systems: Method and Industrial Evidence-Quality Audit

arXiv:2606.01542v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chunked-document retrieval is a common component of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. Documents are split into overlapping chunks, embedde

2 Jun 2026

RICE-PO: Turning Retrieval Interactions into Credit Signals for Reasoning Agents

arXiv:2605.26352v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval is increasingly moving from one-shot matching toward interactive reasoning, where language agents iteratively inspect evidence, reformulate qu

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27 May 2026

SciNet: Evaluating AI Agents in Relation-Aware Scientific Literature Retrieval

arXiv:2601.03260v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI agents have seen widespread adoption in information retrieval for scientific research, giving rise to tools such as Deep Research. However,

25 May 2026

SeedER: Seed-and-Expand Retrieval from Knowledge Graphs

arXiv:2605.23753v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge graphs (KGs) offer a rich representation for relational knowledge, but their irregular structure makes retrieval challenging: ego-graph expans

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25 May 2026

Vector Retrieval with Similarity and Diversity: How Hard Is It?

arXiv:2407.04573v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Dense vector retrieval is an important building block of modern machine learning systems, underlying applications ranging from semantic search

25 May 2026

Memory-Augmented Query Intent Understanding for Efficient Chat-based Image Retrieval

arXiv:2605.17365v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Different from traditional text-to-image retrieval tasks, chat-based image retrieval allows the human-interactive system to iteratively clarify and refi

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19 May 2026

From Scenes to Elements: Multi-Granularity Evidence Retrieval for Verifiable Multimodal RAG

arXiv:2605.15019v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems retrieve evidence at coarse granularities (entire images or scenes), creating a mismatch with fi

15 May 2026

Hystar: Hypernetwork-driven Style-adaptive Retrieval via Dynamic SVD Modulation

arXiv:2605.10009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Query-based image retrieval (QBIR) requires retrieving relevant images given diverse and often stylistically heterogeneous queries, such as sketches, ar

12 May 2026

Rethinking Agentic Search with Pi-Serini: Is Lexical Retrieval Sufficient?

arXiv:2605.10848v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Does a lexical retriever suffice as large language models (LLMs) become more capable in an agentic loop? This question naturally arises when building

12 May 2026

Adaptive ToR: Complexity-Aware Tree-Based Retrieval for Pareto-Optimal Multi-Intent NLU

arXiv:2604.24219v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-intent natural language understanding requires retrieval systems that simultaneously achieve high accuracy and computational efficiency, yet exist

Efficient Rationale-based Retrieval: On-policy Distillation from Generative Rerankers based on JEPA

arXiv:2604.23336v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unlike traditional fact-based retrieval, rationale-based retrieval typically necessitates cross-encoding of query-document pairs using large language

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GLIER: Generative Legal Inference and Evidence Ranking for Legal Case Retrieval

arXiv:2604.23779v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The semantic gap between colloquial user queries and professional legal documents presents a fundamental challenge in Legal Case Retrieval (LCR). Exis

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mKG-RAG: Leveraging Multimodal Knowledge Graphs in Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-intensive VQA

arXiv:2508.05318v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as an effective paradigm for expanding the knowledge capacity of Multimodal Large Language Mo

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SATTC: Structure-Aware Label-Free Test-Time Calibration for Cross-Subject EEG-to-Image Retrieval

arXiv:2603.20738v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Cross-subject EEG-to-image retrieval for visual decoding is challenged by subject shift and hubness in the embedding space, which distort similarity

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RELOOP: Recursive Retrieval with Multi-Hop Reasoner and Planners for Heterogeneous QA

arXiv:2510.20505v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) remains brittle on multi-step questions and heterogeneous evidence sources, trading accuracy against late

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24 Apr 2026

SPIRE: Structure-Preserving Interpretable Retrieval of Evidence

arXiv:2604.20849v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation over semi-structured sources such as HTML is constrained by a mismatch between document structure and the flat, sequenc

24 Apr 2026

Fast-then-Fine: A Two-Stage Framework with Multi-Granular Representation for Cross-Modal Retrieval in Remote Sensing

arXiv:2604.20429v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Remote sensing (RS) image-text retrieval plays a critical role in understanding massive RS imagery. However, the dense multi-object distribution and com

23 Apr 2026

A-MAR: Agent-based Multimodal Art Retrieval for Fine-Grained Artwork Understanding

arXiv:2604.19689v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding artworks requires multi-step reasoning over visual content and cultural, historical, and stylistic context. While recent multimodal large