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FASHION-RQ: Mining Hierarchical Semantic Structure for Automated Evaluation of Fashion Retrieval

arXiv:2610.17841v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evaluating fashion retrieval systems remains challenging due to the limited availability of benchmarks that capture the fine-grained, open-ended queri

14 Oct 2026

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MHR-Router: Multimodal Heterogeneous Retrieval-Enhanced Adaptive Routing for VLM Inference

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arXiv:2610.13278v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) exhibit complementary capabilities, yet selecting the most suitable expert for a given image-question query remains challe

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12 Oct 2026

Region-Aware CLS Token Augmentation for Fine-Grained Image Retrieval

arXiv:2610.10991v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Image retrieval methods often rely on a single global semantic descriptor extracted from an image, e.g., the [CLS] token in vision transformers. However

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9 Oct 2026

SignRAG: Unified Retrieval-Augmented Gloss-Free Sign Language Translation

arXiv:2610.11371v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contemporary decoder-only large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities across a wide range of domains. However, existing pretraini

9 Oct 2026

Beyond Outcome Rewards: Constructing and Assigning Retrieval Credit for Search Agents

arXiv:2610.10179v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Search agents enable Large Language Models (LLMs) to iteratively retrieve and use information for complex multi-hop questions. Reinforcement Learning wi

agentsarxiv-cs-cl

8 Oct 2026

MDKeyChunker: What Does One LLM Call per Chunk Buy for Markdown Retrieval?

arXiv:2603.23533v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Markdown carries structure a parser reads for free: headers, section paths, and block boundaries. Many RAG pipelines also spend LLM calls per

6 Oct 2026

CLIMB: Confidence-Guided Complementary Evidence for Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2610.03421v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong visual reasoning abilities, but knowledge-intensive visual question answering often requires

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5 Oct 2026

Causal Memory Policy: Making Memory Utility Identifiable by Intervening on Retrieval

arXiv:2610.02070v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Memory-augmented large language models must decide which memories to retain, and recent systems do so by estimating each memory's effect on task perform

2 Oct 2026

Targeted Retrieval, Compact Representations: How CoT Reasoning Improves Long-Context Counting

arXiv:2609.38958v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have been rapidly improving in long-context tasks, powered by Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. However, the internal mecha

1 Oct 2026

Auditable Long-Term Memory: A Deterministic Retrieval Chain Measured at 479/475 of 500 on LongMemEval-S

arXiv:2609.38021v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We evaluate an auditable long-term memory system on LongMemEval-S. Its retrieval chain uses hybrid candidate retrieval, cross-encoder reranking, cover

Beyond Semantics: How Temporal Biases Shape Retrieval in Transformer and State-Space Models

arXiv:2510.22752v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In-context learning is governed by both temporal and semantic relationships, shaping how Large Language Models (LLMs) retrieve contextual info

Beyond the Context Window: An Adaptive Entropy-Based Routing Framework for Hybrid Retrieval and Long-Context Language Models

arXiv:2609.35831v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern large language models now support context windows of more than one million tokens, which has raised the question of whether retrieval-augmented g

BRIDGE: Bilevel Retrieval-Credit-Aware Agentic Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.36505v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic reinforcement learning (ARL) with verifiable rewards improves the ability of large language models (LLMs) to tackle knowledge-intensive tasks by

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Corpus-Guided Dual-Path Propagation for Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2609.37661v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph-based retrieval-augmented generation supports multi-hop retrieval by organizing corpus information into graphs. However, existing relation-free gr

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Homo-RAG: Homology-Guided Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Cross-Species Gene Function Prediction

arXiv:2608.25466v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The functional annotation of genes in non-model organisms remains a significant challenge in computational biology, with 20-70% of sequenced g

UpliftMem: Learning Set-Level Uplift for Agent Memory Retrieval

arXiv:2609.36805v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents reuse external memory to guide new tasks, but effective retrieval requires learning which memory sets improve executio

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ColNanoVDR: Document-Free Query Distillation for Multi-Vector Visual Document Retrieval via Optimal Transport

arXiv:2609.34899v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-vector retrievers built on vision-language models lead visual document retrieval (VDR), but they run a multi-billion-parameter query encoder on

HUMAN-TCI: Hierarchical Multi-Stream Motion-Aware Network with Torso-Centered Interaction for Text-to-Motion Retrieval

arXiv:2609.34430v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate retrieval of human motions is a crucial first step in text-guided human motion modeling and synthesis, as it selects semantically relevant sequ

The Key Handoff: Retrieval in Hybrid Language Models

arXiv:2609.32942v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A two-hop question makes a language model retrieve twice: once to produce a bridge entity, and once to retrieve with it. Transformers resolve that ent

When Does Dense Retrieval Need Asymmetric Geometry? A Bias-Variance Theory of Shared and Dual Projections

arXiv:2609.32488v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dense retrieval powers retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, and question answering, yet the theoretical basis for choosing between shared

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Applications

TEMPS: Temporal Sentence Embeddings for Temporal Information Retrieval

arXiv:2609.28048v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern information retrieval (IR) systems rarely represent time, yet many information needs depend on it: in clinical, journalistic, and legal search,

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24 Sept 2026

AdaMem: Adaptive Memory Token Allocation for Soft Compression in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2609.22100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improves language models with retrieved evidence, but processing many long passages is costly and can introduce dis

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PRISM-RAG: Multimodal Hypergraph Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Tobacco Product and Legislative Policy Reasoning

arXiv:2609.23769v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The disambiguation of semantically similar statutory text across jurisdictions is a retrieval problem that existing methods do not solve. This inter-con

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RADAR: Retrieval-Augmented Detector with Adversarial Refinement for Adaptive LLM-Generated Fake News Detection

arXiv:2601.03981v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: To efficiently combat the spread of LLM-generated misinformation in the news domain, we present RADAR, a Retrieval-Augmented Detector with Adversari

The Visual Target Matters: Learning across the Visual Hierarchy for Brain-to-Image Retrieval

arXiv:2609.24136v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Brain-to-image retrieval seeks to identify the visual stimulus that elicited a non-invasive neural response. Candidate images are typically represented

Cross-Sectional Asset Retrieval via Future-Aligned Soft Contrastive Learning

arXiv:2602.10711v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Asset retrieval (finding similar assets in a financial universe) is central to quantitative investment decision-making. Existing approaches de

18 Sept 2026

RAFT: A Stateful Retrieval-Augmented Framework for Troubleshooting Agents

arXiv:2609.20754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective troubleshooting agents in enterprise customer support depend on retrieving actionable guidance from similar historical cases, yet existing ret

18 Sept 2026

Knowledge-Graph Based Augmentation versus Retrieval Augmented Generation for Cultural-Related Question Answering

arXiv:2609.18317v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) suffer from a long-tail deficit: culturally specific facts, particularly those concerning underrepresented regions such a

17 Sept 2026

Query-Aware Source-Risk Triage for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2609.16564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines may omit a source's material relationship to the query. We study a pre-generation triage layer that treat

16 Sept 2026

RAG-CT: Mitigating Privacy Risks on Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems via Scanning Prompt Distribution

arXiv:2609.16095v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for improving the quality of generated contents of Large Language Models (LLMs

16 Sept 2026

IROH: Insightful Ranking Of Humor using Multi-Stage Hybrid Retrieval with Rationale-Distilled LLM Judges for JOKER 2026 Track Task 1 English

arXiv:2609.15618v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Our team, VANGUARD, presents IROH (Insightful Ranking of Humor), a three-stage retrieval system for JOKER Task 1 English at CLEF 2026, achieving first

15 Sept 2026

Evidence-Grounded Retrieval for Investigation Hunt Lead Generation from CTI Reports

arXiv:2609.08790v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Threat hunting increasingly depends on converting unstructured knowledge (e.g., Cyber Threat Intelligence reports) into actionable hunt leads: concise

10 Sept 2026

FRAME: Factored Retrieval via Attribute Readouts for Object-Centric Scene Memory

arXiv:2609.08886v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language-guided robots need persistent scene memories to follow instructions, revisit objects, and resolve references to objects encountered over time.

9 Sept 2026

Matryoshka Hash Representations for Model-Aware Compact Semantic Retrieval

arXiv:2609.07276v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) depends on dense retrieval: each document is stored as a learned vector, and a query is answered by finding its n

9 Sept 2026

Aggregating Neighbor Embedding Projection and Rank-Based Manifold Learning for Image Retrieval

arXiv:2609.01963v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) has advanced significantly with deep learning, yet effectively ranking similar images remains challenging, particul

CodePoisonRAG: Knowledge Poisoning Attacks on Retrieval-Augmented Code Generation

arXiv:2609.02774v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Code Generation (RACG) improves LLM-based software development by retrieving external code artifacts, documentation, and patches,

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Hybrid Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Knowledge Graph Expansion, RRF Fusion, and Per-Chunk Grounded Evaluation for Enterprise Document Search

arXiv:2609.01617v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Getting accurate, grounded answers out of large enterprise document repositories is a difficult problem. Dense vector retrieval alone frequently perfo

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Measurement-Driven Sub-Network Selection for On-Premise Retrieval-Augmented Factory Agents

arXiv:2609.02760v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-premise assistants can give factory workers conversational access to machine documentation, but models capable of the task rarely fit shop-floor hard

Multi-Agent Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Efficient Cloud Knowledge Base Search in Telecom SNOC Environment

arXiv:2609.01618v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Telecom Service and Network Operations Centers (SNOCs) rely on large collections of cloud documents, including Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), v

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TAME: Temporal-Aware Mixture-of-Experts for Text-Video Retrieval

arXiv:2609.02204v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-Video Retrieval (TVR) retrieves videos that match a natural-language query, but extending image-text models such as CLIP to videos is fundamentally

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Retrieval, Scoring, and Decoding Shape Performance and Stability in LLM-based Conversational Recommendation

arXiv:2609.00086v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as rerankers in conversational recommender systems, yet measured gains depend strongly on the retri

2 Sept 2026

FoundYou: A Unified Model for Personalized Segmentation and Retrieval

arXiv:2608.29917v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalized segmentation and personalized retrieval both aim to identify the same physical object across different images. While the former localizes t

1 Sept 2026

SpIDER: Spatially Informed Dense Embedding Retrieval for Software Issue Localization

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arXiv:2512.16956v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieving code functions, classes or files relevant to a user query, bug report or feature request from large codebases is a fundamental chal

1 Sept 2026

Image Augmentation as Test Generation for Deep Learning-Based Image Retrieval Systems

arXiv:2608.27502v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ensuring the reliability of deep learning-based image retrieval systems is a software engineering challenge. This paper presents a dual contribution:

31 Aug 2026

Rethinking Message Passing as Retrieval for Text-Attributed Graph Learning

arXiv:2608.26732v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph neural networks (GNNs) are typically conceptualized as message-passing neural networks, yet it remains unclear why neighborhood aggregation reli

28 Aug 2026

HCC+: Hyperbolic Guarding for Certified Attention Retrieval

arXiv:2608.24971v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the Lipschitz stability of attention retrieval in hyperbolic spaces. Existing methods lack deterministic guarantees on attention-weight prese

27 Aug 2026

Tropospheric temperature and humidity profile retrieval from Meteosat Flexible Combined Imager based on deep learning

arXiv:2608.25700v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Flexible Combined Imager (FCI) offers new opportunities for tropospheric temperature and humidity profiling, at high

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27 Aug 2026

PlaceSeek: Human-Centered Geospatial Retrieval of Urban Outdoor Places via Semantic Grounding and Affective Alignment

arXiv:2608.24133v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: People search for urban outdoor places not only by category or function, but also by what activities a place can support and how it is perceived. Exis