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A Storage-Retrieval Gap in Parametric Knowledge Graph Memory

arXiv:2608.25489v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph retrieval-augmented generation places retrieved subgraphs into the model's context window at query time, paying a recurring token cost and expos

27 Aug 2026

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LACONIC: Dense-Level Effectiveness for Scalable Sparse Retrieval via a Two-Phase Training Curriculum

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arXiv:2601.01684v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While dense retrieval models have been the standard for state-of-the-art information retrieval, their deployment is often constrained by high

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl

20 Aug 2026

More Context, Same Budget: Dual-Bounded Relational Recall Beyond Top-K Retrieval

arXiv:2608.18448v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: More context does not require a larger retrieval budget. Under the same ceiling, a retrieval system can recover more of the evidence a question requir

20 Aug 2026

Retrieve-then-Adapt: Retrieval-Augmented Test-Time Adaptation for Sequential Recommendation

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arXiv:2604.05379v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The sequential recommendation (SR) task aims to predict the next item based on users' historical interaction sequences. Typically trained on h

17 Aug 2026

Beyond Self-Knowledge: Propagating Uncertainty Across Reasoning and Retrieval in LLMs

arXiv:2607.25600v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation improves knowledge-intensive question answering, but indiscriminate retrieval can introduce irrelevant evidence and unn

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29 Jul 2026

Beyond 'What to Retrieve': Uncertainty in Retrieval-Augmented Code Generation

arXiv:2607.24884v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Repository-level code generation relies on heterogeneous evidence whose relevance, compatibility, and completeness are inherently uncertain. Similar-c

29 Jul 2026

SQuTR: A Robustness Benchmark for Spoken Query to Text Retrieval under Acoustic Noise

arXiv:2602.12783v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Spoken query retrieval is an important interaction mode in modern information retrieval. However, existing evaluation datasets are often limit

15 Jul 2026

The Multilingual Curse at the Retrieval Layer: Evidence from Amharic

arXiv:2605.24556v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multilingual retrieval increasingly underpins cross-lingual question answering and retrieval-augmented generation. Strong zero-shot scores on multilin

26 May 2026

Retrieving Any Relevant Moments: Benchmark and Models for Generalized Moment Retrieval

arXiv:2605.02623v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video Moment Retrieval (VMR) aims to localize temporal segments in videos that correspond to a natural language query, but typically assumes only a sing

5 May 2026

MARA: A Multimodal Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Framework for Document Question Answering

arXiv:2604.16313v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-based multimodal document QA aims to identify and integrate relevant information from visually rich documents with complex multimodal struct

21 Apr 2026

ReTrack: Evidence-Driven Dual-Stream Directional Anchor Calibration Network for Composed Video Retrieval

arXiv:2604.17898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the rapid growth of video data, Composed Video Retrieval (CVR) has emerged as a novel paradigm in video retrieval and is receiving increasing atten

21 Apr 2026

VisRet: Visualization Improves Knowledge-Intensive Text-to-Image Retrieval

arXiv:2505.20291v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text-to-image retrieval (T2I retrieval) remains challenging because cross-modal embeddings often behave as bags of concepts, underrepresenting

17 Apr 2026

Retrievals Can Be Detrimental: Unveiling the Backdoor Vulnerability of Retrieval-Augmented Diffusion Models

arXiv:2501.13340v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion models (DMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable generation capability. However, their training generally requires huge computational re

15 Apr 2026

Robustness Risk of Conversational Retrieval: Identifying and Mitigating Noise Sensitivity in Qwen3-Embedding Model

arXiv:2604.06176v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present an empirical study of embedding-based retrieval under realistic conversational settings, where queries are short, dialogue-like, and weakly

10 Apr 2026

Your Prompt Should Do More: Effects of Retrieval Instructions in Embedding Models

arXiv:2610.10508v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prompted embedding models have recently received increasing attention, particularly for retrieval, where detailed retrieval instructions are provided as

8 Oct 2026

Tool-calling retrieval versus vector RAG for a small Greek--English knowledge base: accuracy and robustness to how users type Greek

arXiv:2610.08205v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Assistants grounded in a small, frequently edited knowledge base can retrieve through tool calls to a live data interface or through vector retrieval-

7 Oct 2026

Benchmarking Literature Retrieval for a Model Organism: A Dictyostelium Case Study

arXiv:2610.03130v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Biological literature retrieval systems are often developed and evaluated using broad biomedical corpora and general-purpose search tasks. However, ma

5 Oct 2026

Found but Not Read: When Extracted Text Closes the Retrieval-Reading Gap in Document Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2610.02880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented document question answering assumes that once the right page is found, a vision-language model (VLM) can read it. We show that this

5 Oct 2026

JoinGR: Learning to Traverse Join Graphs for Table Retrieval

arXiv:2610.01064v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieving the right tables is a prerequisite for Text-to-SQL over realistic databases. Dense table retrievers rank schema elements independently, but

2 Oct 2026

Learning to Route in Visual Space via Multi-Step Embedding Retrieval

arXiv:2609.38743v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents rely on retrieval tools to access external knowledge, yet visual agentic search remains severely bottlenecked by standard single-step retriev

1 Oct 2026

Agents

V-Retrver: Evidence-Driven Agentic Reasoning for Universal Multimodal Retrieval

arXiv:2602.06034v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have recently been applied to universal multimodal retrieval, where Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning improv

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11 Sept 2026

Beyond Similarity: Foundation Models as an Efficient Backbone for Training-Free Composed Video Retrieval

arXiv:2609.10008v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Composed video retrieval (CoVR) searches a gallery for the target video that realizes a natural-language modification of a source clip. However, at gall

10 Sept 2026

Bridging Latent Reasoning and Target-Language Generation via Retrieval-Transition Heads

arXiv:2602.22453v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent work has identified a subset of attention heads in Transformer as retrieval heads, which are responsible for retrieving information from the

3 Sept 2026

ISO-RAG: Isoperimetric Noise Control for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2609.00513v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) mitigates large language models (LLMs) hallucinations, yet conventional dense retrieval struggles with the complex

2 Sept 2026

MIDR: Enrichment-Augmented Indexing for Multimodal Document Retrieval

arXiv:2609.01316v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval over visually rich documents has a representation problem: important content often lives in tables, charts, figures, and layout relations th

2 Sept 2026

SnapBench: Benchmarking Snap-and-Ask Multimodal Retrieval for Mobile Interactions

arXiv:2608.29607v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile AI acts as a visual oracle, empowering users to snap a picture of something and ask for information. Snap-and-ask retrieval is now one of the mos

1 Sept 2026

Entity-Memory Graph Retrieval Improves Evidence Coverage in Long-Conversation Question Answering

arXiv:2608.27925v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Entity-Memory graph retrieval keeps dialogue turns as verbatim Memory nodes, links repeated mentions through shared Entities, and connects adjacent Memo

31 Aug 2026

MulVec: Fine-Grained Role-Aware Matching for Training-Free Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval

arXiv:2608.25305v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training-free zero-shot composed image retrieval finds a target image in a gallery from a reference image and a text edit without learning from task-spe

27 Aug 2026

Document Optimization for Black-Box Retrieval via Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2604.05087v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Document expansion is a classical technique for improving retrieval quality, and is attractive since it shifts computation offline, avoiding additio

6 Aug 2026

Teaching Nemotron Greek: Mining a Corpus, Adapting Retrieval, and Grounding Generation for Modern Greek across Specialist Domains

arXiv:2608.05138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern Greek is absent from NVIDIA's Nemotron retrieval models and from major multilingual retrieval benchmarks, despite being important for retrieval

6 Aug 2026

Disentangled Contrastive Learning for Zero-Shot Multilingual Dense Retrieval

arXiv:2608.02189v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multilingual dense retrieval aims to handle queries and documents across different languages based on a unified retriever model. The challenge lies in

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4 Aug 2026

Select-And-Extract: A Lightweight Plugin for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2608.00658v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for language model (LM) systems fundamentally has two failure modes: retrieval failure and reading failure. The for

4 Aug 2026

Bridging the Question-Answer Gap in Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Hypothetical Prompt Embeddings

arXiv:2607.29402v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems synergize retrieval mechanisms with generative language models to enhance the accuracy and relevance of r

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3 Aug 2026

GoldenRetriever: Non-Interactive Homomorphic Encrypted Retrieval for Privacy-Preserving RAG

arXiv:2607.29019v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances large language models by incorporating external knowledge, but existing pipelines typically operate on p

3 Aug 2026

Predict the Retrieval! Test time adaptation for Retrieval Augmented Generation

arXiv:2601.11443v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a powerful approach for enhancing large language models' question-answering capabilities through

15 Jul 2026

Compression and Retrieval: Implicit Memory Retrieval for Video World Models

arXiv:2606.23105v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video world models hold promise for simulating interactive environments, yet maintaining consistent long-term memory across complex camera trajectories

23 Jun 2026

Retrieve What's Missing: Coverage-Maximizing Retrieval for Consistent Long Video Generation

arXiv:2606.02479v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Maintaining long-term geometric consistency remains challenging for long-horizon autoregressive video generation. Memory-augmented generative models add

2 Jun 2026

The Coverage Illusion: From Pre-retrieval Routing Failure to Post-retrieval Cascades in a Production RAG System

arXiv:2605.27220v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In modern RAG pipelines, query augmentation methods such as HyDE and query expansion are applied to every query, resulting in substantial LLM inference

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27 May 2026

Hardware

TeleRAG: Efficient Retrieval-Augmented Generation Inference with Lookahead Retrieval

arXiv:2502.20969v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) extends large language models (LLMs) with external data sources to enhance factual correctness and domain

hardwarearxiv-cs-lg

19 May 2026

Don't Retrieve, Generate: Prompting LLMs for Synthetic Training Data in Dense Retrieval

arXiv:2504.21015v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Training effective dense retrieval models typically relies on hard negative (HN) examples mined from large document corpora using methods such

12 May 2026

From Clouds to Hallucinations: Atmospheric Retrieval Hijacking in Remote Sensing Vision-Language RAG

arXiv:2605.07273v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal RAG systems increasingly rely on vision-language retrievers to ground visual queries in external textual evidence. Existing adversarial stu

11 May 2026

AdaComp: Extractive Context Compression with Adaptive Predictor for Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models

arXiv:2409.01579v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieved documents containing noise will hinder RAG from detecting answer clues and make the inference process slow and expensive. Therefore,

28 Apr 2026

ArbGraph: Conflict-Aware Evidence Arbitration for Reliable Long-Form Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2604.18362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) remains unreliable in long-form settings, where retrieved evidence is noisy or contradictory, making it difficult f

21 Apr 2026

Rethinking the Necessity of Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Generation through the Lens of Adaptive Listwise Ranking

arXiv:2604.15621v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Generation aims to mitigate the interference of extraneous noise by dynamically determining the necessity of retrieving s

20 Apr 2026

Beyond Relevance: On the Relationship Between Retrieval and RAG Information Coverage

arXiv:2603.08819v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems combine document retrieval with a generative model to address complex information seeking tasks l

15 Apr 2026

Agents

Beyond RAG for Agent Memory: Retrieval by Decoupling and Aggregation

arXiv:2602.02007v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Agent memory systems often adopt the standard Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline, yet its underlying assumptions differ in this set

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14 Apr 2026

Agents

Diagnosing Retrieval vs. Utilization Bottlenecks in LLM Agent Memory

arXiv:2603.02473v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Memory-augmented LLM agents store and retrieve information from prior interactions, yet the relative importance of how memories are written versus h

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

14 Apr 2026

Tutorials

Retrieval as Generation: A Unified Framework with Self-Triggered Information Planning