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Not All Needles Are Found: How Fact Distribution and Don't Make It Up Prompts Shape Retrieval, Reasoning, and Hallucination in Long-Context LLMs

arXiv:2601.02023v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly utilize massive context windows as working memory for autonomous tasks, their reliability fluctua

16 Jul 2026

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Fractal KV-Cache Archives: Lossless Symbolic Storage with In-Place Retrieval for Long-Context LLM Inference

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arXiv:2607.07144v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The key-value (KV) cache dominates the memory cost of long-context autoregressive inference, and a growing body of work compresses it through quantizati

researcharxiv-cs-lg

9 Jul 2026

Task Decomposition-Guided Reranking for Adaptive Agent Skill Retrieval

arXiv:2607.06283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Skill usage can significantly enhance the ability of modern agent systems to complete complex tasks. However, the growing scale of skill libraries makes

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

8 Jul 2026

AgenticRAGTracer: A Hop-Aware Benchmark for Diagnosing Multi-Step Retrieval Reasoning in Agentic RAG

arXiv:2602.19127v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With the rapid advancement of agent-based methods in recent years, Agentic RAG has undoubtedly become an important research direction. Multi-hop rea

3 Jul 2026

VisionAId: An Offline-First Multimodal Android Assistant for People with Visual Impairment, Featuring Personalized Object Retrieval

arXiv:2607.02371v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Over 285 million people worldwide live with a visual impairment, for whom everyday tasks such as avoiding obstacles, locating personal belongings, rec

3 Jul 2026

Breaking the Weak Recovery Limit in Random Phase Retrieval with Learned Regularizers

arXiv:2509.15026v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We seek to recover an unknown signal from nonlinear amplitude-only measurements, a challenging inverse problem. Strong theoretical guarantees

researcharxiv-cs-lg

2 Jul 2026

Libra: Training the Environment for Agentic Information Retrieval

arXiv:2607.00016v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Information localization within massive repositories is a cornerstone of agentic LLM systems. While synthetic data-driven optimization has proven succ

local-aiarxiv-cs-ai

2 Jul 2026

KARLA: Knowledge-base Augmented Retrieval for Language Models

arXiv:2606.26807v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose a new method that allows an LLM to automatically pull in factual knowledge from a knowledge base during token generation. This means that (1)

26 Jun 2026

Hardware

HERALD: High-Throughput Block Diffusion LLM Serving via CPU-GPU Cooperative KV Cache Retrieval

arXiv:2606.21633v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion LLMs (dLLMs) improve GPU utilization over autoregressive decoding by generating multiple tokens per forward pass, but their KV cache still gro

hardwarearxiv-cs-lg

23 Jun 2026

Parametric Knowledge is Not All You Need: Toward Honest Large Language Models via Retrieval of Pretraining Data

arXiv:2601.21218v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are highly capable of answering questions, but they are often unaware of their own knowledge boundary, i.e., knowing wh

10 Jun 2026

Beyond Correctness: Rewarding Faithful Reasoning in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2510.13272v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Inspired by the success of reinforcement learning (RL) in Large Language Model (LLM) training for domains like math and code, recent work has begun

agentsarxiv-cs-cl

4 Jun 2026

Enhancing Layer Attention Efficiency through Pruning Redundant Retrievals

arXiv:2503.06473v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Growing evidence suggests that layer attention mechanisms, which enhance interaction among layers in deep neural networks, have significantly

2 Jun 2026

From Graph Retrieval to Schema Realization: Counterfactual Validation for Text-to-SPARQL over Heterogeneous Knowledge Graphs

arXiv:2508.01815v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text-to-SPARQL maps natural-language questions to executable SPARQL queries over RDF knowledge graphs. While standard evaluations often fix th

safetyarxiv-cs-ai

2 Jun 2026

Paraphrase Brittleness in Production Retrieval-Augmented Commercial Recommendation: Reproducibility Below the Rerun-Stability Baseline

arXiv:2605.27440v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Small changes to how a buyer phrases a question -- 'best CRM' vs 'top CRM' vs 'best CRM for a SaaS startup' -- produce substantially different brand r

28 May 2026

Applications

Generating Legal Commentaries from Case Databases via Retrieval, Clustering, and Generation

arXiv:2605.24534v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a fully automated pipeline that transforms large collections of court decisions into legal commentaries for statutes - without providing any

applicationsarxiv-cs-cl

26 May 2026

ObjectCache: Layerwise Object-Storage Retrieval for KV Cache Reuse

arXiv:2605.22850v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prefix KV caching has become a key mechanism in LLM serving: it reduces time to first token (TTFT) by avoiding redundant computation across requests t

local-aiarxiv-cs-ai

25 May 2026

RADAR: Defending RAG Dynamically against Retrieval Corruption

arXiv:2605.22041v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While RAG systems are increasingly deployed in dynamic web search, temporal volatility amplifies their vulnerability to adversarial attacks. Existing

researcharxiv-cs-lg

23 May 2026

HALvest-Contrastive: Retrieval-Like Authorship Attribution with Patch-Level Late Interaction

arXiv:2407.20595v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deciding whether two pieces of text share an author is made difficult by topical confound: two writers covering the same topic often look more

20 May 2026

Privacy Policy Enforcement Guardrails for Data-Sensitive Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2605.17034v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Standard PII filters often miss contextual data leakage in RAG systems, such as non-regulated attribute clusters that collectively identify individual

19 May 2026

The Spheres Dataset: Multitrack Orchestral Recordings for Music Source Separation and Information Retrieval

arXiv:2511.21247v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper introduces The Spheres dataset, multitrack orchestral recordings designed to advance machine learning research in music source sepa

researcharxiv-cs-lg

15 May 2026

Test-Time Compute for Dense Retrieval: Agentic Program Generation with Frozen Embedding Models

arXiv:2605.11374v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Test-time compute is widely believed to benefit only large reasoning models. We show it also helps small embedding models. Most modern embedding check

13 May 2026

The Text Uncanny Valley: Non-Monotonic Performance Degradation in LLM Information Retrieval

arXiv:2605.07186v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing Large Language Model (LLM) benchmarks primarily focus on syntactically correct inputs, leaving a significant gap in evaluation on imperfect t

11 May 2026

Quantifying Divergence in Inter-LLM Communication Through API Retrieval and Ranking

arXiv:2604.22760v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly operate as autonomous agents that reason over external APIs to perform complex tasks. However, their reliabi

safetyarxiv-cs-ai

28 Apr 2026

ORBIT: Preserving Foundational Language Capabilities in GenRetrieval via Origin-Regulated Merging

arXiv:2605.12419v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite the rapid advancements in large language model (LLM) development, fine-tuning them for specific tasks often results in the catastrophic forgetti

13 May 2026

PersonalAI 2.0: Enhancing knowledge graph traversal/retrieval with planning mechanism for Personalized LLM Agents

arXiv:2605.13481v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce PersonalAI 2.0 (PAI-2), a novel framework designed to enhance LLM-based systems through integration of external knowledge graphs (KGs).

18 Sept 2026

Thought-Retriever: Don't Just Retrieve Raw Data, Retrieve Thoughts for Memory-Augmented Agentic Systems

arXiv:2604.12231v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have transformed AI research thanks to their powerful internal capabilities and knowledge. However, existing LLMs still fai

15 Apr 2026

STAIR (STructure Aware Information Retriever): A novel dataset and LLM based retriever for document structure augmentation

arXiv:2609.03874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a key component for generating accurate and hallucination free answers using Large Language Models (LLMs). LLMs

4 Sept 2026

Tutorials

One Size Does Not Fit All! Dynamic Retriever and Generator Selection for RAG

arXiv:2609.17709v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems typically employ fixed retriever and generator configurations across queries, despite substantial differe

tutorialsarxiv-cs-ai

17 Sept 2026

// When to Retrieve During Reasoning // Pay attention to this one, AI devs. (bookmark it) Most RAG systems retrieve once, before the model s…

// When to Retrieve During Reasoning // Pay attention to this one, AI devs. (bookmark it) Most RAG systems retrieve once, before the model starts reasoning. Large reasoning models like o1 and R1 don't

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30 Apr 2026

Aligning Dense Retrievers with LLM Utility via DistillationAligning Dense Retrievers with LLM Utility via Distillation

arXiv:2604.22722v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dense vector retrieval is the practical backbone of Retrieval- Augmented Generation (RAG), but similarity search can suffer from precision limitations

27 Apr 2026

LTRR: Learning To Rank Retrievers for LLMs

arXiv:2506.13743v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems typically rely on a single fixed retriever, despite growing evidence that no single retriever performs

21 Apr 2026

Reason Before You Retrieve: Agentic Planning for Multi-modal RAG

arXiv:2607.22643v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal retrieval-augmented generation (mRAG) aims to answer image-text queries with external knowledge, but most existing systems still retrieve dir

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

28 Jul 2026

How Retrieved Context Shapes Internal Representations in RAG

arXiv:2602.20091v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) by conditioning generation on retrieved external documents, but the effec

17 Apr 2026

Backdoor in the Loop: Compromising Agentic Search via Malicious Retrievers

arXiv:2609.37468v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) interleaves reasoning with repeated retrieval, giving the retriever influence over both the evidence an a

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

30 Sept 2026

Decide Before You Look: Learning Which Retrieved Memories Deserve Pixels

arXiv:2610.07984v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal assistants answer questions from long-term memories that contain images. After retrieval, each retrieved image reaches the answering model

7 Oct 2026

Learning to Retrieve via Reinforcement Learning in Embedding Space

arXiv:2610.07731v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dense retrieval models are typically trained with contrastive objectives that learn effective representations but do not directly optimize retrieval m

7 Oct 2026

Mixture-of-Experts Language Models Can Be Strong and Efficient Retrievers

arXiv:2609.13486v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent work has shown that fine-tuning decoder-only large language models (LLMs) for retrieval yields strong first-stage retrievers, with effectivenes

15 Sept 2026

RATL: Learning from Retrieved Residuals for Robust Multivariate Time-Series Forecasting

arXiv:2609.03937v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) complements parametric models with retrieved external evidence. The same idea is attractive for continuous-output

local-aiarxiv-cs-ai

4 Sept 2026

It Takes Two to Match: Co-Evolving Generative Retriever with Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.00638v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval is the first stage of modern search and advertising systems, selecting a candidate set from a large item universe for downstream ranking and

2 Sept 2026

When Should Active RAG Retrieve? A Budget-Aware Evaluation of Utility, Calibration, and Cost

arXiv:2607.24010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Active RAG systems decide when to retrieve external knowledge during generation, making them a budget-sensitive case of agentic RAG and self-adaptive re

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

28 Jul 2026

REPAIR: Resolving Long-Tail Confusion in Scientific Retrievers via Fact-Verified Iterative Refinement

arXiv:2609.18262v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Precise retrieval of scientific information is fundamentally constrained by long-tailed concepts and high fact-sensitivity of scientific corpora. These

17 Sept 2026

ARMOR: Adaptive Retriever Optimization for Low-Resource Telecom Question Answering

arXiv:2606.29706v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Telecom question answering (QA) is a challenging setting for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG): evidence is fragmented across standards, papers, en

30 Jun 2026

On the impact of retrieved content representations in RAG Pipelines

arXiv:2605.30790v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) supplements a language model's input with retrieved documents, yet most RAG pipelines inherit retrieval component

1 Jun 2026

On the Robustness of LLM-Based Dense Retrievers: A Systematic Analysis of Generalizability and Stability

arXiv:2604.16576v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decoder-only large language models (LLMs) are increasingly replacing BERT-style architectures as the backbone for dense retrieval, achieving substanti

21 Apr 2026

Beyond the Final Embedding: Retrieving Memories from Token-Level Evidence

arXiv:2610.13277v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Memory-augmented assistants retrieve evidence from stored conversations and documents to answer queries. Most embedding-based retrievers compare singl

local-aiarxiv-cs-cl

12 Oct 2026

Rethinking RAG in Long Videos: What to Retrieve and How to Use It?

arXiv:2606.13141v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation is extending beyond text to long videos, where query-relevant chunks can be represented across multiple modalities an

5 Oct 2026

Parameter-Efficient Retrievers for Polish and European Languages

arXiv:2609.12913v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dense retrieval systems increasingly rely on multi-billion-parameter language models, whose memory and computational requirements make large-scale index

14 Sept 2026

From Retrieved Context to Runtime Control: Adaptive Compression for Edge-based RAG

arXiv:2608.19535v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improves language-model responses by grounding generation in external passages, which comes with overhead: retrieve