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Beyond Context Windows: Persistent Discovery Context for Data-Centric Agents

arXiv:2609.02129v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data-centric agents repeatedly perform a discovery step before planning or execution: identifying the data objects relevant to a task. Yet successful di

3 Sept 2026

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PersonaEdit: Representative Sample Selection for Personalized Model Editing

DGX agent

arXiv:2608.27816v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalization has attracted growing interest in LLM applications, yet existing retrieval-based approaches depend heavily on retrieval quality and degr

researcharxiv-cs-cl

31 Aug 2026

AWM: Answerable Working Memory for Long-Document VQA Agents

arXiv:2608.25618v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-document visual question answering increasingly relies on VLM agents that retrieve candidate pages, inspect page images, write findings to working

agentsarxiv-cs-cl

27 Aug 2026

Tutorials

Mitigating Database Leakage in RAG Systems with Keyword-Grounded Fact Substitution

arXiv:2608.21656v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for combining large language models (LLMs) with external knowledge sources. Howe

tutorialsarxiv-cs-cl

25 Aug 2026

D2-ScaleAgent: Dual-Dimensional Scaling for Long Document Understanding

arXiv:2608.16417v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-modal retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a key technique for visually rich long document understanding. Existing multi-modal RAG methods are

agentsarxiv-cs-cl

18 Aug 2026

Better Decomposition, Free Aggregation: A Synthesizer-Folding Framework for Multilingual Multi-Hop Question Answering

arXiv:2608.13160v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multilingual retrieval-augmented generation (mRAG) equips large language models with access to globally distributed external knowledge for complex mul

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14 Aug 2026

When Your Agent Opens the Chat App: Agent-Controlled Search over Raw Chat Logs Rivals Structured Memory

arXiv:2608.12888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent-memory systems increasingly buy retrieval quality with structure, transforming raw conversation histories into summaries, embeddings, trees, or kn

14 Aug 2026

From Relevance to Execution Utility: Reward-Aware Dynamic Execution Gating for Skill-Based LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.09168v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills are increasingly used to equip large language model (LLM) agents with reusable procedural knowledge. Although recent work has substantially

11 Aug 2026

REVEAL: A Rubric-Guided Agent for Explicit Evidence Sufficiency Verificationin Long-Video Question Answering

arXiv:2608.08612v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recently, retrieval-augmented and memory-augmented methods have emerged as two promising paradigms for long-video question answering. However, existin

11 Aug 2026

CoinRAG: Contextualized Information Nugget KV Cache Reuse for Long-Context RAG

arXiv:2608.07458v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent optimization studies on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) have exploited chunk-level KV cache reuse to avoid processing long retrieved conte

10 Aug 2026

INTRYGUE: Induction-Aware Entropy Gating for Reliable RAG Uncertainty Estimation

arXiv:2603.21607v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) significantly improves the factual reliability of LLMs, it does not eliminate hallucinations, so robust u

10 Aug 2026

RAG-Stack: Co-Optimizing RAG Serving Performance and Quality

arXiv:2608.03487v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), which augments large language model (LLM) generation with information retrieved from databases, has become a wid

6 Aug 2026

Applications

RAG Strategies for Natural Language-Based SQL Query and REST API Call Generation

arXiv:2602.07086v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Enterprise software systems commonly expose business functionality through both relational databases and REST APIs. Accessing these interfaces

applicationsarxiv-cs-cl

4 Aug 2026

Beyond Similarity: Grounded Agentic Extraction and Expert-Adjudicated Evaluation of Intertextuality in Classical Chinese Histories

arXiv:2607.27595v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computational approaches to intertextuality have advanced from string matching to neural retrieval, yet their outputs, similarity scores and parallel-pa

31 Jul 2026

DeCoRAG: Cognitive Decoupling and Semantic-Aware Cropping for Complex Document Understanding

arXiv:2607.24554v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Advancing multimodal retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for complex document understanding presents a formidable dual dilemma of accuracy and effici

researcharxiv-cs-cv

28 Jul 2026

Similarity Is Not Logic: Factored Inference for Dual-Encoder Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2607.23052v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dual-encoder vision-language models (VLMs) expose a similarity interface that enables zero-shot retrieval but fails compositional constraints: queries

28 Jul 2026

SwiftMem: Fast Agentic Memory via Query-aware Indexing

arXiv:2601.08160v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agentic memory systems have become critical for enabling LLM agents to maintain long-term context and retrieve relevant information efficiently. How

27 Jul 2026

A Comparative Evaluation of Embeddings and LLMs in a Greek Book Publisher Setting - The CUP Dataset

arXiv:2607.21274v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present CUP, a Greek book retrieval benchmark consisting of 868 catalog records and 104 expert-annotated queries with graded relevance judgments. W

24 Jul 2026

Applications

TopoGuard: Graph Theory Based Defenses Against Split-Knowledge Attacks on RAG

arXiv:2607.20437v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Production Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems rely on aggregating multiple external documents to answer complex queries. However, the retrieve

applicationsarxiv-cs-cl

24 Jul 2026

Health System Scale Semantic Search Across Unstructured Clinical Notes

arXiv:2604.25605v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Introduction: Semantic search, which retrieves documents based on conceptual similarity rather than keywords, offers advantages for retrieval

9 Jul 2026

Memora: A Harmonic Memory Representation Balancing Abstraction and Specificity

arXiv:2602.03315v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agent memory systems must accommodate continuously growing information while supporting efficient, context-aware retrieval for downstream tasks. Abs

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3 Jul 2026

Contrastive Reflection for Iterative Prompt Optimization

arXiv:2606.30840v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents are becoming central to information retrieval: they issue retrieval queries, synthesize answers, and increasingly serve as judges for IR eval

1 Jul 2026

ConvMemory v3: A Validity Context Layer for Conversational Memory via Target-Conditioned Relation Verification

arXiv:2606.26753v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conversational memory retrieval optimizes relevance, yet a retrieved memory can be relevant and simultaneously outdated: a later turn updates, corrects,

26 Jun 2026

PETRA: Transforming Web Text for Petroleum-Engineering Domain Adaptation

arXiv:2606.24346v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Petroleum-engineering search exposes a supervision gap for strong general retrievers: relevant evidence exists in public web text, but domain relevanc

24 Jun 2026

UnWeaving the knots of GraphRAG -- turns out VectorRAG is almost enough

arXiv:2603.29875v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: One of the key problems in Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems is that chunk-based retrieval pipelines represent the source chunks as

9 Jun 2026

ColBERTSaR: Sparsified ColBERT Index via Product Quantization

arXiv:2606.05568v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While ColBERT is an effective neural retrieval architecture, it requires a heavy index structure to support candidate set retrieval based on approxima

5 Jun 2026

Re-Ranking Through an Attribution Lens for Citation Quality in Legal QA

arXiv:2606.03728v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation systems for legal question answering typically retrieve passages based on semantic similarity and provide them to a langu

3 Jun 2026

Evaluating Factual Density in Multi-Source RAG: A Study in Medical AI Accuracy

arXiv:2605.31506v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is the current industry standard for grounding AI in real-world facts. Traditional retrieval methods rely on keyw

1 Jun 2026

Local Ai

UniNote: A Unified Embedding Model for Multimodal Representation and Ranking

arXiv:2605.29287v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Item-to-Item (I2I) retrieval is a fundamental part of modern content platforms, supporting critical industrial workflows from recommendation engines t

local-aiarxiv-cs-cv

29 May 2026

Beyond Chunk-Local Extraction: Cross-Chunk Graph Augmentation for GraphRAG

arXiv:2605.28004v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: GraphRAG extends retrieval-augmented generation by organizing corpora as explicit knowledge graphs, enabling graph-based retrieval for complex question

28 May 2026

SVFSearch: A Multimodal Knowledge-Intensive Benchmark for Short-Video Frame Search in the Gaming Vertical Domain

arXiv:2605.17946v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models are increasingly used as agent backbones that understand multimodal inputs, plan retrieval actions, invoke external too

19 May 2026

Applications

ADMIT: Few-shot Knowledge Poisoning Attacks on RAG-based Fact Checking

arXiv:2510.13842v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Knowledge poisoning poses a critical threat to Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems by injecting adversarial content into knowledge ba

applicationsarxiv-cs-ai

18 May 2026

Is Grep All You Need? How Agent Harnesses Reshape Agentic Search

arXiv:2605.15184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Large Language Model (LLM) agents have enabled complex agentic workflows where models autonomously retrieve information, call tools,

15 May 2026

Topic Is Not Agenda: A Citation-Community Audit of Text Embeddings

arXiv:2605.07158v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vector search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) rest on the assumption that cosine similarity between text embeddings reflects conceptual relat

11 May 2026

BRIEF-Pro: Universal Context Compression with Short-to-Long Synthesis for Fast and Accurate Multi-Hop Reasoning

arXiv:2510.13799v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) tackles complex tasks, increasingly expanded contexts offer richer information, but at the cost of higher la

28 Apr 2026

Hardware

Stream2LLM: Overlap Context Streaming and Prefill for Reduced Time-to-First-Token (TTFT)

arXiv:2604.16395v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Context retrieval systems for LLM inference face a critical challenge: high retrieval latency creates a fundamental tension between waiting fo

hardwarearxiv-cs-ai

24 Apr 2026

Local Ai

Geodesic Semantic Search: Cartographic Navigation of Citation Graphs with Learned Local Riemannian Maps

arXiv:2602.23665v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present Geodesic Semantic Search (GSS), a retrieval system that learns node-specific Riemannian metrics on citation graphs to enable geomet

local-aiarxiv-cs-lg

21 Apr 2026

CHOP: Chunkwise Context-Preserving Framework for RAG on Multi Documents

arXiv:2604.15802v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems lose retrieval accuracy when similar documents coexist in the vector database, causing unnecessary informat

20 Apr 2026

UniDoc-RL: Coarse-to-Fine Visual RAG with Hierarchical Actions and Dense Rewards

arXiv:2604.14967v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) extends Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) with external visual knowledge. However, existing visual RAG systems t

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17 Apr 2026

Benchmarking Deflection and Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2604.12033v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) increasingly rely on retrieval to answer knowledge-intensive multimodal questions. Existing benchmarks overlook c

15 Apr 2026

An Iterative Utility Judgment Framework Inspired by Philosophical Relevance via LLMs

arXiv:2406.11290v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Relevance and utility are two frequently used measures to evaluate the effectiveness of an information retrieval (IR) system. Relevance emphas

Beyond Fluency: Toward Reliable Trajectories in Agentic IR

arXiv:2604.04269v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Information Retrieval is shifting from passive document ranking toward autonomous agentic workflows that operate in multi-step Reason-Act-Observe lo

Do We Still Need GraphRAG? Benchmarking RAG and GraphRAG for Agentic Search Systems

arXiv:2604.09666v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and its graph-based extensions (GraphRAG) are effective paradigms for improving large language model (LLM) reason

Local Ai

Enhancing Multilingual RAG Systems with Debiased Language Preference-Guided Query Fusion

arXiv:2601.02956v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Generation (mRAG) systems often exhibit a perceived preference for high-resource languages, particularly English, r

local-aiarxiv-cs-cl

How You Ask Matters! Adaptive RAG Robustness to Query Variations

arXiv:2604.10745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) promises accuracy and efficiency by dynamically triggering retrieval only when needed and is widely used i

HyperGraphPro: Progress-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Structure-Guided Hypergraph RAG

arXiv:2601.17755v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) has emerged as a promising paradigm that organizes external knowledge into structured graphs of enti

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RiTeK: A Dataset for Large Language Models Complex Reasoning over Textual Knowledge Graphs in Medicine

arXiv:2410.13987v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Answering complex real-world questions in the medical domain often requires accurate retrieval from medical Textual Knowledge Graphs (medical TKGs),

VideoStir: Understanding Long Videos via Spatio-Temporally Structured and Intent-Aware RAG

arXiv:2604.05418v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scaling multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to long videos is constrained by limited context windows. While retrieval-augmented generatio

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