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  1. RPTune: Learned Context Curation for LLM Catalog Search

    Oct 1, 2026Chuxuan Hu, Hejie Cui, Norman Huang +3CatalogsRetrievers

    Google · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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

    Sep 28, 2026Zhuchenyang Liu, Ziyi Wang, Yao Zhang +1Visual Document RetrievalRetrievers

    Aalto University, Finland · Independent Researcher, Netherlands

  3. TableSeek: Structure-Preserving Agentic Evidence Seeking over Heterogeneous Table Corpora

    Sep 28, 2026Jiaming Tian, Liyao Li, Wentao Ye +5RetrieversAgentic Search

    Zhejiang University · Bank of Hangzhou Co., Ltd. · Zhejiang Lab

  4. Grounding Memory Summarization in Utility Intent

    Sep 27, 2026Zhenyu Lei, Mingjia Shi, Xingbo Fu +3Conversational MemorySummarization

    University of Virginia · Northeastern University

  5. Self-Evolving Search Index

    Sep 17, 2026Sangam Lee, Wonjae Lee, Sunghwan Kim +5Retrievers

    Yonsei University · Samsung Research · University of California, Irvine +1

  6. Selection Is Retrieval, Abstention Is Not: On-Device Tool Routing over 70 Korean-English Actions

    Sep 16, 2026Janghoon LeeLarge Language Model RoutingArtificial Intelligence Assistants

    Redrob

  7. VoiceTrace: A Benchmark and Retrieval Framework for Who-Said-What Speech Retrieval

    Sep 16, 2026Aaron Yee, Fengjie Lu, Jiarui Hai +5Retrievers

    Zhejiang University · Johns Hopkins University · independent researcher

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

    Sep 15, 2026Neeraj Anand, Payel Santra, Partha Basuchowdhuri +2Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation SystemsRetrievers

    Media and Data Science Research Lab Adobe Systems, Noida, India · IACS Kolkata, India · University of Glasgow Glasgow, United Kingdom

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

    Sep 14, 2026Ana-Maria Luisa Mocanu, Sebastian Mocanu, Ciprian-Octavian Truica +1Large Language Model JudgesHumor

    National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Splaiul Independenţei 313, Bucureşti 060042, Romania · Academy of Romanian Scientists, Ilfov 3, Bucharest, 050044, Romania

  10. Parameter-Efficient Retrievers for Polish and European Languages

    Sep 11, 2026Sławomir Dadas, Rafał Poświata, Małgorzata Grębowiec +1Retrieval LayerRetrievers

    National Information Processing Institute al. Niepodległości 188b, 00-608 Warsaw, Poland

  11. Q2D-Web: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Retrieval in Agentic RAG Systems

    Sep 8, 2026Maximilian Schall, Sedigheh Eslami, Markus Krimmel +4Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation SystemsRetrievers

    Perplexity AI

  12. Reading a Legal Question Word by Word: Embedding Trajectories of 2,144 Vietnamese Legal Headlines

    Sep 8, 2026Tran Minh QuanLegal DomainHeadlines

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

    Sep 1, 2026Runpeng Dai, Kaili Huang, Changsung Kang +1RetrieversFeedback

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Apple

  14. EGT-KG: Evidence-Grounded Typed KG Retrieval for Practical Scientific QA with Small Language Models

    Aug 31, 2026Muran Yu, Jiechao Gao, Yuandong Pan +5Knowledge GraphsRetrievers

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University · Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calgary

  15. SearchWiki: Learning to Build and Navigate Knowledge Wikis for Active Information Seeking

    Aug 30, 2026Guransh Singh, Vishwajeet Kumar, Arkadeep Acharya +3WikipediaRetrievers

    Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra · IBM

  16. RATIO: A Benchmark for Retrieval Across Typed Ideation Operations in Scientific Literature

    Aug 27, 2026Maayan Sharon, Tom HopeScientific IdeationRetrievers

    The Hebrew University of Jerusalem · The Allen Institute for AI (AI2)

  17. PAGE: Partition-Aware Gated KV-Cache Eviction

    Aug 26, 2026Pankaj Kumar, Subhankar MishraEvictionRetrievers

    School of Computer Sciences National Institute of Science Education and Research An OCC of Homi Bhabha National Institute, India

  18. ERSkill: Evolving for Skill-Guided Adaptive Memory Retrieval

    Aug 13, 2026Haolong Chen, Liang Zhang, Zhuo Li +2Large Language Model AgentsLong-Term Memory

    Shenzhen International Center for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen +2

  19. TRACE: Trustworthy Retrieval-Augmented Conversational Engine

    Aug 10, 2026Touseef Hasan, Laila Cure, Souvika SarkarRetrieversChatbots

    Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA

  20. Tevatron-Elastic: A Unified Abstraction for Training Elastic Retrievers and Rerankers

    Aug 9, 2026Yu Wang, Shengyao Zhuang, Xueguang Ma +4RetrieversTransformer Architectures

    University of Utah · 2The University of Queensland · University of Waterloo +1

  21. Keep It Simple: Multi-Key Episodic Memory Retrieval for Ultra-Long Video Understanding

    Aug 7, 2026Yeeun Choi, Youngbeom Yoo, Joon-Young Lee +2Video UnderstandingEpisodic Memory

    Yonsei University · Adobe Research

  22. Factorized Hypothesis Search for Evidence-to-Taxonomy Retrieval

    Aug 6, 2026Linhai Ma, Ethan F. Wei, Xueqing Peng +3TaxonomyRetrievers

    The Fin AI, USA · Yale University, USA · Cardiff University, UK

  23. EdgeLM: Edge Demonstrations for Language Models' Table Understanding

    Aug 5, 2026Soroush Omidvartehrani, Mohammadamin Habibollah, Mohammadreza Daviran +1Tabular DataRetrievers

    University of Alberta, Canada

  24. Search, Inspect, Fetch: Exploiting Structure-Aware Boolean Retrieval for Deep-Research Agents

    Aug 3, 2026Shuai Wang, Haodong Chen, Yu Yin +3RetrieversFetch

    The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia · CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia

  25. Fetch-then-Explore: Decoupling Selection from Extraction over a Persistent Workspace for Search Agents

    Aug 3, 2026Qi Liu, Yiqun Chen, Zidan Chen +6RetrieversFetch

    1Renmin University of China · 2Xiaohongshu Inc. · 3National University of Singapore

  26. CoEvo-Mem: Co-Evolving Retrieval Policy and Memory Bank for LLM Agents

    Aug 3, 2026Bowen Ye, Yongchao Xu, Zhijian Li +3Co-EvolutionRetrievers

    Alibaba Group, Hangzhou, China · School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China · University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

  27. OneShot: Index-in-Ranking with Neural Scoring for Large-Scale Retrieval

    Jul 29, 2026Ziwei Li, Shuyao Li, Xufeng Cai +12Real-World Content Recommendation ProblemRetrievers

    Meta Platforms, Inc. ∗USA, †Singapore

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

    Jul 29, 2026Shusen Zhang, Junyi Hu, Ye Feng +6RetrieversBehavioral Embeddings

    Alibaba Health

  29. Tools Are Not Islands: Set-Level Tool Retrieval for LLM Agents via Query-Conditioned Hyperedge Prediction

    Jul 28, 2026Xinyi Hong, Pinjun Dong, Xinyang Yu +1Large Language Model AgentsRetrievers

    School of Mathematical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  30. SkillSight: Calibrating Generic Content Bias for Skill Retrieval

    Jul 21, 2026Jinying Xiao, Bin Li, Xiaopeng Li +7SkillsRetrievers

    1National University of Defense Technology · 2Qinghai Normal University · 3Xizang University

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

    Jul 19, 2026Yao Liu, Tien-Ping Tan, Zhilan LiuCitationsRetrievers

    The Engineering and Technology College, Chengdu University of Technology, Leshan, China · School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia · Department of Art and Design, The Engineering and Technology College, Chengdu University of Technology, Leshan, China

  32. NOWJ@COLIEE 2026: Adaptive Pipelines for Legal Retrieval and Reasoning

    Jul 18, 2026Thuong-Hieu Ngo, Hoang-Trung Nguyen, Huu-Dong Nguyen +5Legal Reasoning TasksRetrievers

    VNU University of Engineering and Technology Hanoi, Vietnam · Center for Juris-Informatics, ROIS-DS College of Engineering & Computer Science, VinUniversity Hanoi, Vietnam

  33. MARS: Multi-hop Adaptive Retrieval and SPARQL Generation for KGQA

    Jul 16, 2026Nikit Srivastava, Daniel Vollmers, René Speck +3Knowledge GraphsSparql

    Data Science Group, Heinz Nixdorf Institute, Paderborn University, Germany

  34. Cost-Pragmatic Quality Gating and Selection-Fusion Multi-Model Combiners for BioASQ Phases A+ and B

    Jul 15, 2026Dima Galat, Marian-Andrei RizoiuRetrieversPerformance Metric

    University of Technology Sydney, Australia

  35. MemOps: Benchmarking Lifecycle Memory Operations in Long-Horizon Conversations

    Jul 14, 2026Xixuan Hao, Zeyu Zhang, Zehao Lin +6Conversational MemoryNativemem

    MemTensor (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd. · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Renmin University of China

  36. Similar Accuracy, Unequal Evidence: Search APIs as Decision Surfaces for Tool-Using Agents

    Jul 11, 2026Sriram Selvam, Anneswa GhoshRetrieversApplication Programming Interfaces

  37. Improving Ad-hoc Search Effectiveness for Conversational Information Retrieval via Model Merging

    Jul 9, 2026Ahmed Rayane Kebir, Jose G. Moreno, Lynda TamineRetrievers

    University of Toulouse, IRIT Toulouse, France

  38. BACH: A Bayesian Admixture of Contrastive Heads for Multi-Interest Two-Tower Retrieval

    Jul 9, 2026Quoc Phong Nguyen, Paul Albert, Long Vuong +2RetrieversMixture Models

    Amazon

  39. Submitted and Diagnostic Analysis of Full-Text Temporal Retrieval for LongEval-Sci

    Jul 5, 2026Yingdong Yang, Haijian WuRetrieversCitations

    Jena, Germany

  40. PORTS: Preference-Optimized Retrievers for Tool Selection with Large Language Models

    Jul 3, 2026Lorenzo Molfetta, Giacomo Frisoni, Nicolò Monaldini +1Large Language Model Tool UseRetrievers

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna

  41. Real-Time Hard Negative Sampling via LLM-based Clustering for Large-Scale Two-Tower Retrieval

    Jul 1, 2026Ivan Ji, Liuyi Hu, Harrison +6Negative ResultsRetrievers

    Zihao · 1Meta · Xiangjun

  42. Mandol: An Agglomerative Agent Memory System for Long-Term Conversations

    Jun 29, 2026Yuhan Zhang, Zhiyuan Guo, Ziheng Zeng +3Retrievers

    Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Microsoft Research

  43. Hybrid-IR: Dual-Path Hybrid Retrieval with Iterative Reasoning for Complex Medical Question Answering

    Jun 24, 2026Sheng Wan, Jiahui Zhang, Zicheng Zhao +1Clinical Reasoning TrainingMedical Visual Question Answering

    College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

  44. Holographic Memory for Zero-Shot Compositional Reasoning in Knowledge Graphs: A Mechanistic Study of Where and Why It Fails

    Jun 23, 2026Randhir KumarKnowledge GraphsHolographic Reduced Representations

    Independent Researcher

  45. Schema-First Retrieval: Embedding Catalogs for Natural Language Analytics

    Jun 23, 2026Adarsh Agrawal, Shashank IndukuriText-To-SqlSchema

  46. Multi-Agent Transactive Memory

    Jun 18, 2026To Eun Kim, Xuhong He, Dishank Jain +3Agentic MemoryRetrievers

    1Carnegie Mellon University · University of California, Berkeley

  47. Temporal Preference Optimization for Unsupervised Retrieval

    Jun 16, 2026HyunJin Kim, Jaejun Shim, Young Jin Kim +1Retrievers

    1Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea · 2Microsoft, Redmond, USA

  48. Beyond Monolingual Deep Research: Evaluating Agents and Retrievers with Cross-Lingual BrowseComp-Plus

    Jun 13, 2026Yuheng Lu, Qingcheng Zeng, Heli Qi +6Cross-Lingual ConsistencyAgentic Search

    Waseda University · Northwestern University · RIKEN AIP +4

  49. Dr-DCI: Scaling Direct Corpus Interaction via Dynamic Workspace Expansion

    Jun 12, 2026Yi Lu, Zhuofeng Li, Ping Nie +7RetrieversText Corpora

    University of Toronto · Texas A&M University · University of Waterloo +3

  50. When Does Mixing Help? Analyzing Query Embedding Interpolation in Multilingual Dense Retrieval

    Jun 11, 2026Tongyao Zhu, Chao-Ming Huang, Min-Yen KanRetrieval LayerRetrievers

    National University of Singapore

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

    Jun 11, 2026Yuho Lee, Jisu Shin, Nicole Hee-Yeon Kim +5Long VideosVideo Foundation Models

    KAIST, YH, Seoul, Republic of Korea · Qualcomm AI Research, Qualcomm Korea, YH, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  52. STORM: Stepwise Token Optimization with Reward-Guided Beam Search

    Jun 9, 2026Arthur Satouf, Giulio D'Erasmo, Yuxuan Zong +3Retrieval LayerRetrievers

    MILA – Quebec AI Institute & ILLS, Canada · 5Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy · 4Sorbonne Université & ISIR & CNRS, France +2

  53. Towards One-to-Many Temporal Grounding

    Jun 4, 2026Qi Xu, Yue Tan, Shihao Chen +5Temporal GroundingVision-Language Model Grounding

    1Wuhan University · 2Peking University · 3Nanyang Technologi +1

  54. LLM-Guided ANN Index Optimization for Human-Object Interaction Retrieval

    Jun 3, 2026Shahrzad Esmat, Chaunte W. Lacewell, Sameh Gobriel +2RetrieversGeneral Grid Search Framework

    Iowa State University · Intel Corporation

  55. Taiji: Pareto Optimal Policy Optimization with Semantics-IDs Trade-off for Industrial LLM-Enhanced Recommendation

    Jun 2, 2026Yuecheng Li, Zeyu Song, Jing Yao +3Sequential RecommendationRetrievers

    Kuaishou Technology Beijing, China · Unaffiliated Beijing, China

  56. Do Neural Retrievers Prefer Certain Documents? Evidence of Learned Relevance Priors

    Jun 1, 2026Francisco Valentini, Edgar Altszyler, Martin FajcikRetrieval LayerRetrievers

    CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Ciencias de la Computación (ICC). Buenos Aires, Argentina · Quantit, Buenos Aires, Argentina · Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic

  57. Harness-1: Reinforcement Learning for Search Agents with State-Externalizing Harnesses

    Jun 1, 2026Pengcheng Jiang, Zhiyi Shi, Kelly Hong +5Search AgentsRetrievers

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · †UC Berkeley · ✧Chroma

  58. Polaris: Scaling Up Instruction-Guided Image Generation Towards Millions of Personalized Style Needs

    Jun 1, 2026Zhi-Kai Chen, Jun-Peng Jiang, Jun-Jie Tao +2Multi-Reference Image GenerationImage Generation

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University, China · National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, China · Nanjing University, China

  59. Critic-R: Improving Agentic Search using Instruction-tuned Retrievers with Natural Language Introspective Feedback

    May 30, 2026Md Zarif Ul Alam, Alireza Salemi, Hamed ZamaniAgentic SearchRetrievers

    Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval University of Massachusetts Amherst United States

  60. Learning to Retrieve: Dual-Level Long-Term Memory for Text-to-SQL Agents

    May 30, 2026Yibo Wang, Nikki Lijing Kuang, Philip S. Yu +2Text-To-SqlRetrievers

    University of Illinois Chicago · Snowflake AI Research