Information Retrieval

Also known as IR

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38 papers in the last four weeks, up 124% on the four weeks before. 0.4% of all new papers.

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  1. Beyond Semantic Similarity: Performance and Costs of Agentic Retrieval for Complex Tasks

    Oct 5, 2026Reza Esfandiarpoor, Radek Osmulski, Yauhen Babakhin +8Agentic RetrievalInformation Retrieval

  2. Errors of LLM-Assisted Literature Retrieval in Environmental Science: A Comparison Study of Abstract versus Full-text Based Prompts

    Oct 5, 2026Yanjun Chen, Yongfeng Zhang, Lanjing ZhangLLM PromptingLLM Reliability

  3. SkillGATE: Gate-Aware Monte Carlo Tree Search for Skill Retrieval

    Oct 4, 2026Rongchen Zhao, Yu Chen, Yanming Yang +5Monte Carlo Tree SearchGraph-Based Retrieval

  4. ScholarCatalyst: A Benchmark for Retrieving Papers That Inspire New Research

    Oct 1, 2026Sohyeon Kim, Yoonho Lee, Bo Liu +11AI Agents for Scientific DiscoveryAgentic Search

  5. AiSearch: Interactive Multi-Modal Search with VLMs

    Oct 1, 2026Ali Koksal, Mei Chee Leong, Vicky Sintunata +2Multimodal IRVision-Language Models

  6. SkillSeek: Revisiting Agent Skill Retrieval at Marketplace Scale

    Sep 30, 2026Guanqun Yang, Wenlong Zhang, Tian Shi +1LLM Agent Skill RetrievalInformation Retrieval

  7. Generated Query Expansion Still Helps Strong Sparse Retrieval: A Controlled Study with SPLADE-v3

    Sep 29, 2026Ryan C. Barron, Cade W. Trotter, Maksim E. Eren +3Learned Sparse RetrievalLexical Retrieval

  8. MERGE: Multi-LLM Ensemble for Retrieval via Generative Enrichment

    Sep 29, 2026Tzu-I Ho, Yung-Yu Shih, Shang-Yu Su +2LLM PromptingAutomatic Prompt Optimization

  9. Follow the Entities: A Corpus Map for Agentic Search

    Sep 29, 2026Soyeong Jeong, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Sung Ju Hwang +1Multi-Hop QAAgentic Search

  10. CurvSpec: Adaptive Multi-Curvature Learning for Partial Relevant Video Retrieval

    Sep 29, 2026Zhen Liu, Letian Li, Jinpeng Wang +4Cross-Modal RetrievalVideo Representation Learning

  11. PILLAR: Private Inverted-Index Lexical Lookup for Augmented Retrieval

    Sep 28, 2026Truong Son Nguyen, Daniel Blackley, Ni Trieu +1Retrieval-Augmented GenerationLexical Retrieval

  12. Retrieving Biblical Intertextual References in Karen Blixen's Seven Gothic Tales

    Sep 28, 2026András Kovács, Alexander Conroy, Daniel Hershcovich +1Computational Literary StudiesLexical Retrieval

  13. 5W1H+Which: Context-Valid Semantic Indexing with Progressive Ontology Binding

    Sep 28, 2026Yaxiao Liu, Pengbo Liu, Yiwen Liu +2KG ConstructionKnowledge Representation

  14. PEAR: Progressive Evidence-Based AutoResearch for Industrial Search Systems

    Sep 28, 2026Yifan Wang, Shipeng Zhu, Fei Xiong +6Information RetrievalSequential Hypothesis Testing

  15. From PDF to Evidence: Structure-Aware Retrieval for Clinical Practice Guidelines

    Sep 27, 2026Xingyu Lin, Dehui DuHealthcareInformation Retrieval

  16. When Does Geometric View Synthesis Help Wine Label Retrieval? A Public One-Shot Benchmark Across Self-Supervised and Vision-Language Backbones

    Sep 27, 2026Yueh-Cheng HuangVLM AdaptationNovel View Synthesis

  17. Search-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Component Query Understanding in Roblox Game Search

    Sep 24, 2026Nayoung Choi, Shengjian Chen, Xiaokai Wei +6Reinforcement LearningRL for IR

  18. Domain-Adaptive Pretraining Enhances Water Treatment Semantic Representation for Large-Scale Structured Literature Mining

    Sep 22, 2026Mudi Zhai, Ruihong Qiu, Qingyun Zeng +3KG ConstructionDomain-Adaptive Pretraining

  19. FinFIRST: Benchmarking Search Agents for Financial Information Retrieval, Sourcing and Traceability

    Sep 21, 2026Wenqing Wang, Haitao Xiang, Xinyi Zhao +8Financial QAAI Agent Benchmarks

  20. The Undetected Damage of Quantization on Retrieval and How to Fix It

    Sep 21, 2026Luca Zhou, Alessandro Zirilli, Daniele Solombrino +2Mixed-Precision QuantizationInformation Retrieval

  21. Graded-Relevance Composed Multimodal Retrieval for E-commerce Visual Search at Scale

    Sep 21, 2026Anubhav Gupta, Hrushikesh Mohapatra, Prijith Chandra +6Information RetrievalVisual Search

  22. Grounded Product Understanding in Livestream Videos

    Sep 17, 2026Xinyu Zhang, Junjie Chen, Jiawei Ge +4Temporal Video GroundingStreaming Video Understanding

  23. The Missing Complement: State-Conditioned Minimal Sufficient Evidence for Coding Agents

    Sep 17, 2026Zhexi Feng, Ruiyi Zhang, Yongbo Yang +1AI Coding AgentsAgentic Retrieval

  24. TRACE: Accountable Agentic Retrieval for Source Discovery in Digital Archives

    Sep 17, 2026Donghan Bian, Marie Puren, Florian CafieroData ProvenanceAgentic Retrieval

  25. Self-Evolving Search Index

    Sep 17, 2026Sangam Lee, Wonjae Lee, Sunghwan Kim +5Agentic RetrievalInformation Retrieval

  26. QMSR: Query-Conditioned Mask-wise Expert Routing for Robust Open-Vocabulary Underwater Object Retrieval

    Sep 16, 2026Fuming Zhang, Dongyue Huang, Junjie Wen +1Underwater Image EnhancementMixture of Experts

  27. SNOMED CT Concept Recommendation from Masked Clinical Context

    Sep 15, 2026Ali NooriAutomated Medical CodingClinical Information Extraction

  28. Geospatial Metadata Improves Discoverability by Connecting Datasets Across Scientific Disciplines

    Sep 15, 2026Daniel Ebanks, Devika JainInformation Retrieval

  29. Parameter-Efficient Retrievers for Polish and European Languages

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

  30. Concentrate After Imagination: Text-Conditioned Evidence Grounding for Partially Relevant Video Retrieval

    Sep 8, 2026Shuaiqi Cheng, Siyu You, Yanbi Wu +3Temporal Video GroundingInformation Retrieval

  31. OntologyBench: Can Dense Retrieval Satisfy Structured Biomedical Constraints?

    Sep 8, 2026Xiao Yu Cindy Zhang, Wyeth Wasserman, Jian ZhuInformation RetrievalBiomedical IR

  32. Shadow Queries for Private Retrieval in Vector Databases

    Sep 7, 2026Xinguo Feng, Zhongkui Ma, Zihan Wang +4Privacy-Preserving MLInformation Retrieval

  33. Synthetic Semantic Supervision for Contrastive Code Representation Learning in Small Transformers: An Empirical Study

    Sep 3, 2026Kenneth Paulsen, Florian Tambon, Mike Papadakis +1Synthetic Data PretrainingContrastive Learning

  34. Allocate Before You Embed: Adaptive Visual Input Allocation for Video Embeddings

    Sep 1, 2026Song Jin, Zhongtao Jiang, Chenglei Shen +5Multimodal EmbeddingInformation Retrieval

  35. Retrieved but not ranked: surface-form bias in structural retrieval, from mathematics to agent trajectories

    Sep 1, 2026Nabira Rashid, Manolis KellisLLM RerankingInformation Retrieval

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

    Aug 30, 2026Guransh Singh, Vishwajeet Kumar, Arkadeep Acharya +3Retrieval-Augmented GenerationAgentic Retrieval

  37. GUIDE: Generative Unsupervised Chinese Query Correction via Phonetic and Visual Shared-ID Encoding

    Aug 26, 2026Lei Yang, Binbin Huang, Jiwei Tan +4Query ReformulationInformation Retrieval

  38. Do AI chatbots find what experts would? Effects of model, user role, and sample size on study retrieval for medical questions

    Aug 13, 2026Qingfang Liu, Qiao Jin, Joe D. Menke +2Clinical QAInformation Retrieval

  39. Generative Universal Multimodal Retrieval with Dual-role Identifiers

    Aug 13, 2026Kaipeng Li, Haitao Yu, Xuanchen ZhouMultimodal IRGenerative Retrieval

  40. The Embedder's Dilemma: LLMs Are Better, but at What Cost?

    Aug 13, 2026Adnan El Assadi, Niklas Muennighoff, Jinhyuk LeeLLM Inference EfficiencyLLM Evaluation

  41. Self-Knowledge Retrieval Augmented Generation Framework for Patent Matching

    Aug 11, 2026Jian Zhang, Songlin Lei, Zhuohao Yang +6Retrieval-Augmented GenerationInformation Retrieval

  42. SPIEval: Evaluating Large Language Models as Mobile Assistants over Scattered Personal Information

    Aug 11, 2026Junjie Ye, Zhuohui Sheng, Shaofan Liu +12LLM EvaluationAI Agent Benchmarks

  43. Guardian Crawler: Retrieval-First Knowledge Discovery with Bounded LLM Augmentation for Noisy Web Intelligence

    Aug 10, 2026Joshua Castillo, Santosh Nukavarapu, Ravi MukkamalaHybrid IRInformation Retrieval

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

    Aug 9, 2026Yu Wang, Shengyao Zhuang, Xueguang Ma +4Model CompressionDynamic Neural Networks