Information Retrieval

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

    Sep 27, 2026Xingyu Lin, Dehui DuHealthcareInformation Retrieval

    Software Engineering Institute, East China Normal University Shanghai, China

  2. 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

    Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien 974301, Taiwan

  3. 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

    Emory University Atlanta, Georgia, USA · Roblox Corporation San Mateo, California, USA

  4. 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

    UNSW Water Research Centre, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia · School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia · Microsoft Copilot Studio AI, Redmond, WA 98052, United States +2

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

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

    Ling Team, Inclusion AI · Peking University · China International Capital Corporation Limited

  6. UK-PRBENCH: A Paragraph-Level Precedent Retrieval Benchmark for United Kingdom Case Law

    Sep 21, 2026Damith Premasiri, Tharindu RanasingheLegal IRInformation Retrieval

    Lancaster University, UK

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

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

    Sapienza University of Rome · Not Diamond · Paradigma

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

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

    Walmart Global Tech Bangalore, India · Walmart Global Tech Sunnyvale, United States

  9. Grounded Product Understanding in Livestream Videos

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

    Kuaishou Technology · Institute of AI for Industries, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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

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

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093, USA

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

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

    ENC, LRE · École nationale des chartes – PSL Centre Jean-Mabillon Paris, France · EPITA EPITA Research Laboratory Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France +2

  12. A Functional Pilot for Certified Freshness-Aware Semantic--Spatial Range Retrieval

    Sep 17, 2026Taimoor AhmadSemantic SearchInformation Retrieval

    Superior University Lahore, Pakistan

  13. Self-Evolving Search Index

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

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

  14. 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

    School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798 · Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong

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

    Sep 16, 2026Yerim Oh, Gunhee KimSynthetic Data AugmentationInformation Retrieval

    Seoul National University

  16. SNOMED CT Concept Recommendation from Masked Clinical Context

    Sep 15, 2026Ali NooriAutomated Medical CodingClinical Information Extraction

    Informatics and Analytics, University of North Carolina Greensboro Greensboro, North Carolina, USA

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

    Sep 15, 2026Daniel Ebanks, Devika JainInformation Retrieval

    Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University · Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University

  18. Parameter-Efficient Retrievers for Polish and European Languages

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

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

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

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

    1The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · 3The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  20. FRAME: Factored Retrieval via Attribute Readouts for Object-Centric Scene Memory

    Sep 8, 2026Woosang Jeon, Sanghyeok Choi, Minwoo Kim +2Vision-Language GroundingInformation Retrieval

    Seoul National University

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

    Sep 8, 2026Tran Minh QuanText EmbeddingsWord Embeddings

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

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

    Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, The University of British Columbia · Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute · Department of Medical Genetics, The University of British Columbia +1

  23. Shadow Queries for Private Retrieval in Vector Databases

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

    The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia · City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong · CSIRO’s Data 61, Sydney, Australia

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

    Sep 3, 2026Vineet Kumar, Meghanadh Pulivarthi, vishwajeet kumar +3Retrieval-Augmented GenerationGenerative Retrieval

    IBM

  25. 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

    University of Luxembourg (SnT) · School of Computing, KAIST

  26. WIDE: Wildcard Inference with Dynamic Expansion for Cross-Modal Generative Retrieval

    Sep 3, 2026Teng Guo, Xin Wang, Jiayou Xu +3Generative RetrievalInformation Retrieval

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

    Sep 2, 2026Jalal MahmudInformation Retrieval

    Megagon Labs Mountain View, CA, USA

  28. ExecRetrieval: Measuring the Functional-Correctness Gap in Code-Embedding Retrieval

    Sep 1, 2026Aaryan Kapoor, Md Abdullah Al Hafiz KhanText Embedding EvaluationInformation Retrieval

    Kennesaw State University

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

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

    Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Science · Peking University

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

    Sep 1, 2026Nabira Rashid, Manolis KellisLLM RerankingInformation Retrieval

    Independent; work conducted while contributing to Mantis at MIT CSAIL Kellis Lab · Independent · MIT CSAIL