Information Retrieval

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

    Jul 5, 2026Yingdong Yang, Haijian WuTemporal IRInformation Retrieval

    Jena, Germany

  2. Scientific Code Search at Scale: A Multi-Domain Dataset and Benchmark

    Jul 3, 2026Nishan Pantha, Pranath Reddy Kumbam, Sajil Awale +8Benchmark DesignInformation Retrieval

    The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), Huntsville, AL, USA · Universities Space Research Association (USRA), USA · NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, USA

  3. Relevance-Based Embeddings: Lightweight Candidate Retrieval via Heavy-Ranker Calls

    Jul 3, 2026Kirill Shevkunov, Andrey Ploskonosov, Liudmila ProkhorenkovaLearning to RankInformation Retrieval

    1Yandex.

  4. APeB: Benchmarking Personalization Ability of Large Language Model Agents

    Jul 3, 2026Garry Yang, Zizhe Chen, Xinru Chen +9LLM PersonalizationLLM Agent Evaluation

    1The Chinese University of Hong Kong · 2ByteDance

  5. Alignment-Guided Largest Table Overlap Size Estimation

    Jul 3, 2026Ge Lee, Shixun Huang, Zhifeng Bao +2Information Retrieval

    RMIT University · The University of Queensland · University of Wollongong +1

  6. IntentTune: Using user demand and personalization to resolve "unknown" query intents for e-commerce search

    Jul 1, 2026Rachith Aiyappa, Ishita Khan, Chester Palen-Michel +4E-Commerce SearchIntent Classification

    eBay Inc., USA

  7. Linkify: Learning from Interface-Augmented Assembly Graphs

    Jul 1, 2026Anushrut Jignasu, Daniele GrandiGraph Representation LearningInformation Retrieval

    Iowa State University, USA · Autodesk Research, USA

  8. Svarna: An Open Corpus Workbench for Modern Greek

    Jul 1, 2026Stergios ChatzikyriakidisInformation Retrieval

    Department of Philology, University of Crete, Rethymno, Greece

  9. Multi-Turn Agentic Scientific Literature Search via Workflow Induction

    Jul 1, 2026Jisen Li, Bingxuan Li, Nanyi Jiang +10Agentic SearchAgentic Workflows

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Together AI · University of Pennsylvania +1

  10. VideoSearch-R1: Iterative Video Retrieval and Reasoning via Soft Query Refinement

    Jul 1, 2026Seohyun Lee, Seoung Choi, Dohwan Ko +2Temporal Video GroundingTemporal IR

    KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea · Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  11. Field Order Should Not Matter: Permutation-Invariant Embedding Model Fine-Tuning for Structured Metadata Retrieval

    Jun 29, 2026Aivin V. Solatorio, Olivier Dupriez, Rafael MacalabaMultilingual IRInformation Retrieval

    Development Data Group, Office of the Chief Statistician, World Bank Group

  12. SABER-Math: Automated Benchmark for Information Retrieval Evaluation in Mathematics

    Jun 29, 2026Nikolay Georgiev, Maria Drencheva, Kseniia Ibragimova +3Text Embedding EvaluationLLM Reranking

    INSAIT, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” · ETH Zurich

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

    Jun 29, 2026Heshan Fernando, Quan Xiao, Yan Xin +1Retrieval-Augmented GenerationAdaptive RAG

    1Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY · 2Cornell University, New York, NY · 3Samsung Research America, Berkeley Heights, NJ

  14. ALM2Vec: Learning Audio Embeddings for Universal Audio Retrieval with Large Audio-Language Models

    Jun 27, 2026Fengjie Lu, Chenang Jiang, Jiarui Hai +2Audio Representation LearningAudio-Language Models

    Zhejiang University · Johns Hopkins University

  15. SemFlowRAG: Directed Semantic Flow from Abstraction to Evidence for Complex Reasoning

    Jun 26, 2026Houyuan Qin, Rong Wu, Qinyuan Qin +4Multi-Hop QAGraph Retrieval-Augmented Generation

    1Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · 2Zhejiang University · 3Fudan University

  16. Lacuna: A Research Map for Machine Learning

    Jun 24, 2026Martin Weiss, Miles Q. Li, Alejandro H. Artiles +4Information RetrievalLarge Language Model-Guided Scientific Discovery

    Tiptree Advanced Systems Corporation · Mila · Polytechnique Montreal +2

  17. AutoRelAnnotator: Calibrated Model Cascades for Cost-Efficient Relevance Evaluation in Sponsored Search

    Jun 24, 2026Md Omar Faruk Rokon, Shasvat Desai, Hong Yao +1Online AdvertisingCost-Aware Inference

    Walmart Global Tech, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

  18. Recall Before Rerank: Benchmarking Deep Learning Models for Large-Scale Code-to-Code Retrieval

    Jun 24, 2026Leonardo Venuta, Francesco Tosoni, Paolo FerraginaLLM EvaluationSemantic Search

    Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy

  19. TheoremGraph: Bridging Formal and Informal Mathematics

    Jun 24, 2026Simon Kurgan, Evan Wang, Eric Leonen +6KG ConstructionGraph-Based Retrieval

    University of Washington Math AI Lab

  20. DREAM: Dense Retrieval Embeddings via Autoregressive Modeling

    Jun 23, 2026Yixuan Tang, Yi YangInformation RetrievalText Embedding Models

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  21. PETRA: Transforming Web Text for Petroleum-Engineering Domain Adaptation

    Jun 23, 2026Kirill Dubovikov, Omar El Mansouri, Hachem Madmoun +12Domain AdaptationSynthetic Data Generation

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Inception AI

  22. MMed-Bench-IR: A Heterogeneous Benchmark for Multilingual Medical Information Retrieval

    Jun 23, 2026Junhyeok Lee, Han Jang, Hyeonjin Goh +1Multilingual IRInformation Retrieval

    Seoul National University · Seoul National University College of Medicine · Seoul National University Hospital

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

    Jun 23, 2026Adarsh Agrawal, Shashank IndukuriText-to-SQLInformation Retrieval

  24. Does My Embedding Reflect That A=BA = B? Evaluating Mathematical Equivalence in Embedding Models

    Jun 22, 2026Jiaying Ye, Samarth Rao, Leo Carlin +9Contrastive LearningText Embedding Evaluation

    University of Washington · Axiom Math, University of Washington · Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

  25. LightSTAR: Efficient Visual Document Retrieval via Lightweight Selection with Vision-Adaptive Refinement

    Jun 22, 2026Tongkun Guan, Haocheng Wang, Wei Shen +1Information RetrievalVisual Document Retrieval

    MoE Key Lab of Artificial Intelligence, AI Institute, School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  26. IPO Finance Agent: Benchmark of LLM Financial Analysts Beyond Finance Agent v2, with Automated Rubric Generation, on the SpaceX (SPCX) IPO

    Jun 22, 2026Mostapha BenhendaIn-Context RetrievalLLM-as-a-Judge

  27. KaLM-Reranker-V1: Fast but Not Late Interaction for Compressed Document Reranking

    Jun 22, 2026Xinping Zhao, Jiaxin Xu, Ziqi Dai +9Representation LearningLearning to Rank

    Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute (SLAI)

  28. HAKARI-Bench: A Lightweight Benchmark for Comparing Retrieval Architectures and Efficiency Settings under Unified Conditions

    Jun 22, 2026Yuichi TatenoBenchmark DesignText Embedding Evaluation

  29. Topic-to-Timestamp Alignment by Constrained Evidence Selection

    Jun 18, 2026Zeynep Yılbırt, Marina Litvak, Michael FärberRetrieval-Augmented GenerationTemporal IR

    TU Dresden, Germany · SpeechMind GmbH, Germany · Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel +1

  30. ScholarQuest: A Taxonomy-Guided Benchmark for Agentic Academic Paper Search in Open Literature Environments

    Jun 18, 2026Tingyue Pan, Mingyue Cheng, Daoyu Wang +4Agentic SearchInformation Retrieval

    State Key Lab of Cognitive Intelligence, University of Science and Technology of China

  31. When Does Streaming Tool Use Help? Characterizing Tool-Intent Stabilization in Streaming Retrieval-Augmented Generation

    Jun 18, 2026Elroy GalbraithRetrieval-Augmented GenerationInformation Retrieval

    SMG Labs

  32. Vortex: Multi-Modal Fusion System for Intelligent Video Retrieval

    Jun 18, 2026Duc-Tho Nguyen, Hieu-Hoc Tran-Minh, Khanh-Hoa Lam +4Multimodal IRInformation Retrieval

    University of Science, VNU-HCM, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  33. Rescaling MLM-Head for Neural Sparse Retrieval

    Jun 17, 2026Youngjoon Jang, Seongtae Hong, Jonah Turner +1Masked Language ModelingLearned Sparse Retrieval

    Korea University Seoul, South Korea · Independent Seoul, South Korea

  34. MCompassRAG: Topic Metadata as a Semantic Compass for Paragraph-Level Retrieval

    Jun 16, 2026Amirhossein Abaskohi, Raymond Li, Gaetano Cimino +3Retrieval-Augmented GenerationInformation Retrieval

    University of British Columbia · University of Salerno · ServiceNow Research

  35. SproutRAG: Attention-Guided Tree Search with Progressive Embeddings for Long-Document RAG

    Jun 16, 2026Amirhossein Abaskohi, Issam H. Laradji, Peter West +1Document ChunkingRetrieval-Augmented Generation

    University of British Columbia · ServiceNow Research

  36. Non-negative Elastic Net Decoding for Information Retrieval

    Jun 16, 2026Koki Okajima, Yasutoshi Ida, Tsukasa Yoshida +1Representation LearningInformation Retrieval

    NTT, Inc.

  37. Multimodal and Multiscale Spatial-Temporal Semantic Search and Recommendation with AI Foundation Models

    Jun 15, 2026Yuanyuan Tian, Wenwen Li, Xiao Chen +4Multimodal IRMultimodal Embedding

    School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, USA · Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Anchorage, Alaska, USA · Woodwell Climate Research Center Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA +1

  38. Connecting Speech to Words through Images

    Jun 15, 2026Gabriel Pirlogeanu, Dan Oneata, Horia Cucu +1Multimodal GroundingUnsupervised Learning

    Speech and Dialogue Research Laboratory · POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Romania · Electrical and Electronic Engineering +1

  39. Beyond the Reranker: Do RAG Retrieval Enhancements Help Once a Strong Reranker Is Present?

    Jun 14, 2026Sadanand Singh, Allam Reddy, Manan ChopraCross-Encoder RerankingLearning to Rank

    Cascade Research

  40. Entity Labels Are Not Entity Signals: A Framework for Observable Relevance in Document Re-Ranking

    Jun 14, 2026Utshab Kumar Ghosh, Shubham ChatterjeeLearning to RankInformation Retrieval

    Department of Computer Science Missouri University of Science and Technology Rolla, MO, USA

  41. CAMI: Cost-Aware Agent-Guided Multi-Indexing for Semantic Retrieval

    Jun 14, 2026Adnan Qidwai, Anand Eswaran, Sonam Mishra +2Semantic SearchInformation Retrieval

    IBM Software Innovation Lab India

  42. M-CTX: Exact and Scalable Spatial Context Retrieval for Trajectory Analytics

    Jun 13, 2026Kun Ma, Qilong Han, Chengjing Song +4Information Retrieval

    Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China · Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy · Northeastern University, Shenyang, China +1

  43. Risk-Aware LLM Agents for Geospatial Data Retrieval: Design and Preliminary Adversarial Evaluation

    Jun 13, 2026Kyle Gao, Joel Cumming, Jonathan Li +2Multi-Agent LLM SystemsLLM Tool Use

    Dept. of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada · SkyWatch, Kitchener, ON, N2H 2G8, Canada · Dept. of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada +1

  44. ADORE: Iterative Query Expansion with Retrieval-Grounded Relevance Feedback

    Jun 11, 2026Amin Bigdeli, Negar Arabzadeh, Radin Hamidi Rad +3Information RetrievalQuery Expansion

    University of Waterloo · University of California, Berkeley · Mila – Quebec AI Institute +1

  45. Uncertainty-Aware Hybrid Retrieval for Long-Document RAG

    Jun 11, 2026Hoin Jung, Xiaoqian WangRetrieval-Augmented GenerationInformation Retrieval

    Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907

  46. LEDGER: A Long-Context Benchmark of Corporate Annual Reports for Grounded Financial Retrieval and Extraction

    Jun 11, 2026Charles Moslonka, Amaury de Vitry, Arthur Garnier +2Long-Context RetrievalDocument Information Extraction

    Artefact Research Center Paris, France · MICS, CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette, France · Ardian Paris, France

  47. Trait, Not State: The Durability of Reading Identity in Social Highlighting

    Jun 11, 2026Kazuki Nakayashiki, Keisuke WatanabeInformation RetrievalUser Preference Modeling

    Glasp Inc.

  48. Findings of the MAGMaR 2026 Shared Task

    Jun 10, 2026Alexander Martin, Dengjia Zhang, Joel Brogan +7Multimodal RAGMultimodal Grounding

    Johns Hopkins University · OpenAI · University of Maryland, Baltimore County +4

  49. What Limits Does Quantization Place on Dense Top-kk Retrieval? A Theoretical Study

    Jun 10, 2026Koki Okajima, Tsukasa YoshidaInformation RetrievalLow-Bit Quantization

    NTT, Inc.

  50. The Voronoi Bottleneck: Capacity-Aware Dense Retrieval for Product Search

    Jun 9, 2026Charith Chandra Sai Balne, Rithwik Maramraju, Siddharth Pratap Singh +4Contrastive LearningInformation Retrieval

    Walmart Global Tech USA · Walmart Global Tech2026 USA

  51. When More Documents Hurt RAG: Mitigating Vector Search Dilution with Domain-Scoped, Model-Agnostic Retrieval

    Jun 9, 2026Nabaraj Subedi, Ahmed Abdelaty, Shivanand Venkanna SheshappanavarRetrieval-Augmented GenerationAgentic RAG

    Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA · Dept. of Civil, Architectural Engineering & Construction Management University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA

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

    Jun 9, 2026Arthur Satouf, Giulio D'Erasmo, Yuxuan Zong +3Language Model DecodingLexical Retrieval

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

  53. LakeQA: An Exploratory QA Benchmark over a Million-Scale Data Lake

    Jun 9, 2026Haonan Wang, Jiaxiang Liu, Yurong Liu +11Multi-Hop QAAI Agent Benchmarks

    Columbia University · New York University · Barnard College

  54. MAVIS: Multi-Agent Video Retrieval via Structured Video Understanding

    Jun 8, 2026Jie Zhang, Qilang Ye, Hao Zhou +2Video UnderstandingMulti-Agent Collaboration

    School of Computing and Information Technology, Great Bay University · College of Computer Science, Nankai University · Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University +1

  55. Report on CHIIR 2026 Workshop on Generative AI and Academic Search (GAI&AS)

    Jun 8, 2026Yifan Liu, Jaime Arguello, Orland Hoeber +30Information RetrievalHuman-AI Collaboration

    Klara · University of British Columbia · Canada +8

  56. PaperFlow: Profiling, Recommending, and Adapting Across Daily Paper Streams

    Jun 5, 2026Fuqiang Wang, Song Tan, Zheng Guo +8Information RetrievalRecommender Systems

    1Key Laboratory of Computing Power Network and Information Security, Ministry of Education, Shandong Computer Science Center (National Supercomputer Center in Jinan), Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences) · University of Chinese Academy of Science · 3Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

  57. SWE-Explore: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Explore Repositories

    Jun 5, 2026Shaoqiu Zhang, Yuhang Wang, Jialiang Liang +8AI Coding AgentsAgentic Search

    1Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 2Xinjiang University · 4Independent Researcher +2

  58. QueryAgent-R1: Bridging Query Generation and Product Retrieval for E-Commerce Query Recommendation

    Jun 4, 2026Dike Sun, Zheng Zou, Jingtong Zang +3E-Commerce SearchAgentic Retrieval

    Alibaba International Digital Commercial Group

  59. Agent-Orchestrated Adaptive RAG: A Comparative Study on Structured and Multi-Hop Retrieval

    Jun 4, 2026Anuj Maharjan, Devinder Kaur, Richard MolyetRetrieval-Augmented GenerationAdaptive RAG

    Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Toledo Toledo, OH, USA

  60. BEATS: Bootstrapping E-commerce Attribute Taxonomies for Search through Iterative Human-AI Collaboration

    Jun 3, 2026Yung-Yu Shih, Shang-Yu Su, Tzu-I Ho +2Semantic SearchLLM-Assisted Annotation

    National Taiwan University · Rakuten Group, Inc. · Taiwan Rakuten Ichiba, Inc. +1