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When Does Streaming Tool Use Help? Characterizing Tool-Intent Stabilization in Streaming Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Jun 18, 2026Elroy GalbraithRetrieval-Augmented Generation Information Retrieval
SMG Labs
Vortex: Multi-Modal Fusion System for Intelligent Video Retrieval
Jun 18, 2026Duc-Tho Nguyen, Hieu-Hoc Tran-Minh, Khanh-Hoa Lam +4Multimodal IR Information Retrieval
University of Science, VNU-HCM, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Rescaling MLM-Head for Neural Sparse Retrieval
Jun 17, 2026Youngjoon Jang, Seongtae Hong, Jonah Turner +1Masked Language Modeling Learned Sparse Retrieval
Korea University Seoul, South Korea · Independent Seoul, South Korea
MCompassRAG: Topic Metadata as a Semantic Compass for Paragraph-Level Retrieval
Jun 16, 2026Amirhossein Abaskohi, Raymond Li, Gaetano Cimino +3Retrieval-Augmented Generation Information Retrieval
University of British Columbia · University of Salerno · ServiceNow Research
SproutRAG: Attention-Guided Tree Search with Progressive Embeddings for Long-Document RAG
Jun 16, 2026Amirhossein Abaskohi, Issam H. Laradji, Peter West +1Document Chunking Retrieval-Augmented Generation
University of British Columbia · ServiceNow Research
Non-negative Elastic Net Decoding for Information Retrieval
Jun 16, 2026Koki Okajima, Yasutoshi Ida, Tsukasa Yoshida +1Representation Learning Information Retrieval
NTT, Inc.
Multimodal and Multiscale Spatial-Temporal Semantic Search and Recommendation with AI Foundation Models
Jun 15, 2026Yuanyuan Tian, Wenwen Li, Xiao Chen +4Multimodal IR Multimodal 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
Connecting Speech to Words through Images
Jun 15, 2026Gabriel Pirlogeanu, Dan Oneata, Horia Cucu +1Multimodal Grounding Unsupervised Learning
Speech and Dialogue Research Laboratory · POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Romania · Electrical and Electronic Engineering +1
Beyond the Reranker: Do RAG Retrieval Enhancements Help Once a Strong Reranker Is Present?
Jun 14, 2026Sadanand Singh, Allam Reddy, Manan ChopraCross-Encoder Reranking Learning to Rank
Cascade Research
Entity Labels Are Not Entity Signals: A Framework for Observable Relevance in Document Re-Ranking
Jun 14, 2026Utshab Kumar Ghosh, Shubham ChatterjeeLearning to Rank Information Retrieval
Department of Computer Science Missouri University of Science and Technology Rolla, MO, USA
CAMI: Cost-Aware Agent-Guided Multi-Indexing for Semantic Retrieval
Jun 14, 2026Adnan Qidwai, Anand Eswaran, Sonam Mishra +2Semantic Search Information Retrieval
IBM Software Innovation Lab India
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
Risk-Aware LLM Agents for Geospatial Data Retrieval: Design and Preliminary Adversarial Evaluation
Jun 13, 2026Kyle Gao, Joel Cumming, Jonathan Li +2Multi-Agent LLM Systems LLM 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
ADORE: Iterative Query Expansion with Retrieval-Grounded Relevance Feedback
Jun 11, 2026Amin Bigdeli, Negar Arabzadeh, Radin Hamidi Rad +3Information Retrieval Query Expansion
University of Waterloo · University of California, Berkeley · Mila – Quebec AI Institute +1
Uncertainty-Aware Hybrid Retrieval for Long-Document RAG
Jun 11, 2026Hoin Jung, Xiaoqian WangRetrieval-Augmented Generation Information Retrieval
Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907
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 Retrieval Document Information Extraction
Artefact Research Center Paris, France · MICS, CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette, France · Ardian Paris, France
Trait, Not State: The Durability of Reading Identity in Social Highlighting
Jun 11, 2026Kazuki Nakayashiki, Keisuke WatanabeInformation Retrieval User Preference Modeling
Glasp Inc.
Findings of the MAGMaR 2026 Shared Task
Jun 10, 2026Alexander Martin, Dengjia Zhang, Joel Brogan +7Multimodal RAG Multimodal Grounding
Johns Hopkins University · OpenAI · University of Maryland, Baltimore County +4
What Limits Does Quantization Place on Dense Top- $k$ Retrieval? A Theoretical Study
Jun 10, 2026Koki Okajima, Tsukasa YoshidaInformation Retrieval Low-Bit Quantization
NTT, Inc.
The Voronoi Bottleneck: Capacity-Aware Dense Retrieval for Product Search
Jun 9, 2026Charith Chandra Sai Balne, Rithwik Maramraju, Siddharth Pratap Singh +4Contrastive Learning Information Retrieval
Walmart Global Tech USA · Walmart Global Tech2026 USA
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 Generation Agentic 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
STORM: Stepwise Token Optimization with Reward-Guided Beam Search
Jun 9, 2026Arthur Satouf, Giulio D'Erasmo, Yuxuan Zong +3Language Model Decoding Lexical Retrieval
MILA – Quebec AI Institute & ILLS, Canada · 5Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy · 4Sorbonne Université & ISIR & CNRS, France +2
LakeQA: An Exploratory QA Benchmark over a Million-Scale Data Lake
Jun 9, 2026Haonan Wang, Jiaxiang Liu, Yurong Liu +11Multi-Hop QA AI Agent Benchmarks
Columbia University · New York University · Barnard College
Right Family, Wrong Skill: Evaluating Risk Exposure in Agent Skill Retrieval
Jun 9, 2026Jiandong Ding, Honglei Ji, Ming Liu +1Agentic Retrieval LLM Agent Skill Retrieval
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Shanghai, China · Department of Obstetrics Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine Shanghai, China
MAVIS: Multi-Agent Video Retrieval via Structured Video Understanding
Jun 8, 2026Jie Zhang, Qilang Ye, Hao Zhou +2Video Understanding Multi-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
Report on CHIIR 2026 Workshop on Generative AI and Academic Search (GAI&AS)
Jun 8, 2026Yifan Liu, Jaime Arguello, Orland Hoeber +30Information Retrieval Human-AI Collaboration
Klara · University of British Columbia · Canada +8
PaperFlow: Profiling, Recommending, and Adapting Across Daily Paper Streams
Jun 5, 2026Fuqiang Wang, Song Tan, Zheng Guo +8Information Retrieval Recommender 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
SWE-Explore: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Explore Repositories
Jun 5, 2026Shaoqiu Zhang, Yuhang Wang, Jialiang Liang +8AI Coding Agents Agentic Search
1Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 2Xinjiang University · 4Independent Researcher +2
QueryAgent-R1: Bridging Query Generation and Product Retrieval for E-Commerce Query Recommendation
Jun 4, 2026Dike Sun, Zheng Zou, Jingtong Zang +3E-Commerce Search Agentic Retrieval
Alibaba International Digital Commercial Group
Agent-Orchestrated Adaptive RAG: A Comparative Study on Structured and Multi-Hop Retrieval
Jun 4, 2026Anuj Maharjan, Devinder Kaur, Richard MolyetRetrieval-Augmented Generation Adaptive RAG
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Toledo Toledo, OH, USA

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

Elroy Galbraith

SMG Labs

Retrieval-Augmented Generation Information Retrieval RAG Evaluation

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Streaming Retrieval-Augmented Generation (Streaming RAG) hides tool latency by issuing retrieval queries in parallel with the user's still-arriving input, before the utterance is complete. Speculation can only help, though, when the correct query becomes determinable before the user stops speaking or typing -- a property of the query, not the system. We name and measure this property, tool-intent stabilization: the point in the input stream at which a speculative query's retrieval converges on the answer-bearing result. On the CRAG benchmark (1371 validation questions) we (i) characterize how stabilization is distributed across queries; (ii) derive a model-agnostic bound H on the share of tool latency hideable behind the remaining input, given tool latency L and input cadence delta; (iii) validate it against a working streaming pipeline; and (iv) ask which query properties predict early versus late stabilization. Stabilization is typically early: at a realistic operating point a 73.9% streamable fraction of the benchmark admits latency hiding, and H acts as a conservative aggregate floor that realized savings meet or exceed -- though it does not predict savings query by query. Question type yields a statistically significant but small early/late split. The study needs no model training and runs on commodity CPU hardware; a dense-retriever replication confirms the early-stabilization effect is not a BM25 lexical artifact.

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