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23 Oct 2026 edition

38 articles · 4 sources · 38 papers ·

Top topics: AI Research · AI · Information Retrieval

Information Retrieval AI AI Research

Formal-Informal Mathematical Alignment through and beyond Human Annotations

arXiv:2610.31011v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Formalized mathematics libraries such as Lean's \texttt{mathlib} provide machine-verifiable representations of mathematical knowledge, including definitions, theorems, and…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Noah Gie{\ss}ing, Ankit Satpute, Hamid Rahkooy, Andr\'e Greiner-Petter, Moritz Schubotz
Information Retrieval AI AI Research

Deep Search in Real-World Web Environments

arXiv:2610.30181v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite substantial progress in Deep Search agents, their ability to conduct end-to-end research in real-world open Web environments remains insufficiently evaluated.…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Xiaomin Yu, Hongliang Chen, Zhe Huang, Shilin Yan, Shao-Rong Su, Xuqiao Ma, Feiyang Wang, Jiayu Chen, Jiwei Fang, Yu Yan, Yini Huang, Chen Chen, Ruoxi Cheng, Yuzhi He, Yuhui Zhang, Xiaoxing Hu, Chen…
Information Retrieval AI AI Research

Compiling Autoregressive LLM Control into Policy-Exact Parallel Inference for Hierarchical RAG

arXiv:2610.30664v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models increasingly act as controllers in structured decision pipelines, yet their decisions are still executed by autoregressive text decoding.…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Zehao Lin, Qianfeng Shen, Xixuan Hao, Shaobo Cui, Chunyu Li, Kai Chen, Bo Tang, Zhenjun Wang, Jin Yan, Zhiyu Li, Feiyu Xiong
Information Retrieval AI AI Research

Data-Void Exploits in Web-Searching LLMs

arXiv:2610.30365v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Web-searching Large Language Models (LLMs) have changed how users seek online information: instead of sifting through ranked lists of links, users read synthesized…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Michele Guerra, Wuyeh Jobe, Sanjana Nambiar, Christina P\"opper, Azza Abouzied
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Getting a GRIP on Graph-Based Search for Learned Sparse Retrieval

arXiv:2610.30425v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learned sparse retrieval (LSR) has recently gained traction in the information retrieval community for the ability to combine the generalization capabilities of neural…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Vihan Lakshman, Franco Maria Nardini, Cosimo Rulli, Rossano Venturini
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Lean Finder V2: Semantic Search for Mathlib That Disambiguates User Queries

arXiv:2610.30843v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Lean Finder V2, a semantic search framework for Mathlib that disambiguates user queries through complementary model-level adversarial training and…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Jialin Lu, Xiaoyu Liu, Hengrui Luo, Rodrigo Stehling, Linxi Liu, Weiran Sun, Yuepeng Wang, Wuyang Chen
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PAIR: Preference-Aligned Intent Retrieval for Premium People Recommendation at LinkedIn

arXiv:2610.30941v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose embeddings trained on profile similarity often misrank candidates in professional networks, where relevance is inherently complementary rather than…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Zhongkai Shangguan, Yanbin Kang, Yihan Cao, Ruijie Jiang, Qiannan Yin, Chang Yue, Zijian Zhou, Girish Kathalagiri, Changshuai Wei, Zhengming Xing
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WhisperRec: Latent Reasoning for Efficient Foundation Recommendation Models

arXiv:2607.26621v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong reasoning capabilities, motivating their adoption as backbones for foundation recommendation models (FRMs).…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Hao Jiang, Peiru Du, Pengfei Yao, Mengting Li, Siyuan Lou, Kuo Cai, Sheng Yu, Qiang Luo, Jian Liang, Ruiming Tang, Fei Pan, Peng Jiang, Wenwu Ou
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A Task-Centric Survey of Long-Document Visual Question Answering: Taxonomy, Evolution, and Future Directions

arXiv:2610.31385v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual document understanding is essential for acquiring knowledge from visually rich documents and is attracting growing research interest. Existing surveys emphasize…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Yufei Tong, Guanjie Cheng, Tianle Wu, Leilei Zhang, Hang Zheng, Peihan Wu, Jianwei Yin, Shuiguang Deng
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Xetrieval: Explaining Dense Retrieval through Feature Elicitation

arXiv:2605.29507v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Dense retrieval enables effective semantic matching, yet the semantic factors underlying its relevance scores remain opaque. Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) support…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Zhixin Cai, Jun Bai, Yang Liu, Jiaqi Li, Yichi Zhang, Taichuan Li, Zhuofan Chen, Zixia Jia, Zilong Zheng, Wenge Rong

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