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17 Sep 2026 edition

31 articles · 5 sources · 30 papers ·

Top topics: Information Retrieval · AI Research · AI

LIGE-GR: A Smooth Leap from Ranking to Generative Recommendation in the LLM Era

arXiv:2609.18148v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The remarkable success of large language models (LLMs) has provided important inspiration for the next generation of recommender systems. Structurally, recommendation and…

Source: arXiv cs.LG Venkat Srinivas, Chenzhang He, Sam Woodmansee, Shawn Lian, Wenjie Hu, Renjie Jiang, Ziheng Huang, Xinyuan Zhang, Zhihao Zheng, Zhuoran Yu, Rui Li, Lei Yuan, Ziwei Li, Jimmy Jia, Mert Terzihan, Ekrem…

Beyond Static RAG: An Adaptive, Tri-Metric Routing Framework for Efficient Long-Context Inference on Commodity GPUs

arXiv:2609.17564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) on commodity GPUs such as the NVIDIA T4 (16 GB VRAM) exposes a practical failure mode we call the Compression Paradox:…

Source: arXiv cs.LG Saipraveen Vabbilisetty, Ajay Kumar Boddepalli, Deep Narayan Mishra, Shashank Kapadia, Haoan Wang, Anupriya Sharma
Information Retrieval AI AI Research

Abstention vs. Hallucination: Benchmarking LLM Source Attribution for Scientific Citations

arXiv:2405.02228v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly generate citation-backed responses, yet citation hallucination remains a major challenge for trustworthy scientific…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Deepa Tilwani, Yash Saxena, Seyedali Mohammadi, Ankur Padia, Edward Raff, Amit Sheth, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Manas Gaur
Information Retrieval AI AI Research

Bumblebee: Interleaved Mixed-Layer Building Blocks for Large-Scale Recommendation Systems

arXiv:2607.24804v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recommendation systems have undergone significant transformations in the past years. The transition from traditional feature interaction modules to generative…

Source: arXiv cs.IR David Bauer, Cancan Zhang, Wenshun Liu, Xiaoyi Zhang, Weijia Liu, Wanli Ma, Yue Weng, Wei Li, Rui Li, Yiyang Zhao, Tianqi Lu, Jing Qian, Huayu Li, Xiaoyi Liu, Linhong Zhu, Jerry Fu
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How Calibration Content Shapes Attention-Based Reranking

arXiv:2609.17764v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Attention-based rerankers score documents by aggregating query-to-document attention and subtracting a null-query calibration pass to remove positional and structural…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Petros Karypis, Hossein Rajaby Faghihi, Peter Chen, Rui Zhu, Noveen Sachdeva, Yan Zhu, Julian McAuley
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SURF: Subtractive Updates for Recommender Forgetting

arXiv:2609.18695v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The increasing demand for user privacy and compliance with regulations such as GDPR has made machine unlearning a fundamental requirement for modern recommender systems.…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Filippo Betello, Antonio Purificato, Nicola Tonellotto, Fabrizio Silvestri
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Seeing Through the MiRAGE: Evaluating Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation

arXiv:2510.24870v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce MiRAGE, an evaluation framework for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) from multimodal sources. As audiovisual media becomes a more prevalent…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Alexander Martin, William Walden, Reno Kriz, Dengjia Zhang, Kate Sanders, Eugene Yang, Chihsheng Jin, Benjamin Van Durme
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An Industrial-Scale Sequential Recommender for LinkedIn Feed Ranking

arXiv:2602.12354v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LinkedIn Feed enables professionals worldwide to discover relevant content, build connections, and share knowledge at scale. We present Feed Sequential Recommender…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Lars Hertel, Gaurav Srivastava, Syed Ali Naqvi, Satyam Kumar, Yue Zhang, Borja Ocejo, Benjamin Zelditch, Adrian Englhardt, Hailing Cheng, Andy Hu, Antonio Alonso, Daming Li, Siddharth Dangi, Chen Zhu…
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Scaling Articulated Rationales for MLLM-based Recommendation

arXiv:2609.17639v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern recommendation systems largely infer user preferences from implicit behaviors such as clicks, watch time, and negative feedback, but these signals reveal what users…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Haoke Xiao, Yueyang Liu, Yuhui Zhang, Xiang Chen, Yufei Liu, Jia Xu, Yalong Guan, Xiaolan Zhu, Xiaoyu Zhang, Shijun Wang, Shuang Yang, Zijie Meng, Zejian Zhang, Ruochen Yang, Xiangyu Wu, Tingting Gao…
Information Retrieval AI AI Research

Single-Token Expected-Value Scoring for Cold-Start Candidate Ranking

arXiv:2609.18188v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-assisted sourcing streamlines candidate review, reducing the administrative burden of manual screening for recruiters. However, deploying language models as production…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Qihang Wang (Indeed Inc.), Jinwei Tan (Indeed Inc.), Mengyuan Shi (Indeed Inc.), Mayank Sharma (Indeed Inc.), Shuai Zhao (Indeed Inc.), Fuxian Li (Indeed Inc.), Ryan Yan (Indeed Inc.), Alexander P. K…

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