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25 Sep 2026 edition

41 articles · 4 sources · 40 papers ·

Top topics: Information Retrieval · AI · AI Research

Information Retrieval AI AI Research

OneTrans-V2: Unifying Retrieval, Pre-rank, and Fine-rank with One Transformer in Industrial Recommender

arXiv:2609.28589v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial recommendation systems typically operate as a \emph{cascade} of retrieval, pre-rank, and fine-rank, but these stages are usually trained and served as separate…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Hannan Cao, Jun Guo, Haolei Pei, Zhaoqi Zhang, Tianyu Wang, Ziyang Wang, Youchen Sun, Yue Xue, Yucheng Mao, Lintao Yan, Yufei Feng, Shaowei Liu, Rongkun Xing, Feiling Gong, Xinyu Chenli, Cong Xu, Min…
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An Empirical Study of VLM Pipelines for Long-Document QA

arXiv:2609.29933v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly used for long-document processing, where the inputs combine text with charts, tables, figures, and complex layouts.…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Kenan E. Ak, Jay Mohta, Gwang Gook Lee, Yan Xu, Dimitrios Dimitriadis
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SEEK: Skill-Routed Evaluation with Evolvable Knowledge for Industrial Search

arXiv:2609.29803v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Search quality evaluation provides essential supervision and diagnostic signals for the development and iteration of industrial search systems. Although large language…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Zhongxin Huang, Songyang Li, Renzhe Zhou, Feiran Zhu, Chenglei Dai, Zhen Xiao, Xuanping Li, Jingwei Zhuo
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Advancing Model Research in AgentX: Long-Horizon Autonomy for Industrial Recommender Systems

arXiv:2609.30001v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sustaining industrial recommendation research requires using the results of one experiment to decide what to investigate next. We present AgentX-Model, the next…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Shuang Yang, Zijie Zhuang, Changxin Lao, Pengbo Xu, Hanwen Xu, Yusheng Huang, Han Gao, Guanchen Wang, Tianbao Ma, Linxun Chen, Peilin Song, Xuming Wang, Chen Li, Fan Wu, Tao Wang, Zibo Zhao, Xiangyu…
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DeGRe: Dense-supervised Generative Reranking for Recommendation

arXiv:2605.25749v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In multi-stage recommender systems, reranking optimizes overall utility by capturing intra-list contextual dependencies, yet its central challenge lies in exploring…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Chaotian Song, Jingyao Zhang, Chenghao Chen, Zisen Sang, Dehai Zhao, Guodong Cao, Boxi Wu, Deng Cai, Jia Jia
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Claim-Gated Source-Risk Auditing for Generative Search

arXiv:2609.29145v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A generative search answer can cite a supported passage yet omit a source relationship that changes its interpretation. We specify a claim-gated audit of the…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Kainan Zhou, Chuhong Xu, Gangzhen Qian, Zhaoyi Li
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Fair Feed Ranking for Participatory Budgeting

arXiv:2609.29819v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In large-scale participatory budgeting, citizens cannot inspect the full proposal pool, so the order in which proposals are shown becomes a form of agenda-setting power.…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Carina I. Hausladen
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Learning Better Reasoning for Generative Recommendation with Semantic IDs

arXiv:2609.29973v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative recommendation reformulates item retrieval as sequence generation, allowing a unified model to directly generate the next item from a user's interaction…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Mengdan Zhu, Yufan Zhao, Sophie Di, Yao Zhao, Tao Di, Yulan Yan, Sridhar Iyer, Liang Zhao
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SPARQL-LLM: Real-Time SPARQL Query Generation from Natural Language Questions

arXiv:2512.14277v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The advent of large language models is contributing to the emergence of novel approaches that promise to better tackle the challenge of generating structured queries,…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Panayiotis Smeros, Vincent Emonet, Ruijie Wang, Ana-Claudia Sima, Tarcisio Mendes de Farias
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OBLIQ-IR: Training a Dense Retriever for Oblique Queries

arXiv:2609.29649v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Oblique retrieval, as exemplified by OBLIQ-Bench, asks a retriever to find documents whose relevance is determined by a latent attribute (an implicit stance, an analogous…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Mahmoud Abdalla, Abdelrahman Abdallah, Shaimaa Sedek, Adam Jatowt
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X-Rec Technical Report

arXiv:2609.29180v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in generative modeling have reshaped recommender systems by formulating recommendation as a next-item generation problem. Existing retrieval approaches…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Chenglei Shen, Chenzhe Huang, Dong Jiang, Hongjie Gao, Jue Zhang, Kun X\'u, Lincan Cai, Nan Zhuang, Pan Zhang, Shi Chen, Shunchi Zhang, Xiaoyu Ye, Yang Jin, Yu Zhang, Zhenwei An, Zhongtao Jiang, Zhiw…
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Seek: Self-Evaluative Exploration for Knowledge Retrieval

arXiv:2609.28980v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based retrievers and rerankers have advanced passage ranking, yet both paradigms interact with the corpus in a single pass and commit to the resulting candidate set,…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Amin Bigdeli, Radin Hamidi Rad, Negar Arabzadeh, Sajad Ebrahimi, Hai Son Le, Charles L. A. Clarke, Ebrahim Bagheri
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EvLink: Source-Grounded Evidence Linking for Graph RAG

arXiv:2609.29695v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) supports multi-hop reasoning by organizing corpora into structured graphs. However, graph reachability often captures…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Linyao Zheng, Xuhang Shi, Zhifang Mao, Sai Zhou, Shuaixian An, Xiuquan Hou

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