TILens Daily Edition 2026-10-21 Filters: topic=information-retrieval, github=hidden Stats: 29 articles, 4 sources, 27 research papers Top topics: Information Retrieval, AI Research, AI ## News - Build a Hybrid Search Engine in PostgreSQL: BM25 + Vector Retrieval Source: freecodecamp Topic: General (+Information Retrieval, PostgreSQL) URL: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-hybrid-search-engine-in-postgresql-bm25-vector-retrieval/ ## Research - Ranking Bandits for Carousel Interfaces with Observable Browsing Depth Source: arxiv-cs-lg Topic: AI Research (+AI, Information Retrieval) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.05220 - Expert-Guided Rubrics as Dense Reward Signals for Reinforcement Learning in Non-Verifiable Domains Source: arxiv-cs-ir Topic: Information Retrieval (+AI, AI Research) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.26932 - Conversational AI for Perceived Cognitive Decline Screening in Older Adults Source: arxiv-cs-ir Topic: Information Retrieval (+AI, AI Research) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27344 - Robustness Analysis of Pareto-based Joint Evaluation of Fairness and Relevance in Recommender Systems Source: arxiv-cs-ir Topic: Information Retrieval (+AI, AI Research) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27850 - From Crawled to Published: A Publisher-Controlled Web Architecture for an AI-Native Internet Source: arxiv-cs-ir Topic: Information Retrieval (+AI, AI Research) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18354 - ECHO: Efficient Cascade with Homogeneous Operators for Distillation-Guided 100K-Sequence Modeling Source: arxiv-cs-ir Topic: Information Retrieval (+AI, AI Research) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28569 - Neighborhood-Aware Unlearning for Generative Recommendation Source: arxiv-cs-ir Topic: Information Retrieval (+AI, AI Research) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27232 - Evolving Semantic Indexes for Generative Retrieval Source: arxiv-cs-ir Topic: Information Retrieval (+AI, AI Research) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28568 - KuaFu: Compressing Long User Behavior into Understanding at Billion Scale Source: arxiv-cs-ir Topic: Information Retrieval (+AI, AI Research) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.31045 - Joint Constraint Aggregation for Qualifier-Sensitive Retrieval-Augmented QA Source: arxiv-cs-ir Topic: Information Retrieval (+AI, AI Research) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27114 - Factual Access States in Diffusion Language Models: From Mechanism to Knowledge Editing and Retrieval Source: arxiv-cs-ir Topic: Information Retrieval (+AI, AI Research) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27580 - DeclineCraft: A RAG Abstention Benchmark for Jointly Measuring Combined Retrieval and Parametric Knowledge Source: arxiv-cs-ir Topic: Information Retrieval (+AI, AI Research) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28340 - Multimodal Reranking Is a System One Decision Source: arxiv-cs-ir Topic: Information Retrieval (+AI, AI Research) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28435 - GARRET: Generative Feedback for Region Retrieval in Visual Documents Source: arxiv-cs-ir Topic: Information Retrieval (+AI, AI Research) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27829 - UIBK-Embedding: Effective Text Retrieval by Unifying Dense and Late-Interaction Retrieval Source: arxiv-cs-ir Topic: Information Retrieval (+AI, AI Research) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27195 - MultiCard: Multiple Attribute Cardinality Estimation via Deep Learning Source: arxiv-cs-ir Topic: Information Retrieval (+AI, AI Research, PostgreSQL) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27019 - MOSS: A Production Framework for Monitoring and Diagnosing Semantic Failures in Search and Recommendation Systems Source: arxiv-cs-ir Topic: Information Retrieval (+AI, AI Research) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.26902 - The Bottleneck Is Retrieval, Not Reading: Diagnosing Evidence-Based Generation with RAG for Long Context Question Answering Source: arxiv-cs-ir Topic: Information Retrieval (+AI, AI Research) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.26951 - Simpler Logarithmic Approximation Algorithms for the Optimal Decision Tree and Adaptive Set Cover Source: arxiv-cs-ir Topic: Information Retrieval (+AI, AI Research) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12036 - SweepANN: A GPU-Accelerated Large-K Approximate Vector Search for Drug Discovery Source: arxiv-cs-ir Topic: Information Retrieval (+AI, AI Research) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27306 - GRaSP: Latency-Aware Optimization for Geo-Distributed Retrieval-Augmented Generation Source: arxiv-cs-ir Topic: Information Retrieval (+AI, AI Research) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.26938 - SPAR: Stepwise Personalized Autoregressive Recommendation with Prefix-Balanced Semantic IDs Source: arxiv-cs-ir Topic: Information Retrieval (+AI, AI Research) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27898 - WeGR: Towards Unified Generative Retrieval via Behavior-aware Tokenization and Preference Alignment Source: arxiv-cs-ir Topic: Information Retrieval (+AI, AI Research) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.16979 - Deep learning enables urban change profiling through alignment of historical maps Source: arxiv-cs-ir Topic: Information Retrieval (+AI, AI Research) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02154 - FLINT: Fixed-budget Late Interaction Source: arxiv-cs-ir Topic: Information Retrieval (+AI, AI Research) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27273 - AutoSim: A Self-Improving User Simulator for Conversational Search Evaluation Source: arxiv-cs-ir Topic: Information Retrieval (+AI, AI Research) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28054 - Baseline and Incremental: User, Item, and Request Debiasing in Instagram Feed Ranking Source: arxiv-cs-ir Topic: Information Retrieval (+AI, AI Research) URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27423 ## Community - Show HN: I built a Markdown and raw HTML blog platform scoring 99 on PageSpeed Source: hacker-news Topic: General (+Information Retrieval) URL: https://bloffy.co/en