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Information Retrieval AI AI Research

Plan or Retrieve First? A Scale Study of Tool Discovery Architectures

arXiv:2610.19068v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-augmented LLM agents discover relevant APIs from large registries before planning execution, yet finite context windows prohibit injecting all tool definitions into…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Mingfei Zhang, Amit Surana, Ziauddin Majid, Chenxi Wang, Michael Xu
Information Retrieval AI AI Research

Document-as-Image Representations Fall Short for Scientific Retrieval

arXiv:2604.18508v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many recent document embedding models are trained on document-as-image representations, embedding rendered pages as images rather than the underlying source.…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Ghazal Khalighinejad, Raghuveer Thirukovalluru, Alexander H. Oh, Bhuwan Dhingra
Information Retrieval AI AI Research

Retrieve What Helps, Only When It Helps: Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Selective Retrieval-Augmented Machine Translation

arXiv:2610.19528v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieving external knowledge can improve large language model (LLM) translation by providing supplementary information such as idiom interpretations and terminology.…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Shijun Li, Yang Liu, Najmeh Sadoughi, Dongmei Wang, Xinjie Li, Zhu Liu, Rohith Mysore Vijaya Kumar, Yuzong Liu
Information Retrieval AI AI Research

Self-Retrospection Distillation: Turning Post-hoc Experiences into Prior Foresight

arXiv:2610.08077v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) turns agent experience into learning signals primarily through scalar outcome rewards after interaction.…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Haoxiang Zhang, Qinglin Chen, Hiroaki Hayashi, Zhuofeng Li, Siming Zhang, Jiaxin Zhang, Jixuan Chen, Fang Wu, Pan Lu, Silvio Savarese, Julian McAuley, Chien-Sheng Wu
Information Retrieval AI AI Research

From Clicks to Intent: Cross-Platform Session Embeddings with LLM-Distilled Taxonomy for Financial Services Recommendations

arXiv:2606.26277v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sequential user behavior modeling is widely adopted in industrial recommender systems; however, significant gaps remain in financial services, where pre-login web…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Dianjing Fan, Yao Li, Kyaw Hpone Myint, Dwipam Katariya, Alexandre G. R. Day, Pranab Mohanty, Giri Iyengar
Information Retrieval AI AI Research

CASI: Credit Assignment via Set Intervention for Agentic Retrieval

arXiv:2610.20293v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models increasingly generate multiple retrieval actions jointly, while downstream systems often provide only one reward for the resulting set.…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Xinyi Cheng, Tianfu Zhang, Jiwen Li, Xuesen Zhang, Shihao Yu, Pengfei Zhu, Renhuan, Heda Wang
Information Retrieval AI AI Research

Creating SquashFS Images to Support HPC and AI Datasets

arXiv:2610.20578v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: HPC users often download datasets on HPC systems for analysis and processing. When these datasets are comprised of hundreds of thousands (or more) of small files,…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Julie Mullen, Albert Reuther, LaToya Anderson, Michael Jones, William Arcand, William Bergeron, David Bestor, Alex Bonn, Daniel Burrill, Chansup Byun, Vijay Gadepally, Michael Houle, Matthew Hubbell,…
Information Retrieval AI AI Research

ARAFA: An LLM-Generated Arabic Fact-Checking Dataset

arXiv:2609.25833v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Automatic fact-checking poses a significant challenge in Arabic natural language processing due to the scarcity of datasets and resources. In this manuscript, we…

Source: arXiv cs.IR Christophe Khalil, Shady Elbassuoni, Rida Assaf

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