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Information Retrieval
Preprocessing Choices in Fine-Tuning Data Matter: Utility and Demographic Sensitivity in LLM-Based Recommendation
arXiv:2611.03113v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have introduced a generative approach to recommendation, producing item lists from textual representations of user histories and item…
Do Neural Retrievers Prefer Certain Documents? Evidence of Learned Relevance Priors
arXiv:2606.02814v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Neural retrievers are trained to estimate query-document relevance from annotated query-document pairs. Yet annotation protocols may not purely reflect…
MediaWiki Code2Code Search: Neural Retrieval for the Semantic Discovery of Open-Source Software Entities
arXiv:2607.26766v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Code search in large-scale ecosystems is often hindered by the lexical gap between user queries and implementation details, alongside the trade-off between the…
Dh\={a}r\={a} Bench: An Evidence-Oriented Retrieval Benchmark for Indian Knowledge Systems
arXiv:2611.03196v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dh\={a}r\={a} Bench is a retrieval benchmark for Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS), with 325 questions in 12 categories and 60,121 text chunks from 15 source groups. The…
CompSkill: Compiling Execution Experience for Skill Retrieval
arXiv:2611.01115v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents increasingly rely on skill documents, yet most retrievers rank them by description alone and ignore what earlier executions revealed, even though a relevant…
An Experimental Study of Hybrid Retrieval, NLI and Open-source LLMs for Scientific Claim Verification
arXiv:2611.03093v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Claim verification is the task of deciding whether a source text supports a claim, contradicts it, or lacks sufficient evidence. Natural Language Inference (NLI) models…