Retrieval in the SQL setting has largely been studied as the task of finding, within a large collection of SQL statements, the statement that answers a natural-language question. At scale, however, a more fundamental retrieval problem precedes generation: schema retrieval, identifying the tables and columns a question requires in a database that may contain thousands of them, far more than fit in a model's context.
arXiv:2608. 16621v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented and agentic question-answering systems increasingly re-derive the meaning of a corpus at query time.
By Yusuke Takahashi, Kyle Wild, Asako Uraki
Retrieval-augmented and agentic question-answering systems increasingly re-derive the meaning of a corpus at query time. Put plainly, instead of re-deriving what a corpus means on every question, the work is done once when a document arrives and is thereafter merely consulted -- a compiler, not an interpreter, of meaning.
arXiv:2605. 06647v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented agents are increasingly the interface to large knowledge bases, yet most treat retrieval as a black box: they issue exploratory queries, inspect snippets, and reformulate until evidence emerges.
By Zeyu Yang, Qi Ma, Jason Chen, Anshumali Shrivastava
arXiv:2606. 14885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic search over large corpora relies on retriever-mediated interfaces (e.
By Yi Lu, Zhuofeng Li, Ping Nie, Haoxiang Zhang, Yuyu Zhang, Kai Zou, Wenhu Chen, Jimmy Lin, Dongfu Jiang, Yu Zhang
arXiv:2607. 26070v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based agentic search systems are often evaluated as if the underlying LLM were the only component that matters, yet their measured performance also depends on the surrounding search environment: the Wikipedia snapshot, preprocessing pipeline, chunking policy, retrieval backend, tool schema, observation format, and answer submission rule.
By Guanming Xiong, Penghui Zhang
arXiv:2607. 26766v1 Announce Type: 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 low latency of traditional Information Retrieval (IR) and the precision of Deep Learning (DL).
By Francesco Tosoni
arXiv:2603. 26667v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) turns external documents into evidence for large language models.
By Xu Sun, Tongkai Xu, Baiheng Xie, Li Huang, Qiang Gao, Kunpeng Zhang
arXiv:2606. 10621v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern retrieval increasingly relies on dense and learned-sparse neural models that are effective but require encoding the entire corpus into a specialized index, rebuilt whenever the model changes.
By Arthur Satouf, Giulio D'Erasmo, Yuxuan Zong, Habiboulaye Amadou Boubacar, Pablo Piantanida, Benjamin Piwowarski
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 low latency of traditional Information Retrieval (IR) and the precision of Deep Learning (DL). We present MediaWiki Code2Code Search, a neural retrieval system for semantic code-to-code discovery.
Public institutions hold large volumes of sensitive documents and support tickets that cannot leave the premises, ruling out cloud-hosted language models entirely. We report on RAGAL, a retrieval-augmented assistant for the technical-support team of AFIR, the Romanian Agency for Financing Rural Investments, built and operated under three hard constraints: zero data egress (no external API calls, even for synthetic data), a read-only mandate (the assistant drafts, humans execute), and a single 8 GB consumer laptop as the only development and training machine.
arXiv:2607. 22662v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-web corpora curated via highly selective filters, such as FineWeb-Edu and DCLM, constitute the core of LLM pretraining data and have significantly advanced LLM performance.
By Peiguang Li, Yongwei Zhou, Juncheng Diao, Yuchun Fan, Jian Yang, Jianxiao Yang, Zhongda Su, Shuguang Jiao, Xiao Wei, Zhiye Zou, Gan Dong, Zhizhao Zeng, Rongxiang Weng, Jingang Wang, Xunliang Cai