We measure tablet-2, a production long-term memory engine for language models, on the text benchmarks the field already uses and on cross-lingual retrieval of photographs stored with no text at all. I...
arXiv:2606. 16494v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Knowledge-based visual question answering (KB-VQA) lets vision-language systems answer questions that exceed their parametric knowledge by conditioning a reader on passages retrieved from a Wikipedia-scale knowledge base.
By Jieyuan Liu, Jianyang Gu, Shijie Chen, Jefferson Chen, Zhen Wang
arXiv:2604.27724v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Medical retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems typically operate on text chunks extracted from biomedical literature, discarding the rich vis...
By Xupeng Chen, Binbin Shi, Chenqian Le, Jiaqi Zhang, Kewen Wang, Ran Gong, Jinhan Zhang, Chihang Wang
arXiv:2606. 04240v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval over visually-rich documents, pages that interleave text with figures, tables, and charts, is essential for multimodal retrieval-augmented generation, yet most retrievers still discard the visual channel.
By Jingbiao Mei
MIDR (Multimodal Indexing for Document Retrieval) is a training‑free framework that enriches document indexes by converting rendered pages into verified textual fields with a multimodal LLM, then indexing those fields with BM25F and optionally fusing with dense retrieval. By shifting multimodal reasoning to index time, MIDR enables text‑centric serving while retaining multimodal evidence, achieving a 23.0% relative gain over BM25 on ViDoRe V3 and outperforming ColQwen2.5 on several domains with significantly smaller index memory and lower query latency.
By Debanjan Mahata, Atharva Tendle, Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro, Yong Zhuang, Ozan Irsoy
arXiv:2602.22453v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Retrieval heads, a subset of attention heads in Transformers, were studied in English, showing its crucial role in retrieving information from the...
By Shaswat Patel, Vishvesh Trivedi, Yue Han, Yihuai Hong, Eunsol Choi
arXiv:2607. 16848v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-term memory is becoming a core component of LLM agents, but most memory benchmarks evaluate conversations or compact summaries, while research agents need to restore evidence from full scientific papers.
By Maksim Sheverev, David Finkelstein, Sergey Nikolenko
arXiv:2610.02926v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Standard factual benchmarks assume clean monolingual prompts and exact-match scoring, two assumptions that break simultaneously in real-world multiling...
By Riju Marwah, Ritvik Garimella, Khusham Bansal, Atishay Jain, Amit Sheth
arXiv:2608. 02112v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embedding benchmarks measure standalone model quality, but they do not establish whether a low-cost retriever contributes complementary ranking information once lexical and transformer-based retrieval are already combined.
By Ant\'onio Pereira Barata
MoganColBERT-TR is a Turkish multi‑vector retrieval model that projects token embeddings from 768 to 128 dimensions and uses MaxSim late interaction for scoring. It builds on the previously trained MoganBERT‑TR encoder, adapting it to the ColBERT objective with a single‑epoch distillation phase using cross‑encoder teacher scores. Evaluated on five Turkish BEIR datasets in a zero‑shot setting, it achieves an overall score of 37.36, outperforming larger models on most datasets.
By Furkan Yilmaz, Habibe Aleyna Tasdemir, Muhammed Faruk Gozay
IndicQE-APE is a consolidated benchmark that unifies quality estimation (QE) and automatic post‑editing (APE) data for nine Indic language pairs, comprising 126,754 instances with multiple aligned labels such as direct assessment, human post‑edit, word‑level OK/BAD tags, and error explanations. The dataset includes a stratified test set across four difficulty axes and supports training and evaluation of six prompted large language models, three COMET metrics, and three APE systems. Experiments reveal that segments with conflicting holistic and token‑level quality signals are consistently ranked lower, while annotator disagreement shows no effect when controlled for score distribution.
whyItMatters":"The benchmark provides a unified resource for training and evaluating QE and APE across Indic languages, enabling consistent comparison of models and metrics on a shared dataset."
By Diptesh Kanojia, Archchana Sindhujan, Sourabh Deoghare, Daria Sokova, Shenbin Qian, Girish Koushik, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Constantin Or\u{a}san, Chrysoula Zerva, Ricardo Rei, Fr\'ed\'eric Blain, Andr\'e F. T. Martins, Marco Turchi, Matteo Negri, Anoop Kunchukuttan, Mitesh M. Khapra, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
arXiv:2608.30725v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent multilingual vision--language encoders cover hundreds of languages in a single model, yet on two state-of-the-art instances retrieval on low-res...
By Donghoon Han, SungHyun Moon, Aidyn Zhakatayev, Junghun Cha, SeungJae Lee