The paper reports the ABAI submission to COLIEE 2026 Task 1, a case law retrieval challenge that suppresses cited passages, and details a four‑stage retrieval pipeline: multi‑view BM25 with reciprocal rank fusion, neural reranking, graph‑based features via a graph attention network, and a LightGBM meta‑learner over 34 features. The best run achieved an F1 score of 0.177 on the official test set, compared to a cross‑validated 0.311, and the authors attribute the gap to a recall ceiling, temporal distribution shift, and threshold miscalibration. A controlled post‑hoc study examined the impact of threshold transfer, decision quality across time, and query similarity, and identified specific remedies—such as BM25 length‑normalisation tuning, event‑triple views, and dense fusion—that improved recall, while other interventions had no effect.
By Minhan Cho, Soyoung Park, Daejin Choi, Jinyoung Han
The paper introduces a GPU‑optimized retrieval framework for LinkedIn’s semantic search, partitioning embeddings into eight category‑supervised segments and applying a min/median aggregation rule aligned with the existing relevance policy. A lightweight Stage‑1 scorer generates high‑recall candidates, while a two‑stage GPU architecture—FP8 coarse ranking followed by FP16 re‑ranking—boosts throughput and recall, achieving 99.6‑99.8% of full‑FP16 recall at over 500 QPS per shard. In A/B testing, the system raises exploratory‑query Precision@10 from 63.7% to 79.0% and navigational Precision@1 from 65.5% to 74.7%, with human evaluation confirming the improvement.
By Dhritiman Das, Chujie Zheng, Ronak Kaoshik, Pratik Dixit, Vishal Shah, Yanbo Li, Jiahao Xu, Manika Agarwal, Chinmay Naik, Lingyu Zhang, Chetan Bhole, Chirag Bhanuprasad Mehta, Meng Zheng, Puneet Singh Ahluwalia, Shirisha Singh, Ping Jin, Manas Apte, Gokulraj Mohanasundaram, Tugrul Bingol, Raghavan Muthuregunathan, Fedor Borisyuk
The paper introduces a scalable product‑linking system that uses a retrieve‑then‑match cascade. First, a lightweight text cross‑encoder auto‑resolves the majority of merchant‑catalog product pairs with high precision, while an agentic multimodal vision‑language model handles the remaining ambiguous cases by inspecting images and performing web searches. This approach balances computational cost and accuracy, improving overall link coverage from 68% to 77% without requiring fine‑tuning of the agent.
By Jian Wang, Steven Xu, Sanjyot Thete, Maryam Barouti, Tom Tang, Elaine Wu, Charu Sareen, Kyle MacDonald
arXiv:2603.12824v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Vision-Language Model (VLM) based retrievers have advanced visual document retrieval (VDR) to impressive quality. They require the same multi...
By Zhuchenyang Liu, Yao Zhang, Yu Xiao
Entity-Memory graph retrieval preserves dialogue turns as verbatim memory nodes, links repeated mentions via shared entities, and connects adjacent memories with chronological edges. During retrieval, the system gates through entities, fuses semantics, and performs one‑hop chronological recovery before dense backfill, allowing it to keep neighboring memories that dense cosine ranking might miss. On 1,986 questions from ten LoCoMo conversations, this graph retrieval method increases official evidence recall at top‑k 25 from 79.7468 % to 84.4842 %, with the advantage extending from top‑k 5 to 50, though it does not improve overall final‑answer F1.
By Shumao Sun
arXiv:2606. 11562v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph analysis underlies many applications whose answers cannot be looked up in a single record or retrieved along a path: laundering rings, drug repurposing, user preference, and scientific theme are all inferred from a node together with its neighbourhood.
By Zhuoyi Peng, Jingzhou Jiang, Hanlin Gu, Lixin Fan, Yi Yang
arXiv:2608.21792v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Document classification in regulated industries is constrained by data residency, limited cold-start labels, scarce review capacity, and costly model-g...
By Shangxuan Tian, Yanhui Chen, Carlos Queiroz
The paper introduces DEPT, a method that trains a single decoder-only large language model to both expand queries and encode documents for retrieval. By preserving document embeddings close to their initial cached values while allowing gradients to flow through the generator, DEPT stabilizes retrieval targets and enables efficient index reuse and online hard‑negative mining. Experiments on the BEIR benchmark with Qwen3‑4B‑Instruct‑2507 and LLaMA‑3.2‑3B‑Instruct show that DEPT outperforms training‑free, independently trained, and staged unified baselines, with ablations confirming the benefits of preservation, whitening, end‑to‑end expansion training, and online negatives.
By Jingyuan Wang, Richong Zhang, Zhijie Nie, Mingxin Li, Yanzhao Zhang
arXiv:2606. 19079v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) has led to model ecosystems in which a single backbone is paired with many task-specialized adapters.
By Enrico Cassano, Micha{\l} Brzozowski, Paolo Mandica, Zuzanna Dubanowska, Neo Christopher Chung
The paper introduces Iris-mini and Iris-pro, two search agents trained at 35B and 397B parameter scales. They use a novel data pipeline that constructs reverse‑engineered multi‑hop queries from web hyperlinks, filters trajectories, and alternates supervised fine‑tuning with reinforcement learning in a process called SFT‑RL climbing. Evaluations on several benchmarks show that, with inference‑time context management, the agents achieve the best open‑source results in their parameter ranges.
By Ziyuan Liu, Hengqi Liu, Zichuan Wang, Yang Qin, Jiachen Liang, Xu Chu, Shaowei Chen, Yuantao Gu, Mu Chuan
ICE (Interaction-aware Clifford Encoder) is a multimodal graph foundation model that uses a node-indexed Clifford latent field to encode topology, text, and images into explicit Cl(3) addresses. Edge-aware geometric products transform these directions into scalar, bivector, and trivector relations over observed neighborhoods, preserving entity semantics while enabling higher-order transport and direct field access. Across eleven graphs and multiple node‑classification, link‑prediction, and few‑shot tasks, ICE outperforms all 30 reported supervised and few‑shot comparisons, with core removals and mechanism controls demonstrating the importance of its higher‑order structure and semantic protection.
By Xunkai Li, Xu Wang, Yinlin Zhu, Xiong Yongfu, Yi Liu, Rong-Hua Li, Guoren Wang
arXiv:2608. 05153v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: GraphRAG underperforms vector RAG on citation precision in many reports, but where and why have remained corpus-bound.
By Meftun Akarsu, Burak Ozdemir