arXiv:2607. 23507v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Choosing the right text embedding model is one of the most consequential -- and most frequently under-examined -- decisions in building a retrieval or search system, yet the model that tops a leaderboard is rarely the best choice for a given deployment.
By Madhav S Baidya
arXiv:2607. 06482v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current benchmarks for evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) in data analysis often fail to reflect real-world settings.
By So Hasegawa, Shailaja Keyur Sampat, Lei Liu, Wei-Peng Chen
arXiv:2606. 12451v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models deployed as agents over large tool catalogs face a critical tool-retrieval bottleneck.
By Ashutosh Hathidara, Sai Shruthi Sistla, Sebastian Schreiber, Sahil Bansal
Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems rely on similarity scores to retrieve relevant content, yet scores are not directly comparable across embedding models due to differing geometric properties, complicating model migration and limiting threshold reuse. We study how similarity scores can be related by learning mappings between score distributions rather than embeddings.
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:2604. 23336v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unlike traditional fact-based retrieval, rationale-based retrieval typically necessitates cross-encoding of query-document pairs using large language models, incurring substantial computational costs.
By Teng Chen, Sheng Xu, Feixiang Guo, Xiaoyu Wang, Qingqing Gu, Hongyan Li, Luo Ji
arXiv:2608. 17632v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can both expand underspecified queries and encode text as dense representations, suggesting a unified model for query expansion and retrieval.
By Jingyuan Wang, Richong Zhang, Zhijie Nie, Mingxin Li, Yanzhao Zhang
arXiv:2608. 13200v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern LLMs excel at reasoning and instruction following, enabling users to express complex and diverse information needs.
By Zhili Shen, Craig Macdonald
arXiv:2504. 20114v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems face significant challenges in multi-hop question answering (MHQA), where complex queries require synthesizing information across multiple document chunks.
By Zhonghao Li, Kunpeng Zhang, Jinghuai Ou, Shuliang Liu, Xuming Hu
arXiv:2512. 10092v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Analyzing large-scale text corpora is a core challenge in machine learning, crucial for tasks like identifying undesirable model behaviors or biases in training data.
By Nick Jiang, Xiaoqing Sun, Lisa Dunlap, Lewis Smith, Neel Nanda
arXiv:2606. 28370v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Enterprise business intelligence queries span structured warehouses and unstructured document repositories -- modalities with fundamentally different access methods, cost profiles, and correctness semantics.
By Darshita Rathore, Vineet Kumar, Vaibhav Singal, Ankur Vivek Singh, Anindya Moitra
arXiv:2607. 24130v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tabular data is the dominant structured-data modality, and learning table representations has become a core research direction.
By Ayeen Poostforoushan, Liane Vogel, Carsten Binnig