Hugging Face Trending Papers

MediaWiki Code2Code Search: Neural Retrieval for the Semantic Discovery of Open-Source Software Entities

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.

arXiv AI
Jul 8

Scientific Code Search at Scale: A Multi-Domain Dataset and Benchmark

arXiv:2607. 05443v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientists increasingly rely on open-source tools to support their research workflows, yet discovering relevant software among over 600 million GitHub repositories remains challenging.

By Nishan Pantha, Pranath Reddy Kumbam, Sajil Awale, Pushwitha Krishnappa, Muthukumaran Ramasubramanian, Nidhi Jha, Emily Foshee, Ankur Kumar, Rachel Slank, Ashkbiz Danehkar, Rahul Ramachandran
arXiv AI
Sep 10

Matryoshka Hash Representations for Model-Aware Compact Semantic Retrieval

Matryoshka Hash Representations (MHR) propose a two‑stage quantization approach for retrieval‑augmented generation. First, a long binary code is learned; then, frozen, additional zero‑initialized residual adaptors are trained to produce searchable prefixes of varying byte budgets. Evaluated on MS MARCO and transferred to seven BEIR datasets, MHR achieves higher NDCG@10 and Recall@100 at 32‑byte budgets than baselines, especially in low‑budget regimes, and can also improve candidate shortlisting and graph‑index pruning.

By Peichun Hua, Yunming Xiao
arXiv AI
Jul 31

SimpleWikiSearch: A Clean Offline Wikipedia Environment for Agentic Search

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 Machine Learning
Sep 1

SpIDER: Spatially Informed Dense Embedding Retrieval for Software Issue Localization

SpIDER is a dense retrieval method that combines LLM reasoning with graph-based exploration of codebases to locate relevant functions, classes, or files for user queries. It introduces a graph-structured benchmark, SpIDER-Bench, covering multiple programming languages and demonstrates significant recall improvements over traditional BM25 and dense approaches. The method’s graph-based candidate expansion provides auditable structural reasons for each retrieved item while keeping the retrieval budget fixed.

By Shravan Chaudhari, Rahul Thomas Jacob, Jiajun Cao, Shihab Rashid, Mononito Goswami, Christian Bock
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 21

RAGAL: A Frugal, Fully Local Retrieval-Augmented Assistant for Technical Support at a Government Agency

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.