The paper introduces a new perspective on entity rarity in multimodal entity linking by using knowledge‑graph structural metrics instead of popularity metrics, revealing many rare entities previously overlooked. Experiments show that state‑of‑the‑art models suffer a 15.4–39.9% accuracy drop on these rare‑entity slices. The authors propose a training‑free framework that combines reasoning and retrieval with a vision‑language model, achieving a 6.9% overall accuracy gain and up to 23.3% improvement on rare entities, and release a new benchmark MERLIN‑Rare for focused evaluation.
arXiv:2602. 09616v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reliable retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems depend fundamentally on the retriever's ability to find relevant information.
arXiv:2609.05518v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite the strong capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), their parametric knowledge remains incomplete and difficult to update, m...
arXiv:2507.21917v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Analyzing digitized artworks requires both visual interpretation and deep artistic, contextual, and historical knowledge. We introduce ArtSeek, a m...
BioELX is a retrieve‑rerank framework for cross‑lingual biomedical entity linking that tackles two key problems: the English‑biased UMLS alias training data and the degradation caused by naïvely adding context. It fine‑tunes SapBERT_multi with Wikidata‑derived cross‑lingual alias supervision to create shared concept neighborhoods, and then reranks candidates using pretrained LLMs with mention‑anchored prompting to focus on the target mention. Experiments demonstrate state‑of‑the‑art performance on four benchmarks, improving Recall@1 by 4.8–18.2 percentage points without task‑specific annotations.
The paper "Can Language Models Play the Wikipedia Game?" investigates how language models perform on an information‑retrieval task where players navigate from one Wikipedia article to a target using only article links. The authors compare sentence‑embedding models and large language models across five Wikipedia languages and five academic‑literature datasets, building extensive local graphs of Wikipedia pages and paper citations with OpenAlex. They benchmark these models against human and TF‑IDF baselines, finding that no model significantly outperforms humans, though the best models (GPT‑o3 mini, GPT‑4o, QwQ:32B, and DeepSeek‑R1:70B) achieve comparable success, with performance varying by language and topic.
arXiv:2602.09839v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing multimodal retrieval benchmarks largely emphasize semantic matching on daily-life images and offer limited diagnostics of professional kno...
arXiv:2609.24372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In-context learning (ICL) based on large language models (LLMs) has shown promising potential in alleviating performance bottlenecks caused by the limi...
BEAR-Bench is a bilingual benchmark for multimodal large language models, featuring 1,000 human‑annotated questions derived from text‑rich business and scientific documents in English and Russian. It evaluates 16 MLLMs, including Gemini 3.1 Pro and Qwen3.5‑397B, revealing significant performance gaps even for the strongest systems. The benchmark also serves to compare hallucination‑detection methods by analyzing model failures on these complex documents.
arXiv:2604. 04969v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) mitigates hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), yet existing systems struggle with complex cross-modal reasoning.
arXiv:2607. 20517v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) over heterogeneous PDF collections remains challenging due to multimodal content, domain-specific terminology, and the need for multi-hop reasoning across dispersed evidence.
arXiv:2606. 26458v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) over knowledge graphs has emerged as a promising approach for grounding large language models, yet existing benchmarks largely overlook the challenges of retrieval in multimodal knowledge graph RAG (MKG-RAG).
BELXTR is a new biomedical entity linking model that uses a multi‑vector (late interaction) architecture to preserve token‑level matching information, unlike traditional embedding‑based approaches that compress mentions into a single vector. By extending the XTR model with a task‑specific training objective and active query expansion, BELXTR achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on half of ten evaluated corpora, with an average 5‑percentage‑point gain in recall@1. The model shows especially strong results on cross‑species gene disambiguation, outperforming an LLM‑powered retrieve‑and‑rerank pipeline and approaching a specialized rule‑based system.