arXiv AI

Factorized Hypothesis Search for Evidence-to-Taxonomy Retrieval

arXiv:2608. 06614v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large-taxonomy retrieval often assumes that the input already expresses the target concept.

arXiv AI
Sep 16

ORDER: Task-Conditioned Routing for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

The paper introduces ORDER, a task‑conditioned retrieval‑augmented generation framework that dynamically adapts both indexing and retrieval strategies to each incoming query. It first clusters questions to learn cluster‑specific chunking, metadata filtering, and reranking settings, then routes queries to the appropriate pre‑built index via nearest‑centroid assignment. Additionally, a supervised query router predicts relevant collections and a Uniform Multi‑source Sampler distributes the retrieval budget evenly across selected sources, yielding superior performance on heterogeneous historical archives compared to existing RAG systems.

By Aur\'elien Pellet (LRE), Julien Perez, Marie Puren
arXiv Computation and Language
6d ago

Where Does Retrieval-Based Open-Ended Evaluation Fail? Automatic Taxonomy Induction from Long-Form Medical Answer Factuality Verification

The paper investigates why retrieval‑based open‑ended evaluation fails in medical fact verification. By creating two detailed taxonomies—one for retrieval‑stage errors across five quality dimensions and another for verifier‑reasoning errors across six steps—the authors automatically label evidence quality and reasoning errors using an LLM‑as‑Judge pipeline. Their large‑scale stress tests across multiple retrieval methods and verifier models show that increasing model size, reasoning effort, source breadth, or medical fine‑tuning does not eliminate these failure modes, indicating fundamental limits of the retrieve‑then‑verify paradigm in open‑ended medical contexts.

By Heyuan Huang, Jirui Dai, Alexandra DeLucia, Sonal Joshi, Mahsa Yarmohammadi, Jie Gao, Bernal Jim\'enez Guti\'errez, Mark Dredze
arXiv AI
Jul 20

Ruling Out to Rule In: Contrastive Hypothesis Retrieval for Medical Question Answering

arXiv:2604. 04593v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) grounds large language models in external medical knowledge, yet standard retrievers frequently surface hard negatives that are semantically close to the query but describe clinically distinct conditions.

By Byeolhee Kim, Min-Kyung Kim, Young-Hak Kim, Tae-Joon Jeon
arXiv AI
Jul 9

Health System Scale Semantic Search Across Unstructured Clinical Notes

arXiv:2604. 25605v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Introduction: Semantic search, which retrieves documents based on conceptual similarity rather than keywords, offers advantages for retrieval of clinical information.

By Faith Wavinya Mutinda, Spandana Makeneni, Anna Lin, Shivaji Dutta, Irit R. Rasooly, Patrick Dibussolo, Shivani Kamath Belman, Hessam Shahriari, Kevin Murphy, Alex B. Ruan, Barbara H. Chaiyachati, Sanjay Chainani, Robert W. Grundmeier, Scott M. Haag, Jeffrey M. Miller, Heather M. Griffis, Ian M. Campbell
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 17

LENS: In-Context Search via Latent Evidence Exploration over Dynamic Raw Documents

LLM agents increasingly answer questions over dynamic raw-document collections, where files may change before preprocessing, and relevant evidence (spans, sections, pages, or tables) is query-dependent. Existing retrieval-augmented approaches pre-materialize evidence via fixed chunking, embeddings, or persistent indexes: effective for lookup, yet costly, stale-prone, and committed to a granularity before the query is known.

arXiv AI
Jul 28

VecTree-RAG: An Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework Combining Vector and Tree Retrieval for Efficiency and Accuracy

arXiv:2607. 23006v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientific question answering requires a retrieval system to solve two distinct problems: identifying which papers are relevant and locating the supporting evidence within those papers.

By Xinyan Zhong, Yuwei Shi, Yuqi Wei, Chen Shen, Tianhang Zhou, Zhenghao Wu
arXiv AI
Sep 3

BioELX: Context-Aware Cross-lingual Biomedical Entity Linking without Task-Specific Supervision

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.

By Yi Wang, Corina Dima, Liangyu Zhong, Steffen Staab
arXiv AI
Sep 17

SNOMED CT Concept Recommendation from Masked Clinical Context

The paper introduces a benchmark for recommending SNOMED CT concepts from masked clinical contexts, using data from the SNOMED CT Entity Linking Challenge v1.2.1 derived from MIMIC-IV-Note. It evaluates several methods—including a popularity baseline, sparse TF‑IDF prototypes, dense embeddings, and retrieval‑augmented hybrids—finding that sparse TF‑IDF achieves the best performance with Recall@1 of 14.81% and Recall@10 of 33.43%. The study highlights that concept frequency and lexical context strongly influence recommendation quality, with many test pairs involving concepts unseen during training.

By Ali Noori