arXiv AI

Training Documents Reranker with Search Rubrics for Deep Research Agent

arXiv:2608. 03527v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval systems help deep research agents generate high-quality answers by providing relevant documents.

arXiv AI

Jul 3

Optimizing RAG Rerankers with LLM Feedback via Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2604. 02091v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Rerankers play a pivotal role in refining retrieval results for Retrieval-Augmented Generation.

By Yuhang Wu, Xiangqing Shen, Fanfan Wang, Cangqi Zhou, Zhen Wu, Xinyu Dai, Rui Xia

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arXiv AI

Jul 14

Tool-Adaptive LLM Reranker

arXiv:2607. 10555v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized information retrieval, yet their strictly parametric nature frequently leads to severe factual hallucinations when confronted with complex queries beyond their epistemic boundaries.

By Zichuan Liu, Ruijin Hua

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arXiv AI

Jun 2

Test-Time Training for Zero-Resource Dense Retrieval Reranking

arXiv:2606. 01070v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dense retrievers excel at first-stage candidate generation but lack effective reranking in zero-resource settings.

By Shiyan Liu, Yichen Li

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 31

EMBL AI Librarian: Life-Sciences Knowledge Layer for AI Agents

arXiv:2607. 28229v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The web is increasingly accessed by AI agents rather than humans.

By Luigi Sigillo, Matteo Silvestri, Francesco Tabaro, Rajat Bhatnagar, Syed Irtaza Mubashar, Matt Jeffryes, Daljit Nijjer, Vittorio Perera, Ola Spjuth, Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Melissa Harrison, Fabio Petroni

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arXiv AI

Jun 6

Reducing Hallucinations in Complex Question Answering using Simple Graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (long version)

arXiv:2606. 05901v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have fundamentally transformed the landscape of Natural Language Processing.

By Christopher J. Wedge, Joshua Stutter, Danny Dixon, Jacek Ca{\l}a

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arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 12

SearchArt: Training Long-Horizon Search Agent with Scalable Synthetic and Verified Task

arXiv:2607. 24850v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled search agents to autonomously tackle complex tasks across extended search and reasoning horizons.

By Lang Mei, Xiaohan Yu, Chong Chen, Liyan Liu, Xiangnan Chen, Jinchao Ma, Chao Feng, Li Huang, Siyu Mo, Sichen Kang, Yunkun Xu, Zhihan Yang, Zhujun Xue, Jingren Zhang, Qing He, Yingdi Huang, Hao Jiang, Ziao Ma, Zewei Pan, Minhao Sun, Zhuo Tao, Jinzhao Xiao, Gangtao Xin, Huanyao Zhang, Wenjian Zhang, Jiangshan Zhang, Guojie Zhu, Fangzhou Zou, Jiaxin Mao, Wentao Zhang

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 9

GraphER: An Efficient Graph-Based Enrichment and Reranking Method for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2603. 24925v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems that rely on semantic search often fail to retrieve the complete set of evidence for complex queries, particularly when information is distributed across multiple sources.

By Ruizhong Miao, Yuying Wang, Rongguang Wang, Chenyang Li, Tao Sheng, Sujith Ravi, Dan Roth

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arXiv AI

6d ago

CAR: Query-Guided Confidence-Aware Reranking for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2605. 04495v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) relies on evidence ranking to determine what information is exposed to the generator, yet existing retrieval and reranking methods primarily estimate query--document relevance.

By Zhipeng Song, Yizhi Zhou, Xiangyu Kong, Jiulong Jiao, Xuezhou Ye, Chunqi Gao, Xueqing Shi, Yu Wang, Yuhang Zhou, Heng Qi

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arXiv AI

Jun 3

Do Neural Retrievers Prefer Certain Documents? Evidence of Learned Relevance Priors

arXiv:2606. 02814v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural retrievers are trained to estimate query-document relevance from annotated query-document pairs.

By Francisco Valentini, Edgar Altszyler, Martin Fajcik

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

CAMI: Cost-Aware Agent-Guided Multi-Indexing for Semantic Retrieval

arXiv:2606. 28365v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: RAG ingestion pipelines frequently augment search corpus index with semantic enrichment indices (e.

By Adnan Qidwai, Anand Eswaran, Sonam Mishra, Jaydeep Sen, Sachindra Joshi

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arXiv AI

Jun 19

ScholarQuest: A Taxonomy-Guided Benchmark for Agentic Academic Paper Search in Open Literature Environments

arXiv:2606. 20235v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Academic paper search is a core step in scientific research, and LLM-based search agents are emerging as a promising paradigm for iterative, intent-driven literature exploration.

By Tingyue Pan, Mingyue Cheng, Daoyu Wang, Yitong Zhou, Jie Ouyang, Qi Liu, Enhong Chen

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arXiv AI

Aug 10

SAGEO Arena: A Realistic Environment for Evaluating Search-Augmented Generative Engine Optimization

arXiv:2602. 12187v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Search-Augmented Generative Engines (SAGE) have emerged as a new paradigm for information access, bridging web-scale retrieval with generative capabilities to deliver synthesized answers.

By Sunghwan Kim, Wooseok Jeong, Serin Kim, Sangam Lee, Dongha Lee

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