arXiv Machine Learning By Biraj Subedi

Comparing Retrieval Methods for Academic Advisor Discovery: A Six-Method Study of 768 CS Faculty Profiles Across 9 US Universities

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The study evaluates six retrieval methods for ranking computer science faculty as potential academic advisors based on graduate applicants’ research interest statements. Using a new dataset of 768 faculty profiles from nine U.S. universities and 162 graded relevance judgments across five queries, the reranked hybrid approach achieved the highest mean NDCG@10 (0.477). Ablation experiments showed that faculty biographies alone outperform the full model, and adding arXiv abstracts actually decreased performance, leading to a late‑fusion design. All code, data, and labels are publicly released.

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arXiv AI
Sep 3

Hybrid Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Knowledge Graph Expansion, RRF Fusion, and Per-Chunk Grounded Evaluation for Enterprise Document Search

Hybrid Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Knowledge Graph Expansion, RRF Fusion, and Per-Chunk Grounded Evaluation for Enterprise Document Search describes DocuSearch, an offline multi‑agent system designed for telecom network operations. The system combines semantic vector search, BM25 full‑text search, and knowledge‑graph neighbor expansion, merges the results via Reciprocal Rank Fusion, and reranks with a cross‑encoder before pruning with Maximal Marginal Relevance. A per‑chunk evaluation loop ensures only grounded answers are returned, achieving Precision@10 of 0.69, Recall@10 of 0.79, and an 89.6% grounding rate—improvements of 15, 16, and 18.4 percentage points over a dense‑only baseline.

By Harish Saragadam, Sudhanshu Sharma, Meghana Pujari
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 1

Annotated Surrogate Retrieval for Polish Statutory Law

The paper introduces three retrieval methods for Polish statutory law that use language‑model annotations attached to articles as surrogates. The methods—ASCR, ASCR‑H, and DTF—vary in cost and quality, with ASCR‑H achieving the highest rank‑one accuracy on bar exam questions, while DTF offers competitive performance with lower latency and cost. Extensive evaluation against 14 baselines on 300 exam questions demonstrates significant improvements in head‑rank accuracy and discusses limitations such as coverage asymmetry and negative results for lemmatisation, pseudo‑relevance feedback, and query rewriting.

By Orkun Yi\u{g}it Cengiz