arXiv:2606. 26899v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embedding-based retrieval ranks items by their similarity to a query in a shared vector space and usually aims to return the highest-scoring items.
By Chenghao Liu, Yu Zhang, Zhongtao Jiang, Kun Xu, Zhenwei An, Renzhi Wang, Zhao Wang, Jiachen Zhang, Yuxiao Zhang, Kun Xu, Songfang Huang
arXiv:2606. 29328v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) typically treats context selection as ranking chunks against a single query embedding.
By Bingxue Zhang, Jianying Jia, Feida Zhu
arXiv:2607. 27475v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In modern recommendation systems, retrieval serves as a primary stage responsible for filtering billions of candidate items down to thousands prior to refined ranking.
By Ziwei Li, Shuyao Li, Xufeng Cai, Xue Zou, Yiming Ma, Huiting Lu, Wujie Yan, Zhichen Zhao, Yang Lu, Zhe Wang, Rui Luo, Zhengyu Su, Dan Zhang, Ji Liu
arXiv:2606. 29947v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as rerankers in recommender systems, with the expectation that semantic understanding will help in cold-start and long-tail regimes.
By Zhe Dong (University of Maine at Presque Isle), Fang Qin (Stanford University), Manish Shah (Independent Researcher), Yicheng Wang (Independent Researcher)
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
arXiv:2608. 09016v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Node ranking is a fundamental problem in graph information retrieval, measuring the relative importance of nodes and supporting a wide range of applications such as influence analysis, recommendation, and graph-based retrieval augmented generation.
By Lujie Ban, Jiasheng shi, Yingli Zhou, Kaiwen Xue, Daiyin Wang, Xubin Li, Shuanghua Li, Chenhao Ma