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. In many production settings this is not what is wanted: given a seed set that expresses a fine-grained pattern, one needs more items that both satisfy a target attribute and stay within that pattern.
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:2606. 28359v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dense embedding retrieval compresses all relevance information into a single inner product, imposing a fundamental geometric limit -- the Voronoi Bottleneck -- on the number of query-document relevance patterns expressible at fixed embedding dimension (d).
By Charith Chandra Sai Balne, Rithwik Maramraju, Siddharth Pratap Singh, Rohit Upadhyay, Aditya Singh, Chittaranjan Tripathy, Yogananda Domlur Seetharama
arXiv:2604. 23336v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unlike traditional fact-based retrieval, rationale-based retrieval typically necessitates cross-encoding of query-document pairs using large language models, incurring substantial computational costs.
By Teng Chen, Sheng Xu, Feixiang Guo, Xiaoyu Wang, Qingqing Gu, Hongyan Li, Luo Ji