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Navigation-Informed Embeddings: Dense-Retriever Adaptation from Agent Search Traces

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arXiv:2608. 15956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic retrieval workflows produce query, retrieval, and stopping traces as a byproduct of answering questions.

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