arXiv Machine Learning August 12, 2026 By Utshab Kumar Ghosh, Shubham Chatterjee

When Do Anchor-Based Pointwise LLM Rerankers Help? Retriever Quality, Statistical Scope, and Anchor Design

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arXiv:2608. 10528v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Anchor-based pointwise LLM reranking scores each candidate against a shared reference passage to recover cross-document context at pointwise cost.

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