Retrieval-augmented generation

Retrieval pipelines, vector search, chunking and reranking: how models are grounded in a corpus instead of their weights.

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arXiv AI
Sep 2

Verifiable Disaster Storylines and Causal Knowledge Graphs: A Citation-Grounded Pipeline from Heterogeneous Humanitarian Sources

The paper introduces a pipeline that merges structured disaster records from EM‑DAT with unstructured documents from ReliefWeb and the European Media Monitor to generate source‑grounded disaster storylines and causal knowledge graphs. Using Retrieval‑Augmented Generation, it produces tabular event profiles covering 17 fields and builds causal graphs enriched with citation‑grounded explanatory narratives, allowing traceability to primary sources. Human evaluation across three crisis cases shows high retrieval precision, strong faithfulness of causal relations, and a clear expert preference for citation‑grounded components over ungrounded ones.

By Ivan Decostanzi, Michele Ronco, Sergio Consoli, Christina Corbane, Lorenzo Bertolini, Indaco Biazzo, Daria Mihaila, Manuel Garcia-Herranz, Felix Schwebel, Yelena Mejova, Kyriaki Kalimeri
arXiv AI
Sep 2

When Features Become Instances: Inverted Contrastive Learning for Unsupervised Feature Selection

The paper introduces Inverted Contrastive Learning for Unsupervised Feature Selection (ICLFS), a method that treats each feature as a sample by inverting the data matrix and applies a contrastive learning framework to learn consistent representations across masked positive views and a shuffled negative view. Feature saliency is derived from the magnitude of projector‑space embeddings, and a Laplacian‑Gated Ranking Correction step refines the ranking by reducing local redundancy. Experiments on 12 benchmark datasets show that ICLFS achieves the best clustering accuracy on 10 datasets compared to both classical and neural baselines, demonstrating the effectiveness of feature‑wise contrastive consistency for unsupervised feature selection.

By Utsab Ghosh, Roshni Chakraborty
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 2

Instance-Guided Report Anchoring for Text-Free 3D Abnormality Segmentation in Chest CT

Instance-Guided Report Anchoring (IGRA) is a model-agnostic module that links each abnormality instance in a chest CT to the corresponding finding in a radiology report during training, while discarding text components at inference. By reformulating free-text grounding as multi-label volumetric segmentation, IGRA allows all abnormality categories to be predicted in a single image-only forward pass. The method improves Dice scores by 22.5% over the strongest image-only baseline and matches state‑of‑the‑art performance on single-finding subsets, with consistent gains across multiple 3D segmentation backbones and datasets.

By Zhenyu Bu, Haoyan Ding, Chushu Shen, Xinyuan Zheng, Peiyu Duan, Xueqi Guo, Sepehr Farhand, Yoshihisa Shinagawa, Gerardo Hermosillo, Chaowei Wu
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 2

A Multi-Branch Feature Fusion Approach for Health Misinformation Detection and Propagation

This paper introduces a multi‑branch fusion framework that combines transformer‑based semantics, rhetorical cues, stance representations, and psychologically motivated proxies to detect health misinformation and characterize its spread on online social networks. The authors propose an interpretable Cognitive Propagation Score (CPS) derived from text cues that estimate argument complexity, emotional intensity, and virality potential, aiding diffusion‑risk reasoning when engagement data are missing. Experiments on three benchmark datasets (Constraint, COVID‑19_FNIR, Monkeypox) demonstrate near‑perfect classification and ranking performance, with ablation studies showing complementary gains from psychological and rhetorical components.

By Mkululi Sikosana, Sean Maudsley-Barton, Oluwaseun Ajao
arXiv AI
Sep 2

Inspicio: Open-Vocabulary, LLM-Based Sense Retrieval for Historical Languages

Inspicio is an open‑vocabulary pipeline that links tokens in historical or low‑resource languages to synsets in the Open English WordNet without needing a source‑language sense inventory. It uses an instruction‑tuned LLM to generate two English translations, candidate dictionary definitions, and English lemmas, then performs hybrid retrieval combining dense definition similarity, sparse lemma matching, and Maximal Marginal Relevance re‑ranking. Evaluated on Latin, Ancient Greek, PREMOVE, and Italian data, the best configuration achieves 96% Recall@50 on a perception‑verb test set and remains competitive in out‑of‑domain and cross‑lingual scenarios.

By Michele Ciletti
arXiv AI
Sep 2

Assessing Alignment and Stability of Feature Importance Explanations via Weight of Evidence

The paper introduces a hypothesis‑testing framework that embeds feature importance methods (FIMs) within a Weight of Evidence (WoE) analysis. By quantifying how strongly observed evidence supports a given hypothesis—whether from domain knowledge, ground truth, or the FIM itself—the approach evaluates FIM alignment and variability. The authors provide theoretical links between WoE and attribution variance and demonstrate the method on LIME and SHAP explanations across varied reference hypotheses.

By Eddie Conti, Claudio Daka, \'Alvaro Parafita, Antonio L. Alfeo, Axel Brando, Mario G. C. A. Cimino
arXiv AI
Sep 2

Towards Agentic Cloud Engineering: Graph and Loop Engineering with a Zero-Trust Agent Harness

The paper introduces Agentic Cloud Workflow Engineering, a framework that converts natural‑language agentic cloud‑engineering tasks into validated code repositories and verified cloud deployments. It separates graph engineering for long‑horizon workflow progression, loop engineering for bounded diagnosis and recovery, and agent harness engineering for zero‑trust execution. Experiments on Google Cloud show that executions either produce a verified deployment or an auditable terminal failure within bounded recovery limits.

By Sagar Srinivas Sakhinana, Venkataramana Runkana
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 2

Soft-Argmax for the Projective Plane via the Veronese Embedding

arXiv:2609.00521v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: From horizon detection to fibre structures in X-ray imaging, many vision tasks recover lines via peak detection in Hough space $H=S^1\times\mathbb{R}...

By Benjamin El-Zein, Dominik Eckert, Paul Zech, Christopher Syben, Bernhard Geiger, Steffen Kappler, Sebastian Stober
arXiv AI
Sep 2

APEX-EM: Non-Parametric Online Learning for Autonomous Agents via Structured Procedural-Episodic Experience Replay

APEX-EM is a non‑parametric experience memory that stores full procedural‑episodic traces in a typed Procedural Knowledge Graph and retrieves them via semantic search, structural‑signature matching, and graph traversal. It uses a Plan‑Retrieve‑Generate‑Iterate‑Ingest workflow to produce, quality‑gate, and commit experiences, indexing both successes and failures so the agent learns what to reuse and what to avoid. Evaluations on five benchmarks with a shared GPT‑4o backbone show significant performance gains, such as +7.6 pp on BigCodeBench transfer and +1.4 pp on Lifelong Agent Bench, demonstrating that the memory adds to model capability rather than replacing it.

By Pratyay Banerjee, Masud Moshtaghi, Ankit Chadha
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 2

Solving In-Table Prediction Problems by Deep Neural Networks with Performance Evaluation Using Synthetic Data

The paper introduces In-Table Prediction (ITB), a self‑supervised task where deep neural networks learn to predict any column in a table from the remaining columns. It proposes a novel neural layer to handle missing continuous values, generates synthetic datasets with controlled column relationships, and evaluates three architectures—MLP, ResNet, and Transformer—showing that attention‑based Transformers perform best when ample training data and large embeddings are used. The study is limited to synthetic, small‑column tables and is presented as an initial investigation rather than a comprehensive real‑world analysis.

By Xiao Zhao, Daniela Oelke
arXiv AI
Sep 2

EGT-KG: Evidence-Grounded Typed KG Retrieval for Practical Scientific QA with Small Language Models

The paper introduces EGT-KG, an evidence‑grounded typed knowledge graph retrieval framework designed to enhance scientific question answering with small language models (SLMs). It compares three QA settings—standard Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) and two EGT‑KG variants (automatically generated and expert‑defined relation schemas)—using a six‑dimensional evaluation on a biopolymer‑bound soil composite literature benchmark. Results show that both EGT‑KG variants outperform vanilla RAG, with the llama3:8b model achieving a final score of 70.37 (+14.67%) and 68.82 (+12.14%) for the AS and ES variants, respectively.

By Muran Yu, Jiechao Gao, Yuandong Pan, Barney H. Miao, Andrew C. Lesh, Kincho H. Law, Jie Wang, Michael D. Lepech
arXiv AI
Sep 2

Feedback-Assisted Trust Propagation over Document Relation Graphs for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

The paper introduces TrustPropRAG, a method that builds a document relation graph to propagate reliability signals across documents in retrieval‑augmented generation systems. By anchoring this propagation with a limited set of human feedback on document reliability, the approach estimates trust scores through an optimization problem that incorporates pairwise relations and user input. These trust scores are then used to select more reliable documents and generate answers that are aware of document trustworthiness, leading to improved retrieval quality and exact match performance compared to baselines, even with sparse or noisy feedback.

By Zhuoheng Li, Ying Chen
arXiv AI
Sep 2

From Language to Behavior: Scaling Sequence Transformers for Industrial Recommendation Ranking with Rec-Native Designs

The paper introduces ReST, a recommendation‑native Transformer scaling framework designed to handle noisy, irregular, and sparsely supervised user behavior sequences in production ranking. ReST employs a dual‑gated attention encoder with rotary positional and temporal embeddings, and a lightweight cross decoder that decouples heavy encoding from fast decoding, enabling efficient compute‑once, decode‑many‑times ranking. Experiments on industrial and public benchmarks show that ReST outperforms traditional Transformer blocks, achieving higher accuracy and consistent scaling across sequence length, depth, and width, and a one‑week online A/B test on a production advertising platform yielded a 1.31% AUC lift and an 11.93% increase in a core revenue metric within a 50 ms P99 latency budget.

By Jie Chen, Xiangqian Yu, Yanchao Lian, Tan Lu, Run Yang, Zhengchun Shang, Xing Wang, Cheng Chen, Ke Hu, Qiang Li, Tianjiu Yin, Xiaobing Liu