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
Jun 9

Mobility-Embedded POIs: Learning What A Place Is and How It Is Used from Human Movement

arXiv:2601. 21149v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent progress in geospatial foundation models highlights the importance of learning general-purpose representations for real-world locations, particularly points-of-interest (POIs) where human activity concentrates.

By Maria Despoina Siampou, Shushman Choudhury, Shang-Ling Hsu, Neha Arora, Cyrus Shahabi
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

GraphER: An Efficient Graph-Based Enrichment and Reranking Method for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2603. 24925v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems that rely on semantic search often fail to retrieve the complete set of evidence for complex queries, particularly when information is distributed across multiple sources.

By Ruizhong Miao, Yuying Wang, Rongguang Wang, Chenyang Li, Tao Sheng, Sujith Ravi, Dan Roth
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Autonomous Aerial Manipulation via Contextual Contrastive Meta Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606. 08533v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly being deployed in logistics, service robotics, and other real-world applications, creating a growing demand for autonomous payload acquisition and delivery.

By Lixuan Jin, Bingxuan Lan, Xinyi Bao, Xiangyuan Xie, Chunjie Zhang, Zheng Chen, Tianshuo Liu, Ruijie Tian, Jinyu Ru, Gang Wang, Lei Yuan, Yang Yu
arXiv AI
Jun 9

UnWeaving the knots of GraphRAG -- turns out VectorRAG is almost enough

arXiv:2603. 29875v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: One of the key problems in Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems is that chunk-based retrieval pipelines represent the source chunks as atomic objects, mixing the information contained within such a chunk into a single vector.

By Ryszard Tuora, Mateusz Gali\'nski, Micha{\l} Godziszewski, Micha{\l} Karpowicz, Mateusz Czy\.znikiewicz, Adam Kozakiewicz, Tomasz Zi\k{e}tkiewicz
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Zero-Shot Semantic Re-Identification for Autonomous Driving: A VLM Baseline Study

arXiv:2606. 09362v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Re-Identification (ReID) in autonomous driving is typically formulated as a visual matching problem, where observations of vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists are associated across time, frames, or camera views using learned appearance embeddings, often complemented by motion, geometric, or multimodal cues.

By Eduardo Borges, Manuel Abreu, Lu\'is Garrote, Urbano J. Nunes
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Harmonia: End-to-End RAG Serving Optimization

arXiv:2505. 07833v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) improves the reliability of large language models by integrating external knowledge, but serving RAG pipelines efficiently is challenging because requests traverse heterogeneous components spanning LLM inference, databases, and CPU-side processing.

By Saurabh Agarwal, Bodun Hu, Luis Pabon, Myungjin Lee, Jayanth Srinivasa, Aditya Akella
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Beyond Neural Collapse: Task-Intrinsic Geometry Governs Neural Representations in Modular Arithmetic

arXiv:2606. 08985v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While neural collapse (NC) predicts that a $K$-class-balanced classifier should organize terminal representations as a $(K-1)$-dimensional simplex equiangular tight frame (ETF), modular addition consistently enters a different regime: networks compress to a two-dimensional cyclic geometry in which both classifier weights and token embeddings lie on circles.

By Hu Tan, Kuo Gai, Shihua Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

On solving symmetric multi-type orthogonal non-negative matrix tri-factorization problem

arXiv:2606. 08291v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the symmetric multi-type orthogonal non-negative matrix tri-factorization problem, where several symmetric non-negative matrices are simultaneously approximated by factors of the form $GS_{i}G^{\top}$, with a shared non-negative and orthogonal factor $G$.

By Rok Hribar, Gregor Papa, Janez Povh, Andrej Kastrin