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 2

Retrieval-aligned Tabular Foundation Models Enable Robust Clinical Risk Prediction in Electronic Health Records Under Real-world Constraints

arXiv:2604. 01841v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Clinical prediction from structured electronic health records (EHRs) is challenging due to high dimensionality, heterogeneity, class imbalance, and distribution shift.

By Minh-Khoi Pham, Thang-Long Nguyen Ho, Thao Thi Phuong Dao, Tai Tan Mai, Minh-Triet Tran, Marie E. Ward, Una Geary, Rob Brennan, Nick McDonald, Martin Crane, Marija Bezbradica
arXiv AI
Jun 2

DSL-LLaDA: Scaling Continuous Denoising to 8B Masked Diffusion LMs

arXiv:2606. 01024v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Discrete Masked diffusion language models generate text by iterative parallel decoding, but few-step decoding suffers from a tradeoff between length and quality: with a fixed step budget, standard methods can generate a short, high-quality output, or they can produce long but repetitive text.

By Longxuan Yu, Yunshu Wu, Yu Fu, Siheng Xiong, Rob Brekelmans, Hui Liu, Yue Dong, Greg Ver Steeg
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Cross-Entropy Games and Frost Training

arXiv:2605. 27701v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present Frost Training, a method for improving Monte Carlo-based policy optimization for a large family of LLM-as-a-judge tasks called Cross-Entropy Games.

By Arthur Renard, Franck Gabriel, Valentin Hartmann, Cl\'ement Hongler
arXiv AI
Jun 2

A Monosemantic Attribution Framework for Stable Interpretability in Clinical Neuroscience Transformer-Based Language Models

arXiv:2601. 17952v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Interpretability remains a key challenge for deploying language models (LM) in clinical settings such as progression diagnosis of Alzheimer disease, where early and trustworthy predictions are essential.

By Michail Mamalakis, Tiago Azevedo, Cristian Cosentino, Chiara D'Ercoli, Subati Abulikemu, Zhongtian Sun, Richard Bethlehem, Pietro Lio
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

Reconstructing Content via Collaborative Attention to Improve Multimodal Embedding Quality

arXiv:2603. 01471v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal embedding models, rooted in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), have yielded significant performance improvements across diverse tasks such as retrieval and classification.

By Jiahan Chen, Da Li, Hengran Zhang, Yinqiong Cai, Lixin Su, Jiafeng Guo, Daiting Shi, Dawei Yin, Keping Bi