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
Jul 29

Beyond Predictive Accuracy: A Reliability-Aware Audit of Molecular Representations for Human Olfaction

arXiv:2607. 24848v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pretrained molecular encoders are commonly evaluated through downstream prediction, but predictive accuracy alone does not establish that a learned representation captures reproducible scientific structure, adds information beyond strong conventional baselines, or transfers out of distribution.

By Kai Lun Huang (California State University, Fullerton), Wei Chieh Sun (University of Washington)
arXiv AI
Jul 29

Human Preference aligned Tabular Similarity

arXiv:2607. 24880v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Task-agnostic tabular embeddings are increasingly used for similarity search in real-world business systems such as Product Lifecycle Management (PLM).

By Frederik Hoppe, Astrid Franz, Marianne Michaelis, Lars Kleinemeier, Udo G\"obel
arXiv AI
Jul 29

Localizing Persona Representations in LLMs

arXiv:2505. 24539v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present a study on how and where personas -- defined by distinct sets of human characteristics, values, and beliefs -- are encoded in the representation space of large language models (LLMs).

By Celia Cintas, Miriam Rateike, Erik Miehling, Elizabeth Daly, Skyler Speakman
arXiv AI
Jul 29

Sheet As Token: A Graph-Enhanced Representation for Multi-Sheet Spreadsheet Understanding

arXiv:2605. 05811v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Workbook-scale spreadsheet understanding is increasingly important for language-model-based data analysis agents, but remains challenging because relevant information is often distributed across multiple sheets with heterogeneous schemas, layouts, and implicit relationships.

By Yiming Lei, Yuhang Yao, Yujia Zhang, Yiqi Wang, Bo Guan, Depei Zhu, Chunhui Wang, Zhuonan Hao, Tianyu Shi
arXiv AI
Jul 29

Architectural Backdoors in Vision-Language Model Supply Chains via Representation Steering

arXiv:2607. 25479v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision--Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed through a model supply chain in which pretrained checkpoints, architecture definitions, text encoders, and exported computation graphs are distributed by third parties and reused across downstream services.

By Maria Rosaria Briglia, Igor Maljkovic, Antonio Emanuele Cin\`a, Luca Oneto, Iacopo Masi, Fabio Roli
arXiv AI
Jul 29

CIFNet: An Analytic Neural Learning Framework for Efficient and Calibrated Class-Incremental Learning

arXiv:2509. 11285v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) in deep neural networks is conventionally framed as an iterative gradient-based optimization problem, incurring high computational cost, hyperparameter sensitivity, and risk of catastrophic forgetting.

By Alejandro Dopico-Castro, Oscar Fontenla-Romero, Bertha Guijarro-Berdi\~nas, Amparo Alonso-Betanzos