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 15

Understanding Sources of Demographic Predictability in Brain MRI via Disentangling Anatomy and Contrast

arXiv:2603. 04113v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Demographic attributes can be predicted from medical images, raising concerns about bias in clinical AI systems.

By Mehmet Yigit Avci (and for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative), Akshit Achara (and for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative), Andrew King (and for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative), Jorge Cardoso (and for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative)
arXiv AI
Jul 15

Continual Learning with Elastic Regularization and Synthetic Replay for Federated MLLM Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2607. 12112v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated fine-tuning of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) across distributed networks enables privacy-sensitive adaptation to evolving data streams, yet a fundamental obstacle prevents robust deployment in dynamic environments: catastrophic forgetting, wherein sequential task updates erase previously acquired knowledge across visual, linguistic, and cross-modal representations.

By Jing Liu, Chenxuanyin Zou, Jiayang Ren, Gaoyun Fang, Chengfang Li, Yan Wang, Zhenchao Ma, Bo Hu
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 15

Learning Engagement Assistant (LEA): Cross-Course Scalability and Classroom Evaluation of an Agentic AI Tutoring System

This paper is an extension of a paper presented at the ICAART 2026 conference, which introduced LEA (Learning Engagement Assistant), an adaptive AI tutoring agent combining course-specific Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with structured Knowledge Component (KC) models across integrated Chat, Tutor, and Quiz modes. That prior work validated LEA on a single STEM course (CMP511) exclusively through simulation, using synthetic learner agents.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 14

Finding the Right Tables and Columns: A Benchmark and Corpus-Adaptive Embeddings for SQL Schema Retrieval

Retrieval in the SQL setting has largely been studied as the task of finding, within a large collection of SQL statements, the statement that answers a natural-language question. At scale, however, a more fundamental retrieval problem precedes generation: schema retrieval, identifying the tables and columns a question requires in a database that may contain thousands of them, far more than fit in a model's context.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 14

Contrastive-Collapsed Loss for Flexible and Geometrically Optimal Embeddings and Faster Convergence

In this work, we introduce CoCo, a loss function aimed at learning normalized and well-structured representations. The proposed loss encourages intra-class collapse and inter-class contrast while preserving sufficient flexibility for neural networks to approximate geometrically optimal embeddings with large angular separation between classes.