RAG, retrieval & evals - Research Digest

Ranking Free RAG: Replacing Re-ranking with Selection in RAG for Sensitive Domains

Yash Saxena, Ankur Padia, Mandar S Chaudhary, Kalpa Gunaratna, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Manas Gaur

Source: arxiv

Augmenting Question Answering with A Hybrid RAG Approach

Tianyi Yang, Nashrah Haque, Vaishnave Jonnalagadda, Yuya Jeremy Ong, Zhehui Chen, Yanzhao Wu, Lei Yu, Divyesh Jadav, Wenqi Wei

Source: arxiv

Agentic-R: Learning to Retrieve for Agentic Search

Wenhan Liu, Xinyu Ma, Yutao Zhu, Yuchen Li, Daiting Shi, Dawei Yin, Zhicheng Dou

Source: arxiv

Knowing When Not to Answer: Lightweight KB-Aligned OOD Detection for Safe RAG

Ilias Triantafyllopoulos, Renyi Qu, Salvatore Giorgi, Brenda Curtis, Lyle H. Ungar, João Sedoc

Source: arxiv

From HNSW to Information-Theoretic Binarization: Rethinking the Architecture of Scalable Vector Search

Seyed Moein Abtahi, Majid Fekri, Tara Khani, Akramul Azim

Source: arxiv

Enhancing Retrieval Augmentation via Adversarial Collaboration

Letian Zhang, Guanghao Meng, Xudong Ren, Yiming Wang, Shu-Tao Xia

Source: arxiv

Compass-Embedding v4: Robust Contrastive Learning for Multilingual E-commerce Embeddings

Pakorn Ueareeworakul, Shuman Liu, Jinghao Feng, Ling Hu, Zhantang Shi, Chengqi Sun, Liang Yao, Panyi Ouyang, Haibo Zhang, Anxiang Zeng

Source: arxiv

AI Co-Scientist for Knowledge Synthesis in Medical Contexts: A Proof of Concept

Arya Rahgozar, Pouria Mortezaagha

Source: arxiv

Utilizing Metadata for Better Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Raquib Bin Yousuf, Shengzhe Xu, Mandar Sharma, Andrew Neeser, Chris Latimer, Naren Ramakrishnan

Source: arxiv

RAC: Retrieval-Augmented Clarification for Faithful Conversational Search

Ahmed Rayane Kebir, Vincent Guigue, Lynda Said Lhadj, Laure Soulier

Source: arxiv

GPU-Resident Inverted File Index for Streaming Vector Databases

Dongfang Zhao

Source: arxiv

Cultural Analytics for Good: Building Inclusive Evaluation Frameworks for Historical IR

Suchana Datta, Dwaipayan Roy, Derek Greene, Gerardine Meaney, Karen Wade, Philipp Mayr

Source: arxiv Must Read

Injecting Knowledge from Social Science Journals to Improve Indonesian Cultural Understanding by LLMs

Adimulya Kartiyasa, Bao Gia Cao, Boyang Li

Source: arxiv Must Read

DeepEvidence: Empowering Biomedical Discovery with Deep Knowledge Graph Research

Zifeng Wang, Zheng Chen, Ziwei Yang, Xuan Wang, Qiao Jin, Yifan Peng, Zhiyong Lu, Jimeng Sun

Source: arxiv Must Read

Efficient Privacy-Preserving Retrieval Augmented Generation with Distance-Preserving Encryption

Huanyi Ye, Jiale Guo, Ziyao Liu, Kwok-Yan Lam

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Rethinking the AI Scientist: Interactive Multi-Agent Workflows for Scientific Discovery

Lukas Weidener, Marko Brkić, Mihailo Jovanović, Ritvik Singh, Chiara Baccin, Emre Ulgac, Alex Dobrin, Aakaash Meduri

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Agentic Reasoning for Large Language Models

Tianxin Wei, Ting-Wei Li, Zhining Liu, Xuying Ning, Ze Yang, Jiaru Zou, Zhichen Zeng, Ruizhong Qiu, Xiao Lin, Dongqi Fu, Zihao Li, Mengting Ai, Duo Zhou, Wenxuan Bao, Yunzhe Li, Gaotang Li, Cheng Qian, Yu Wang, Xiangru Tang, Yin Xiao, Liri Fang, Hui Liu, Xianfeng Tang, Yuji Zhang, Chi Wang, Jiaxuan You, Heng Ji, Hanghang Tong, Jingrui He

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