IR Papers Vol.170: RAG Effectiveness & Agent Retrieval
_reachsumit · x · 2026-08-24
This week's top Information Retrieval papers include:
- Meituan: Investigates if latent reasoning steps help retrieval, proposing RGLT.
- Microsoft: Adapts dense retrievers from agent search traces.
- Google: Learned supersession and decay filters for recommender freshness.
- UQ: Analyzes how retriever redundancy and diversity impact RAG.
Also covers quantization for vector indexing and RL for multi-hop reasoning agents.
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