Papers with retrieval systems
Hybrid-Vector Retrieval for Visually Rich Documents: Combining Single-Vector Efficiency and Multi-Vector Accuracy (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to document retrieval are coarse and efficient, but expensive. |
| Approach: | a plug-and-play two-stage hybrid-vector framework is proposed to retrieve visually rich documents . HEAVEN efficiently retrieves candidate pages using a single-vektor method over VS-Pages . it also reranks candidates with a multi-vecctor method while filtering query tokens by linguistic importance . |
| Outcome: | HEAVEN achieves 99.87% of the Recall@1 performance of multi-vector models on average . it reduces per-query computation by 99.8%, achieving efficiency and accuracy . |
BoolQuestions: Does Dense Retrieval Understand Boolean Logic in Language? (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Dense retrieval systems focus on optimizing text embedding space while overlooking Boolean logic in language. |
| Approach: | They propose a task to investigate whether retrieval systems can comprehend Boolean logic in language. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is based on a benchmark dataset covering complex queries containing basic Boolean logic and corresponding annotated passages. |
Evaluating D-MERIT of Partial-annotation on Information Retrieval (2024.emnlp-main)
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Royi Rassin, Yaron Fairstein, Oren Kalinsky, Guy Kushilevitz, Nachshon Cohen, Alexander Libov, Yoav Goldberg
| Challenge: | Using partially-annotated datasets for evaluation can lead to false conclusions . a dataset containing only a subset of relevant passages might result in misleading rankings . |
| Approach: | They propose to use a Wikipedia passage retrieval evaluation set to contain all relevant passages for each query. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset can be downloaded from https://d-merit.github.io. |
QuadrupletBERT: An Efficient Model For Embedding-Based Large-Scale Retrieval (2021.naacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for large-scale query-document retrieval are expensive and require sparse handcrafted features. |
| Approach: | They propose a quadrupletBERT model for effective and efficient retrieval using pre-trained language models like BERT. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves retrieval phase and leverages distances between simple negative and hard negative instances to obtain better embeddings. |
FollowIR: Evaluating and Teaching Information Retrieval Models to Follow Instructions (2025.naacl-long)
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Orion Weller, Benjamin Chang, Sean MacAvaney, Kyle Lo, Arman Cohan, Benjamin Van Durme, Dawn Lawrie, Luca Soldaini
| Challenge: | Modern language models (LMs) are capable of following long and complex instructions that enable a large and diverse set of user requests. |
| Approach: | They propose a dataset that contains an instruction evaluation benchmark and a training set to help IR models learn to follow instructions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves after fine-tuning on a training set and rigorous instruction evaluation benchmark. |
LitSearch: A Retrieval Benchmark for Scientific Literature Search (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Literature search questions pose significant challenges for modern retrieval systems . a lack of domain expertise and reasoning through lengthy papers is a challenge . |
| Approach: | They propose a retrieval benchmark for literature search queries using inline citations from papers and questions about recently published papers. |
| Outcome: | The proposed retrieval benchmarks outperform state-of-the-art retrieval models and reranking pipelines. |
Media Source Matters More Than Content: Unveiling Political Bias in LLM-Generated Citations (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | generative search engines rely on in-line citations as the key gateway to original webpages . a recent study shows that LLMs tend to cite left-leaning sources at higher rates compared to traditional retrieval systems . |
| Approach: | They construct a dataset of news articles labeled with left- or right-leaning stances . they find that LLMs tend to cite left-leansing sources at higher rates than traditional retrieval systems . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset shows that LLMs tend to cite left-leaning sources at higher rates than traditional retrieval systems. |