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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 21h

Nour Jedidi, Abdul Basit Ali, Hang Li, Jimmy Lin: Effective Dense Retrieval using Only In-Context Examples arxiv.org/abs/2609.38099 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.38099 arxiv.org/html/2609.38099

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 21h

Barron, Trotter, Eren, Rasmussen, Miller, Migliori: Generated Query Expansion Still Helps Strong Sparse Retrieval: A Controlled Study with SPLADE-v3 arxiv.org/abs/2609.37911 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.37911 arxiv.org/html/2609.37911

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 21h

Mohamed Ben Salha, Fiete L\"uer, Maik Betka, Stefan Wagner: Towards Semi-Automatically Comparing Keyword-Based and Semantic Search Accuracy arxiv.org/abs/2609.37749 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.37749 arxiv.org/html/2609.37749

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 21h

Tzu-I Ho, Yung-Yu Shih, Shang-Yu Su, Dongzhe Wang, Yun-Nung Chen: MERGE: Multi-LLM Ensemble for Retrieval via Generative Enrichment arxiv.org/abs/2609.37574 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.37574 arxiv.org/html/2609.37574

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 21h

Han Chen, Yingrui Li: Do Evidence-Reading Diagnostics Improve Interface Selection in Small LLM Recommenders? arxiv.org/abs/2609.37472 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.37472 arxiv.org/html/2609.37472

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 21h

Yuntao Zheng, et al.: HELIX: Purified and Unified - Rethinking Feature Interaction and Sequence Modeling for Large-Scale Recommendation arxiv.org/abs/2609.37183 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.37183 arxiv.org/html/2609.37183

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 21h

Ge, Wang, Fu, Wen, Xu, Zhou, Chen, Ren, Ren, Xin: Optimizing VLP-aligned Multimodal Intent Representation with Correct Visual Instantiation for Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval arxiv.org/abs/2609.36946 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.36946 arxiv.org/html/2609.36946

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 21h

Zhuo, Xue, Wei, Ni, Lu, Ren, Li, Yang, Wang, Li, He, Song, Fan, Obukhov, Chen, Liu, Ye, Wu, Zhang, Ye, Zhang, Zhu: GRP v0.1 Technical Report arxiv.org/abs/2609.36688 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.36688 arxiv.org/html/2609.36688

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 21h

Ziqi Zhang, Shaohui Li, Bing Li: Structured Interaction, Visual Localization, and Robust Execution for Complex Web Tasks: A Technical Report on the WebRetriever Challenge arxiv.org/abs/2609.35904 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.35904 arxiv.org/html/2609.35904

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 21h

Arnab Bhadury, Siyan Zheng, Anlan Yu, Palaksh Rungta, Jiawei Li, Changping Meng, Dapeng Hong, Chuan He, Onkar Dalal: Soft Curriculum Learning for Optimizing Fresh and Generalized Recommendations arxiv.org/abs/2609.35783 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.35783 arxiv.org/html/2609.35783

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 21h

Yixi Zhou, Jiayi Yin, Fan Zhang, Xiangyi He, Haipeng Zhang: Financial Evidence Crowding: Diagnosing and Mitigating Constraint-Induced Displacement in Retrieval-Augmented Generation arxiv.org/abs/2609.35782 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.35782 arxiv.org/html/2609.35782

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 21h

Pan, Ravva, Williams, Barberan, Sahoo, Min, Gross, Shaffer: TSG Suggester: Tree-Structured Knowledge-Graph Retrieval for Troubleshooting Guide Recommendation in Cloud Incident Management arxiv.org/abs/2609.35780 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.35780 arxiv.org/html/2609.35780

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 21h

Ng S. T. Chong: Post-Generation Verification Dominates Retrieval Optimization: A 2^4 Factorial Ablation of RAG Pipeline Features arxiv.org/abs/2609.35774 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.35774 arxiv.org/html/2609.35774

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 21h

Renyu Zhao, Xinyuan Zou, Lanbin Liu: Socrates-RAG: Premise-Directed Inquiry against Coordinated Evidence Poisoning arxiv.org/abs/2609.35773 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.35773 arxiv.org/html/2609.35773

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 21h

[2026-09-30 Wed (UTC), 14 new articles found for csIR Information Retrieval]

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fabian David Schmidt, Donato Crisostomi, Carlos Lassance, Nils Reimers: Rubric-Calibrated Preferences: Cross-Query Calibration of LLM Judgments via Item Response Theory arxiv.org/abs/2609.35739 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.35739 arxiv.org/html/2609.35739

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Junchen Fu, Kleomenis Katevas, Vandana Rajan, Sof\'ia Celi, Hamed Haddadi: Can Generative Retrievers Learn Semantic IDs Without Forgetting How to Speak? arxiv.org/abs/2609.35430 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.35430 arxiv.org/html/2609.35430

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Antonios Georgakopoulos, Paul Groth, Lise Stork: Signal or Noise? Modality Contribution and Cooperation in Multimodal GraphRAG arxiv.org/abs/2609.35304 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.35304 arxiv.org/html/2609.35304

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Seongtae Hong, Youngjoon Jang, Jungseob Lee, Hyeonseok Moon, Heuiseok Lim: RenderRank: Learning to Rerank Text with Compressed Visual Tokens arxiv.org/abs/2609.35069 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.35069 arxiv.org/html/2609.35069

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tianyu Zhu, Jiandong Ding, Yansong Shi, Guoqing Chen, Jian-Yun Nie: Mitigating Popularity Bias in Recommendation with Global Listwise Learning and Progressive Bi-Weighting arxiv.org/abs/2609.35041 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.35041 arxiv.org/html/2609.35041

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Riki Okamura, Toshiharu Sugawara: Recommendation Ranking Off-Policy Evaluation under Ranking-Dependent Examination via Examination-Relevance Decomposition arxiv.org/abs/2609.35034 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.35034 arxiv.org/html/2609.35034

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yifan Wang, Shipeng Zhu, Fei Xiong, Yuqin Yang, Yonghui Huang, Kunyao Wu, Yue Wang, Weichao Meng, Yu Gong: PEAR: Progressive Evidence-Based AutoResearch for Industrial Search Systems arxiv.org/abs/2609.35031 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.35031 arxiv.org/html/2609.35031

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Zhuchenyang Liu, Ziyi Wang, Yao Zhang, Yu Xiao: ColNanoVDR: Document-Free Query Distillation for Multi-Vector Visual Document Retrieval via Optimal Transport arxiv.org/abs/2609.34899 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.34899 arxiv.org/html/2609.34899

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tao Huang, Wei Zhou: No Attention, No Problem: Rethinking Session-based Recommendation with Pure Convolution arxiv.org/abs/2609.34802 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.34802 arxiv.org/html/2609.34802

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Li, Cai, Chen, Zhang, Ma, Zhang, Fu, Yang, Liu, Wang, Tang, Ou, Wu, Xu, Zhao: EvoSkillRec: Skill-Genome Evolution for Recommender Architecture Discovery arxiv.org/abs/2609.34552 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.34552 arxiv.org/html/2609.34552

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cong Wang, Shoujin Wang, Yishuo Li, Qi Zhang, Liang Hu, Wenpeng Lu: Eval4DiRec: A Unified and Systematic Evaluation Framework for Diffusion-based Recommender Systems arxiv.org/abs/2609.34404 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.34404 arxiv.org/html/2609.34404

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Chen, Chen, Jia, Gan, Zhang, Wei, Fan: Relevance-Resolution Transfer via Scale-Decomposable Fractional Diffusion for Multi-Length Cross-Modal Hash Retrieval arxiv.org/abs/2609.34393 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.34393 arxiv.org/html/2609.34393

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Junhao Zhang, Feiran Hu, Xiao Hu, Baoliang Cui, Xiaoyi Zeng: Correcting to Predict: Pseudo-Value Correction for Multimodal Attribute Value Extraction arxiv.org/abs/2609.34383 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.34383 arxiv.org/html/2609.34383

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Zhuo Cai, Shoujin Wang, Peilin Zhou, Min Xu, Julian McAuley, Fang Chen: SPRINT: Single-Step Generative Recommendation via Average Probability Velocity arxiv.org/abs/2609.34306 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.34306 arxiv.org/html/2609.34306

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Zhuoxiong Gan, Qiang Dong: Measuring and Mitigating Identity-Cue Preference Drift in LLM-based Recommender Systems arxiv.org/abs/2609.34229 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.34229 arxiv.org/html/2609.34229

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Shubing Yang, Dongfang Zhao: RidgeRank: Efficient Visual Document Reranking via Score Fusion and a Shallow Linear Readout arxiv.org/abs/2609.34192 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.34192 arxiv.org/html/2609.34192

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Haodong Yang, Mengzhu Chen, Jia Cai: STITCH-RAG: Spatio-Temporal Influence Tracing over Topic Hypergraphs for Multi-Hop Retrieval-Augmented Generation arxiv.org/abs/2609.34127 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.34127 arxiv.org/html/2609.34127

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Zijun Zhao, Peng Zhang, Gang Zhang, Yuanchi Ma, Hui He, Zhendong Niu: Beyond the Beam: Constructive Repair and Candidate Completion for Generative Recommendation arxiv.org/abs/2609.33745 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.33745 arxiv.org/html/2609.33745

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Xingyu Lin, Dehui Du: From PDF to Evidence: Structure-Aware Retrieval for Clinical Practice Guidelines arxiv.org/abs/2609.33447 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.33447 arxiv.org/html/2609.33447

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Minchan Kim, Jungmin Hwang, Hyunwoo Park: What Gets Measured Gets Managed: Sign-aware Recommendation Needs Sign-aware Evaluation arxiv.org/abs/2609.33346 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.33346 arxiv.org/html/2609.33346

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jianrong Ding, Zhengyan Shi, Jianyuan Zhong, Kai Qiu, Qi Dai, Yifan Yang, Chong Luo, Qiang Xu: Inspire: Benchmarking Scientific Literature Search for Open Research Problems arxiv.org/abs/2609.33233 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.33233 arxiv.org/html/2609.33233

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Seungheon Doh, Sergio Oramas, Bruno Sguerra, Abhinav Bohra, Claudio Pomo, Francesco Barile: Overview and Analysis of the RecSys Challenge 2026: Conversational Music Recommendation arxiv.org/abs/2609.33045 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.33045 arxiv.org/html/2609.33045

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Joongmin Shin, Gyuho Shim, Jung-hun Lee, Jaehyung Seo: PILAR: A Page-Grounded Unified Evidence Representation via an Entity-Linked Assertion Graph for Open-Domain QA Agents over Multimodal Do... arxiv.org/abs/2609.32895 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.32895 arxiv.org/html/2609.32895

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Chang, Wang, Diao, Montazer, Zhang, Misra, Hong, Margolin, Bansod, Han: Mend the Measurement Gap: Latent User Preference Modeling for Short-Form Video Recommendation arxiv.org/abs/2609.32839 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.32839 arxiv.org/html/2609.32839

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dewen Guo, Shi Yu, Lingxiao Zhang, Yang Zhang, Tao XU, Dan Wang: RandSlot: Learning Compact Visual Document Representations with Random Soft Tokens arxiv.org/abs/2609.32699 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.32699 arxiv.org/html/2609.32699

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yoonseo Kim, Jungwoo Choi, Cheonyoung Park, Youngwook Kim, Yongho Song, SeongKu Kang: Concepts Complement Dense Semantics: Learning Compact Sparse Spaces for Text-Image Retrieval arxiv.org/abs/2609.32671 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.32671 arxiv.org/html/2609.32671

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Maojun Sun, Yancheng Yuan, Jian Huang, Ruijian Han: When Does Dense Retrieval Need Asymmetric Geometry? A Bias-Variance Theory of Shared and Dual Projections arxiv.org/abs/2609.32488 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.32488 arxiv.org/html/2609.32488

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ali Habibullah, Mohammad Alshiekh, Yazan Alshoibi, Salman Khan, Naeemullah Khan: Recipe-Matching, Not Equivalence arxiv.org/abs/2609.31927 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.31927 arxiv.org/html/2609.31927

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Kanoulas, Eustratiadis, Callan, Sanderson, Li, Qiao, Poerwawinata, Pal: Overview of the TREC 2025 Million Large Language Models track arxiv.org/abs/2609.31921 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.31921 arxiv.org/html/2609.31921

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yufeng Wang: MM-VeriRec: Failure-Guided Fusion for Verifiable Agentic Multimodal Recommendation arxiv.org/abs/2609.31718 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.31718 arxiv.org/html/2609.31718

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mancino, Di Fazio, Danese, Attimonelli, Malitesta, Ferrara, Pomo, Di Noia: Data Processing for Offline Evaluation in Recommender Systems: a Survey arxiv.org/abs/2609.31696 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.31696 arxiv.org/html/2609.31696

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

[2026-09-29 Tue (UTC), 31 new articles found for csIR Information Retrieval]

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Darshan Sonagara, Qujiaheng Zhang, Ankit Singh, Alex Li: Retail Product Search: A Practical Approach at Target arxiv.org/abs/2609.31498 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.31498 arxiv.org/html/2609.31498

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ekaterina Trushkova, Artur Gimranov, Anton Lysenko: Enriching Sequential Recommendation with Graph Laplacian Positional Embeddings arxiv.org/abs/2609.31253 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.31253 arxiv.org/html/2609.31253

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arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ryoma Sato: AgentRecommender: LLM Agents Enable Customizable Recommender Systems on the User Side arxiv.org/abs/2609.31166 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.31166 arxiv.org/html/2609.31166

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