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We propose a Fourier-based approach for optimization of several clustering algorithms. Mathematically, clusters data can be described by a density function represented by the Dirac mixture distribution. The density function can be smoothed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Soheil Mehrabkhani

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a prevalent approach to infuse a private knowledge base of documents with Large Language Models (LLM) to build Generative Q\&A (Question-Answering) systems. However, RAG accuracy becomes increasingly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Kunal Sawarkar , Abhilasha Mangal , Shivam Raj Solanki

Logs of the interactions with a search engine show that users often reformulate their queries. Examining these reformulations shows that recommendations that precise the focus of a query are helpful, like those based on expansions of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-04-13 Sumio Fujita , Georges Dupret , Ricardo Baeza-Yates

In a typical Internet-of-Things setting that involves scientific applications, a target computation can be evaluated in many different ways depending on the split of computations among various devices. On the one hand, different…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Aravind Sankaran , Paolo Bientinesi

Sorting and searching are large parts of database query processing, e.g., in the forms of index creation, index maintenance, and index lookup; and comparing pairs of keys is a substantial part of the effort in sorting and searching. We have…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Thanh Do , Goetz Graefe

The quantum SearchRank algorithm is a promising tool for a future quantum search engine based on PageRank quantization. However, this algorithm loses its functionality when the $N/M$ ratio between the network size $N$ and the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Sergio A. Ortega , Miguel A. Martin-Delgado

Priority queues are used in a wide range of applications, including prioritized online scheduling, discrete event simulation, and greedy algorithms. In parallel settings, classical priority queues often become a severe bottleneck, resulting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Marvin Williams , Peter Sanders

The ranked retrieval model has rapidly become the de-facto way for search query processing in web databases. Despite the extensive efforts on designing better ranking mechanisms, in practice, many such databases fail to address the diverse…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Yeshwanth D. Gunasekaran , Abolfazl Asudeh , Sona Hasani , Nan Zhang , Ali Jaoua , Gautam Das

The PageRank algorithm is used to rank web pages by their importance. Since its development, the PageRank algorithm is a critical and fundamental part of search engines today. PageRank is a graph-based algorithm that ranks pages based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Christopher Sims

Effective document reranking is essential for improving search relevance across diverse applications. While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at reranking due to their deep semantic understanding and reasoning, their high computational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Dimitar Peshevski , Kiril Blazhevski , Martin Popovski , Gjorgji Madjarov

Given the rapid development of Legal AI, a lot of attention has been paid to one of the most important legal AI tasks--similar case retrieval, especially with language models to use. In our paper, however, we try to improve the ranking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yuqi Liu , Yan Zheng

Talent search is a cornerstone of modern recruitment systems, yet existing approaches often struggle to capture nuanced job-specific preferences, model recruiter behavior at a fine-grained level, and mitigate noise from subjective human…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jihang Li , Bing Xu , Zulong Chen , Chuanfei Xu , Minping Chen , Suyu Liu , Ying Zhou , Zeyi Wen

One of the classical problems in machine learning and data mining is feature selection. A feature selection algorithm is expected to be quick, and at the same time it should show high performance. MeLiF algorithm effectively solves this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Ivan Smetannikov , Ilya Isaev , Andrey Filchenkov

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made query reformulation ubiquitous in modern retrieval and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, enabling the generation of multiple semantically equivalent query variants. However, executing the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Negar Arabzadeh , Andrew Drozdov , Michael Bendersky , Matei Zaharia

We study the similarity search problem which aims to find the similar query results according to a set of given data and a query string. To balance the result number and result quality, we combine query result diversity with query…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Ruoxi Shi , Hongzhi Wang , Tao Wang , Yutai Hou , Yiwen Tang

Embedding fusion has emerged as an effective approach for enhancing performance across various NLP tasks. However, systematic guidelines for selecting optimal layers and developing effective fusion strategies for the integration of LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Jiho Gwak , Yuchul Jung

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for passage reranking in information retrieval, leveraging their superior reasoning capabilities to address the limitations of conventional models on complex queries. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Meixiu Long , Duolin Sun , Dan Yang , Yihan Jiao , Lei Liu , Jiahai Wang , BinBin Hu , Yue Shen , Jie Feng , Zhehao Tan , Junjie Wang , Lianzhen Zhong , Jian Wang , Peng Wei , Jinjie Gu

With the continued migration of storage to cloud database systems,the impact of slow queries in such systems on services and user experience is increasing. Root-cause diagnosis plays an indispensable role in facilitating slow-query…

To support complex search tasks, where the initial information requirements are complex or may change during the search, a search engine must adapt the information delivery as the user's information requirements evolve. To support this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Jianghong Zhou , Eugene Agichtein

Owing to the significance of combinatorial search strategies both for academia and industry, the introduction of new techniques is a fast growing research field these days. These strategies have really taken different forms ranging from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Bestoun S. Ahmed , Luca M. Gambardella , Kamal Z. Zamli