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Modern search engines are built on a stack of different components, including query understanding, retrieval, multi-stage ranking, and question answering, among others. These components are often optimized and deployed independently. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Liang Wang , Nan Yang , Xiaolong Huang , Linjun Yang , Rangan Majumder , Furu Wei

AI agents have seen widespread adoption in information retrieval for scientific research, giving rise to tools such as Deep Research. However, existing retrieval agents mainly rely on keyword- or embedding-based methods. While effective at…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Chenyang Shao , Fengli Xu , Yong Li

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) struggles on long, structured financial filings where relevant evidence is sparse and cross-referenced. This paper presents a systematic investigation of advanced metadata-driven Retrieval-Augmented…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Michail Dadopoulos , Anestis Ladas , Stratos Moschidis , Ioannis Negkakis

Recently, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has shifted focus to multi-retrieval approaches to tackle complex tasks such as multi-hop question answering. However, these systems struggle to decide when to stop searching once enough…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Gabriel Iturra-Bocaz , Petra Galuscakova

Scientific Workflow Management Systems (SWfMSs) such as Galaxy have become essential infrastructure in bioinformatics, supporting the design, execution, and sharing of complex multi-step analyses. Despite hosting hundreds of reusable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Shamse Tasnim Cynthia , Banani Roy

Multimodal documents contain diverse elements, such as tables, figures, and layouts, which can complicate retrieval tasks. While current approaches typically combine dense visual embedding models with supervised rerankers to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Ruofan Hu , Menghui Zhu , Jieming Zhu , Bo Chen , Shengyang Xu , Minjie Hong , Xiaoda Yang , Sashuai Zhou , Li Tang , Tao Jin , Zhou Zhao

Deep research is an inherently challenging task that demands both breadth and depth of thinking. It involves navigating diverse knowledge spaces and reasoning over complex, multi-step dependencies, which presents substantial challenges for…

Large language models (LLMs) have been widely integrated into information retrieval to advance traditional techniques. However, effectively enabling LLMs to seek accurate knowledge in complex tasks remains a challenge due to the complexity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zhengliang Shi , Lingyong Yan , Dawei Yin , Suzan Verberne , Maarten de Rijke , Zhaochun Ren

The exponential growth of scientific knowledge has created significant barriers to cross-disciplinary knowledge discovery, synthesis and research collaboration. In response to this challenge, we present BioSage, a novel compound AI…

The rapid acceleration of scientific publishing has created substantial challenges for researchers attempting to discover, contextualize, and interpret relevant literature. Traditional keyword-based search systems provide limited semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Sina Jani , Arman Heidari , Amirmohammad Anvari , Zahra Rahimi

In enterprise settings, efficiently retrieving relevant information from large and complex knowledge bases is essential for operational productivity and informed decision-making. This research presents a systematic empirical framework for…

Dataset Search -- the process of finding appropriate datasets for a given task -- remains a critical yet under-explored challenge in data science workflows. Assessing dataset suitability for a task (e.g., training a classification model) is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Rachel Lin , Bhavya Chopra , Wenjing Lin , Shreya Shankar , Madelon Hulsebos , Aditya G. Parameswaran

Identifying species in biology among tens of thousands of visually similar taxa while discovering unknown species in open-world environments remains a fundamental challenge in biodiversity research. Current methods treat identification and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jiawei Wang , Ming Lei , Yaning Yang , Xinyan Lin , Yuquan Le , Qiwei Ma , Zhiwei Xu , Zheqi Lv , Yuchen Ang , Zhe Quan , Tat-Seng Chua

We show how faceted search using a combination of traditional classification systems and mixed-membership topic models can go beyond keyword search to inform resource discovery, hypothesis formulation, and argument extraction for…

Scientific reasoning is critical for developing AI scientists and supporting human researchers in advancing the frontiers of natural science discovery. However, the open-source community has primarily focused on mathematics and coding while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Run-Ze Fan , Zengzhi Wang , Pengfei Liu

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance on knowledge-intensive tasks, yet they often struggle with multi-step reasoning due to the unstructured nature of retrieved context. While retrieval-augmented generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Pengcheng Jiang , Lang Cao , Ruike Zhu , Minhao Jiang , Yunyi Zhang , Jiaming Shen , Jimeng Sun , Jiawei Han

The Discovery Engine is a general purpose automated system for scientific discovery, which combines machine learning with state-of-the-art ML interpretability to enable rapid and robust scientific insight across diverse datasets. In this…

Retrieval-augmented systems are typically evaluated in settings where information required to answer the query can be found within a single source or the answer is short-form or factoid-based. However, many real-world applications demand…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Rohan Phanse , Yijie Zhou , Kejian Shi , Wencai Zhang , Yixin Liu , Yilun Zhao , Arman Cohan

For ambiguous queries, conventional retrieval systems are bound by two conflicting goals. On the one hand, they should diversify and strive to present results for as many query intents as possible. On the other hand, they should provide…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Karthik Raman , Thorsten Joachims , Pannaga Shivaswamy

The text retrieval is the task of retrieving similar documents to a search query, and it is important to improve retrieval accuracy while maintaining a certain level of retrieval speed. Existing studies have reported accuracy improvements…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Yuichi Sasazawa , Kenichi Yokote , Osamu Imaichi , Yasuhiro Sogawa