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Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant progress in dialogue, yet redundant memory contexts severely limit their effectiveness in long-term dialogue agents. External memory systems have been proposed to improve memory…

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We propose RecaLLM, a set of reasoning language models post-trained to make effective use of long-context information. In-context retrieval, which identifies relevant evidence from context, and reasoning are deeply intertwined: retrieval…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Kyle Whitecross , Negin Rahimi

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant strides across various information retrieval tasks, particularly as rerankers, owing to their strong generalization and knowledge-transfer capabilities acquired from extensive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Rahul Seetharaman , Kaustubh D. Dhole , Aman Bansal

LongRecall. The completeness of machine-generated text, ensuring that it captures all relevant information, is crucial in domains such as medicine and law and in tasks like list-based question answering (QA), where omissions can have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-22 MohamamdJavad Ardestani , Ehsan Kamalloo , Davood Rafiei

Recent progress in deep learning has continuously improved the accuracy of dialogue response selection. In particular, sophisticated neural network architectures are leveraged to capture the rich interactions between dialogue context and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Tian Lan , Deng Cai , Yan Wang , Yixuan Su , Heyan Huang , Xian-Ling Mao

Large language models (LLMs) excel at semantic understanding, yet their ability to reconstruct internal structure from scrambled inputs remains underexplored. Sentence-level restoration is ill-posed for automated evaluation because multiple…

We introduce Rank1, the first reranking model trained to take advantage of test-time compute. Rank1 demonstrates the applicability within retrieval of using a reasoning language model (i.e. OpenAI's o1, Deepseek's R1, etc.) for distillation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Orion Weller , Kathryn Ricci , Eugene Yang , Andrew Yates , Dawn Lawrie , Benjamin Van Durme

Reasoning-augmented search agents such as Search-R1, trained via reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), demonstrate remarkable capabilities in multi-step information retrieval from external knowledge sources. These agents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Shu Zhao , Tan Yu , Anbang Xu , Japinder Singh , Aaditya Shukla , Rama Akkiraju

Memory systems often organize user-agent interactions as retrievable external memory and are crucial for long-running agents by overcoming the limited context windows of LLMs. However, existing memory systems invoke LLMs to process every…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Zijie Dai , Shiyuan Deng , Sheng Guan , Yizhou Tian , Xin Yao , Xiao Yan , James Cheng

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) automates network design, but conventional methods demand substantial computational resources. We propose a closed-loop pipeline leveraging large language models (LLMs) to iteratively generate, evaluate, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Xiaojie Gu , Dmitry Ignatov , Radu Timofte

Music search at the scale of Amazon Music presents a unique challenge: queries frequently deviate from indexed metadata due to misspellings, transpositions, and phonetic variations, yet the retrieval system must operate under strict…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Paul Greyson , Zhichao Geng , Wei Zhang , Yang Yang

Recurrent large language models that compete with Transformers in language modeling perplexity are emerging at a rapid rate (e.g., Mamba, RWKV). Excitingly, these architectures use a constant amount of memory during inference. However, due…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Simran Arora , Aman Timalsina , Aaryan Singhal , Benjamin Spector , Sabri Eyuboglu , Xinyi Zhao , Ashish Rao , Atri Rudra , Christopher Ré

Effective information retrieval requires reasoning over partial evidence and refining strategies as information emerges. Yet current approaches fall short: neural retrievers lack reasoning capabilities, large language models (LLMs) provide…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Supriti Vijay , Aman Priyanshu , Anu Vellore , Baturay Saglam , Amin Karbasi

Despite their remarkable capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle to effectively leverage historical interaction information in dynamic and complex environments. Memory systems enable LLMs to move beyond stateless interactions by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jizhan Fang , Xinle Deng , Haoming Xu , Ziyan Jiang , Yuqi Tang , Ziwen Xu , Shumin Deng , Yunzhi Yao , Mengru Wang , Shuofei Qiao , Huajun Chen , Ningyu Zhang

In agent memory systems, the reranking model serves as the critical bridge connecting user queries with long-term memory. Most systems adopt the "retrieve-then-rerank" two-stage paradigm, but generic reranking models rely on semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Chunyu Li , Mengyuan Zhang , Jingyi Kang , Ding Chen , Jiajun Shen , Bo Tang , Xuanhe Zhou , Feiyu Xiong , Zhiyu Li

We introduce a comprehensive benchmark for conversational memory evaluation containing 75,336 question-answer pairs across diverse categories including user facts, assistant recall, abstention, preferences, temporal changes, and implicit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Egor Pakhomov , Erik Nijkamp , Caiming Xiong

Establishing retrieval-based dialogue systems that can select appropriate responses from the pre-built index has gained increasing attention from researchers. For this task, the adoption of pre-trained language models (such as BERT) has led…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Chongyang Tao , Jiazhan Feng , Chang Liu , Juntao Li , Xiubo Geng , Daxin Jiang

Long short-term memory recurrent neural networks (LSTM-RNNs) are considered state-of-the art in many speech processing tasks. The recurrence in the network, in principle, allows any input to be remembered for an indefinite time, a feature…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-02 Jeroen Zegers , Hugo Van hamme

Combinatorial optimization (CO) underlies decision-making from logistics to chip design, where infeasible solutions are operationally unusable and small quality gains translate into substantial economic value. Recent work uses large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Fatemeh Haji , Javier Delarosa Quiros , Peyman Najafirad

Large Language Model (LLM) based listwise ranking has shown superior performance in many passage ranking tasks. With the development of Large Reasoning Models (LRMs), many studies have demonstrated that step-by-step reasoning during…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Wenhan Liu , Xinyu Ma , Weiwei Sun , Yutao Zhu , Yuchen Li , Dawei Yin , Zhicheng Dou