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most citedPre-trained Language Model for Web-scale Retrieval in Baidu Search

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cs.AI2026

Experimental Experience Modeling for Autonomous Research

Wenda Wei, Yingchen Zhang, Ruqing Zhang +3

Autonomous research agents can generate hypotheses and conduct experiments, but experimentation remains a major source of computational cost. A fundamental challenge is deciding wh…

cs.IR2026

From Ranked Documents to Reliable Contexts: An Answer-Oriented Context Construct Framework for AI Search

Yunfei Zhong, Yinqiong Cai, Lixin Su +7

Traditional Web search follows a human-facing paradigm in which users inspect ranked documents and synthesize information themselves. In AI Search, retrieved documents instead serv…

cs.IR2026

Token-Level Credit Assignment Optimization for Generative Document Retrieval

Xinpeng Zhao, Yang Liu, Ran Chen +6

Generative retrieval models perform document retrieval by autoregressively generating document identifiers (DocIDs). This process naturally forms a sequential decision problem, i.e…

cs.IR2026

Querit-Reranker: Training Compact Multilingual Rerankers via Efficient Label-Free Distribution Adaptation

Yunfei Zhong, Jun Yang, Wei Huang +7

A deployable multilingual reranker must not only generalize across languages, domains, and ranking tasks, but also remain efficient to serve as a second-stage reranker in practical…

cs.AI2026

Thinking as Compression: Your Reasoning Model is Secretly a Context Compressor

Guoxin Ma, Yibing Liu, Chengzhengxu Li +7

Context compression aims to shorten long context inputs with minimal information loss for LLM inference acceleration. While existing methods have shown promise, they typically rely…

cs.CL2026

Beyond Imitation: Reflective On-Policy Self-Distillation for LLM Reasoning

Ziqi Zhao, Xinyu Ma, Liu Yang +6

On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) improves the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by providing dense token-level supervision for on-policy rollouts. However, e…

cs.CL2026

Large Language Model-Powered Query-Driven Event Timeline Summarization in Industrial Search

Mingyue Wang, Xingyu Xie, Hang Yang +5

Understanding how events evolve over time is essential for search engines handling queries about trending news. We present QDET (Query-Driven Event Timeline Summarization), a produ…

cs.IR2026

RAG-Enhanced Large Language Models for Dynamic Content Expiration Prediction in Web Search

Tingyu Chen, Wenkai Zhang, Li Gao +4

In commercial web search, aligning content freshness with user intent remains challenging due to the highly varied lifespans of information. Traditional industrial approaches rely…

cs.AI2026

ConsistRM: Improving Generative Reward Models via Consistency-Aware Self-Training

Yu Liang, Liangxin Liu, Longzheng Wang +5

Generative reward models (GRMs) have emerged as a promising approach for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences by offering greater representational capacity…

cs.AI2026

ReflectRM: Boosting Generative Reward Models via Self-Reflection within a Unified Judgment Framework

Kai Qin, Liangxin Liu, Yu Liang +7

Reward Models (RMs) are critical components in the Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) pipeline, directly determining the alignment quality of Large Language Models (…

cs.AI2026

UniCreative: Unifying Long-form Logic and Short-form Sparkle via Reference-Free Reinforcement Learning

Xiaolong Wei, Zerun Zhu, Simin Niu +9

A fundamental challenge in creative writing lies in reconciling the inherent tension between maintaining global coherence in long-form narratives and preserving local expressivenes…

cs.IR2026

Reconstructing Content with Collaborative Attention for Universal Multimodal Representation Learning

Jiahan Chen, Da Li, Hengran Zhang +6

Multimodal embedding models, rooted in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), have yielded significant performance improvements across diverse tasks such as retrieval and classi…

cs.IR2026

Bagging-Based Model Merging for Robust General Text Embeddings

Hengran Zhang, Keping Bi, Jiafeng Guo +4

General-purpose text embedding models underpin a wide range of NLP and information retrieval applications, and are typically trained on large-scale multi-task corpora to encourage…

cs.IR2026

Agentic-R: Learning to Retrieve for Agentic Search

Wenhan Liu, Xinyu Ma, Yutao Zhu +4

Agentic search has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm, where an agent interleaves multi-step reasoning with on-demand retrieval to solve complex questions. Despite its success…

cs.AI2026

Reinforced Efficient Reasoning via Semantically Diverse Exploration

Ziqi Zhao, Zhaochun Ren, Jiahong Zou +9

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has proven effective in enhancing the reasoning of large language models (LLMs). Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS)-based extensio…