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cs.IR2026

Assessing the Downstream Utility of Evidence-Aware Retrieval in RAG

Utshab Kumar Ghosh, Debayan Mukhopadhyay, Shubham Chatterjee

Retrieval evaluation for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is increasingly designed around whether retrieved passages contain evidence that can support generation, rather than t…

cs.IR2026

When Do Anchor-Based Pointwise LLM Rerankers Help? Retriever Quality, Statistical Scope, and Anchor Design

Utshab Kumar Ghosh, Shubham Chatterjee

Anchor-based pointwise LLM reranking scores each candidate against a shared reference passage to recover cross-document context at pointwise cost. We study when this actually helps…

cs.IR2026

Bridge Evidence: Static Retrieval Utility Does Not Predict Causal Utility in Multi-Step Agentic Search

Debayan Mukhopadhyay, Utshab Kumar Ghosh, Shubham Chatterjee

Retrieval systems are trained and evaluated on a static idea of usefulness: hand a document and a question to a reader model, see whether the answer improves, and score the documen…

cs.IR2026

Entity Labels Are Not Entity Signals: A Framework for Observable Relevance in Document Re-Ranking

Utshab Kumar Ghosh, Shubham Chatterjee

Entity-aware document retrieval uses query-associated entities as ranking signals, assuming that semantically relevant entities are also useful retrieval signals. We show this assu…

cs.IR2026

Reproduction Beyond Benchmarks: ConstBERT and ColBERT-v2 Across Backends and Query Distributions

Utshab Kumar Ghosh, Ashish David, Shubham Chatterjee

Reproducibility must validate architectural robustness, not just numerical accuracy. We evaluate ColBERT-v2 and ConstBERT across five dimensions, finding that while ConstBERT repro…

cs.IR2026

Entities as Retrieval Signals: A Systematic Study of Coverage, Supervision, and Evaluation in Entity-Oriented Ranking

Shubham Chatterjee

Entity-oriented retrieval assumes that relevant documents exhibit query-relevant entities, yet evaluations report conflicting results. We show this inconsistency stems not from mod…

cs.AI2026

Interplay: Training Independent Simulators for Reference-Free Conversational Recommendation

Jerome Ramos, Feng Xia, Xi Wang +4

Training conversational recommender systems (CRS) requires extensive dialogue data, which is challenging to collect at scale. To address this, researchers have used simulated user-…