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most citedSEA-SQL: Semantic-Enhanced Text-to-SQL with Adaptive Refinement

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12 papers

cs.IR2026

Self-improving data synthesis enables scalable adaptation of embedding models

Zucan Lyu, Rui Tang, Jianlyu Chen +3

AI agents require specialised retrieval across domains and tasks, but adapting embedding models is constrained by costly manual training-data design. Here we introduce SYNTRA, a se…

cs.DL2026

DeepXiv-SDK: An Agentic Data Interface for Scientific Literature

Hongjin Qian, Ziyi Xia, Ze Liu +11

LLM-agents are increasingly used to accelerate the progress of scientific research. Yet a persistent bottleneck is data access: agents not only lack readily available tools for ret…

cs.IR2025

Retro*: Optimizing LLMs for Reasoning-Intensive Document Retrieval

Junwei Lan, Jianlyu Chen, Zheng Liu +3

With the growing popularity of LLM agents and RAG, it has become increasingly important to retrieve documents that are essential for solving a task, even when their connection to t…

cs.IR2025

ReasonEmbed: Enhanced Text Embeddings for Reasoning-Intensive Document Retrieval

Jianlyu Chen, Junwei Lan, Chaofan Li +2

In this paper, we introduce ReasonEmbed, a novel text embedding model developed for reasoning-intensive document retrieval. Our work includes three key technical contributions. Fir…

cs.IR2025

MR-Bench: Going Beyond Matching to Reasoning in Multimodal Retrieval

Junjie Zhou, Ze Liu, Lei Xiong +10

Multimodal retrieval is becoming a crucial component of modern AI applications, yet its evaluation lags behind the demands of more realistic and challenging scenarios. Existing ben…

cs.IR2025

Towards A Generalist Code Embedding Model Based On Massive Data Synthesis

Chaofan Li, Jianlyu Chen, Yingxia Shao +2

Code embedding models attract increasing attention due to the widespread popularity of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in software development. These models are expected to ca…

cs.CL2025

Reinforced Information Retrieval

Chaofan Li, Zheng Liu, Jianlyv Chen +2

While retrieval techniques are widely used in practice, they still face significant challenges in cross-domain scenarios. Recently, generation-augmented methods have emerged as a p…

cs.CL2025

O1 Embedder: Let Retrievers Think Before Action

Ruiran Yan, Zheng Liu, Defu Lian

The growing power of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized how people access and utilize information. Notably, the LLMs excel at performing fine-grained data representati…

cs.CL2025

Matryoshka Re-Ranker: A Flexible Re-Ranking Architecture With Configurable Depth and Width

Zheng Liu, Chaofan Li, Shitao Xiao +3

Large language models (LLMs) provide powerful foundations to perform fine-grained text re-ranking. However, they are often prohibitive in reality due to constraints on computation…

cs.IR2024

AIR-Bench: Automated Heterogeneous Information Retrieval Benchmark

Jianlyu Chen, Nan Wang, Chaofan Li +6

Evaluation plays a crucial role in the advancement of information retrieval (IR) models. However, current benchmarks, which are based on predefined domains and human-labeled data,…

cs.CL2024

Lighter And Better: Towards Flexible Context Adaptation For Retrieval Augmented Generation

Zheng Liu, Chenyuan Wu, Ninglu Shao +3

The existing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems face significant challenges in terms of cost and effectiveness. On one hand, they need to encode the lengthy retrieved con…

cs.DB2024★ 1 cited

SEA-SQL: Semantic-Enhanced Text-to-SQL with Adaptive Refinement

Chaofan Li, Yingxia Shao, Yawen Li +1

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly contributed to the progress of the Text-to-SQL task. A common requirement in many of these works is the post-…