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11 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.AI2026

AREX-2: Advancing Self-Improving Agents through Long-Horizon Reflective Tasks

Hongjin Qian, Chaofan Li, Kun Luo +11

We present AREX-2, an effort to advance the self-improving capability of LLM agents, which we define as the ability to iteratively refine a solution at test time. This ability rest…

cs.AI2026

Repo-To-Skill: Distilling GitHub Repositories Into AI4AI Skills

Jianlyu Chen, Yuyang Hu, Hongjin Qian +8

Autonomous agents are beginning to carry out machine-learning (ML) research end to end. These agents combine a model backbone with a harness for planning, execution, memory, and ve…

cs.AI2026★ 1 cited

AutoResearchBench: Benchmarking AI Agents on Complex Scientific Literature Discovery

Lei Xiong, Kun Luo, Ziyi Xia +15

Autonomous scientific research is significantly advanced thanks to the development of AI agents. One key step in this process is finding the right scientific literature, whether to…

cs.IR2026

Benchmarking and Enabling Efficient Chinese Medical Retrieval via Asymmetric Encoders

Angqing Jiang, Jianlyu Chen, Zhe Fang +4

Effective medical text retrieval requires both high accuracy and low latency. While LLM-based embedding models possess powerful retrieval capabilities, their prohibitive latency an…

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

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.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.IR2024★ 3 cited

Making Text Embedders Few-Shot Learners

Chaofan Li, MingHao Qin, Shitao Xiao +5

Large language models (LLMs) with decoder-only architectures demonstrate remarkable in-context learning (ICL) capabilities. This feature enables them to effectively handle both fam…