3 papers
cs.IR2026
Reason to Contrast: A Cascaded Multimodal Retrieval Framework
Xuanming Cui, Hong-You Chen, Hao Yu +10
Traditional multimodal retrieval systems rely primarily on bi-encoder architectures, where performance is closely tied to embedding dimensionality. Recent work, Think-Then-Embed (T…
cs.IR2026
MixLM: High-Throughput and Effective LLM Ranking via Text-Embedding Mix-Interaction
Guoyao Li, Ran He, Shusen Jing +21
Large language models (LLMs) excel at capturing semantic nuances and therefore show impressive relevance ranking performance in modern recommendation and search systems. However, t…
cs.IR2025
Scaling Up Efficient Small Language Models Serving and Deployment for Semantic Job Search
Kayhan Behdin, Qingquan Song, Sriram Vasudevan +17
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive quality when applied to predictive tasks such as relevance ranking and semantic search. However, deployment of such LLMs r…