most citedA Survey of Model Architectures in Information Retrieval

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cs.AI2026

SIPO: Unifying Reinforcement Learning with On-Policy Self-Distillation

Zhenrui Yue, Huimin Zeng, Yueqi Wang +8

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become a standard paradigm for improving large language models (LLMs) on various tasks, yet its sparse outcome rewards lac…

cs.LG2026

Discrete Diffusion Models: A Unified Framework from Tokenization to Generation

Ye Yuan, Weien Li, Rui Song +20

Discrete denoising diffusion models (DDMs) have recently emerged as a compelling alternative to autoregressive (AR) modeling for discrete data, offering parallel generation and ite…

cs.IR2026

The Attention Market: Interpreting Online Fair Re-ranking as Manifold Optimization under Walrasian Equilibrium

Chen Xu, Wei Chu, Wenyu Hu +3

Fair re-ranking aims to promote long-tail items and enhance diversity within groups in information retrieval. While previous research on online fairness-aware re-ranking has shown…

cs.AI2026

SynPlanResearch-R1: Encouraging Tool Exploration for Deep Research with Synthetic Plans

Hansi Zeng, Zoey Li, Yifan Gao +7

Research Agents enable models to gather information from the web using tools to answer user queries, requiring them to dynamically interleave internal reasoning with tool use. Whil…

cs.IR2026

Re-Rankers as Relevance Judges

Chuan Meng, Jiqun Liu, Mohammad Aliannejadi +3

Using large language models (LLMs) to predict relevance judgments has shown promising results. Most studies treat this task as a distinct research line, e.g., focusing on prompt de…

cs.CL2025

CRMWeaver: Building Powerful Business Agent via Agentic RL and Shared Memories

Yilong Lai, Yipin Yang, Ting Liang +4

Recent years have witnessed the rapid development of LLM-based agents, which shed light on using language agents to solve complex real-world problems. A prominent application lies…

cs.CL2025

Rethinking On-policy Optimization for Query Augmentation

Zhichao Xu, Shengyao Zhuang, Xueguang Ma +6

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have led to a surge of interest in query augmentation for information retrieval (IR). Two main approaches have emerged. The first pr…

cs.LG2025

Future Link Prediction Without Memory or Aggregation

Lu Yi, Runlin Lei, Fengran Mo +3

Future link prediction on temporal graphs is a fundamental task with wide applicability in real-world dynamic systems. These scenarios often involve both recurring (seen) and novel…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

TGB-Seq Benchmark: Challenging Temporal GNNs with Complex Sequential Dynamics

Lu Yi, Jie Peng, Yanping Zheng +5

Future link prediction is a fundamental challenge in various real-world dynamic systems. To address this, numerous temporal graph neural networks (temporal GNNs) and benchmark data…

cs.IR2025★ 1 cited

A Survey of Model Architectures in Information Retrieval

Zhichao Xu, Fengran Mo, Zhiqi Huang +5

The period from 2019 to the present marks one of the most significant paradigm shifts in information retrieval (IR) and natural language processing (NLP), culminating in the emerge…