2 papers
cs.IR2026
OBLIQ-IR: Training a Dense Retriever for Oblique Queries
Mahmoud Abdalla, Abdelrahman Abdallah, Shaimaa Sedek +1
Oblique retrieval, as exemplified by OBLIQ-Bench, asks a retriever to find documents whose relevance is determined by a latent attribute (an implicit stance, an analogous reasoning…
cs.IR2026
BRIDGE: Multimodal-to-Text Retrieval via Reinforcement-Learned Query Alignment
Mohamed Darwish Mounis, Mohamed Mahmoud, Shaimaa Sedek +4
Multimodal retrieval systems struggle to resolve image-text queries against text-only corpora: the best vision-language encoder achieves only 27.6 nDCG@10 on MM-BRIGHT, underperfor…