3 papers
cs.CL2026
Beyond Polarization: The Generative Constraint of Chain-of-Thought in Pointwise Reranking
Xiaoyang Chen, Jie Liu, Haijin Liang +5
In pointwise document reranking, Chain-of-Thought models typically underperform direct scoring models. While existing diagnostics attribute this to inferior classification, score p…
cs.CV2026
SnapBench: Benchmarking Snap-and-Ask Multimodal Retrieval for Mobile Interactions
Zirong Chen, Fuda Ye, Kuan Zhang +7
Mobile AI acts as a visual oracle, empowering users to snap a picture of something and ask for information. Snap-and-ask retrieval is now one of the most common entry points for mo…
cs.IR2026
RePair: Turning Retrieval Failures into Counterfactual Hard Pairs
Siyi Liu, Xiaorong Zhu, Enjun Du +6
Vision-language retrieval with CLIP-style dual encoders achieves strong cross-modal performance, yet practical accuracy often hinges on localized semantic distinctions where top-ra…