2 papers
cs.CL2026
Benchmarking Google Embeddings 2 against Open-Source Models for Multilingual Dense Retrieval and RAG Systems
Stefano Cirillo, Domenico Desiato, Giuseppe Polese +1
We benchmark Google Embeddings (GE2), a Vertex-AI-hosted bi-encoder with 2,048-token context and explicit task-type conditioning, against five open-source alternatives: BGE-M3, E5-…
cs.SE2025
Bug Detective and Quality Coach: Developers' Mental Models of AI-Assisted IDE Tools
Paolo Buono, Mary Cerullo, Stefano Cirillo +7
AI-assisted tools support developers in performing cognitively demanding tasks such as bug detection and code readability assessment. Despite the advancements in the technical char…