9 papers
InsightEmb: Learning Action-Intent Embeddings for Agentic Insight Retrieval
Tsz Ting Chung, Jiangnan Li, Jie Zhou +1
Self-improving agents accumulate reusable insights from prior trajectories, making retrieval increasingly important for turning accumulated experience into actionable guidance. At…
A New Role for Relevance: Guiding Corpus Interaction in Agentic Search
Jiangnan Li, Yuqing Li, Mo Yu +2
Relevance is a query-dependent estimate of whether a document or excerpt contains useful evidence. Existing retrieval agents use relevance to select top- content, but document r…
Query-focused and Memory-aware Reranker for Long Context Processing
Yuqing Li, Jiangnan Li, Mo Yu +5
Built upon the existing analysis of retrieval heads in large language models, we propose an alternative reranking framework that trains models to estimate passage-query relevance u…
Mindscape-Aware Retrieval Augmented Generation for Improved Long Context Understanding
Yuqing Li, Jiangnan Li, Zheng Lin +5
Humans understand long and complex texts by relying on a holistic semantic representation of the content. This global view helps organize prior knowledge, interpret new information…
SitEmb-v1.5: Improved Context-Aware Dense Retrieval for Semantic Association and Long Story Comprehension
Junjie Wu, Jiangnan Li, Yuqing Li +6
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) over long documents typically involves splitting the text into smaller chunks, which serve as the basic units for retrieval. However, due to de…
Dense Retrievers Can Fail on Simple Queries: Revealing The Granularity Dilemma of Embeddings
Liyan Xu, Zhenlin Su, Mo Yu +3
This work stems from an observed limitation of text encoders: embeddings may not be able to recognize fine-grained entities or events within encoded semantics, resulting in failed…