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most citedFine Tuning vs. Retrieval Augmented Generation for Less Popular Knowledge

77 citations · 336 across the 34 of their papers we have counts for

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39 papers

cs.IR2026

Computed, not Memorized: Bit-Factorized Identifiers for Efficient Generative Retrieval

I-Fan Lin, Zhen Zhang, Faegheh Hasibi +1

Generative retrieval is known for its efficient end-to-end indexing and retrieval. In particular, numeric Document Identifiers (DocIDs) are generally more efficient because they ar…

cs.IR2026

When Deep Research Agents Stagnate: Enhancing Reasoning with Retrieval-Aware Agent Control

Heydar Soudani, Elizabeth Lingg, Faegheh Hasibi +1

In this paper, we analyze the reasoning trajectories of a variety of DRAs and show that existing agents often suffer from reasoning stagnation: the majority of iterations contribut…

cs.IR2026

Uncertainty Quantification for Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation

Simon Binz, Heydar Soudani, Faegheh Hasibi

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) improves the question answering capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) by incorporating external knowledge and has recently been extended…

cs.CL2026

Reproducing Complex Set-Compositional Information Retrieval

Vincent Degenhart, Dewi Timman, Arjen P. de Vries +2

Complex information needs may involve set-compositional queries using conjunction, disjunction, and exclusion, yet it remains unclear whether current retrieval paradigms genuinely…

cs.IR2026

Total Recall QA: A Verifiable Evaluation Suite for Deep Research Agents

Mahta Rafiee, Heydar Soudani, Zahra Abbasiantaeb +3

Deep research agents have emerged as LLM-based systems designed to perform multi-step information seeking and reasoning over large, open-domain sources to answer complex questions…

cs.IR2026

OrLog: Resolving Complex Queries with LLMs and Probabilistic Reasoning

Mohanna Hoveyda, Jelle Piepenbrock, Arjen P de Vries +2

Resolving complex information needs that come with multiple constraints should consider enforcing the logical operators encoded in the query (i.e., conjunction, disjunction, negati…