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New arXiv papers explore privacy, efficiency, and LLM integration in dense retrieval

Four new arXiv papers explore advancements in dense retrieval, a key component for large language models in information retrieval tasks. The first paper introduces a privacy-preserving method using learned deep hashing to efficiently filter candidate documents, reducing computational cost while maintaining retrieval quality. Another paper proposes AnchorQE, a training-free method that improves dense retrieval by optimizing how generated query expansions are integrated with original queries. A third paper, LLM-QL, leverages large language models through query likelihood maximization as an auxiliary task to enhance retriever performance. Finally, AdaWidth presents a query-adaptive approach to reduce embedding dimensions, evaluating fewer dimensions for queries that require them, thus improving efficiency without sacrificing accuracy. AI

IMPACT These advancements in dense retrieval could lead to more efficient and accurate information retrieval systems, improving the performance of LLMs in various applications.

RANK_REASON Cluster consists of multiple academic papers published on arXiv detailing new methods and models in dense retrieval.

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Seiji Maekawa, Moin Aminnaseri, Pouya Pezeshkpour, Estevam Hruschka ·

    Align Then Adapt: Label-Efficient Adapter Learning for Asymmetric Dense Retrieval

    arXiv:2604.03403v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Dense retrieval systems increasingly face an asymmetry between complex instruction-like queries and relatively simple, static document collections. While stronger embedders can better understand such queries, re-embedding …

  2. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Peichun Hua, Danyang Chen, Junan Zhang, Haifeng Sun, Jingyu Wang, Diwen Xue, Mingyu Li, Yunming Xiao ·

    Pointing the Way, Hiding the Destination: Practical Private Dense Retrieval at Scale

    arXiv:2608.25735v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hosted retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and semantic search allow users to query valuable provider-held corpora, raising two competing demands: to hide each query and chosen result, yet reveal only the documents that the user …

  3. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Yunming Xiao ·

    Pointing the Way, Hiding the Destination: Practical Private Dense Retrieval at Scale

    Hosted retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and semantic search allow users to query valuable provider-held corpora, raising two competing demands: to hide each query and chosen result, yet reveal only the documents that the user is authorized to receive. Existing cryptographic a…

  4. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Mihai Surdeanu ·

    Query Expansion Is More Than Generation: Improving Dense Retrieval through Better Integration

    Large language models (LLMs) can generate query expansions without task-specific training, yet the same expansions often make a frozen dense retriever worse. We identify an underexplored factor: prior work has often focused on what text is generated, while how generated text is i…

  5. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Hengran Zhang, Keping Bi, Jiafeng Guo, Xiaojie Sun, Shihao Liu, Daiting Shi, Dawei Yin, Xueqi Cheng ·

    Unleashing the Power of LLMs in Dense Retrieval with Query Likelihood Modeling

    arXiv:2504.05216v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Dense retrieval is a crucial task in Information Retrieval (IR), serving as the basis for downstream tasks such as re-ranking and augmenting generation. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive s…

  6. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Dongfang Zhao ·

    AdaWidth: Query-Adaptive Embedding Width for Dense Retrieval

    High-dimensional embeddings are central to dense retrieval, but not all of these dimensions need to be evaluated at retrieval time. Existing methods reduce dimensions in two ways: truncating the same leading dimensions for every query, or masking a different subset for each query…