arXiv:2604.02091v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Rerankers play a pivotal role in refining retrieval results for Retrieval-Augmented Generation. However, current reranking models are typically optimized on static human annotated relevance labels in isolation, decoupled f…
arXiv:2606.28327v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How do retrieval bounds compare between human episodic memory and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems under semantic interference? We present a unified signal detection theory (SDT) framework that applies to both, and use…
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TIER_1English(EN)·Thien-Qua-T-Nguyen, Chi Hoang, Nguyen Tran, Tri Le, Khanh Truong, Chinh Trong Nguyen·
arXiv:2606.28737v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce 5ting, our system for the SemEval2026 Task 8 (MTRAGEval), which evaluates multi-turn Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. Multi turn RAG involves context drift, under specification, and hallucination risk. Ou…
arXiv:2606.28352v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-turn retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is challenging due to evolving user intent, conversational noise, and strict context limits. We propose a training-free hybrid retrieval pipeline for SemEval-2026 Task 8 that combine…
<figure><img alt="Hand-drawn notebook and laptop illustrating a retrieval pipeline: the six stages (user query, retriever, knowledge source, reranker, augmented prompt, LLM generation) plus a best-practices checklist, with a banner reading “Retrieval gives the model the right not…
<p>If your RAG system gives wrong answers, the model is almost never the problem. The retrieval step handed it the wrong context, and a frontier model will confidently reason over wrong context all day. In 2026 the hard part of retrieval-augmented generation is retrieval. Generat…
<p>If I had a dollar $ for every time someone explained RAG in exactly four boxes and an arrow between each, I'd have enough to fine-tune a small LLM by now.</p> <p>Here's the thing — those four boxes aren't <strong><em>wrong</em></strong>. They're just the skeleton. And a skelet…
<blockquote> <p><strong>Key Takeaways</strong></p> <ul> <li>RAG pipeline chunking strategies determine retrieval quality more than the embedding model or vector store — most recall failures trace back to how documents were split during ingestion</li> <li>Fixed-size chunking (256–…