Latest Research in Information Retrieval

104 research papers · 2026 median publication year

Top Research Topics in Information Retrieval

Highest-Cited Papers

  1. Don't Mask the Environment: Observation Supervision Changes How Agents Explore Under RL
  2. Region-Level Policy Optimization for Fine-grained MLLM Perception
  3. Absence is Presence: Understanding Visual Scene Negative Events Under Safety Cognitive Constraint
  4. RetireOPD: Self-Retiring On-Policy Distillation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning
  5. What Counts as Strategic Reasoning? A Systematic Mapping of Chess Research on Humans, Engines, and Language Models
  6. RLLBC-Lib: An Educational Code Library for Reinforcement Learning and Learning-Based Control
  7. Towards Faithful and Efficient Semantic Communication: An Ontological Approach
  8. Molt: A Scalable PyTorch-Native Training Framework for Agentic Reinforcement Learning
  9. Stress Tests REVEAL Fragile Temporal and Visual Grounding in Video-Language Models
  10. BRACE: Anchored Bellman-Residual Correction for Stale Critics in Asynchronous RL
  11. AMALIA-VL: A Native European Portuguese Open-Source Vision and Language Model
  12. BrainFocus: EEG-Guided ROI Selection for Efficient Vision-Language Models
  13. Learning Heterogeneous Preferences
  14. Uncertainty-Aware Multimodal AI: Detecting Ambiguity Instead of Guessing in Vision-Language Systems
  15. Reconciling Process Supervision with Outcome-Based Credit in Agentic Policy Optimization
  16. Tackling GNARLy Problems: Graph Neural Algorithmic Reasoning Reimagined through Reinforcement Learning
  17. TwinICL: Diagnosing Multimodal In-Context Learning through Paired Counterfactuals
  18. Human-Grounded Calibration for Long-Text Image-Text Congruence in Vision-Language Models
  19. CapGeo-Bench: Decoupling Visual Perception from Reasoning and Evaluating Geometric Understanding
  20. Towards Scalable RLVR: Multimodal Instruction Following Data Synthesis and Distillation
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Information Retrieval

104 papers

Top Topics (8)

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition44
Artificial Intelligence22
Machine Learning16
Computation and Language16
Information Retrieval3
Information Theory1
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications1
Machine Learning and Data Classification1

Top Publications (20)

1.Don't Mask the Environment: Observation Supervision Changes How Agents Explore Under RL2.Region-Level Policy Optimization for Fine-grained MLLM Perception3.Absence is Presence: Understanding Visual Scene Negative Events Under Safety Cognitive Constraint4.RetireOPD: Self-Retiring On-Policy Distillation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning5.What Counts as Strategic Reasoning? A Systematic Mapping of Chess Research on Humans, Engines, and Language Models6.RLLBC-Lib: An Educational Code Library for Reinforcement Learning and Learning-Based Control7.Towards Faithful and Efficient Semantic Communication: An Ontological Approach8.Molt: A Scalable PyTorch-Native Training Framework for Agentic Reinforcement Learning9.Stress Tests REVEAL Fragile Temporal and Visual Grounding in Video-Language Models10.BRACE: Anchored Bellman-Residual Correction for Stale Critics in Asynchronous RL11.AMALIA-VL: A Native European Portuguese Open-Source Vision and Language Model12.BrainFocus: EEG-Guided ROI Selection for Efficient Vision-Language Models13.Learning Heterogeneous Preferences14.Uncertainty-Aware Multimodal AI: Detecting Ambiguity Instead of Guessing in Vision-Language Systems15.Reconciling Process Supervision with Outcome-Based Credit in Agentic Policy Optimization16.Tackling GNARLy Problems: Graph Neural Algorithmic Reasoning Reimagined through Reinforcement Learning17.TwinICL: Diagnosing Multimodal In-Context Learning through Paired Counterfactuals18.Human-Grounded Calibration for Long-Text Image-Text Congruence in Vision-Language Models19.CapGeo-Bench: Decoupling Visual Perception from Reasoning and Evaluating Geometric Understanding20.Towards Scalable RLVR: Multimodal Instruction Following Data Synthesis and Distillation
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