
Emancipatory Information Retrieval
Research Focus: Week of January 27, 2025
In this issue: A new approach to multimodal pretraining for remote sensing; Managed-retention memory for the AI era; Improving detection of macular telangiectasia type 2; Generalizing symbolic automata.
Chain-of-Retrieval Augmented Generation
Research Focus: Week of January 13, 2025
In this edition: Privacy enhancements for multiparty deep learning; using smaller, open-source models to provide relevance judgments; new tool uses AI, data to automate innovation and development; Yasuyuki Matsushita named IEEE 2025 Computer Society Fellow.
Accelerating Multilingual RAG Systems
As Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems gain prominence for grounding large language models (LLMs) in external knowledge, constructing evaluation frameworks is critical in accelerating developments across multiple diverse languages. This talk introduces a comprehensive multilingual RAG…
PIKE-RAG
PIKE-RAG (sPecIalized KnowledgE and Rationale Augmented Generation) framework mainly consists of several basic modules, including document parsing, knowledge extraction, knowledge storage, knowledge retrieval, knowledge organization, knowledge-centric reasoning, and task decomposition and coordination while building coherent…