The Complete Guide to Training Image Retrieval Models, A Knowledge-Oriented Survey of RAG Technologies, and More!

Vol.96 for Mar 17 - Mar 23, 2025

Stay Ahead of the Curve with the Latest Advancements and Discoveries in Information Retrieval.

This week’s newsletter highlights the following research:

1. A Comprehensive Study of Training Factors and Best Practices for Image Retrieval, from Berton et al.

2. A Knowledge-Oriented Survey of RAG Technologies, from USTC

3. Leveraging Pseudo-Relevance Feedback to Optimize Zero-shot LLM-Based Retrieval, from Li et al.

4. A Survey of Graph Neural Networks for Document Re-ranking, from Zaoad et al.

5. A Framework for Optimal Knowledge Selection and Integration in Graph-Based Retrieval, from Guo et al.

6. A Knowledge Graph-Based Iterative Framework for Temporal Reasoning in LLMs, from Yang et al.

7. A Systematic Review of Cross-Domain Recommendation Methods, from Zhang et al.

8. Secure Entity-Centric Retrieval for Multi-Modal Language Models, from Wu et al.

9. A Graph Neural Approach to Long and Short-Term Interest Modeling for Sequential Recommendation, from XJTU

10. A Comprehensive Survey of Small Vision-Language Models, from Patnaik et al.