cs.IR 2608.05497

EXCISE: Query-Side Exclusion for Late-Interaction Retrieval

EXCISE employs query-side modules to solve exclusion inversion in late-interaction retrieval, boosting exclusion success@10 to 0.691 and Boolean NOT accuracy to 0.92.

Mohammed Ali, Abdelrahman Abdallah, Adam Jatowt

2026-08-06 114
cs.CV 2608.05149

CoCo-IR: Contextual Composed Image Retrieval

Proposes CoCo-IR and TIE model, leveraging large multimodal models for multi-turn contextual image retrieval; achieves 39.4 mAP@5 (single-turn) and 44.1 R@1 (4-turn).

Shengcao Cao, Tanmaya Shekhar Dabral, Zhongli Ding et al.

2026-08-06 126
cs.CV 2608.05145

Objects as Audio-Visual Modal Sound Fields

AV-MSF combines multi-view images and few impact recordings to physically reconstruct object impact sounds, outperforming physics-based and data-driven baselines.

Zisen Shao, Zihao Wei, Derong Jin et al.

2026-08-06 133
cs.AI 2608.05086

Item Response Theory for AI Safety

This paper applies multidimensional Item Response Theory (IRT) to analyze 192 language models across 8 safety benchmarks, revealing three core latent abilities and enabling cost-effective evaluation and auditing.

Joshua Fonseca Rivera, Neil Shah, David Demitri Africa et al.

2026-08-06 133