Towards Critical IR Theories and Practices

2026-07-01T08:52:14Z18d3864c36477b83b934ac04913b0cfdeb17e58c8b89e0cfa6849f1fafb79a95
GNAHGR2GenPageNetflixOpenStreetMapRAGShopXWBCagentic shoppingco-occurrence clusteringcritical theorycross-modal retrievalfreeway extractiongenerative re-rankergenerative recommendationhashinginformation retrievalknowledge base reorganizationre-rankingrecommender systemsreinforcement learningretrieval-augmented generationsemantic IDssession-level coveragetransportation modelling','embedding visualization','Information

What happened

Collection of arXiv papers (published 2026-07-01) spanning information retrieval, recommender systems, and multimodal retrieval. Key contributions: an argument for adopting critical theories in IR; GenPage — an end-to-end transformer approach to generate entire Netflix homepages with WBC/RL post-training and production deployment considerations; a co-occurrence-aware offline KB reorganization to improve session-level RAG coverage; GNAH — a data-efficient unsupervised cross-modal hashing method; ShopX — a foundation model and protocol for intent-to-item fulfillment using semantic IDs for agent‑

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arxiv_cs_ir
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18d3864c36477b83b934ac04913b0cfdeb17e58c8b89e0cfa6849f1fafb79a95
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2026-07-01T08:52:14Z
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