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Beyond Top-K: Replacing Black-Box Retrieval with Interpretable Agentic Operations
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- Researchers propose READ, an agent-based document search system using lexical search and structural navigation instead of embedding-based retrieval for financial documents.
- Why it matters
- Engineers building retrieval systems for structured documents like financial statements, audit reports, and regulatory filings should consider this approach.
- Watch out
- The method was tested on financial documents with heavy tabular content; effectiveness on other document types remains unclear and unstated.
- agent
- agentic
- retrieval
- embedding
- eval
The patterns behind this
- Structure-Aware Codebase Retrieval (Repo Map)
- Agentic SRE (Self-Healing Operations)
- Query Transformation Retrieval
Each one covers how the technique works, when it earns its cost, and where it breaks.
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