UNREAL: Unifying Retrieval and Long-Context with a Single Model research paper by NVIDIA, 2026
NVIDIA · Retrieval and data · Oct 6, 2026 · 0 citations · 31 upvotes · unverified
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UNREAL uses a single model-internal mechanism to perform both corpus retrieval and long-context evidence selection, improving performance while reducing computational costs.
By Edan Kinderman, Elad Hoffer, Yochai Blau and 4 more · arXiv 2610.08463 · PDF
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UNREAL uses a single model-internal mechanism to perform both corpus retrieval and long-context evidence selection, improving performance while reducing computational costs.
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