arxivcs.AI2026-06-25
Generative Retrieval via Diffusion Transformer with Metric-Ordered Sequence Training and Hybrid-Policy Preference Optimization
Chenghao Liu, Yu Zhang, Zhongtao Jiang, Kun Xu, Zhenwei An, Renzhi Wang, et al.
Embedding-based retrieval ranks items by their similarity to a query in a shared vector space and usually aims to return the highest-scoring items. In many production settings this is not what is wanted: given a seed set that expresses a fine-grained pattern, one needs more items…