Learning When to Think: Utility-Guided Adaptive Reasoning for Efficient Text Retrieval

arXiv:2610.21030 · cs.IR, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-10-15 · Read on arXiv

cs.IR, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-10-15

Updated: 2026-10-15

Comments: Accepted to EMNLP 2026 Findings

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

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