Retrieval Grounding Latent Reasoning for Dense Retrieval

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arXiv:2608.14107v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reasoning-intensive retrieval requires text representations to capture not only semantic similarity, but also the reasoning needed to determine relevance under a given retrieval instruction. Existing reasoning-enhanced embedding models improve retrieval by incorporating reasoning information into dense representations, yet their supervision is typically dominated by the final retrieval objective. As a result, latent reasoning trajectories may learn