Beyond Semantic Similarity: Performance and Costs of Agentic Retrieval for Complex Tasks

arXiv:2610.05750 · cs.IR, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-10-05 · Read on arXiv

cs.IR, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-10-05

Updated: 2026-10-05

Terminology

• Agentic Retrieval — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Semantic Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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