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arXiv cs.CLPaper6d ago

REVA: Reusable Evidence View Aggregation for Context-Efficient RAG Serving

RAG latency is now a solved problem in principle. This work shows that compression gains are unstable across queries and that the old post-retrieval approach is adding overhead without benefit. REVA mines your own traffic to build a scoring layer that's specific to your generator and documents. If you're running knowledge-intensive applications at scale, this is worth implementing before optimizing the retrieval layer itself.

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arXiv cs.CLPaper6d ago

A Voice-Interactive Multi-Agent System for Smart Operating Rooms: Architecture Design and Key Technologies

The medical domain is now where real-time multimodal agent patterns get tested hardest. The latency work here—500ms to tens of milliseconds via KV cache reuse, 30% end-to-end improvement through streaming JSON—is directly applicable to any low-latency agent pipeline. The bigger pattern: specialized domains drive infrastructure innovation faster than general-purpose API consumers.

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arXiv cs.AIPaper6d ago

PACE: Perceived-Latency-Aware Cascading Service Routing and Filler Control for QoE-Efficient Retrieval-Augmented Dialogue Serving

The innovation is treating perceived latency as the quality metric, not just raw latency, and using filler to manage user experience while waiting for better answers. Deployed on a robot sales chatbot and showing real improvements. If you're building production RAG systems, the cascading routing and cache strategies are usable. The paper is dense on mechanisms but the practical payoff is there.

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Latent SpaceArticle10d ago

[AINews] Fal’s H3 Max Live breaks the infinite videogen barrier

Streaming video generation at this latency crosses into utility territory for specific workflows like live design feedback or interactive content. The capability matters less than what someone actually builds with it. Watch for the first production use case that doesn't feel like a demo.

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arXiv cs.CLPaper14d ago

ViSAR: Training-Free Adaptive-$k$ Retrieval for Visual Document Question Answering

This is practical engineering: instead of always fetching top-k pages for a RAG pipeline, fetch as many as the query actually needs. It's training-free, so you can apply it to any late-interaction retriever today. Real latency wins in DocVQA, which matters for deployed products. For teams building on RAG: test this immediately. It's a free optimization with no downside if you're already doing retrieval-based QA.

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