Efficient Rationale-based Retrieval: On-policy Distillation from Generative Rerankers based on JEPA.

@inproceedings{chen-2026-efficient, author = {Teng Chen and Sheng Xu and Feixiang Guo and Xiaoyu Wang and Qingqing Gu and Hongyan Li and Luo Ji}, editor = {Stevan Rudinac and Zi Huang and Marcel Worring and Lucia Vadicamo and Xirong Li and Pascal Mettes and Lizi Liao}, title = {{Efficient Rationale-based Retrieval: On-policy Distillation from Generative Rerankers based on JEPA}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 2026 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, ICMR 2026, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 16-19, 2026}}, pages = {1721--1729}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805622.3810780}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805622.3810780} }