Can QPP Choose the Right Query variant? Evaluating Query Variant Selection for RAG Pipelines.

@inproceedings{carthy-2026-qpp, author = {Joe Carthy and Negar Arabzadeh and Andrew Drozdov and Michael Bendersky and Matei Zaharia and Joe Carthy and Negar Arabzadeh}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{Can QPP Choose the Right Query variant? Evaluating Query Variant Selection for RAG Pipelines}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {2813--2823}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3808571}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3808571} }