RankEvolve: Automating the Discovery of Retrieval Algorithms via LLM-Driven Evolution.

@inproceedings{nian-2026-rankevolve, author = {Jinming Nian and Dae Hoon Park and Ziru Liu and Fangchen Li and Shuchang Liu and Yi Fang and Dae Hoon Park and Ziru Liu and Shuchang Liu and Yi Fang}, 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 = {{RankEvolve: Automating the Discovery of Retrieval Algorithms via LLM-Driven Evolution}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {4028--4033}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809962}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809962} }