Rethinking Soft Compression in Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Query-Conditioned Selector Perspective.

@inproceedings{liu-2026-rethinking, author = {Yunhao Liu and Zian Jia and Xinyu Gao and Kanjun Xu and Yun Xiong}, editor = {Hakim Hacid and Yoelle Maarek and Francesco Bonchi and Ido Guy and Emine Yilmaz}, title = {{Rethinking Soft Compression in Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Query-Conditioned Selector Perspective}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, WWW 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, originally scheduled for April 13-17, 2026, rescheduled for June 29 - July 3, 2026}}, pages = {2441--2452}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3774904.3792700}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3774904.3792700} }