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PublishedJuly 17, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Bridge Evidence: Static Retrieval Utility Does Not Predict Causal Utility in Multi-Step Agentic Search
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arXiv:2607.15253v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval systems are trained and evaluated on a static idea of usefulness: hand a document and a question to a reader model, see whether the answer improves, and score the document accordingly. The idea holds up when a document is read on its own. I
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