{
  "id": 250154,
  "title": "Beyond Top-K: Replacing Black-Box Retrieval with Interpretable Agentic Operations",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/beyond-top-k-replacing-black-box-retrieval-with-interpretable-agentic",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-06T17:23:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06305v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Retrieval-augmented generation over long documents is dominated by one design: chunk the text, embed the chunks, and surface the top-k nearest neighbours of the query. We argue that for an important class of documents -- financial statements, audit reports, regulatory returns -- this design is structurally unsound, and we make the argument measurable. On a 780-page government financial report,…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}