"The State of Information Retrieval in 2026" This is the best survey article I have seen in a long time in this niche. The dominant retriever in 2026 is an 8-billion-parameter decoder-only language model fine-tuned on synthetic data, conditioned on natural-language instructions, often executing chain-of-thought reasoning before deciding what to retrieve. https://medium.com/@mohankrishnagr08/the-state-of-information-retrieval-in-2026-192f125a5269 #research #informationRetrieval #RAG #LLM #SPLADE #AIbenchmark #AI