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Do We Need Bigger Models for Science? Task-Aware Retrieval with Small Language Models

As of 5 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 15 of 15 outbound references and 1 inbound Pith citation observation for arXiv:2604.01965.

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This paper cites Do We Need Bigger Models for Science? Task-Aware Retrieval with Small Language Models.

Do We Need Bigger Models for Science? Task-Aware Retrieval with Small Language Models Do We Need Bigger Models for Science? Task-Aware Retrieval with Small Language Models

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This paper cites In the scholarly domain, several systems combine large language models with retrieval from scientific corpora.

Do We Need Bigger Models for Science? Task-Aware Retrieval with Small Language Models In the scholarly domain, several systems combine large language models with retrieval from scientific corpora

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This paper cites Which papers propose methods for protein struc- ture prediction?.

Do We Need Bigger Models for Science? Task-Aware Retrieval with Small Language Models Which papers propose methods for protein struc- ture prediction?

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This paper cites We provide the detailed implementation settings in our repository.

Do We Need Bigger Models for Science? Task-Aware Retrieval with Small Language Models We provide the detailed implementation settings in our repository

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This paper cites Our evaluation focuses on the extent to which small language models, when combined with task-aware retrieval strategies, can achieve competitive performance on scholarly tasks.

Do We Need Bigger Models for Science? Task-Aware Retrieval with Small Language Models Our evaluation focuses on the extent to which small language models, when combined with task-aware retrieval strategies, can achieve competitive performance on scholarly tasks

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Do We Need Bigger Models for Science? Task-Aware Retrieval with Small Language Models Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites All experiments follow the pipeline described in Section 3.

Do We Need Bigger Models for Science? Task-Aware Retrieval with Small Language Models All experiments follow the pipeline described in Section 3

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This paper cites The task requires gener- ating a one-sentence summary from the abstract, introduction, and conclusion (AIC) sections.

Do We Need Bigger Models for Science? Task-Aware Retrieval with Small Language Models The task requires gener- ating a one-sentence summary from the abstract, introduction, and conclusion (AIC) sections

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This paper cites Thus, current evaluation fo- cuses on the text-based components, while the KG-Fact module is presented primarily as an archi- tectural capability.

Do We Need Bigger Models for Science? Task-Aware Retrieval with Small Language Models Thus, current evaluation fo- cuses on the text-based components, while the KG-Fact module is presented primarily as an archi- tectural capability

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This paper cites Our 165K-paper datastore unarXive (Saier et al., 2023) comprises open-access content compliant with text and data mining permissions.

Do We Need Bigger Models for Science? Task-Aware Retrieval with Small Language Models Our 165K-paper datastore unarXive (Saier et al., 2023) comprises open-access content compliant with text and data mining permissions

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This paper cites The Faiss library.

Do We Need Bigger Models for Science? Task-Aware Retrieval with Small Language Models The Faiss library

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This paper cites Galactica: A Large Language Model for Science.

Do We Need Bigger Models for Science? Task-Aware Retrieval with Small Language Models Galactica: A Large Language Model for Science

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