AdaTutoRank: Learning to Rerank Document Sets via Adaptive Tutoring Optimization for RAG and Deep Research

Kailin Jiang^1,2,*, Lei Liu^1,†, Jian Xi², Yangqi Chen², Hui Xu²,
Hongwei Zhao¹, Bin Li¹, Yu Lu^2,†, Haibo Shi²

¹University of Science and Technology of China ²Yuanbao Team, Tencent
^*Work done during internship at Tencent Yuanbao. ^†Corresponding author.

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BibTeX

@article{jiang2026adatutorank,
  title   = {AdaTutoRank: Learning to Rerank Document Sets via Adaptive Tutoring Optimization for RAG and Deep Research},
  author  = {Jiang, Kailin and Liu, Lei and Xi, Jian and Chen, Yangqi and Xu, Hui and
             Zhao, Hongwei and Li, Bin and Lu, Yu and Shi, Haibo},
  year    = {2026}
}