IEEE IKT 2024 Poster
Context Awareness Gate for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Mohammad Hassan Heydari, Arshia Hemmat, Erfan Naman, Afsaneh Fatemi

A gate that decides whether a query needs retrieval at all, plus a vector-candidates method for scalable semantic search that does not call a language model.
A longer write-up of this work is on its way. Until then the paper and the code are the best place to look.