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arXiv — cs.AI preprintsInternational21 October 2026

Temporal Evidence Allocation For Longitudinal Clinical Retrieval: A Position And Technical Report

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arXiv:2610.27682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electronic health records are written to support care, not retrieval. Across years of oncology notes, the primary diagnosis is restated in report after report, while the events that shape a patient's course, such as a recurrence or a change in therapy, may be recorded only once. A retriever that ranks passages by similarity to the query keeps returning the repeated material and can miss these transitions, that is, it exhibits temporal redundancy across historical narratives. We argue that longitudinal clinical retrieval should be treated as alloc
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