Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers

Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation Strategies for Repository-Level Code Understanding

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is increasingly employed to ground large language models in vast code repositories. However, performance degrades when resolving repository-level dependencies and multi-file code contexts. This study evaluates dense, sparse (BM25), and hybrid...

Alcohol and tobacco in cancer: A unified framework of interaction across carcinogenic pathways and cancer types

Background Alcohol and tobacco are among the leading preventable causes of cancer worldwide and frequently co-occur. While both are well-established independent carcinogens, their combined effects remain insufficiently characterized and inconsistently interpreted across cancer ty...