Remove badges, arXiv tag link, and citation section

README.md

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   - bge-m3
   - faiss
   - opera
-  - arxiv:2508.16438
 ---
 
 # OPERA Retrieval Corpus
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 (*OPERA: A Reinforcement Learning–Enhanced Orchestrated Planner-Executor
 Architecture for Reasoning-Oriented Multi-Hop Retrieval*).
 
-[![arXiv](https://img.shields.io/badge/arXiv-2508.16438-b31b1b.svg)](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.16438)
-[![GitHub](https://img.shields.io/badge/GitHub-OPERA-181717?logo=github)](https://github.com/Ameame1002/OPERA)
-[![AAAI 2026](https://img.shields.io/badge/AAAI-2026-1f6feb.svg)](https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v40i38.40499)
-
 This release contains two files:
 
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 require MAPGRPO training of the three agents; the training code is not
 part of this release.
 
-## Citation
-
-If you use this corpus or the OPERA pipeline, please cite:
-
-```bibtex
-@article{Liu2026OPERA,
-  author  = {Liu, Yu and Liu, Yanbing and Yuan, Fangfang and Cao, Cong and Sun, Youbang and Peng, Kun and Chen, WeiZhuo and Li, Jianjun and Ma, Zhiyuan},
-  title   = {{OPERA}: A Reinforcement Learning--Enhanced Orchestrated Planner-Executor Architecture for Reasoning-Oriented Multi-Hop Retrieval},
-  journal = {Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
-  volume  = {40},
-  number  = {38},
-  pages   = {32258--32266},
-  year    = {2026},
-  doi     = {10.1609/aaai.v40i38.40499},
-}
-```
-
 ## License
 
 The retrieval index and metadata are released for research use only.