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Multi-Field Adaptive Retrieval

Millicent Li, Tongfei Chen, Ben Van Durme, Patrick Xia

ICLR 2025 | October 2024

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Little Giants: Synthesizing High-Quality Embedding Data at Scale

Haonan Chen, Liang Wang, Nan Yang, Yutao Zhu, Ziliang Zhao, Furu Wei, Zhicheng Dou

NAACL 2025 | October 2024

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Research Focus: Week of September 23, 2024

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Results of the Big ANN: NeurIPS’23 competition

Harsha Simhadri, Martin Aumuller, Amir Ingber, Matthijs Douze, George Williams, M. Manohar, Dmitry Baranchuk, Edo Liberty, Frank Liu, Benjamin Landrum, Mazin Karjikar, Laxman Dhulipala, Meng Chen, Yue Chen, Rui Ma, Kai Zhang, Yuzheng Cai, Jiayang Shi, Yizhuo Chen, Weiguo Zheng, Zihao Wan, Jie Yin, Ben Huang

NeurIPS 2025 | September 2024

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Promptriever: Instruction-Trained Retrievers Can Be Prompted Like Language Models

Orion Weller, Ben Van Durme, Dawn Lawrie, Ashwin Paranjape, Yuhao Zhang, Jack Hessel

ICLR 2025 | September 2024

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Evaluating the risk of data loss due to particle radiation damage in a DNA data storage system

Christopher N. Takahashi, David P. Ward, Carlo Cazzaniga, Christopher D. Frost, Paolo Rech, Kumkum Ganguly, Sean Blanchard, Steve Wender, Bichlien Nguyen, Jake Smith

Nature Communications | September 2024, Vol 15: pp. 8067

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Proceedings of The First Workshop on Large Language Models for Evaluation in Information Retrieval (LLM4Eval 2024)

Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Hossein A. Rahmani, Nick Craswell, Charles L. A. Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz

September 2024

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Rethinking Node Representation Interpretation through Relation Coherence

Ying-Chun Lin, Jennifer Neville, Cassiano Becker, Purvanshi Metha, Nabiha Asghar, Vipul Agarwal

September 2024

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Interpretable User Satisfaction Estimation for Conversational Systems with Large Language Models

Ying-Chun Lin, Jennifer Neville, Jack W. Stokes, Longqi Yang, Tara Safavi, Mengting Wan, Scott Counts, Siddharth Suri, Reid Andersen, Xiaofeng Xu, Deepak Gupta, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Xia Song, Georg Buscher, Saurabh Tiwary, Brent Hecht, Jaime Teevan

ACL | August 2024

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LLMJudge: LLMs for Relevance Judgments

Hossein A Rahmani, Emine Yilmaz, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Charles L A Clarke, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Clemencia Siro, Guglielmo Faggioli

August 2024

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On Overcoming Miscalibrated Conversational Priors in LLM-based Chatbots

Result Diversification in Search and Recommendation: A Survey

RASCAL: Novel robotics for scalable and highly available automated storage and retrieval

Interpretable User Satisfaction Estimation for Conversational Systems with Large Language Models

Multi-Field Adaptive Retrieval

Little Giants: Synthesizing High-Quality Embedding Data at Scale

Research Focus: Week of September 23, 2024

Results of the Big ANN: NeurIPS’23 competition

Promptriever: Instruction-Trained Retrievers Can Be Prompted Like Language Models

Evaluating the risk of data loss due to particle radiation damage in a DNA data storage system

Proceedings of The First Workshop on Large Language Models for Evaluation in Information Retrieval (LLM4Eval 2024)

Rethinking Node Representation Interpretation through Relation Coherence

Interpretable User Satisfaction Estimation for Conversational Systems with Large Language Models

LLMJudge: LLMs for Relevance Judgments

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