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Adaptive Repetition for Mitigating Position Bias in LLM-Based Ranking
Ali Vardasbi, Gustavo Penha, Claudia Hauff +1
When using LLMs to rank items based on given criteria, or evaluate answers, the order of candidate items can influence the model's final decision. This sensitivity to item position…
Intersection of Parallels as an Early Stopping Criterion
Ali Vardasbi, Maarten de Rijke, Mostafa Dehghani
A common way to avoid overfitting in supervised learning is early stopping, where a held-out set is used for iterative evaluation during training to find a sweet spot in the number…
Probabilistic Permutation Graph Search: Black-Box Optimization for Fairness in Ranking
Ali Vardasbi, Fatemeh Sarvi, Maarten de Rijke
There are several measures for fairness in ranking, based on different underlying assumptions and perspectives. PL optimization with the REINFORCE algorithm can be used for optimiz…