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most citedDorylus: Affordable, Scalable, and Accurate GNN Training with Distributed CPU Servers and Serverless Threads

19 citations · 79 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.IR2025

LSTM-based Selective Dense Text Retrieval Guided by Sparse Lexical Retrieval

Yingrui Yang, Parker Carlson, Yifan Qiao +3

This paper studies fast fusion of dense retrieval and sparse lexical retrieval, and proposes a cluster-based selective dense retrieval method called CluSD guided by sparse lexical…

cs.IR2024

Weighted KL-Divergence for Document Ranking Model Refinement

Yingrui Yang, Yifan Qiao, Shanxiu He +1

Transformer-based retrieval and reranking models for text document search are often refined through knowledge distillation together with contrastive learning. A tight distribution…

cs.IR2024

Approximate Cluster-Based Sparse Document Retrieval with Segmented Maximum Term Weights

Yifan Qiao, Shanxiu He, Yingrui Yang +2

This paper revisits cluster-based retrieval that partitions the inverted index into multiple groups and skips the index partially at cluster and document levels during online infer…

cs.IR2023★ 11 cited

Representation Sparsification with Hybrid Thresholding for Fast SPLADE-based Document Retrieval

Yifan Qiao, Yingrui Yang, Shanxiu He +1

Learned sparse document representations using a transformer-based neural model has been found to be attractive in both relevance effectiveness and time efficiency. This paper descr…

cs.IR2023★ 16 cited

Optimizing Guided Traversal for Fast Learned Sparse Retrieval

Yifan Qiao, Yingrui Yang, Haixin Lin +1

Recent studies show that BM25-driven dynamic index skipping can greatly accelerate MaxScore-based document retrieval based on the learned sparse representation derived by DeepImpac…

cs.DC2022★ 14 cited

Bamboo: Making Preemptible Instances Resilient for Affordable Training of Large DNNs

John Thorpe, Pengzhan Zhao, Jonathan Eyolfson +5

DNN models across many domains continue to grow in size, resulting in high resource requirements for effective training, and unpalatable (and often unaffordable) costs for organiza…

cs.IR2022★ 3 cited

Dual Skipping Guidance for Document Retrieval with Learned Sparse Representations

Yifan Qiao, Yingrui Yang, Haixin Lin +3

This paper proposes a dual skipping guidance scheme with hybrid scoring to accelerate document retrieval that uses learned sparse representations while still delivering a good rele…

cs.IR2022

Compact Token Representations with Contextual Quantization for Efficient Document Re-ranking

Yingrui Yang, Yifan Qiao, Tao Yang

Transformer based re-ranking models can achieve high search relevance through context-aware soft matching of query tokens with document tokens. To alleviate runtime complexity of s…

cs.DC2021★ 19 cited

Dorylus: Affordable, Scalable, and Accurate GNN Training with Distributed CPU Servers and Serverless Threads

John Thorpe, Yifan Qiao, Jonathan Eyolfson +8

A graph neural network (GNN) enables deep learning on structured graph data. There are two major GNN training obstacles: 1) it relies on high-end servers with many GPUs which are e…

cs.IR2021★ 13 cited

Composite Re-Ranking for Efficient Document Search with BERT

Yingrui Yang, Yifan Qiao, Jinjin Shao +3

Although considerable efforts have been devoted to transformer-based ranking models for document search, the relevance-efficiency tradeoff remains a critical problem for ad-hoc ran…

cs.DC2017★ 3 cited

Algorithm-Directed Crash Consistence in Non-Volatile Memory for HPC

Shuo Yang, Kai Wu, Yifan Qiao +2

Fault tolerance is one of the major design goals for HPC. The emergence of non-volatile memories (NVM) provides a solution to build fault tolerant HPC. Data in NVM-based main memor…