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most citedLearning Robust Recommenders through Cross-Model Agreement

63 citations · 147 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

cs.IR2025

T-Retrievability: A Topic-Focused Approach to Measure Fair Document Exposure in Information Retrieval

Xuejun Chang, Zaiqiao Meng, Debasis Ganguly

Retrievability of a document is a collection-based statistic that measures its expected (reciprocal) rank of being retrieved within a specific rank cut-off. A collection with unifo…

cs.CL2024

TRACE the Evidence: Constructing Knowledge-Grounded Reasoning Chains for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Jinyuan Fang, Zaiqiao Meng, Craig Macdonald

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) offers an effective approach for addressing question answering (QA) tasks. However, the imperfections of the retrievers in RAG models often res…

cs.CV2024★ 13 cited

Weakly Supervised Deep Hyperspherical Quantization for Image Retrieval

Jinpeng Wang, Bin Chen, Qiang Zhang +3

Deep quantization methods have shown high efficiency on large-scale image retrieval. However, current models heavily rely on ground-truth information, hindering the application of…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

CLEX: Continuous Length Extrapolation for Large Language Models

Guanzheng Chen, Xin Li, Zaiqiao Meng +2

Transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs) are pioneering advances in many natural language processing tasks, however, their exceptional capabilities are restricted within the…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

When hard negative sampling meets supervised contrastive learning

Zijun Long, George Killick, Richard McCreadie +2

State-of-the-art image models predominantly follow a two-stage strategy: pre-training on large datasets and fine-tuning with cross-entropy loss. Many studies have shown that using…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

Sparkles: Unlocking Chats Across Multiple Images for Multimodal Instruction-Following Models

Yupan Huang, Zaiqiao Meng, Fangyu Liu +3

Large language models exhibit enhanced zero-shot performance on various tasks when fine-tuned with instruction-following data. Multimodal instruction-following models extend these…

cs.LG2023

Label Denoising through Cross-Model Agreement

Yu Wang, Xin Xin, Zaiqiao Meng +2

Learning from corrupted labels is very common in real-world machine-learning applications. Memorizing such noisy labels could affect the learning of the model, leading to sub-optim…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

BAND: Biomedical Alert News Dataset

Zihao Fu, Meiru Zhang, Zaiqiao Meng +3

Infectious disease outbreaks continue to pose a significant threat to human health and well-being. To improve disease surveillance and understanding of disease spread, several surv…

cs.CL2023

Biomedical Named Entity Recognition via Dictionary-based Synonym Generalization

Zihao Fu, Yixuan Su, Zaiqiao Meng +1

Biomedical named entity recognition is one of the core tasks in biomedical natural language processing (BioNLP). To tackle this task, numerous supervised/distantly supervised appro…

cs.CL2023

COFFEE: A Contrastive Oracle-Free Framework for Event Extraction

Meiru Zhang, Yixuan Su, Zaiqiao Meng +2

Event extraction is a complex information extraction task that involves extracting events from unstructured text. Prior classification-based methods require comprehensive entity an…

cs.AI2023★ 4 cited

Multimodality Representation Learning: A Survey on Evolution, Pretraining and Its Applications

Muhammad Arslan Manzoor, Sarah Albarri, Ziting Xian +3

Multimodality Representation Learning, as a technique of learning to embed information from different modalities and their correlations, has achieved remarkable success on a variet…

cs.LG2022★ 7 cited

Knowledge Graph Embedding: A Survey from the Perspective of Representation Spaces

Jiahang Cao, Jinyuan Fang, Zaiqiao Meng +1

Knowledge graph embedding (KGE) is an increasingly popular technique that aims to represent entities and relations of knowledge graphs into low-dimensional semantic spaces for a wi…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Can Pretrained Language Models (Yet) Reason Deductively?

Zhangdie Yuan, Songbo Hu, Ivan Vulić +2

Acquiring factual knowledge with Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) has attracted increasing attention, showing promising performance in many knowledge-intensive tasks. Their good p…

cs.CL2022

Revisiting Parameter-Efficient Tuning: Are We Really There Yet?

Guanzheng Chen, Fangyu Liu, Zaiqiao Meng +1

Parameter-Efficient Tuning (PETuning) methods have been deemed by many as the new paradigm for using pretrained language models (PLMs). By tuning just a fraction amount of paramete…

cs.CL2021★ 11 cited

TaCL: Improving BERT Pre-training with Token-aware Contrastive Learning

Yixuan Su, Fangyu Liu, Zaiqiao Meng +4

Masked language models (MLMs) such as BERT and RoBERTa have revolutionized the field of Natural Language Understanding in the past few years. However, existing pre-trained MLMs oft…

cs.CL2021★ 5 cited

Rewire-then-Probe: A Contrastive Recipe for Probing Biomedical Knowledge of Pre-trained Language Models

Zaiqiao Meng, Fangyu Liu, Ehsan Shareghi +3

Knowledge probing is crucial for understanding the knowledge transfer mechanism behind the pre-trained language models (PLMs). Despite the growing progress of probing knowledge for…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Mixture-of-Partitions: Infusing Large Biomedical Knowledge Graphs into BERT

Zaiqiao Meng, Fangyu Liu, Thomas Hikaru Clark +2

Infusing factual knowledge into pre-trained models is fundamental for many knowledge-intensive tasks. In this paper, we proposed Mixture-of-Partitions (MoP), an infusion approach t…

cs.CL2021

Few-Shot Table-to-Text Generation with Prototype Memory

Yixuan Su, Zaiqiao Meng, Simon Baker +1

Neural table-to-text generation models have achieved remarkable progress on an array of tasks. However, due to the data-hungry nature of neural models, their performances strongly…

cs.SI2021★ 2 cited

Learning to Detect Few-Shot-Few-Clue Misinformation

Qiang Zhang, Hongbin Huang, Shangsong Liang +2

The quality of digital information on the web has been disquieting due to the lack of careful manual review. Consequently, a large volume of false textual information has been diss…

cs.IR2021★ 8 cited

Graph Neural Pre-training for Enhancing Recommendations using Side Information

Zaiqiao Meng, Siwei Liu, Craig Macdonald +1

Leveraging the side information associated with entities (i.e. users and items) to enhance the performance of recommendation systems has been widely recognized as an important mode…

cs.IR2021★ 63 cited

Learning Robust Recommenders through Cross-Model Agreement

Yu Wang, Xin Xin, Zaiqiao Meng +3

Learning from implicit feedback is one of the most common cases in the application of recommender systems. Generally speaking, interacted examples are considered as positive while…

cs.CL2020

Self-Alignment Pretraining for Biomedical Entity Representations

Fangyu Liu, Ehsan Shareghi, Zaiqiao Meng +2

Despite the widespread success of self-supervised learning via masked language models (MLM), accurately capturing fine-grained semantic relationships in the biomedical domain remai…

cs.IR2020★ 4 cited

Exploring Data Splitting Strategies for the Evaluation of Recommendation Models

Zaiqiao Meng, Richard McCreadie, Craig Macdonald +1

Effective methodologies for evaluating recommender systems are critical, so that such systems can be compared in a sound manner. A commonly overlooked aspect of recommender system…

cs.SI2019★ 8 cited

Semi-supervisedly Co-embedding Attributed Networks

Zaiqiao Meng, Shangsong Liang, Jinyuan Fang +1

Deep generative models (DGMs) have achieved remarkable advances. Semi-supervised variational auto-encoders (SVAE) as a classical DGM offer a principled framework to effectively gen…