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20182026
most citedMultinomial Logit Bandit with Linear Utility Functions

3 citations · 8 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.IR2026

FlexVDR: Learning to Allocate Matryoshka Representation Budgets for Visual Document Retrieval

Haowen Xiang, Yibo Yan, Xin Zou +4

Visual document retrieval relies on rich multi-vector representations to capture fine-grained evidence in document pages, but encoding and matching these representations can be com…

cs.CV2026

AnchorFold: A Focus-Then-Fold Framework via Recursive Attention Propagation for Efficient Multi-Vector Visual Document Retrieval

Haoyu Zuo, Yibo Yan, Xin Zou +4

Multi-vector vision-language retrievers enable fine-grained Visual Document Retrieval (VDR) through late interaction, but storing and scoring hundreds of visual patch embeddings pe…

cs.CV2026

MM-Matryoshka: Towards Budget-Elastic Visual Document Retrieval via a 2D Multimodal Matryoshka Training Framework

Haowen Xiang, Yibo Yan, Jiahao Huo +4

Multi-vector visual document retrievers achieve strong fine-grained matching by representing each page with multiple vectors from deep Vision-Language Models (VLMs), but this desig…

cs.CV2026

Visual Late Chunking: An Empirical Study of Contextual Chunking for Efficient Visual Document Retrieval

Yibo Yan, Mingdong Ou, Yi Cao +5

Multi-vector models dominate Visual Document Retrieval (VDR) due to their fine-grained matching capabilities, but their high storage and computational costs present a major barrier…

cs.CL2026

Beyond the Grid: Layout-Informed Multi-Vector Retrieval with Parsed Visual Document Representations

Yibo Yan, Mingdong Ou, Yi Cao +6

Harnessing the full potential of visually-rich documents requires retrieval systems that understand not just text, but intricate layouts, a core challenge in Visual Document Retrie…

cs.CL2026

Unlocking Multimodal Document Intelligence: From Current Triumphs to Future Frontiers of Visual Document Retrieval

Yibo Yan, Jiahao Huo, Guanbo Feng +12

With the rapid proliferation of multimodal information, Visual Document Retrieval (VDR) has emerged as a critical frontier in bridging the gap between unstructured visually rich da…

cs.CL2026

Sculpting the Vector Space: Towards Efficient Multi-Vector Visual Document Retrieval via Prune-then-Merge Framework

Yibo Yan, Mingdong Ou, Yi Cao +5

Visual Document Retrieval (VDR), which aims to retrieve relevant pages within vast corpora of visually-rich documents, is of significance in current multimodal retrieval applicatio…

cs.CL2026

CausalEmbed: Auto-Regressive Multi-Vector Generation in Latent Space for Visual Document Embedding

Jiahao Huo, Yu Huang, Yibo Yan +7

Although Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable potential in Visual Document Retrieval (VDR) through generating high-quality multi-vector embeddings, the su…

cs.SI2021★ 3 cited

Attributed Graph Neural Networks for Recommendation Systems on Large-Scale and Sparse Graph

Yifei Zhao, Mingdong Ou, Rongzhi Zhang +1

Link prediction in structured-data is an important problem for many applications, especially for recommendation systems. Existing methods focus on how to learn the node representat…

cs.IR2020★ 2 cited

Maximizing Cumulative User Engagement in Sequential Recommendation: An Online Optimization Perspective

Yifei Zhao, Yu-Hang Zhou, Mingdong Ou +2

To maximize cumulative user engagement (e.g. cumulative clicks) in sequential recommendation, it is often needed to tradeoff two potentially conflicting objectives, that is, pursui…

cs.LG2018★ 3 cited

Multinomial Logit Bandit with Linear Utility Functions

Mingdong Ou, Nan Li, Shenghuo Zhu +1

Multinomial logit bandit is a sequential subset selection problem which arises in many applications. In each round, the player selects a -cardinality subset from candidate i…