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20192026
most citedApproximate Nearest Neighbor Negative Contrastive Learning for Dense Text Retrieval

230 citations · 253 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.IR2026

Memento: Personalized RAG-Style Long-Retention Data Scaling for META Ads Recommendation

Xiaoyu Chen, Ruichen Wang, Jieming Di +21

Modeling of long history data suffers from long-context window attention dilution, system efficiency and catastrophic forgetting problems, where naive linear scaling approach like…

cs.IR2026

Intelligent Elastic Feature Fading: Enabling Model Retrain-Free Feature Efficiency Rollouts at Scale

Jieming Di, Xiaoyu Chen, Ying She +21

Large-scale ranking systems depend on thousands of features derived from user behavior across multiple time horizons. Typically requires model retraining -- resulting in long itera…

cs.IR2026

LLaTTE: Scaling Laws for Multi-Stage Sequence Modeling in Large-Scale Ads Recommendation

Lee Xiong, Zhirong Chen, Rahul Mayuranath +17

We present LLaTTE (LLM-Style Latent Transformers for Temporal Events), a scalable transformer architecture for production ads recommendation. Through systematic experiments, we dem…

cs.IR2025

ORBIT -- Open Recommendation Benchmark for Reproducible Research with Hidden Tests

Jingyuan He, Jiongnan Liu, Vishan Vishesh Oberoi +7

Recommender systems are among the most impactful AI applications, interacting with billions of users every day, guiding them to relevant products, services, or information tailored…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Group-Level Data Selection for Efficient Pretraining

Zichun Yu, Fei Peng, Jie Lei +3

In this paper, we introduce Group-MATES, an efficient group-level data selection approach to optimize the speed-quality frontier of language model pretraining. Specifically, Group-…

cs.CL2023

Improving Multitask Retrieval by Promoting Task Specialization

Wenzheng Zhang, Chenyan Xiong, Karl Stratos +1

In multitask retrieval, a single retriever is trained to retrieve relevant contexts for multiple tasks. Despite its practical appeal, naive multitask retrieval lags behind task-spe…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Augmenting Zero-Shot Dense Retrievers with Plug-in Mixture-of-Memories

Suyu Ge, Chenyan Xiong, Corby Rosset +3

In this paper we improve the zero-shot generalization ability of language models via Mixture-Of-Memory Augmentation (MoMA), a mechanism that retrieves augmentation documents from m…

cs.IR2022★ 5 cited

ClueWeb22: 10 Billion Web Documents with Visual and Semantic Information

Arnold Overwijk, Chenyan Xiong, Xiao Liu +2

ClueWeb22, the newest iteration of the ClueWeb line of datasets, provides 10 billion web pages affiliated with rich information. Its design was influenced by the need for a high qu…

cs.CL2022★ 11 cited

COCO-DR: Combating Distribution Shifts in Zero-Shot Dense Retrieval with Contrastive and Distributionally Robust Learning

Yue Yu, Chenyan Xiong, Si Sun +2

We present a new zero-shot dense retrieval (ZeroDR) method, COCO-DR, to improve the generalization ability of dense retrieval by combating the distribution shifts between source tr…

cs.CL2022

Reduce Catastrophic Forgetting of Dense Retrieval Training with Teleportation Negatives

Si Sun, Chenyan Xiong, Yue Yu +3

In this paper, we investigate the instability in the standard dense retrieval training, which iterates between model training and hard negative selection using the being-trained mo…

cs.LG2021

Less is More: Pre-train a Strong Text Encoder for Dense Retrieval Using a Weak Decoder

Shuqi Lu, Di He, Chenyan Xiong +6

Dense retrieval requires high-quality text sequence embeddings to support effective search in the representation space. Autoencoder-based language models are appealing in dense ret…

cs.IR2020★ 230 cited

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Negative Contrastive Learning for Dense Text Retrieval

Lee Xiong, Chenyan Xiong, Ye Li +5

Conducting text retrieval in a dense learned representation space has many intriguing advantages over sparse retrieval. Yet the effectiveness of dense retrieval (DR) often requires…

cs.CL2019★ 4 cited

Open Domain Web Keyphrase Extraction Beyond Language Modeling

Lee Xiong, Chuan Hu, Chenyan Xiong +2

This paper studies keyphrase extraction in real-world scenarios where documents are from diverse domains and have variant content quality. We curate and release OpenKP, a large sca…