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20202026
most citedPROP: Pre-training with Representative Words Prediction for Ad-hoc Retrieval

45 citations · 150 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.CL2026

Bidirectional Chinese and English Passive Sentences Dataset for Machine Translation

Xinyue Ma, Pol Pastells, Mireia Farrús +1

Machine Translation (MT) evaluation has gone beyond metrics, towards more specific linguistic phenomena. Regarding English-Chinese language pairs, passive sentences are constructed…

cs.IR2026

Model Editing for New Document Integration in Generative Information Retrieval

Zhen Zhang, Zihan Wang, Xinyu Ma +6

Generative retrieval (GR) reformulates the Information Retrieval (IR) task as the generation of document identifiers (docIDs). Despite its promise, existing GR models exhibit poor…

cs.IR2023

Pre-training with Aspect-Content Text Mutual Prediction for Multi-Aspect Dense Retrieval

Xiaojie Sun, Keping Bi, Jiafeng Guo +5

Grounded on pre-trained language models (PLMs), dense retrieval has been studied extensively on plain text. In contrast, there has been little research on retrieving data with mult…

cs.CL2023★ 26 cited

Is ChatGPT Good at Search? Investigating Large Language Models as Re-Ranking Agents

Weiwei Sun, Lingyong Yan, Xinyu Ma +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot generalization across various language-related tasks, including search engines. However, existing work utilizes…

cs.IR2022★ 8 cited

Scattered or Connected? An Optimized Parameter-efficient Tuning Approach for Information Retrieval

Xinyu Ma, Jiafeng Guo, Ruqing Zhang +2

Pre-training and fine-tuning have achieved significant advances in the information retrieval (IR). A typical approach is to fine-tune all the parameters of large-scale pre-trained…

cs.IR2022★ 5 cited

A Contrastive Pre-training Approach to Learn Discriminative Autoencoder for Dense Retrieval

Xinyu Ma, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo +2

Dense retrieval (DR) has shown promising results in information retrieval. In essence, DR requires high-quality text representations to support effective search in the representati…

cs.IR2022★ 33 cited

Pre-train a Discriminative Text Encoder for Dense Retrieval via Contrastive Span Prediction

Xinyu Ma, Jiafeng Guo, Ruqing Zhang +2

Dense retrieval has shown promising results in many information retrieval (IR) related tasks, whose foundation is high-quality text representation learning for effective search. So…

cs.IR2021★ 2 cited

Pre-training Methods in Information Retrieval

Yixing Fan, Xiaohui Xie, Yinqiong Cai +5

The core of information retrieval (IR) is to identify relevant information from large-scale resources and return it as a ranked list to respond to the user's information need. In r…

cs.IR2021★ 16 cited

B-PROP: Bootstrapped Pre-training with Representative Words Prediction for Ad-hoc Retrieval

Xinyu Ma, Jiafeng Guo, Ruqing Zhang +3

Pre-training and fine-tuning have achieved remarkable success in many downstream natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Recently, pre-training methods tailored for information re…

cs.IR2021★ 15 cited

A Linguistic Study on Relevance Modeling in Information Retrieval

Yixing Fan, Jiafeng Guo, Xinyu Ma +3

Relevance plays a central role in information retrieval (IR), which has received extensive studies starting from the 20th century. The definition and the modeling of relevance has…

cs.IR2020★ 45 cited

PROP: Pre-training with Representative Words Prediction for Ad-hoc Retrieval

Xinyu Ma, Jiafeng Guo, Ruqing Zhang +3

Recently pre-trained language representation models such as BERT have shown great success when fine-tuned on downstream tasks including information retrieval (IR). However, pre-tra…