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most citedLLM2Vec: Large Language Models Are Secretly Powerful Text Encoders

21 citations · 67 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CL2026

LLM2Vec-Gen: Generative Embeddings from Large Language Models

Parishad BehnamGhader, Vaibhav Adlakha, Fabian David Schmidt +3

Fine-tuning LLM-based text embedders via contrastive learning maps inputs and outputs into a new representational space, discarding the LLM's output semantics. We propose LLM2Vec-G…

cs.CV2026

LatentLens: Revealing Highly Interpretable Visual Tokens in LLMs

Benno Krojer, Shravan Nayak, Oscar Mañas +4

Transforming a large language model (LLM) into a vision-language model (VLM) can be achieved by mapping the visual tokens from a vision encoder into the embedding space of an LLM.…

cs.CL2025

Understanding the Influence of Synthetic Data for Text Embedders

Jacob Mitchell Springer, Vaibhav Adlakha, Siva Reddy +2

Recent progress in developing general purpose text embedders has been driven by training on ever-growing corpora of synthetic LLM-generated data. Nonetheless, no publicly available…

cs.IR2025

BiXSE: Improving Dense Retrieval via Probabilistic Graded Relevance Distillation

Christos Tsirigotis, Vaibhav Adlakha, Joao Monteiro +2

Neural sentence embedding models for dense retrieval typically rely on binary relevance labels, treating query-document pairs as either relevant or irrelevant. However, real-world…

cs.CL2025

DeepSeek-R1 Thoughtology: Let's think about LLM Reasoning

Sara Vera Marjanović, Arkil Patel, Vaibhav Adlakha +14

Large Reasoning Models like DeepSeek-R1 mark a fundamental shift in how LLMs approach complex problems. Instead of directly producing an answer for a given input, DeepSeek-R1 creat…

cs.CL2025★ 15 cited

MMTEB: Massive Multilingual Text Embedding Benchmark

Kenneth Enevoldsen, Isaac Chung, Imene Kerboua +83

Text embeddings are typically evaluated on a limited set of tasks, which are constrained by language, domain, and task diversity. To address these limitations and provide a more co…

cs.CL2024★ 21 cited

LLM2Vec: Large Language Models Are Secretly Powerful Text Encoders

Parishad BehnamGhader, Vaibhav Adlakha, Marius Mosbach +3

Large decoder-only language models (LLMs) are the state-of-the-art models on most of today's NLP tasks and benchmarks. Yet, the community is only slowly adopting these models for t…

cs.CL2023★ 6 cited

Evaluating Correctness and Faithfulness of Instruction-Following Models for Question Answering

Vaibhav Adlakha, Parishad BehnamGhader, Xing Han Lu +2

Retriever-augmented instruction-following models are attractive alternatives to fine-tuned approaches for information-seeking tasks such as question answering (QA). By simply prepe…

cs.CV2022★ 20 cited

Image Retrieval from Contextual Descriptions

Benno Krojer, Vaibhav Adlakha, Vibhav Vineet +3

The ability to integrate context, including perceptual and temporal cues, plays a pivotal role in grounding the meaning of a linguistic utterance. In order to measure to what exten…

cs.CL2021★ 3 cited

Evaluating the Faithfulness of Importance Measures in NLP by Recursively Masking Allegedly Important Tokens and Retraining

Andreas Madsen, Nicholas Meade, Vaibhav Adlakha +1

To explain NLP models a popular approach is to use importance measures, such as attention, which inform input tokens are important for making a prediction. However, an open questio…

cs.CL2021

TopiOCQA: Open-domain Conversational Question Answering with Topic Switching

Vaibhav Adlakha, Shehzaad Dhuliawala, Kaheer Suleman +2

In a conversational question answering scenario, a questioner seeks to extract information about a topic through a series of interdependent questions and answers. As the conversati…

cs.CL2020★ 2 cited

OpenIE6: Iterative Grid Labeling and Coordination Analysis for Open Information Extraction

Keshav Kolluru, Vaibhav Adlakha, Samarth Aggarwal +2

A recent state-of-the-art neural open information extraction (OpenIE) system generates extractions iteratively, requiring repeated encoding of partial outputs. This comes at a sign…

cs.CL2020

Regex Queries over Incomplete Knowledge Bases

Vaibhav Adlakha, Parth Shah, Srikanta Bedathur +1

We propose the novel task of answering regular expression queries (containing disjunction () and Kleene plus () operators) over incomplete KBs. The answer set of these que…