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Thinking Forward and Backward: Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning for Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning

Wenda Wei, Yu-An Liu, Ruqing Zhang +6

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has proven to be effective in mitigating hallucinations in large language models, yet its effectiveness remains limited in complex, multi-step…

cs.IR2025

LLMs as Sparse Retrievers:A Framework for First-Stage Product Search

Hongru Song, Yu-an Liu, Ruqing Zhang +6

Product search is a crucial component of modern e-commerce platforms, with billions of user queries every day. In product search systems, first-stage retrieval should achieve high…

cs.IR2025

A Generative Framework for Personalized Sticker Retrieval

Changjiang Zhou, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo +4

Formulating information retrieval as a variant of generative modeling, specifically using autoregressive models to generate relevant identifiers for a given query, has recently att…

cs.IR2025

On the Scaling of Robustness and Effectiveness in Dense Retrieval

Yu-An Liu, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo +3

Robustness and Effectiveness are critical aspects of developing dense retrieval models for real-world applications. It is known that there is a trade-off between the two. Recent wo…

cs.IR2025

The Silent Saboteur: Imperceptible Adversarial Attacks against Black-Box Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

Hongru Song, Yu-an Liu, Ruqing Zhang +4

We explore adversarial attacks against retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems to identify their vulnerabilities. We focus on generating human-imperceptible adversarial exampl…

cs.IR2025

Chain-of-Thought Poisoning Attacks against R1-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

Hongru Song, Yu-an Liu, Ruqing Zhang +2

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems can effectively mitigate the hallucination problem of large language models (LLMs),but they also possess inherent vulnerabilities. Iden…

cs.IR2025

Robust-IR @ SIGIR 2025: The First Workshop on Robust Information Retrieval

Yu-An Liu, Haya Nachimovsky, Ruqing Zhang +3

With the advancement of information retrieval (IR) technologies, robustness is increasingly attracting attention. When deploying technology into practice, we consider not only its…