3 papers
cs.IR2026
Trie-based Experiment Plans for Efficient IR Pipeline Experiments
Irene Anu, Craig Macdonald
Search engines are often formulated as cascading pipelines, where successive stages combine the results of different retrievers, and iteratively refine the ranking of candidate doc…
cs.IR2026
Pipeline Inspection, Visualization, and Interoperability in PyTerrier
Emmanouil Georgios Lionis, Craig Macdonald, Sean MacAvaney
PyTerrier provides a declarative framework for building and experimenting with Information Retrieval (IR) pipelines. In this demonstration, we highlight several recent pipeline ope…
cs.IR2025
On Precomputation and Caching in Information Retrieval Experiments with Pipeline Architectures
Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald
Modern information retrieval systems often rely on multiple components executed in a pipeline. In a research setting, this can lead to substantial redundant computations (e.g., ret…