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most citedPre-trained Language Model for Web-scale Retrieval in Baidu Search

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From Ranked Documents to Reliable Contexts: An Answer-Oriented Context Construct Framework for AI Search

Yunfei Zhong, Yinqiong Cai, Lixin Su +7

Traditional Web search follows a human-facing paradigm in which users inspect ranked documents and synthesize information themselves. In AI Search, retrieved documents instead serv…

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Token-Level Credit Assignment Optimization for Generative Document Retrieval

Xinpeng Zhao, Yang Liu, Ran Chen +6

Generative retrieval models perform document retrieval by autoregressively generating document identifiers (DocIDs). This process naturally forms a sequential decision problem, i.e…

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Querit-Reranker: Training Compact Multilingual Rerankers via Efficient Label-Free Distribution Adaptation

Yunfei Zhong, Jun Yang, Wei Huang +7

A deployable multilingual reranker must not only generalize across languages, domains, and ranking tasks, but also remain efficient to serve as a second-stage reranker in practical…

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RAG-Enhanced Large Language Models for Dynamic Content Expiration Prediction in Web Search

Tingyu Chen, Wenkai Zhang, Li Gao +4

In commercial web search, aligning content freshness with user intent remains challenging due to the highly varied lifespans of information. Traditional industrial approaches rely…

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Reconstructing Content with Collaborative Attention for Universal Multimodal Representation Learning

Jiahan Chen, Da Li, Hengran Zhang +6

Multimodal embedding models, rooted in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), have yielded significant performance improvements across diverse tasks such as retrieval and classi…

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Bagging-Based Model Merging for Robust General Text Embeddings

Hengran Zhang, Keping Bi, Jiafeng Guo +4

General-purpose text embedding models underpin a wide range of NLP and information retrieval applications, and are typically trained on large-scale multi-task corpora to encourage…

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Agentic-R: Learning to Retrieve for Agentic Search

Wenhan Liu, Xinyu Ma, Yutao Zhu +4

Agentic search has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm, where an agent interleaves multi-step reasoning with on-demand retrieval to solve complex questions. Despite its success…