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most citedUnlikelihood Tuning on Negative Samples Amazingly Improves Zero-Shot Translation

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cs.IR2025

Making Large Language Models Efficient Dense Retrievers

Yibin Lei, Shwai He, Ang Li +1

Recent work has shown that directly fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) for dense retrieval yields strong performance, but their substantial parameter counts make them computa…

cs.IR2025

Milco: Learned Sparse Retrieval Across Languages via a Multilingual Connector

Thong Nguyen, Yibin Lei, Jia-Huei Ju +2

Learned Sparse Retrieval (LSR) combines the efficiency of bi-encoders with the transparency of lexical matching, but existing approaches struggle to scale beyond English. We introd…

cs.IR2025

SERVAL: Surprisingly Effective Zero-Shot Visual Document Retrieval Powered by Large Vision and Language Models

Thong Nguyen, Yibin Lei, Jia-Huei Ju +1

Visual Document Retrieval (VDR) typically operates as text-to-image retrieval using specialized bi-encoders trained to directly embed document images. We revisit a zero-shot genera…

cs.IR2025

ThinkQE: Query Expansion via an Evolving Thinking Process

Yibin Lei, Tao Shen, Andrew Yates

Effective query expansion for web search benefits from promoting both exploration and result diversity to capture multiple interpretations and facets of a query. While recent LLM-b…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Enhancing Lexicon-Based Text Embeddings with Large Language Models

Yibin Lei, Tao Shen, Yu Cao +1

Recent large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance on general-purpose text embedding tasks. While dense embeddings have dominated related research, we in…

cs.IR2024

Corpus-Steered Query Expansion with Large Language Models

Yibin Lei, Yu Cao, Tianyi Zhou +2

Recent studies demonstrate that query expansions generated by large language models (LLMs) can considerably enhance information retrieval systems by generating hypothetical documen…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Meta-Task Prompting Elicits Embeddings from Large Language Models

Yibin Lei, Di Wu, Tianyi Zhou +4

We introduce a new unsupervised text embedding method, Meta-Task Prompting with Explicit One-Word Limitation (MetaEOL), for generating high-quality sentence embeddings from Large L…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

Unlikelihood Tuning on Negative Samples Amazingly Improves Zero-Shot Translation

Changtong Zan, Liang Ding, Li Shen +4

Zero-shot translation (ZST), which is generally based on a multilingual neural machine translation model, aims to translate between unseen language pairs in training data. The comm…

cs.IR2023★ 1 cited

Unsupervised Dense Retrieval with Relevance-Aware Contrastive Pre-Training

Yibin Lei, Liang Ding, Yu Cao +3

Dense retrievers have achieved impressive performance, but their demand for abundant training data limits their application scenarios. Contrastive pre-training, which constructs ps…

cs.CL2022

Phrase-level Textual Adversarial Attack with Label Preservation

Yibin Lei, Yu Cao, Dianqi Li +3

Generating high-quality textual adversarial examples is critical for investigating the pitfalls of natural language processing (NLP) models and further promoting their robustness.…