11 papers
Tevatron-Elastic: A Unified Abstraction for Training Elastic Retrievers and Rerankers
Yu Wang, Shengyao Zhuang, Xueguang Ma +4
A single model scale challenges the flexibility of a production retrieval system: some settings need it faster, others need a smaller index, and the right trade-off changes with th…
Tevatron Meets Megatron: Expert-Parallel LLM Reranker Training on an Academic Budget
Zhichao Xu, Xueguang Ma, Shengyao Zhuang +5
Modern reranking recipes---billion-scale cross-encoders, mixture-of-experts (MoE) backbones, and distillation against strong teachers---have outpaced the training infrastructure av…
Towards Retrieving Interaction Spaces for Agentic Search
Shengyao Zhuang, Yuansheng Ni, Hengxin Fun +2
Retrieval for search agents is still inherited from non-agentic information retrieval: a retriever ranks the corpus and the agent reads a small set of returned documents. Recent di…
LACONIC: Dense-Level Effectiveness for Scalable Sparse Retrieval via a Two-Phase Training Curriculum
Zhichao Xu, Shengyao Zhuang, Crystina Zhang +5
While dense retrieval models have been the standard for state-of-the-art information retrieval, their deployment is often constrained by high memory requirements and reliance on GP…
Hard Negatives, Hard Lessons: Revisiting Training Data Quality for Robust Information Retrieval with LLMs
Nandan Thakur, Crystina Zhang, Xueguang Ma +1
Training robust retrieval and reranker models typically relies on large-scale retrieval datasets; for example, the BGE collection contains 1.6 million query-passage pairs sourced f…
BrowseComp-Plus: A More Fair and Transparent Evaluation Benchmark of Deep-Research Agent
Zijian Chen, Xueguang Ma, Shengyao Zhuang +17
Deep-Research agents, which integrate large language models (LLMs) with search tools, have shown success in improving the effectiveness of handling complex queries that require ite…