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20232026
most citedA Survey of Conversational Search

3 citations · 9 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.IR2026

Douyin Multimodal Embedding Model Technical Report

Haonan Chen, Chu Li, Zhicheng Wang +4

Multimodal representation learning is a cornerstone of modern AI. By encoding multimodal queries and targets into vectors, it powers industrial search and recommendation and underp…

cs.CL2026★ 1 cited

e5-omni: Explicit Cross-modal Alignment for Omni-modal Embeddings

Haonan Chen, Sicheng Gao, Radu Timofte +2

Modern information systems often involve different types of items, e.g., a text query, an image, a video clip, or an audio segment. This motivates omni-modal embedding models that…

cs.LG2025

Search Self-play: Pushing the Frontier of Agent Capability without Supervision

Hongliang Lu, Yuhang Wen, Pengyu Cheng +7

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become the mainstream technique for training LLM agents. However, RLVR highly depends on well-crafted task queries and cor…

cs.CV2025

MoCa: Modality-aware Continual Pre-training Makes Better Bidirectional Multimodal Embeddings

Haonan Chen, Hong Liu, Yuping Luo +4

Multimodal embedding models, built upon causal Vision Language Models (VLMs), have shown promise in various tasks. However, current approaches face three key limitations: the use o…

cs.CV2025

mmE5: Improving Multimodal Multilingual Embeddings via High-quality Synthetic Data

Haonan Chen, Liang Wang, Nan Yang +4

Multimodal embedding models have gained significant attention for their ability to map data from different modalities, such as text and images, into a unified representation space.…

cs.IR2025

Chain-of-Retrieval Augmented Generation

Liang Wang, Haonan Chen, Nan Yang +3

This paper introduces an approach for training o1-like RAG models that retrieve and reason over relevant information step by step before generating the final answer. Conventional R…

cs.CL2024

Little Giants: Synthesizing High-Quality Embedding Data at Scale

Haonan Chen, Liang Wang, Nan Yang +4

Synthetic data generation has become an increasingly popular way of training models without the need for large, manually labeled datasets. For tasks like text embedding, synthetic…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

A Survey of Conversational Search

Fengran Mo, Kelong Mao, Ziliang Zhao +7

As a cornerstone of modern information access, search engines have become indispensable in everyday life. With the rapid advancements in AI and natural language processing (NLP) te…

cs.IR2024

Query-oriented Data Augmentation for Session Search

Haonan Chen, Zhicheng Dou, Yutao Zhu +1

Modeling contextual information in a search session has drawn more and more attention when understanding complex user intents. Recent methods are all data-driven, i.e., they train…

cs.CV2024

VideoScore: Building Automatic Metrics to Simulate Fine-grained Human Feedback for Video Generation

Xuan He, Dongfu Jiang, Ge Zhang +16

The recent years have witnessed great advances in video generation. However, the development of automatic video metrics is lagging significantly behind. None of the existing metric…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

LLM experiments with simulation: Large Language Model Multi-Agent System for Simulation Model Parametrization in Digital Twins

Yuchen Xia, Daniel Dittler, Nasser Jazdi +2

This paper presents a novel design of a multi-agent system framework that applies large language models (LLMs) to automate the parametrization of simulation models in digital twins…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

ChatRetriever: Adapting Large Language Models for Generalized and Robust Conversational Dense Retrieval

Kelong Mao, Chenlong Deng, Haonan Chen +4

Conversational search requires accurate interpretation of user intent from complex multi-turn contexts. This paper presents ChatRetriever, which inherits the strong generalization…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Generalizing Conversational Dense Retrieval via LLM-Cognition Data Augmentation

Haonan Chen, Zhicheng Dou, Kelong Mao +2

Conversational search utilizes muli-turn natural language contexts to retrieve relevant passages. Existing conversational dense retrieval models mostly view a conversation as a fix…

cs.IR2024

Enhancing Multi-field B2B Cloud Solution Matching via Contrastive Pre-training

Haonan Chen, Zhicheng Dou, Xuetong Hao +3

Cloud solutions have gained significant popularity in the technology industry as they offer a combination of services and tools to tackle specific problems. However, despite their…

cs.IR2024

Session-level Normalization and Click-through Data Enhancement for Session-based Evaluation

Haonan Chen, Zhicheng Dou, Jiaxin Mao

Since a user usually has to issue a sequence of queries and examine multiple documents to resolve a complex information need in a search session, researchers have paid much attenti…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

UniIR: Training and Benchmarking Universal Multimodal Information Retrievers

Cong Wei, Yang Chen, Haonan Chen +5

Existing information retrieval (IR) models often assume a homogeneous format, limiting their applicability to diverse user needs, such as searching for images with text description…