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most citedSystematic Evaluation of Neural Retrieval Models on the Touché 2020 Argument Retrieval Subset of BEIR

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cs.IR2025★ 5 cited

The Viability of Crowdsourcing for RAG Evaluation

Lukas Gienapp, Tim Hagen, Maik Fröbe +4

How good are humans at writing and judging responses in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) scenarios? To answer this question, we investigate the efficacy of crowdsourcing for RA…

cs.IR2025

Counterfactual Query Rewriting to Use Historical Relevance Feedback

Jüri Keller, Maik Fröbe, Gijs Hendriksen +4

When a retrieval system receives a query it has encountered before, previous relevance feedback, such as clicks or explicit judgments can help to improve retrieval results. However…

cs.IR2024★ 6 cited

Lightning IR: Straightforward Fine-tuning and Inference of Transformer-based Language Models for Information Retrieval

Ferdinand Schlatt, Maik Fröbe, Matthias Hagen

A wide range of transformer-based language models have been proposed for information retrieval tasks. However, including transformer-based models in retrieval pipelines is often co…

cs.IR2024★ 9 cited

Systematic Evaluation of Neural Retrieval Models on the Touché 2020 Argument Retrieval Subset of BEIR

Nandan Thakur, Luiz Bonifacio, Maik Fröbe +5

The zero-shot effectiveness of neural retrieval models is often evaluated on the BEIR benchmark -- a combination of different IR evaluation datasets. Interestingly, previous studie…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Rel-A.I.: An Interaction-Centered Approach To Measuring Human-LM Reliance

Kaitlyn Zhou, Jena D. Hwang, Xiang Ren +3

The ability to communicate uncertainty, risk, and limitation is crucial for the safety of large language models. However, current evaluations of these abilities rely on simple cali…

cs.IR2024★ 8 cited

Rank-DistiLLM: Closing the Effectiveness Gap Between Cross-Encoders and LLMs for Passage Re-Ranking

Ferdinand Schlatt, Maik Fröbe, Harrisen Scells +6

Cross-encoders distilled from large language models (LLMs) are often more effective re-rankers than cross-encoders fine-tuned on manually labeled data. However, distilled models do…

cs.IR2024★ 6 cited

Set-Encoder: Permutation-Invariant Inter-Passage Attention for Listwise Passage Re-Ranking with Cross-Encoders

Ferdinand Schlatt, Maik Fröbe, Harrisen Scells +6

Existing cross-encoder models can be categorized as pointwise, pairwise, or listwise. Pairwise and listwise models allow passage interactions, which typically makes them more effec…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

Analyzing Adversarial Attacks on Sequence-to-Sequence Relevance Models

Andrew Parry, Maik Fröbe, Sean MacAvaney +2

Modern sequence-to-sequence relevance models like monoT5 can effectively capture complex textual interactions between queries and documents through cross-encoding. However, the use…

cs.IR2023★ 5 cited

Investigating the Effects of Sparse Attention on Cross-Encoders

Ferdinand Schlatt, Maik Fröbe, Matthias Hagen

Cross-encoders are effective passage and document re-rankers but less efficient than other neural or classic retrieval models. A few previous studies have applied windowed self-att…