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most citedWhen Do LLMs Need Retrieval Augmentation? Mitigating LLMs' Overconfidence Helps Retrieval Augmentation

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cs.IR2026

Can LLM Rerankers Predict Their Own Ranking Performance?

Shiyu Ni, Keping Bi, Jiafeng Guo +3

Retrieval effectiveness varies substantially across queries, making it important to estimate ranking quality before relevance judgments are available. Query performance prediction…

cs.IR2025

Understanding Parametric Knowledge Injection in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Minghao Tang, Shiyu Ni, Jingtong Wu +2

Context-grounded generation underpins many LLM applications, including long-document question answering (QA), conversational personalization, and retrieval-augmented generation (RA…

cs.IR2025

Injecting External Knowledge into the Reasoning Process Enhances Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Minghao Tang, Shiyu Ni, Jiafeng Guo +1

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has been widely adopted to augment large language models (LLMs) with external knowledge for knowledge-intensive tasks. However, its effectivene…

cs.IR2024

Contextual Dual Learning Algorithm with Listwise Distillation for Unbiased Learning to Rank

Lulu Yu, Keping Bi, Shiyu Ni +1

Unbiased Learning to Rank (ULTR) aims to leverage biased implicit user feedback (e.g., click) to optimize an unbiased ranking model. The effectiveness of the existing ULTR methods…

cs.IR2023★ 2 cited

A Comparative Study of Training Objectives for Clarification Facet Generation

Shiyu Ni, Keping Bi, Jiafeng Guo +1

Due to the ambiguity and vagueness of a user query, it is essential to identify the query facets for the clarification of user intents. Existing work on query facet generation has…