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cs.IR2026
Scaling Laws for Cross-Encoder Reranking
Rahul Seetharaman, Aman Bansal, Hamed Zamani +1
Scaling laws are well studied for language models and first-stage retrieval, but not for reranking. We present the first systematic study of scaling laws for cross-encoder reranker…
cs.IR2025
Reliable Annotations with Less Effort: Evaluating LLM-Human Collaboration in Search Clarifications
Leila Tavakoli, Hamed Zamani
Despite growing interest in using large language models (LLMs) to automate annotation, their effectiveness in complex, nuanced, and multi-dimensional labelling tasks remains relati…
cs.IR2024
Online and Offline Evaluation in Search Clarification
Leila Tavakoli, Johanne R. Trippas, Hamed Zamani +2
The effectiveness of clarification question models in engaging users within search systems is currently constrained, casting doubt on their overall usefulness. To improve the perfo…