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20242026
most citedAn Analysis on Matching Mechanisms and Token Pruning for Late-interaction Models

6 citations · 8 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.IR2026

DiffuRank: Effective Document Reranking with Diffusion Language Models

Qi Liu, Kun Ai, Jiaxin Mao +6

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have inspired new paradigms for document reranking. While this paradigm better exploits the reasoning and contextual understanding c…

cs.CL2025

E2Rank: Unifying Text Embedding and Listwise Reranking for Effective and Efficient Search

Qi Liu, Yanzhao Zhang, Mingxin Li +3

Text embedding models deliver competitive retrieval performance with high efficiency, but their ranking fidelity remains limited compared to LLM-based listwise rerankers, which cap…

cs.IR2025★ 1 cited

How do Large Language Models Understand Relevance? A Mechanistic Interpretability Perspective

Qi Liu, Jiaxin Mao, Ji-Rong Wen

Recent studies have shown that large language models (LLMs) can assess relevance and support information retrieval (IR) tasks such as document ranking and relevance judgment genera…

cs.IR2025★ 1 cited

LLM4Ranking: An Easy-to-use Framework of Utilizing Large Language Models for Document Reranking

Qi Liu, Haozhe Duan, Yiqun Chen +3

Utilizing large language models (LLMs) for document reranking has been a popular and promising research direction in recent years, many studies are dedicated to improving the perfo…

cs.CL2025

PanguIR Technical Report for NTCIR-18 AEOLLM Task

Lang Mei, Chong Chen, Jiaxin Mao

As large language models (LLMs) gain widespread attention in both academia and industry, it becomes increasingly critical and challenging to effectively evaluate their capabilities…

cs.IR2024

Mamba Retriever: Utilizing Mamba for Effective and Efficient Dense Retrieval

Hanqi Zhang, Chong Chen, Lang Mei +2

In the information retrieval (IR) area, dense retrieval (DR) models use deep learning techniques to encode queries and passages into embedding space to compute their semantic relat…

cs.CL2024

Leveraging Passage Embeddings for Efficient Listwise Reranking with Large Language Models

Qi Liu, Bo Wang, Nan Wang +1

Recent studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of using large language language models (LLMs) in passage ranking. The listwise approaches, such as RankGPT, have become new stat…

cs.IR2024★ 6 cited

An Analysis on Matching Mechanisms and Token Pruning for Late-interaction Models

Qi Liu, Gang Guo, Jiaxin Mao +5

With the development of pre-trained language models, the dense retrieval models have become promising alternatives to the traditional retrieval models that rely on exact match and…