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most citedCan Query Expansion Improve Generalization of Strong Cross-Encoder Rankers?

13 citations · 25 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CL2025

Can Pre-training Indicators Reliably Predict Fine-tuning Outcomes of LLMs?

Hansi Zeng, Kai Hui, Honglei Zhuang +4

While metrics available during pre-training, such as perplexity, correlate well with model performance at scaling-laws studies, their predictive capacities at a fixed model size re…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Inference Scaling for Long-Context Retrieval Augmented Generation

Zhenrui Yue, Honglei Zhuang, Aijun Bai +7

The scaling of inference computation has unlocked the potential of long-context large language models (LLMs) across diverse settings. For knowledge-intensive tasks, the increased c…

cs.IR2023★ 13 cited

Can Query Expansion Improve Generalization of Strong Cross-Encoder Rankers?

Minghan Li, Honglei Zhuang, Kai Hui +5

Query expansion has been widely used to improve the search results of first-stage retrievers, yet its influence on second-stage, cross-encoder rankers remains under-explored. A rec…

cs.IR2023★ 2 cited

PaRaDe: Passage Ranking using Demonstrations with Large Language Models

Andrew Drozdov, Honglei Zhuang, Zhuyun Dai +8

Recent studies show that large language models (LLMs) can be instructed to effectively perform zero-shot passage re-ranking, in which the results of a first stage retrieval method,…

cs.IR2023★ 7 cited

Beyond Yes and No: Improving Zero-Shot LLM Rankers via Scoring Fine-Grained Relevance Labels

Honglei Zhuang, Zhen Qin, Kai Hui +4

Zero-shot text rankers powered by recent LLMs achieve remarkable ranking performance by simply prompting. Existing prompts for pointwise LLM rankers mostly ask the model to choose…