33 papers
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…
Reconstructing Content with Collaborative Attention for Universal Multimodal Representation Learning
Jiahan Chen, Da Li, Hengran Zhang +6
Multimodal embedding models, rooted in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), have yielded significant performance improvements across diverse tasks such as retrieval and classi…
Evaluating and Calibrating LLM Confidence on Questions with Multiple Correct Answers
Yuhan Wang, Shiyu Ni, Zhikai Ding +3
Confidence calibration is essential for making large language models (LLMs) reliable, yet existing training-free methods have been primarily studied under single-answer question an…
Attention Grounded Enhancement for Visual Document Retrieval
Wanqing Cui, Wei Huang, Yazhi Guo +4
Visual document retrieval requires understanding heterogeneous and multi-modal content to satisfy implicit information needs. Recent advances use screenshot-based document encoding…
Compressing then Matching: An Efficient Pre-training Paradigm for Multimodal Embedding
Da Li, Yuxiao Luo, Keping Bi +7
Multimodal Large Language Models advance multimodal representation learning by acquiring transferable semantic embeddings, thereby substantially enhancing performance across a rang…
Estimating Commonsense Plausibility through Semantic Shifts
Wanqing Cui, Wei Huang, Keping Bi +2
Commonsense plausibility estimation is critical for evaluating language models (LMs), yet existing generative approaches--reliant on likelihoods or verbalized judgments--struggle w…