3 papers
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.CL2026
Annotation-Efficient Universal Honesty Alignment
Shiyu Ni, Keping Bi, Jiafeng Guo +4
Honesty alignment-the ability of large language models (LLMs) to recognize their knowledge boundaries and express calibrated confidence-is essential for trustworthy deployment. Exi…
cs.IR2026
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…