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6 papers

cs.IR2026

Rerank Before You Reason: Analyzing Reranking Tradeoffs through Effective Token Cost in Deep Search Agents

Sahel Sharifymoghaddam, Jimmy Lin

Deep research agents rely on iterative retrieval and reasoning to answer complex queries, but scaling test-time computation raises significant efficiency concerns. We study how to…

cs.IR2026

Lighting the Way for BRIGHT: Reproducible Baselines with Anserini, Pyserini, and RankLLM

Sahel Sharifymoghaddam, Yijun Ge, Jimmy Lin

Retrieval benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) should reflect the long, reasoning-intensive queries typical of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). We present a systematic…

cs.CL2025

BrowseComp-Plus: A More Fair and Transparent Evaluation Benchmark of Deep-Research Agent

Zijian Chen, Xueguang Ma, Shengyao Zhuang +17

Deep-Research agents, which integrate large language models (LLMs) with search tools, have shown success in improving the effectiveness of handling complex queries that require ite…

cs.IR2025

RankLLM: A Python Package for Reranking with LLMs

Sahel Sharifymoghaddam, Ronak Pradeep, Andre Slavescu +7

The adoption of large language models (LLMs) as rerankers in multi-stage retrieval systems has gained significant traction in academia and industry. These models refine a candidate…

cs.IR2025

Chatbot Arena Meets Nuggets: Towards Explanations and Diagnostics in the Evaluation of LLM Responses

Sahel Sharifymoghaddam, Shivani Upadhyay, Nandan Thakur +2

Battles, or side-by-side comparisons in so-called arenas that elicit human preferences, have emerged as a popular approach for assessing the output quality of LLMs. Recently, this…

cs.IR2025

UniRAG: Universal Retrieval Augmentation for Large Vision Language Models

Sahel Sharifymoghaddam, Shivani Upadhyay, Wenhu Chen +1

Recently, Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have unlocked many complex use cases that require Multi-Modal (MM) understanding (e.g., image captioning or visual question answering…