4 papers
Overview of the TREC 2025 Product Search and Recommendation Track
Dean E. Alvarez, Surya Kallumadi, Daniel Campos +4
In the past few years, consumers have moved the bulk of their product exploration and purchasing efforts online seeking speed, convenience, and price comparison with ease unimagina…
Report on CHIIR 2026 Workshop on Generative AI and Academic Search (GAI&AS)
Yifan Liu, Jaime Arguello, Orland Hoeber +30
This report summarizes the CHIIR 2026 Workshop on Generative AI and Academic Search (GAI\&AS), which examined how GenAI is reshaping academic search systems and research practices.…
Make Any Collection Navigable: Methods for Constructing and Evaluating Hypergraph of Text
Dean E. Alvarez, ChengXiang Zhai
One reason the Web is more useful than a simple collection of documents is that the structure created by hyperlinks enables flexible navigation from one web page to another. Howeve…
STAT: Shrinking Transformers After Training
Megan Flynn, Alexander Wang, Dean Edward Alvarez +2
We present STAT: a simple algorithm to prune transformer models without any fine-tuning. STAT eliminates both attention heads and neurons from the network, while preserving accurac…