55 papers
A Mechanistic Analysis of Gender Sensitivity in Dense Retrieval Models
Catherine Chen, Maarten de Rijke, Carsten Eickhoff
While gender bias in dense retrieval models is well documented, with prior work showing that models often score male-gendered documents higher than female or neutral variants, the…
Orcheo: A Modular Full-Stack Platform for Conversational Search
Shaojie Jiang, Svitlana Vakulenko, Maarten de Rijke
Conversational search (CS) requires a complex software engineering pipeline that integrates query reformulation, ranking, and response generation. CS researchers currently face two…
Closing the Indexing-Decoding Gap in Multimodal Generative Retrieval via Prefix Retention Optimization
Yufei Chen, Zihan Wang, Yubao Tang +3
Multimodal generative retrieval formulates multimodal retrieval as discrete identifier generation, eliminating the need for explicit similarity search over external embeddings. Exi…
The Multilingual Curse at the Retrieval Layer: Evidence from Amharic
Yosef Worku Alemneh, Kidist Amde Mekonnen, Maarten de Rijke
Multilingual retrieval increasingly underpins cross-lingual question answering and retrieval-augmented generation. Strong zero-shot scores on multilingual benchmarks are often take…
Model Editing for New Document Integration in Generative Information Retrieval
Zhen Zhang, Zihan Wang, Xinyu Ma +6
Generative retrieval (GR) reformulates the Information Retrieval (IR) task as the generation of document identifiers (docIDs). Despite its promise, existing GR models exhibit poor…
Lost in Decoding? Reproducing and Stress-Testing the Look-Ahead Prior in Generative Retrieval
Kidist Amde Mekonnen, Yongkang Li, Yubao Tang +2
Generative retrieval (GR) ranks documents by autoregressively generating document identifiers. Because many GR methods rely on trie-constrained beam search, they are vulnerable to…