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20222024
most citedEnhancing User Behavior Sequence Modeling by Generative Tasks for Session Search

18 citations · 54 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.IR20246 cited

An Analysis on Matching Mechanisms and Token Pruning for Late-interaction Models

Qi Liu, Gang Guo, Jiaxin Mao +5

With the development of pre-trained language models, the dense retrieval models have become promising alternatives to the traditional retrieval models that rely on exact match and…

cs.CL2023

Optimizing Factual Accuracy in Text Generation through Dynamic Knowledge Selection

Hongjin Qian, Zhicheng Dou, Jiejun Tan +6

Language models (LMs) have revolutionized the way we interact with information, but they often generate nonfactual text, raising concerns about their reliability. Previous methods…

cs.IR202317 cited

Alleviating the Long-Tail Problem in Conversational Recommender Systems

Zhipeng Zhao, Kun Zhou, Xiaolei Wang +4

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to provide the recommendation service via natural language conversations. To develop an effective CRS, high-quality CRS datasets are ve…

cs.CL2023

Plug-and-Play Document Modules for Pre-trained Models

Chaojun Xiao, Zhengyan Zhang, Xu Han +7

Large-scale pre-trained models (PTMs) have been widely used in document-oriented NLP tasks, such as question answering. However, the encoding-task coupling requirement results in t…

cs.CL20232 cited

RetroMAE-2: Duplex Masked Auto-Encoder For Pre-Training Retrieval-Oriented Language Models

Shitao Xiao, Zheng Liu, Yingxia Shao +1

To better support information retrieval tasks such as web search and open-domain question answering, growing effort is made to develop retrieval-oriented language models, e.g., Ret…

cs.IR2023

Constructing Tree-based Index for Efficient and Effective Dense Retrieval

Haitao Li, Qingyao Ai, Jingtao Zhan +4

Recent studies have shown that Dense Retrieval (DR) techniques can significantly improve the performance of first-stage retrieval in IR systems. Despite its empirical effectiveness…