activity
20242026
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7 papers

cs.IR2026

Training Documents Reranker with Search Rubrics for Deep Research Agent

Wenhan Liu, Yu Lu, Qiaolin Xia +8

Retrieval systems help deep research agents generate high-quality answers by providing relevant documents. However, existing retrievers typically select documents through relevance…

cs.IR2026

ReasonRank: Empowering Passage Ranking with Strong Reasoning Ability

Wenhan Liu, Xinyu Ma, Weiwei Sun +4

Large Language Model (LLM) based listwise ranking has shown superior performance in many passage ranking tasks. With the development of Large Reasoning Models (LRMs), many studies…

cs.IR2026

SumRank: Aligning Summarization Models for Long-Document Listwise Reranking

Jincheng Feng, Wenhan Liu, Zhicheng Dou

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated superior performance in listwise passage reranking task. However, directly applying them to rank long-form documents introduces both…

cs.IR2026

Agentic-R: Learning to Retrieve for Agentic Search

Wenhan Liu, Xinyu Ma, Yutao Zhu +4

Agentic search has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm, where an agent interleaves multi-step reasoning with on-demand retrieval to solve complex questions. Despite its success…

cs.CL2025

Large Language Models for Information Retrieval: A Survey

Yutao Zhu, Huaying Yuan, Shuting Wang +7

As a primary means of information acquisition, information retrieval (IR) systems, such as search engines, have integrated themselves into our daily lives. These systems also serve…

cs.CL2025

CoRanking: Collaborative Ranking with Small and Large Ranking Agents

Wenhan Liu, Xinyu Ma, Yutao Zhu +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated superior listwise ranking performance. However, their superior performance often relies on large-scale parameters (\eg, GPT-4) and a…