3 papers
cs.IR2026
Bayesian Active Learning with Gaussian Processes Guided by LLM Relevance Scoring for Dense Passage Retrieval
Junyoung Kim, Anton Korikov, Jiazhou Liang +5
While Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit exceptional zero-shot relevance modeling, their high computational cost necessitates framing passage retrieval as a budget-constrained gl…
cs.IR2025
Multimodal Item Scoring for Natural Language Recommendation via Gaussian Process Regression with LLM Relevance Judgments
Yifan Liu, Qianfeng Wen, Jiazhou Liang +6
Natural Language Recommendation (NLRec) generates item suggestions based on the relevance between user-issued NL requests and NL item description passages. Existing NLRec approache…
cs.IR2025
A Simple but Effective Elaborative Query Reformulation Approach for Natural Language Recommendation
Qianfeng Wen, Yifan Liu, Justin Cui +4
Natural Language (NL) recommender systems aim to retrieve relevant items from free-form user queries and item descriptions. Existing systems often rely on dense retrieval (DR), whi…