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6 papers

cs.IR2026

DiffuRank: Effective Document Reranking with Diffusion Language Models

Qi Liu, Kun Ai, Jiaxin Mao +6

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have inspired new paradigms for document reranking. While this paradigm better exploits the reasoning and contextual understanding c…

cs.CL2025

E2Rank: Your Text Embedding can Also be an Effective and Efficient Listwise Reranker

Qi Liu, Yanzhao Zhang, Mingxin Li +3

Text embedding models serve as a fundamental component in real-world search applications. By mapping queries and documents into a shared embedding space, they deliver competitive r…

cs.IR2025

How do Large Language Models Understand Relevance? A Mechanistic Interpretability Perspective

Qi Liu, Jiaxin Mao, Ji-Rong Wen

Recent studies have shown that large language models (LLMs) can assess relevance and support information retrieval (IR) tasks such as document ranking and relevance judgment genera…

cs.IR2025

LLM4Ranking: An Easy-to-use Framework of Utilizing Large Language Models for Document Reranking

Qi Liu, Haozhe Duan, Yiqun Chen +3

Utilizing large language models (LLMs) for document reranking has been a popular and promising research direction in recent years, many studies are dedicated to improving the perfo…

cs.CL2025

PanguIR Technical Report for NTCIR-18 AEOLLM Task

Lang Mei, Chong Chen, Jiaxin Mao

As large language models (LLMs) gain widespread attention in both academia and industry, it becomes increasingly critical and challenging to effectively evaluate their capabilities…

cs.CL2025

Leveraging Passage Embeddings for Efficient Listwise Reranking with Large Language Models

Qi Liu, Bo Wang, Nan Wang +1

Recent studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of using large language language models (LLMs) in passage ranking. The listwise approaches, such as RankGPT, have become new stat…