3 papers
cs.IR2026
Can Instructed Retrieval Models Really Support Exploration?
Piyush Maheshwari, Sheshera Mysore, Hamed Zamani
Exploratory searches are characterized by under-specified goals and evolving query intents. In such scenarios, retrieval models that can capture user-specified nuances in query int…
cs.IR2025
Bridging Personalization and Control in Scientific Personalized Search
Sheshera Mysore, Garima Dhanania, Kishor Patil +3
Personalized search is a problem where models benefit from learning user preferences from per-user historical interaction data. The inferred preferences enable personalized ranking…
cs.CL2024
Interactive Topic Models with Optimal Transport
Garima Dhanania, Sheshera Mysore, Chau Minh Pham +3
Topic models are widely used to analyze document collections. While they are valuable for discovering latent topics in a corpus when analysts are unfamiliar with the corpus, analys…