2 papers
cs.IR2025
BiXSE: Improving Dense Retrieval via Probabilistic Graded Relevance Distillation
Christos Tsirigotis, Vaibhav Adlakha, Joao Monteiro +2
Neural sentence embedding models for dense retrieval typically rely on binary relevance labels, treating query-document pairs as either relevant or irrelevant. However, real-world…
cs.SD2025
FLAM: Frame-Wise Language-Audio Modeling
Yusong Wu, Christos Tsirigotis, Ke Chen +5
Recent multi-modal audio-language models (ALMs) excel at text-audio retrieval but struggle with frame-wise audio understanding. Prior works use temporal-aware labels or unsupervise…