Rushing on your ReNeuIR Workshop @ SIGIR 2024 submissions? 📝 We have extended the deadline for another week! New deadline is May 22nd AoE. #SIGIR2024 ⏱️
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These lovely people did a nice job distilling RankZephyr into 109M and 330M param MIT licensed cross encoders for us. Haven’t tested it yet, but will soon. It’s also another cross encoder paper concluding list-wise ranking isn’t a big enough boost to be stat significant

Qingyao Ai hey Qingyao Ai, here the updated #SIGIR2024 plots, with (largely) cleaned up data. Minor errors likely in the tail of the distribution for the institutions plot (loooong tail not shown here) SIGIR 2024

AI R&D is moving fast but we've done the hard work for you and added a few papers from this week to our schedule for the Trends in AI webinar, like PromptReps, Multi-token Prediction, and Replacing Judges with Juries. Join us today at 4 PM CEST to catch up with all the news!

Joining the merry #sigir2024 -rejection gang: Happy to share our paper on the Set-Encoder is now on arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2404.06912. It features permutation-invariant listwise re-ranking with an ELECTRA-base model that is as effective as RankGPT4. Code and data available 😉

The code is available now 😊

Very proud of my PhD student Watheq Mansour for getting his #SIGIR2024 reproducibility study accepted (with Shengyao Zhuang and Guido Zuccon ): 'Revisiting Document Expansion and Filtering for Effective First-Stage Retrieval'

Thanks for having me! Lots of great questions 😀

Happy to share our (Matthias Hagen Maik Fröbe) paper 'Investigating the Effects of Sparse Attention on Cross-Encoders' has been accepted at #ecir2024 . A substantial amount of the token interactions in cross-encoders can be removed without impacting effectiveness.

At 11:00 on 18th December, Shengyao Zhuang Shengyao Zhuang will be giving an #IRTalk entitled Dealing with Typos for Pre-trained Language Model-Based Neural Rankers'. Details can be found at: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewtal…

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A personal update. I finally got my PhD certificate 🥳

My thesis can be accessed through the following link: espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:db0a1b9