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Scientific retrieval is essential for advancing scientific knowledge discovery. Within this process, document reranking plays a critical role in refining first-stage retrieval results. However, standard LLM listwise reranking faces…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Runchu Tian , Xueqiang Xu , Bowen Jin , SeongKu Kang , Jiawei Han

Recently, there has been increasing interest in applying large language models (LLMs) as zero-shot passage rankers. However, few studies have explored how to select appropriate in-context demonstrations for the passage ranking task, which…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Wenhan Liu , Yutao Zhu , Zhicheng Dou

Reranking, the process of refining the output from a first-stage retriever, is often considered computationally expensive, especially when using Large Language Models (LLMs). A common approach to mitigate this cost involves utilizing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Hervé Déjean , Stéphane Clinchant

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong promise as rerankers, especially in ``listwise'' settings where an LLM is prompted to rerank several search results at once. However, this ``cascading'' retrieve-and-rerank approach is limited…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Mandeep Rathee , Sean MacAvaney , Avishek Anand

Recent studies have highlighted the significant potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) as zero-shot relevance rankers. These methods predominantly utilize prompt learning to assess the relevance between queries and documents by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Dezhi Ye , Junwei Hu , Jiabin Fan , Bowen Tian , Jie Liu , Haijin Liang , Jin Ma

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate robust capabilities across various fields, leading to a paradigm shift in LLM-enhanced Recommender System (RS). Research to date focuses on point-wise and pair-wise recommendation paradigms, which…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Wen-Shuo Chao , Zhi Zheng , Hengshu Zhu , Hao Liu

In an Information Retrieval (IR) system, reranking plays a critical role by sorting candidate passages according to their relevance to a specific query. This process demands a nuanced understanding of the variations among passages linked to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Can Jin , Hongwu Peng , Anxiang Zhang , Nuo Chen , Jiahui Zhao , Xi Xie , Kuangzheng Li , Shuya Feng , Kai Zhong , Caiwen Ding , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive zero-shot performance across a variety of Natural Language Processing tasks, including document re-ranking. However, their effectiveness degrades on unseen tasks and domains, largely due to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Marco Braga , Pranav Kasela , Alessandro Raganato , Gabriella Pasi

Recently, large language models (LLMs) (e.g., GPT-4) have demonstrated impressive general-purpose task-solving abilities, including the potential to approach recommendation tasks. Along this line of research, this work aims to investigate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Yupeng Hou , Junjie Zhang , Zihan Lin , Hongyu Lu , Ruobing Xie , Julian McAuley , Wayne Xin Zhao

Effective information searching is essential for enhancing the reasoning and generation capabilities of large language models (LLMs). Recent research has explored using reinforcement learning (RL) to improve LLMs' search capabilities by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Hao Sun , Zile Qiao , Jiayan Guo , Xuanbo Fan , Yingyan Hou , Yong Jiang , Pengjun Xie , Yan Zhang , Fei Huang , Jingren Zhou

Large language model (LLM) based listwise reranking has emerged as the dominant paradigm for achieving state-of-the-art ranking effectiveness in information retrieval. However, its reliance on feeding full passage texts into the LLM…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Xiaojie Ke , Shuai Zhang , Liansheng Sun , Yongjin Wang , Hengjun Jiang , Xiangkun Liu , Cunxin Gu , Jian Xu , Guanjun Jiang

Information retrieval systems are crucial for enabling effective access to large document collections. Recent approaches have leveraged Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance retrieval performance through query augmentation, but often rely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Pengcheng Jiang , Jiacheng Lin , Lang Cao , Runchu Tian , SeongKu Kang , Zifeng Wang , Jimeng Sun , Jiawei Han

Text reranking models are a crucial component in modern systems like Retrieval-Augmented Generation, tasked with selecting the most relevant documents prior to generation. However, current Large Language Models (LLMs) powered rerankers…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yuzheng Cai , Yanzhao Zhang , Dingkun Long , Mingxin Li , Pengjun Xie , Weiguo Zheng

Recent advancements have successfully harnessed the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) for zero-shot document ranking, exploring a variety of prompting strategies. Comparative approaches like pairwise and listwise achieve high…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Kehan Long , Shasha Li , Chen Xu , Jintao Tang , Ting Wang

Reranking is a critical stage in contemporary information retrieval (IR) systems, improving the relevance of the user-presented final results by honing initial candidate sets. This paper is a thorough guide to examine the changing reranker…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Tejul Pandit , Sakshi Mahendru , Meet Raval , Dhvani Upadhyay

In this work, we propose a simple method that applies a large language model (LLM) to large-scale retrieval in zero-shot scenarios. Our method, the Language language model as Retriever (LameR), is built upon no other neural models but an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Tao Shen , Guodong Long , Xiubo Geng , Chongyang Tao , Tianyi Zhou , Daxin Jiang

In-Context Learning (ICL) enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform new tasks by conditioning on prompts with relevant information. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances ICL by incorporating retrieved documents into the LLM's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Marie Al Ghossein , Emile Contal , Alexandre Robicquet

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown exciting performance in listwise passage ranking. Due to the limited input length, existing methods often adopt the sliding window strategy. Such a strategy, though effective, is inefficient as it…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Wenhan Liu , Xinyu Ma , Yutao Zhu , Ziliang Zhao , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin , Zhicheng Dou

Zero-shot document re-ranking with Large Language Models (LLMs) has evolved from Pointwise methods to Listwise and Setwise approaches that optimize computational efficiency. Despite their success, these methods predominantly rely on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Haodong Chen , Shengyao Zhuang , Zheng Yao , Guido Zuccon , Teerapong Leelanupab

Cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) ~\cite{shi2021cross, asai2021one, jiang2020cross} for example, can find relevant text in any language such as English(high resource) or Telugu (low resource) even when the query is posed in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Navya Yarrabelly , Saloni Mittal , Ketan Todi , Kimihiro Hasegawa