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Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed listwise document reranking by enabling global reasoning over candidate sets, yet single models often struggle to balance fine-grained relevance scoring with holistic cross-document analysis. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Abdelrahman Abdallah , Jamshid Mozafari , Bhawna Piryani , Adam Jatowt

Reinforcement learning (RL) has been widely used in training large language models (LLMs) for preventing unexpected outputs, eg reducing harmfulness and errors. However, existing RL methods mostly adopt the instance-level reward, which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Zhipeng Chen , Kun Zhou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Junchen Wan , Fuzheng Zhang , Di Zhang , Ji-Rong Wen

Effective document reranking is essential for improving search relevance across diverse applications. While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at reranking due to their deep semantic understanding and reasoning, their high computational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Dimitar Peshevski , Kiril Blazhevski , Martin Popovski , Gjorgji Madjarov

Existing approaches typically rely on large-scale fine-tuning to adapt LLMs for information reranking tasks, which is computationally expensive. In this work, we demonstrate that modern LLMs can be effectively adapted using only minimal,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Tingyu Song , Yilun Zhao , Siyue Zhang , Chen Zhao , Arman Cohan

Reasoning-intensive retrieval requires deep semantic inference beyond surface-level keyword matching, posing a challenge for current LLM-based rerankers limited by context constraints and order sensitivity. We propose \textbf{\BracketRank},…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Abdelrahman Abdallah , Mohammed Ali , Bhawna Piryani , Adam Jatowt

Modern retrieval pipelines increasingly serve downstream consumers like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and autonomous agents that need more than a scalar relevance score. A reranker that only tells the caller "how relevant" forces the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Dun Zhang

Effective long-term memory management is crucial for language models handling extended contexts. We introduce the Enhanced Ranked Memory Augmented Retrieval (ERMAR) framework, which dynamically ranks memory entries based on relevance.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ghadir Alselwi , Hao Xue , Shoaib Jameel , Basem Suleiman , Flora D. Salim , Imran Razzak

Using large language models (LLMs) to predict relevance judgments has shown promising results. Most studies treat this task as a distinct research line, e.g., focusing on prompt design for predicting relevance labels given a query and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Chuan Meng , Jiqun Liu , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Fengran Mo , Jeff Dalton , Maarten de Rijke

A recent Large language model (LLM)-based recommendation model, called RecRanker, has demonstrated a superior performance in the top-k recommendation task compared to other models. In particular, RecRanker samples users via clustering,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Zeyuan Meng , Zixuan Yi , Iadh Ounis

Efficiently reranking documents retrieved from information retrieval (IR) pipelines to enhance overall quality of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system remains an important yet challenging problem. Recent studies have highlighted the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Jingyu Wu , Aditya Shrivastava , Jing Zhu , Alfy Samuel , Anoop Kumar , Daben Liu

To support complex search tasks, where the initial information requirements are complex or may change during the search, a search engine must adapt the information delivery as the user's information requirements evolve. To support this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Jianghong Zhou , Eugene Agichtein

Recently, pre-trained language models such as BERT have been applied to document ranking for information retrieval, which first pre-train a general language model on an unlabeled large corpus and then conduct ranking-specific fine-tuning on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Lin Bo , Liang Pang , Gang Wang , Jun Xu , XiuQiang He , Ji-Rong Wen

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown extraordinary success across various text generation tasks; however, their potential for simple yet essential text classification remains underexplored, as LLM pre-training tends to emphasize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Zhexiong Liu , Diane Litman

Conventional research on large language models (LLMs) has primarily focused on refining output distributions, while paying less attention to the decoding process that transforms these distributions into final responses. Recent advances,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Chenheng Zhang , Tianqi Du , Jizhe Zhang , Mingqing Xiao , Yifei Wang , Yisen Wang , Zhouchen Lin

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 recently shown strong potential for ranking by capturing semantic relevance and adapting across diverse domains, yet existing methods remain constrained by limited context length and high computational…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Tao Feng , Zijie Lei , Zhigang Hua , Yan Xie , Shuang Yang , Ge Liu , Jiaxuan You

Deep neural networks have achieved significant improvements in information retrieval (IR). However, most existing models are computational costly and can not efficiently scale to long documents. This paper proposes a novel End-to-End neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Chen Zheng , Yu Sun , Shengxian Wan , Dianhai Yu

In information retrieval, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in text reranking tasks by leveraging their sophisticated natural language understanding and advanced reasoning capabilities. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Haowei Liu , Xuyang Wu , Guohao Sun , Zhiqiang Tao , Yi Fang

As Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly address domain-specific problems, their application in the financial sector has expanded rapidly. Tasks that are both highly valuable and time-consuming, such as analyzing financial statements,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Joohyun Lee , Minji Roh

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