Best Paper Awards

Best Long Papers

Best Papers

Title: Scaling Laws For Dense Retrieval
Authors: Yan Fang (Tsinghua University), Jingtao Zhan (Tsinghua University), Qingyao Ai (Tsinghua University), Jiaxin Mao (Renmin University of China), Weihang Su (Tsinghua University), Jia Chen (Xiaohongshu Inc), Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua University)

Title: A Workbench for Autograding Retrieve/Generate Systems
Authors: Laura Dietz (University of New Hampshire)

Runner-ups

Title: Efficient Inverted Indexes for Approximate Retrieval over Learned Sparse Representations
Authors: Sebastian Bruch (Pinecone), Franco Maria Nardini (ISTI-CNR), Cosimo Rulli (ISTI-CNR), Rossano Venturini (Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa)

Title: A Reproducibility Study of PLAID
Authors: Sean MacAvaney (University of Glasgow), Nicola Tonellotto (University of Pisa)

Honorable Mentions

Title: Generative Retrieval as Multi-Vector Dense Retrieval
Authors: Shiguang Wu (Shandong University), Wenda Wei (Shandong University), Mengqi Zhang (Shandong University), Zhumin Chen (Shandong University), Jun Ma (Shandong University), Zhaochun Ren (Leiden University), Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam), Pengjie Ren (Shandong University)

Title: Leveraging LLMs for Unsupervised Dense Retriever Ranking
Authors: Ekaterina Khramtsova (University of Queensland), Shengyao Zhuang (The University of Queensland), Mahsa Baktashmotlagh (UQ), Guido Zuccon (The University of Queensland)

Title: LDRE: LLM-based Divergent Reasoning and Ensemble for Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval
Authors: Zhenyu Yang (State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems), Dizhan Xue (State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems), Shengsheng Qian (State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems), Weiming Dong (State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems), Changsheng Xu (State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems)

Title: Pacer and Runner: Cooperative Learning Framework between Single- and Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation
Authors: Chung Park (SK Telecom / KAIST), Taesan Kim (SK Telelcom), Hyungjun Yoon (SK Telelcom), Junui Hong (SK Telelcom / KAIST), Yelim Yu (SK Telelcom), Mincheol Cho (SK Telelcom), Minsung Choi (SK Telelcom), Jaegul Choo (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

Title: A Taxation Perspective for Fair Re-ranking
Authors: Chen Xu (Renmin University of China), Xiaopeng Ye (Renmin University of China), Wang Wenjie (National University of Singapore), Liang Pang (Institute of Computing Technology), Jun Xu (Renmin University of China), Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore)

Best Short Papers

Best Paper

Title: Evaluating Retrieval Quality in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Authors: Alireza Salemi (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Hamed Zamani (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Honorable Mentions

Title: Towards Robust QA Evaluation via Open LLMs
Authors: Ehsan Kamalloo (University of Waterloo), Shivani Upadhyay (University of Waterloo), Jimmy Lin (University of Waterloo)

Title: MeMemo: On-device Retrieval Augmentation for Private and Personalized Text Generation
Authors: Zijie J. Wang (Georgia Tech), Duen Horng Chau (Georgia Tech)

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