IR-1391: (2026) Alam, Z., Salemi, A. and Zamani, H., "Critic-R: Improving Agentic Search using Instruction-tuned Retrievers with Natural Language Introspective Feedback," To appear in the Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026), October 24-29, 2026, Budapest, Hungary. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1390: (2026) Zeng, H., "Generative Information Retrieval for Real World," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1385: (2026) Perlman, M., Nijasure, A. and Allan, J., "The Emergence of Relevance Through Axiomatic Attention Patterns During LoRA Fine-Tuning," To appear in the Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026), October 24-29, 2026, Budapest, Hungary. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1378: (2026) Kim, T., Salemi, A., Diaz, F. and Zamani, H., "Evaluation of Agents under Simulated AI Marketplace Dynamics," In the Proceeding of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2026), July 20–24, 2026, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 2672–2683. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1377: (2026) Rafiee, M., Soudani, H., Abbasiantaeb, Z., Aliannejadi, M., Hasibi, F. and Zamani, H., "Total Recall QA: A Verifiable Evaluation Suite for Deep Research Agents," In the Proceeding of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2026), July 20–24, 2026, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 3365-3373. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1376: (2026) Chowdhury, T., Nijasure, A., Zick, Y. and Allan, J., "Hedonic Neurons: A Mechanistic Mapping of Latent Coalitions in Transformer MLPs," In The Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 23–27, 2026. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1375: (2026) Soudani, H., Zamani, H. and Hasibi, F., "Uncertainty Quantification for Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning," In the Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2026), July 20–24, 2026, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 1665-1676. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1374: (2026) Amirizaniani, M., Salemi, A. and Zamani, H., "Learning to Reason for Multi-Step Retrieval of Personal Context in Personalized Question Answering," In the Proceeding of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2026), July 20–24, 2026, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 3580–3586. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1373: (2026) Salemi, A. and Zamani, H., "Learning from Natural Language Feedback for Personalized Question Answering ," In the Proceeding of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2026), July 20–24, 2026, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 1554–1565 [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1371: (2026) Salemi, A., Li, C., Zhang, M., Mei, Q., Li, Z., Amba Hombaiah, S., Kong, W., Chen, T., Zamani, H. and Bendersky, M., "Pathways of Thoughts: Multi-Directional Thinking for Long-form Personalized Question Answering," In the Proceedings of ACM Web Conference 2026 (WWW 2026), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, April 13-17, 2026, pp. 5822-5833. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]