IR-1334: (2024) Chang, H., Peng, N., Bansal, M., Ramakrishna, A. and Chung, T., "Explaining and Improving Contrastive Decoding by Extrapolating the Probabilities of a Huge and Hypothetical LM," in Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2024), Miami, FL, USA, Nov. 12-16, 2024, pp. 8503-8526. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1333: (2024) Yu, P., "Leveraging Explanations for Information Retrieval Systems Under Data Scarcity," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2024 [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1332: (2024) Salemi, A. and Zamani, H., "Comparing Retrieval-Augmentation and Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Privacy-Preserving Personalization of Large Language Models," Submitted to The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Abu Dhabi, UAE, January 19-24, 2025 [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1331: (2024) Naseri, S., "Context-Aware Query and Document Representation in Information Retrieval Systems," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2024 [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1330: (2024) Huang, Z., "Modeling Cross-Lingual Knowledge in Multilingual Information Retrieval Systems," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2024. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1329: (2024) Hashemi, H., "Retrieval Augmented Representation Learning for Information Retrieval," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2024. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1327: (2024) Kim, Y., "Extracting token-level semantic matching in text-pair classification tasks," Ph.D. Dissertation, UMass Amherst, 2024. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1326: (2024) Huang, Z., Yu, P., Ravfogel, S. and Allan, J., "Language Concept Erasure for Language-invariant Dense Retrieval," in the Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2024), Association for Computational Linguistics, Miami, Florida, November 12 –16, 2024, pp. 13261-13273. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1325: (2024) Zeng, H., Luo, C., Jin, B., Sarwar, S., Wei, T. and Zamani, H., "Scalable and Effective Generative Information Retrieval," in the Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Web Conference (WWW ’24), Singapore, May 13 - 17, 2024, pp. 1441 - 1452 [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1324: (2023) Kim, Y., Rahimi, R. and Allan, J., "Conditional Natural Language Inference," in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023), Singapore, December 6-10, 2023, pp. 6833-6851. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]