IR-1358: (2025) Nijasure, A., Chowdhury, T. and Allan, J., "How Relevance Emerges: A Mechanistic Analysis of LoRA Fine-Tuning in Reranking LLMs," Poster paper in the Workshop on Explainability in Information Retrieval (WExIR) at the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’25), Padua, Italy, July 13-18, 2025. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1357: (2025) Chowdhury, T., Nijasure, A. and Allan, J., "Probing Ranking LLMs: A Mechanistic Analysis for Information Retrieval," in the Proceedings of the 2025 The 11th ACM SIGIR / The 15th International Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR ‘25), Padua, Italy, July 18, 2025, pp. 336–346. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1271: (2021) Chowdhury, T., Rahimi, N. and Allan, J., "Rank-LIME: Local Model-Agnostic Feature Attribution for Learning to Rank," in Proceedings of The 9th ACM SIGIR / The 13th International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2023), held jointly with ACM SIGIR Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, July 23, 2023. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1244: (2021) Chowdhury, T., Rahimi, N. and Allan, J., "Equi-explanation Maps: Concise and Informative Global Summary Explanations," in the Proceedings of the ACM FAccT* conference, Seoul, South Korea on June 21-24 2022, pp. 464–472. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]