1 code implementation • 23 Apr 2024 • Chris Samarinas, Pracha Promthaw, Atharva Nijasure, Hansi Zeng, Julian Killingback, Hamed Zamani
In our experiments, using graph-guided response simulations leads to significant improvements in intent classification, slot filling and response relevance compared to naive single-prompt simulated conversations.
Conversational Question Answering Dialogue State Tracking +8
1 code implementation • 22 Apr 2024 • Hansi Zeng, Chen Luo, Hamed Zamani
This paper introduces PAG-a novel optimization and decoding approach that guides autoregressive generation of document identifiers in generative retrieval models through simultaneous decoding.
no code implementations • 15 Mar 2024 • Tianxin Wei, Bowen Jin, Ruirui Li, Hansi Zeng, Zhengyang Wang, Jianhui Sun, Qingyu Yin, Hanqing Lu, Suhang Wang, Jingrui He, Xianfeng Tang
Developing a universal model that can effectively harness heterogeneous resources and respond to a wide range of personalized needs has been a longstanding community aspiration.
2 code implementations • 15 Nov 2023 • Hansi Zeng, Chen Luo, Bowen Jin, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Tianxin Wei, Hamed Zamani
This paper represents an important milestone in generative retrieval research by showing, for the first time, that generative retrieval models can be trained to perform effectively on large-scale standard retrieval benchmarks.
no code implementations • 26 Oct 2023 • Reshmi Ghosh, Harjeet Singh Kajal, Sharanya Kamath, Dhuri Shrivastava, Samyadeep Basu, Hansi Zeng, Soundararajan Srinivasan
However, current works on topic segmentation often focus on segmentation of structured texts.
no code implementations • 11 Oct 2023 • Bowen Jin, Hansi Zeng, Guoyin Wang, Xiusi Chen, Tianxin Wei, Ruirui Li, Zhengyang Wang, Zheng Li, Yang Li, Hanqing Lu, Suhang Wang, Jiawei Han, Xianfeng Tang
Semantic identifier (ID) is an important concept in information retrieval that aims to preserve the semantics of objects such as documents and items inside their IDs.
no code implementations • 15 May 2023 • Zhiqi Huang, Hansi Zeng, Hamed Zamani, James Allan
In this work, we explore a Multilingual Information Retrieval (MLIR) task, where the collection includes documents in multiple languages.
Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval Knowledge Distillation +1
1 code implementation • 26 Apr 2023 • Hansi Zeng, Surya Kallumadi, Zaid Alibadi, Rodrigo Nogueira, Hamed Zamani
Developing a universal model that can efficiently and effectively respond to a wide range of information access requests -- from retrieval to recommendation to question answering -- has been a long-lasting goal in the information retrieval community.
1 code implementation • 28 Apr 2022 • Hansi Zeng, Hamed Zamani, Vishwa Vinay
Recent work has shown that more effective dense retrieval models can be obtained by distilling ranking knowledge from an existing base re-ranking model.
1 code implementation • 17 Jun 2021 • Zhichao Xu, Hansi Zeng, Qingyao Ai
We find that models utilizing only review information can not achieve better performances than vanilla implicit-feedback matrix factorization method.
no code implementations • 16 Jan 2021 • Hansi Zeng, Zhichao Xu, Qingyao Ai
User and item reviews are valuable for the construction of recommender systems.
no code implementations • 26 Nov 2020 • Hansi Zeng, Qingyao Ai
Using reviews to learn user and item representations is important for recommender system.