Optimization methods for personalizing large language models through retrieval augmentation

A Salemi, S Kallumadi, H Zamani - … of the 47th International ACM SIGIR …, 2024‏ - dl.acm.org
This paper studies retrieval-augmented approaches for personalizing large language
models (LLMs), which potentially have a substantial impact on various applications and …

Multi-armed bandits for adjudicating documents in pooling-based evaluation of information retrieval systems

DE Losada, J Parapar, A Barreiro - Information Processing & Management, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Evaluating Information Retrieval systems is crucial to making progress in search
technologies. Evaluation is often based on assembling reference collections consisting of …

An adaptive social network-aware collaborative filtering algorithm for improved rating prediction accuracy

D Margaris, A Kobusińska, D Spiliotopoulos… - IEEE …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When information from traditional recommender systems is augmented with information
about user relationships that social networks store, more successful recommendations can …

Maximal fusion of facts on the web with credibility guarantee

TT Nguyen, TC Phan, QVH Nguyen, K Aberer… - Information …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
The Web became the central medium for valuable sources of information fusion
applications. However, such user-generated resources are often plagued by inaccuracies …

Using score distributions to compare statistical significance tests for information retrieval evaluation

J Parapar, DE Losada… - Journal of the …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Statistical significance tests can provide evidence that the observed difference in
performance between 2 methods is not due to chance. In information retrieval (IR), some …

Reliable Information Retrieval Systems Performance Evaluation: A Review

MH Joseph, SD Ravana - IEEE Access, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the progressive and availability of various search tools, interest in the evaluation of
information retrieval based on user perspective has grown tremendously among …

Robustness of rank aggregation methods for malicious disturbance

D Chen, Y **ao, H Zhu, Y Deng, J Wu - Information Sciences, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Rank aggregation has widespread applications in social choice, information retrieval, and
bioinformatics. Given the enormous social and economic implications of these applications …

Beyond kemeny rank aggregation: A parameterizable-penalty framework for robust ranking aggregation with ties

S Akbari, AR Escobedo - Omega, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Rank Aggregation has ubiquitous applications in operations research, artificial intelligence,
computational social choice, and various other fields. Interest in this problem has increased …

An axiomatic distance methodology for aggregating multimodal evaluations

AR Escobedo, E Moreno-Centeno, R Yasmin - Information Sciences, 2022‏ - Elsevier
This work introduces a multimodal data aggregation methodology featuring optimization
models and algorithms for jointly aggregating heterogeneous ordinal and cardinal …

Enriched Construction Regulation Inquiry Responses: A Hybrid Search Approach for Large Language Models

C He, W He, M Liu, S Leng, S Wei - Journal of Management in …, 2025‏ - ascelibrary.org
The applicability of existing automated compliance check tools in construction is limited, as
they are insufficient to provide end-to-end responses given the fragmented and unstructured …