IR-1373: (2026) Salemi, A. and Zamani, H., "Learning from Natural Language Feedback for Personalized Question Answering ," To appear 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 [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]
IR-1370: (2026) Tavakoli, M., Salemi, A., Ye, C., Abdalla, M., Zamani, H. and Ross, M., "Beyond a Million Tokens: Benchmarking and Enhancing Long-Term Memory in LLMs," In the Proceedings of The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 23rd - 27th, 2026 [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1361: (2024) Diaz, F., Drozdov, A., Kim, T., Salemi, A. and Zamani, H., "Retrieval-Enhanced Machine Learning: Synthesis and Opportunities," In proceedings of the 2024 Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region (SIGIR-AP ’24), Tokyo, Japan, December 9-12, 2024, pp. 299-302. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1360: (2025) Diaz, F., Drozdov, A., Kim, T., Salemi, A. and Zamani, H., "The Second Tutorial on Retrieval-Enhanced Machine Learning: Synthesis and Opportunities," In proceedings of 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’25), Padua, Italy, July 13-18, 2025, pp. 4130-4133. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1356: (2025) Salemi, A. and Zamani, H., "LaMP-QA: A Benchmark for Personalized Long-form Question Answering," in the Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025), Suzhou, China, November 4-9, 2025, pp. 1139-1159. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1355: (2025) Salemi, A., Maddipatla, M. and Zamani, H., "CIIR@LiveRAG 2025: Optimizing Multi-Agent Retrieval Augmented Generation through Self-Training ," In Proceedings of the LiveRAG Challenge at the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’25), Padua, Italy, July 17, 2025 [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1353: (2025) Xu, Y., Zhang, J., Salemi, A., Hu, X., Wang, W., Feng, F., Zamani, H., He, X. and Chua, T., "Personalized Generation In Large Model Era: A Survey ," in the Proceedings of The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025), Vienna, Austria, July 27–August 1st, 2025, pp. 24607-24649. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1351: (2025) Salemi, A., Killingback, J. and Zamani, H., "ExPerT: Effective and Explainable Evaluation of Personalized Long-Form Text Generation ," In Findings of The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025), Vienna, Austria, July 27–August 1st, 2025, pp. 17516-17532. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1350: (2025) Salemi, A. and Zamani, H., "Learning to Rank for Multiple Retrieval-Augmented Models through Iterative Utility Maximization ," in the Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGIR / The 15th International Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2025), Padua, Italy, July 18, 2025, pp. 183-193. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1345: (2025) Samarinas, C., Krubner, A., Salemi, A., Kim, Y. and Zamani, H., "Beyond Factual Accuracy: Evaluating Coverage of Diverse Factual Information in Long-form Text Generation," in the Findings of The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Vienna, Austria, July 27–August 1st, 2025, pp. 13468-13482 [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1336: (2025) Quinn, D., Nouri, M., Patel, N., Salihu, J., Salemi, A., Lee, S., Zamani, H. and Alian, M., "Accelerating Retrieval-Augmented Generation," in the Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 25), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, March 30-April 3, 2025, pp. 15-32. [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," in the Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2025), Padua, Italy, July 18, 2025, pp. 286-296. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1317: (2024) Salemi, A. and Zamani, H., "Evaluating Retrieval Quality in Retrieval-Augmented Generations," in the Proceedings of The 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024), July 14-18, 2024, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 2395-2400. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1316: (2024) Salemi, A. and Zamani, H., "Towards a Search Engine for Machines: Unified Ranking for Multiple Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models," in the Proceedings of The 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024), July 14-18, 2024, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 741-751. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1315: (2024) Salemi, A., Kallumadi, S. and Zamani, H., "Optimization Methods for Personalizing Large Language Models through Retrieval Augmentation," in the Proceedings of The 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '24), July 14 - 18, 2024, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 752-762. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1307: (2023) Salemi, A., Mysore, S., Bendersky, M. and Zamani, H., "LaMP: When Large Language Models Meet Personalization," in the Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024), August 11-16, 2024, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 7370–7392. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1303: (2023) Salemi, A., Rafiee, M. and Zamani, H., "Pre-Training Multi-Modal Dense Retrievers for Outside-Knowledge Visual Question Answering," in Proceedings of The 13th International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2023), Taipei, Taiwan, July 23, 2023, pp. 169–176. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-1299: (2023) Salemi, A., Altmayer Pizzorno, J. and Zamani, H., "A Symmetric Dual Encoding Dense Retrieval Framework for Knowledge-Intensive Visual Question Answering," In the Proceedings of The 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 23--27, 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 110-120. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]