Thibault Formal

2026

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XProvence: Zero-Cost Multilingual Context Pruning for Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
Youssef Mohamed|Mohamed Elhoseiny|Thibault Formal|Nadezhda Chirkova
Advances in Information Retrieval - 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, Delft, The Netherlands, March 29 - April 2, 2026, Proceedings, Part II

2024

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Towards Effective and Efficient Sparse Neural Information Retrieval.
Thibault Formal|Carlos Lassance|Benjamin Piwowarski|Stéphane Clinchant
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2024 Volume 42 Issue 5
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SPLATE: Sparse Late Interaction Retrieval.
Thibault Formal|Stéphane Clinchant|Hervé Déjean|Carlos Lassance
Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2024, Washington DC, USA, July 14-18, 2024

2023

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Query Performance Prediction for Neural IR: Are We There Yet?
Guglielmo Faggioli|Thibault Formal|Stefano Marchesin|Stéphane Clinchant|Nicola Ferro|Benjamin Piwowarski
Advances in Information Retrieval - 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2023, Dublin, Ireland, April 2-6, 2023, Proceedings, Part I
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CoSPLADE: Contextualizing SPLADE for Conversational Information Retrieval.
Nam Le Hai|Thomas Gerald|Thibault Formal|Jian-Yun Nie|Benjamin Piwowarski|Laure Soulier
Advances in Information Retrieval - 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2023, Dublin, Ireland, April 2-6, 2023, Proceedings, Part I
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MS-Shift: An Analysis of MS MARCO Distribution Shifts on Neural Retrieval.
Simon Lupart|Thibault Formal|Stéphane Clinchant
Advances in Information Retrieval - 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2023, Dublin, Ireland, April 2-6, 2023, Proceedings, Part I
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Towards Query Performance Prediction for Neural Information Retrieval: Challenges and Opportunities.
Guglielmo Faggioli|Thibault Formal|Simon Lupart|Stefano Marchesin|Stéphane Clinchant|Nicola Ferro|Benjamin Piwowarski
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, 23 July 2023
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Benchmarking Middle-Trained Language Models for Neural Search.
Hervé Déjean|Stéphane Clinchant|Carlos Lassance|Simon Lupart|Thibault Formal
Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, July 23-27, 2023

2022

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Match Your Words! A Study of Lexical Matching in Neural Information Retrieval.
Thibault Formal|Benjamin Piwowarski|Stéphane Clinchant
Advances in Information Retrieval - 44th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2022, Stavanger, Norway, April 10-14, 2022, Proceedings, Part II
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From Distillation to Hard Negative Sampling: Making Sparse Neural IR Models More Effective.
Thibault Formal|Carlos Lassance|Benjamin Piwowarski|Stéphane Clinchant
SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11 - 15, 2022
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MLIA-DAC@TREC CAsT 2022: Sparse Contextualized Query Embedding.
Nam Le Hai|Thomas Gerald|Thibault Formal|Jian-Yun Nie|Benjamin Piwowarski|Laure Soulier
Proceedings of the Thirty-First Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2022, online, November 15-19, 2022

2021

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Une Analyse du Modèle ColBERT.
Thibault Formal|Benjamin Piwowarski|Stéphane Clinchant
COnférence en Recherche d'Informations et Applications - CORIA 2021, French Information Retrieval Conference, Grenoble, France, April 15, 2021.
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A White Box Analysis of ColBERT.
Thibault Formal|Benjamin Piwowarski|Stéphane Clinchant
Advances in Information Retrieval - 43rd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2021, Virtual Event, March 28 - April 1, 2021, Proceedings, Part II
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SPLADE: Sparse Lexical and Expansion Model for First Stage Ranking.
Thibault Formal|Benjamin Piwowarski|Stéphane Clinchant
SIGIR '21: The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, Canada, July 11-15, 2021
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Composite Code Sparse Autoencoders for First Stage Retrieval.
Carlos Lassance|Thibault Formal|Stéphane Clinchant
SIGIR '21: The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, Canada, July 11-15, 2021
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Naver Labs Europe (SPLADE) @ TREC Deep Learning 2021.
Carlos Lassance|Arnaud Sors|Stéphane Clinchant|Thibault Formal|Benjamin Piwowarski
Proceedings of the Thirtieth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2021, online, November 15-19, 2021

2020

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Learning to Rank Images with Cross-Modal Graph Convolutions.
Thibault Formal|Stéphane Clinchant|Jean-Michel Renders|Sooyeol Lee|Geun-Hee Cho
Advances in Information Retrieval - 42nd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2020, Lisbon, Portugal, April 14-17, 2020, Proceedings, Part I
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Naver Labs Europe @ TREC Deep Learning 2020.
Thibault Formal|Benjamin Piwowarski|Stéphane Clinchant
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2020, Virtual Event [Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA], November 16-20, 2020.