Zhen Qin

2025

Rankers, Judges, and Assistants: Towards Understanding the Interplay of LLMs in Information Retrieval Evaluation.

Krisztian Balog|Don Metzler|Zhen Qin

Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2025, Padua, Italy, July 13-18, 2025

Optimizing Compound Retrieval Systems.

Harrie Oosterhuis|Rolf Jagerman|Zhen Qin|Xuanhui Wang

Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2025, Padua, Italy, July 13-18, 2025

2024

Can Query Expansion Improve Generalization of Strong Cross-Encoder Rankers?

Minghan Li|Honglei Zhuang|Kai Hui|Zhen Qin|Jimmy Lin|Rolf Jagerman|Xuanhui Wang|Michael Bendersky

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

Regression Compatible Listwise Objectives for Calibrated Ranking with Binary Relevance.

Aijun Bai|Rolf Jagerman|Zhen Qin|Le Yan|Pratyush Kar|Bing-Rong Lin|Xuanhui Wang|Michael Bendersky|Marc Najork

Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2023, Birmingham, United Kingdom, October 21-25, 2023

RankT5: Fine-Tuning T5 for Text Ranking with Ranking Losses.

Honglei Zhuang|Zhen Qin|Rolf Jagerman|Kai Hui|Ji Ma|Jing Lu|Jianmo Ni|Xuanhui Wang|Michael Bendersky

Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, July 23-27, 2023

2022

On Optimizing Top-K Metrics for Neural Ranking Models.

Rolf Jagerman|Zhen Qin|Xuanhui Wang|Michael Bendersky|Marc Najork

SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11 - 15, 2022

Revisiting Two-tower Models for Unbiased Learning to Rank.

Le Yan|Zhen Qin|Honglei Zhuang|Xuanhui Wang|Michael Bendersky|Marc Najork

SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11 - 15, 2022

2021

Ensemble Distillation for BERT-Based Ranking Models.

Honglei Zhuang|Zhen Qin|Shuguang Han|Xuanhui Wang|Michael Bendersky|Marc Najork

ICTIR '21: The 2021 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, Canada, July 11, 2021

Improving Cloud Storage Search with User Activity.

Rolf Jagerman|Weize Kong|Rama Kumar Pasumarthi|Zhen Qin|Michael Bendersky|Marc Najork

WSDM '21, The Fourteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Virtual Event, Israel, March 8-12, 2021

Non-Clicks Mean Irrelevant? Propensity Ratio Scoring As a Correction.

Nan Wang|Zhen Qin|Xuanhui Wang|Hongning Wang

WSDM '21, The Fourteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Virtual Event, Israel, March 8-12, 2021

Diversification-Aware Learning to Rank using Distributed Representation.

Le Yan|Zhen Qin|Rama Kumar Pasumarthi|Xuanhui Wang|Michael Bendersky

WWW '21: The Web Conference 2021, Virtual Event / Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 19-23, 2021.

Cross-Positional Attention for Debiasing Clicks.

Honglei Zhuang|Zhen Qin|Xuanhui Wang|Michael Bendersky|Xinyu Qian|Po Hu|Dan Chary Chen

WWW '21: The Web Conference 2021, Virtual Event / Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 19-23, 2021.

2020

Parameter Tuning in Personal Search Systems.

Suming J. Chen|Xuanhui Wang|Zhen Qin|Donald Metzler

WSDM '20: The Thirteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Houston, TX, USA, February 3-7, 2020

Stabilizing Neural Search Ranking Models.

Ruilin Li|Zhen Qin|Xuanhui Wang|Suming J. Chen|Donald Metzler

WWW '20: The Web Conference 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, April 20-24, 2020

Matching Cross Network for Learning to Rank in Personal Search.

Zhen Qin|Zhongliang Li|Michael Bendersky|Donald Metzler

WWW '20: The Web Conference 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, April 20-24, 2020

Training Machine Learning Models With Causal Logic.

Ang Li|Suming J. Chen|Jingzheng Qin|Zhen Qin

Companion of The 2020 Web Conference 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, April 20-24, 2020

2019

Personalized Online Spell Correction for Personal Search.

Jai Prakash Gupta|Zhen Qin|Michael Bendersky|Donald Metzler

The World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 13-17, 2019

2018

Multi-Task Learning for Email Search Ranking with Auxiliary Query Clustering.

Jiaming Shen|Maryam Karimzadehgan|Michael Bendersky|Zhen Qin|Donald Metzler

Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2018, Torino, Italy, October 22-26, 2018