Zheng Yao

2026

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Where Relevance Emerges: A Layer-Wise Study of Internal Attention for Zero-Shot Re-Ranking.
Haodong Chen|Shengyao Zhuang|Zheng Yao|Guido Zuccon|Teerapong Leelanupab
Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026
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Rank-R1: Enhancing Reasoning in LLM-based Document Rerankers via Reinforcement Learning.
Shengyao Zhuang|Yibo Xie|Shuai Wang|Xueguang Ma|Jimmy Lin|Kaifan Wang|Zheng Yao|Shuai Wang|Yibo Xie|Bevan Koopman|Hongning Wang|Feiyan Liu|Guido Zuccon|Bevan Koopman|Hongning Wang|Jimmy Lin|Kaifan Wang|Feiyan Liu|Guido Zuccon
Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026

2025

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Pre-training vs. Fine-tuning: A Reproducibility Study on Dense Retrieval Knowledge Acquisition.
Zheng Yao|Omar Alonso|Shuai Wang|Omar Alonso|Shuai Wang|Guido Zuccon
Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2025, Padua, Italy, July 13-18, 2025