Logit Inflation in ListMLE: Theoretical Analysis and Mitigation Strategies.

@inproceedings{bhat-2026-logit, author = {Riyaz Ahmad Bhat and Jaydeep Sen}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{Logit Inflation in ListMLE: Theoretical Analysis and Mitigation Strategies}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {76--87}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809676}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809676} }