Where Relevance Emerges: A Layer-Wise Study of Internal Attention for Zero-Shot Re-Ranking.

@inproceedings{chen-2026-relevance, author = {Haodong Chen and Shengyao Zhuang and Zheng Yao and Guido Zuccon and Teerapong Leelanupab}, 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 = {{Where Relevance Emerges: A Layer-Wise Study of Internal Attention for Zero-Shot Re-Ranking}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {2845--2855}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3808558}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3808558} }