Improving Ad-hoc Search Effectiveness for Conversational Information Retrieval via Model Merging.

@inproceedings{kebir-2026-improving, author = {Ahmed Rayane Kebir and Mao Ye and Jos\'{e} G. Moreno and Xingjie Liu and Lynda Tamine and Wang-Chien Lee}, 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 = {{Improving Ad-hoc Search Effectiveness for Conversational Information Retrieval via Model Merging}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {3860--3865}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809939}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809939} }