Lost in Decoding? Reproducing and Stress-Testing the Look-Ahead Prior in Generative Retrieval.

@inproceedings{mekonnen-2026-lost, author = {Kidist Amde Mekonnen and Yongkang Li and Yubao Tang and Simon Lupart and Maarten de Rijke}, 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 = {{Lost in Decoding? Reproducing and Stress-Testing the Look-Ahead Prior in Generative Retrieval}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {2994--3005}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3808567}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3808567} }