Program

ReNeuIR is colocated with SIGIR 2025 in Padua, Italy and takes place on July 17th, 2025. All times in the table below are according to the local time zone.

Time	Agenda
09:00 - 09:15	Welcome and Introduction
09:15 - 10:00	Keynote by Djoerd Hiemstra
10:00 - 10:30	Shared Task Initiative and Collaborative Experiments
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30	Paper presentations
12:30 - 14:30	Lunch Break + Poster
14:30 - 15:15	Keynote by Nicola Tonellotto
15:15 - 15:30	Paper Session
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:45	Paper Session
16:45 - 17:30	Collab-a-thon and Concluding Remarks

Detailed Schedule for the Session on the Shared Task Initiative and Collaborative Experiments (11:15 - 15:30)

We will have two talks (10 minutes + 5 minutes QA):

Detailed Schedule for the First Paper Presentation Session (11:00 - 12:30)

We have two long papers and one short paper and one invited paper:

Junru Wu, Le Yan, Zhen Qin, Honglei Zhuang, Paul Suganthan G.C., Tianqi Liu, Zhe Dong, Xuanhui Wang, Harrie Oosterhuis. Harnessing Pairwise Ranking Prompting Through Sample-Efficient Ranking Distillation. (10 minutes + 5 minutes QA)
Mathew Jacob, Erik Lindgren, Matei Zaharia, Michael Carbin, Omar Khattab, Andrew Drozdov. Drowning in Documents: Consequences of Scaling Reranker Inference. (20 minutes + 10 minutes QA)
Wondo Rhee, Chan Lim, Taewon Yoon, Gyuhyeon Choi, Jooyoung LeeColPruner. Combining Complementary Pruning Approaches for ColBERT in Web Search. (20 minutes + 10 minutes QA)
Julian Killingback, Hansi Zeng, Hamed Zamani. From Vector Representations to Neural Representations: Learned Query-Specific Relevance Functions (10 minutes + 5 minutes QA)

Detailed Schedule for the Second Paper Presentation Session (15:15 - 15:30)

We have four invited papers (each with 10 minutes + 5 minutes QA):

Shuai Wang, Shengyao Zhuang, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon. 2D Matryoshka Training for Information Retrieval.
Katelin Harlan. Efficiency of First-Stage Retrieval.

Detailed Schedule for the Second Paper Presentation Session (16:00 - 16:45)

We have four invited papers (each with 10 minutes + 5 minutes QA):

Silvio Martinico, Franco Maria Nardini, Cosimo Rulli, Rossano Venturini. Efficient Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search on a Raspberry Pi.
Aldo Porco, Dhruv Mehra, Igor Malioutov, Karthik Radhakrishnan, Moniba Keymanesh, Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro, Sean MacAvaney, Pengxiang Cheng. An Alternative to FLOPS Regularization to Effectively Productionize SPLADE-Doc.
Ferdinand Schlatt, Tim Hagen, Martin Potthast, Matthias Hagen. TITE: Token-Independent Text Encoder for Information Retrieval.

Collab-a-thon Session (16:00 - 17:30)

Inspired by the collab-a-thon editions at ECIR 2024 and 2025, we intend to conclude the ReNeuIR workshop with an similar initiative. The goal is to inspire new collaborations, explore fresh research ideas, and build lasting connections with fellow researchers that attended the workshop.