ReNeuIR
Workshop on Reaching Efficiency in Neural Information Retrieval
Program
ReNeuIR takes place on July 15, 2022. All times in the table below are in CET.
| Time | Agenda |
|---|---|
| 09:00 - 09:05 | Welcome and Introduction |
| 09:05 - 09:50 | Keynote by Hamed Zamani |
| 09:50 - 10:30 | Paper Session I |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Paper Session II |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30 - 14:15 | Paper Session III |
| 14:15 - 15:00 | Keynote by Bhaskar Mitra |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 - 16:15 | Panel Discussion and Concluding Remarks |
Paper Session Detailed Schedule
Each paper is given 20 minutes for presentation including Q&A.
- Session I
- “Fast Passage Re-ranking with Contextualized Exact Term Matching and Efficient Passage Expansion.” Shengyao Zhuang (University of Queensland) and Guido Zuccon (University of Queensland). (paper, slides)
- “Faster Learned Sparse Retrieval with Guided Traversal.” Antonio Mallia (New York University), Joel Mackenzie (University of Queensland), Torsten Suel (New York University), Nicola Tonellotto (University of Pisa). (paper, slides)
- Session II
- “Low-variance estimation in the Plackett-Luce model via quasi-Monte Carlo sampling.” Alexander Buchholz (Amazon), Jan Malte Lichtenberg (Amazon), Giuseppe Di Benedetto (Amazon), Yannik Stein (Amazon), Vito Bellini (Amazon) and Matteo Ruffini (Amazon). (paper)
- “Moving Stuff Around: A study on efficiency of moving documents into memory for Neural IR models.” Arthur Câmara (TU Delft) and Claudia Hauff (TU Delft). (paper, slides)
- “From Distillation to Hard Negative Sampling: Making Sparse Neural IR Models More Effective.” Thibault Formal (Naver Labs Europe), Carlos Lassance (Naver Labs Europe), Benjamin Piwowarski (Sorbonne Université), Stéphane Clinchant (Naver Labs Europe) (paper)
- “An Efficiency Study for SPLADE Models.” Carlos Lassance (Naver Labs Europe) and Stéphane Clinchant (Naver Labs Europe). (paper, slides)
- Session III
- “SEINE: SEgment-based Indexing for NEural information retrieval.” Sibo Dong (Georgetown University), Justin Goldstein (Georgetown University) and Grace Hui Yang (Georgetown University). (paper, slides)
- “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Green Information Retrieval Researchs.” Harry Scells (University of Queensland), Shengyao Zhuang (University of Queensland), Guido Zuccon (University of Queensland). (paper, slides)
Panelists
Bhaskar Mitra Microsoft
Nils Reimers HuggingFace
Grace Hui Yang Georgetown University
Guido Zuccon University of Queensland (slides)