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  1. Retrieval-Enhanced Machine Learning: Synthesis and Opportunities

    Article • December 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    To Eun Kim, Alireza Salemi, Hamed Zamani

  2. Online and Offline Evaluation in Search Clarification

    Article • ACM Transactions on Information Systems, November 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Leila Tavakoli, Mark Sanderson, Hamed Zamani, Leila Tavakoli

  3. Special Issue on Conversational Information Seeking

    Article • ACM Transactions on the Web, October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  4. First Workshop on Generative AI for Recommender Systems and Personalization

    Article • August 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  5. Stochastic RAG: End-to-End Retrieval-Augmented Generation through Expected Utility Maximization

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  6. Third Workshop on Personalization and Recommendations in Search (PaRiS)

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani, Hongning Wang

  7. Towards a Search Engine for Machines: Unified Ranking for Multiple Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani, Alireza Salemi

  8. The Second Workshop on Large Language Models for Individuals, Groups, and Society

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hongning Wang, Hamed Zamani

  9. ProCIS: A Benchmark for Proactive Retrieval in Conversations

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  10. Planning Ahead in Generative Retrieval: Guiding Autoregressive Generation through Simultaneous Decoding

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  11. Evaluating Retrieval Quality in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani, Alireza Salemi

  12. Optimization Methods for Personalizing Large Language Models through Retrieval Augmentation

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alireza Salemi, Hamed Zamani

  13. Scalable and Effective Generative Information Retrieval

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  14. WSDM 2024 Workshop on Large Language Models for Individuals, Groups, and Society

    Article • March 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani, Hongning Wang

  15. The 3rd International Workshop on Interactive and Scalable Information Retrieval Methods for eCommerce (ISIR-eCom 2024)

    Article • March 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani, linsey pang

  16. Generalized Weak Supervision for Neural Information Retrieval

    Article • ACM Transactions on Information Systems, February 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  17. Large Language Model Augmented Narrative Driven Recommendations

    Article • September 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  18. Pre-Training Multi-Modal Dense Retrievers for Outside-Knowledge Visual Question Answering

    Article • August 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alireza Salemi, Hamed Zamani

  19. A Personalized Dense Retrieval Framework for Unified Information Access

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  20. Editable User Profiles for Controllable Text Recommendations

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  21. FiD-Light: Efficient and Effective Retrieval-Augmented Text Generation

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  22. Soft Prompt Decoding for Multilingual Dense Retrieval

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  23. Multivariate Representation Learning for Information Retrieval

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  24. A Symmetric Dual Encoding Dense Retrieval Framework for Knowledge-Intensive Visual Question Answering

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani, Alireza Salemi

  25. SIGIR 2023 Workshop on Retrieval Enhanced Machine Learning (REML @ SIGIR 2023)

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  26. The 2nd Workshop on Interactive and Scalable Information Retrieval Methods for eCommerce (ISIR-eCom)

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani, linsey pang

  27. Tutorials at The Web Conference 2023

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Olivier Jeunen, Liat Levontin, Josiah Poon, Amit Sheth, Johann Trippas, Dr Shoujin Wang, Jaemin Yoo, Hamed Zamani, Meike Zehlike, Xikun ZHANG, Yushan Jiang, Henry Weld, Haoyang Li, Caren Han, Hande Kucuk McGinty

  28. Revisiting Open Domain Query Facet Extraction and Generation

    Article • August 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  29. Stochastic Retrieval-Conditioned Reranking

    Article • August 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  30. Conversational Information Seeking

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Johann Trippas, Hamed Zamani

  31. Curriculum Learning for Dense Retrieval Distillation

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  32. MIMICS-Duo

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Leila Tavakoli, Hamed Zamani, Mark Sanderson, Johanne Trippas

  33. Retrieval-Enhanced Machine Learning

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  34. Conversational Search and Recommendation: Introduction to the Special Issue

    Article • ACM Transactions on Information Systems, October 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mark Sanderson, Hamed Zamani

  35. Learning Multiple Intent Representations for Search Queries

    Article • October 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  36. Context-aware Target Apps Selection and Recommendation for Enhancing Personal Mobile Assistants

    Article • ACM Transactions on Information Systems, July 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  37. Improving Transformer-Kernel Ranking Model Using Conformer and Query Term Independence

    Article • July 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  38. Passage Retrieval for Outside-Knowledge Visual Question Answering

    Article • July 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  39. Current Challenges and Future Directions in Podcast Information Access

    Article • July 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  40. Learning Robust Dense Retrieval Models from Incomplete Relevance Labels

    Article • July 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  41. Generalizing Discriminative Retrieval Models using Generative Tasks

    Article • April 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  42. Tip of the Tongue Known-Item Retrieval

    Article • March 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  43. Generating Clarifying Questions for Information Retrieval

    Article • April 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  44. Neural models for information retrieval without labeled data

    Article • ACM SIGIR Forum, December 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  45. An Analysis of Approaches Taken in the ACM RecSys Challenge 2018 for Automatic Music Playlist Continuation

    Article • ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, November 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  46. Performance Prediction for Non-Factoid Question Answering

    Article • September 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  47. Analyzing and Predicting News Popularity in an Instant Messaging Service

    Article • July 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  48. Asking Clarifying Questions in Open-Domain Information-Seeking Conversations

    Article • July 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  49. From Neural Re-Ranking to Neural Ranking

    Article • October 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  50. In Situ and Context-Aware Target Apps Selection for Unified Mobile Search

    Article • October 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  51. Neural Query Performance Prediction using Weak Supervision from Multiple Signals

    Article • June 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  52. Universal Approximation Functions for Fast Learning to Rank

    Article • June 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  53. SIGIR 2018 Workshop on Learning from Limited or Noisy Data for Information Retrieval

    Article • June 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani, Hang Li

  54. ACM SIGIR Student Liaison Program

    Article • ACM SIGIR Forum, February 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Jiaxin Mao, Johann Trippas, Hamed Zamani

  55. Neural Ranking Models with Multiple Document Fields

    Article • February 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  56. Improving Retrieval Performance for Verbose Queries via Axiomatic Analysis of Term Discrimination Heuristic

    Article • August 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani, Azadeh Shakery

  57. Relevance-based Word Embedding

    Article • August 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  58. Word Embedding Causes Topic Shifting; Exploit Global Context!

    Article • August 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  59. Situational Context for Ranking in Personal Search

    Article • April 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani

  60. Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Based on Matrix Factorization

    Article • October 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Hamed Zamani, Azadeh Shakery

  61. Axiomatic Analysis for Improving the Log-Logistic Feedback Model

    Article • July 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Azadeh Shakery, Hamed Zamani