Publications
Publications in reversed chronological order.
2025
Accelerating Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Derrick Quinn, Mohammad Nouri, Neel Patel, Alireza Salimi, Sukhan Lee, Hamed Zamani, and Mohammad Alian
In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2025 (ASPLOS 2025)
In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2025 (ASPLOS 2025)
2024
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 2024
[Preprint]
[Preprint]
Leila Tavakoli, Johanne R. Trippas, Hamed Zamani, Falk Scholer, and Mark Sanderson
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 2024
[Preprint]
Michael Bendersky, Cheng Li, Qiaozhu Mei, Vanessa Murdock, Jie Tang, Hongning Wang, Hamed Zamani, Mingyang Zhang, and Xingjian Zhang
In Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024 (SIGIR ’24)
Sudarshan Lamkhede, Hamed Zamani, Moumita Bhattacharya, and Hongning Wang
In Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024 (SIGIR ’24)
In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024 (ACL ’24)
[Preprint][benchmark website]
[Preprint][benchmark website]
Hansi Zeng, Chen Luo, and Hamed Zamani
In Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024 (SIGIR ’24)
[Preprint] [code]
[Preprint] [code]
Alireza Salemi, Surya Kallumadi, and Hamed Zamani
In Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024 (SIGIR ’24)
Alireza Salemi and Hamed Zamani
In Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024 (SIGIR ’24)
[Preprint]
[Preprint]
Chris Samarinas and Hamed Zamani
In Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024 (SIGIR ’24)
[Preprint]
[Preprint]
Alireza Salemi and Hamed Zamani
In Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024 (SIGIR ’24)
Hamed Zamani and Michael Bendersky
In Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024 (SIGIR ’24)
[Preprint]
In Findings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024 (NAACL ’24 Findings)
[Preprint] [YouTube video by Manish Gupta (Microsoft)]
[Preprint] [YouTube video by Manish Gupta (Microsoft)]
Multimodal Reranking for Knowledge-Intensive Visual Question Answering
In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research, 2024 (ALVR @ ACL 2024)
[Preprint]
Understanding Modality Preferences in Search Clarification
Leila Tavakoli, Giovanni Castiglia, Federica Calò, Yashar Deldjoo, Hamed Zamani, and Johanne R. Trippas
In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Search and Recommendations, 2024 (MMSR @ CIKM 2024)
In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Search and Recommendations, 2024 (MMSR @ CIKM 2024)
[Preprint]
CS^4: Measuring the Creativity of Large Language Models Automatically by Controlling the Number of Story-Writing Constraints
Anirudh Atmakuru, Jatin Nainani, Rohith S. R. Bheemreddy, Anirudh Lakkaraju, Zonghai Yao, Hamed Zamani, and Haw-Shiuan Chang
In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Narrative Understanding, 2024 (WNU @ EMNLP 2024)
In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Narrative Understanding, 2024 (WNU @ EMNLP 2024)
[Preprint]
Retrieval-Enhanced Machine Learning: Synthesis and Opportunities
To Eun Kim, Alireza Salemi, Andrew Drozdov, Fernando Diaz, and Hamed Zamani
arxiv, 2024 (preprint)
[Preprint]
arxiv, 2024 (preprint)
[Preprint]
Interactions with Generative Information Retrieval Systems
Mohammad Aliannejadi, Jacek Gwizdka, and Hamed Zamani
arxiv, 2024 (preprint)
[Preprint]
[Preprint]
Interactive Topic Models with Optimal Transport
Garima Dhanania, Sheshera Mysore, Chau Minh Pham, Mohit Iyyer, Hamed Zamani, and Andrew McCallum
arxiv, 2024 (preprint)
[Preprint]
[Preprint]
LongLaMP: A Benchmark for Personalized Long-form Text Generation
Ishita Kumar, Snigdha Viswanathan, Sushrita Yerra, Alireza Salemi, Ryan A. Rossi, Franck Dernoncourt, Hanieh Deilamsalehy, Xiang Chen, Ruiyi Zhang, Shubham Agarwal, Nedim Lipka, and Hamed Zamani
Comparing Retrieval-Augmentation and Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Privacy-Preserving Personalization of Large Language Models
Alireza Salemi and Hamed Zamani
arxiv, 2024 (preprint)
[Preprint]
[Preprint]
Learning to Rank for Multiple Retrieval-Augmented Models through Iterative Utility Maximization
Alireza Salemi and Hamed Zamani
arxiv, 2024 (preprint)
[Preprint]
[Preprint]
2023
Conversational Information Seeking
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval (FntIR), 2023
[Preprint]
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval (FntIR), 2023
[Preprint]
Conversational Information Seeking: Theory and Application (Tutorial)
In Proceedings of the Web Conference, 2023 (WWW ’23)
[tutorial website]
[tutorial website]
In Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2023 (SIGIR ’23)
[workshop website]
[workshop website]
In Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2023 (SIGIR ’23)
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2023 (SIGIR ’23)
[Preprint] [Best Student Paper Award]
In Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2023 (SIGIR ’23)
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2023 (SIGIR ’23)
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2023 (SIGIR ’23)
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In Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2023 (SIGIR ’23)
[Preprint]
Ruicheng Xian, Honglei Zhuang, Zhen Qin, Hamed Zamani, Jing Lu, Ji Ma, Kai Hui, Han Zhao, Xuanhui Wang, Michael Bendersky
In Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2023 (NeurIPS ’23)
[Preprint] [Selected for Spotlight Presentation]
[Preprint] [Selected for Spotlight Presentation]
In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 2023 (ICTIR ’23)
[Preprint]
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2023 (RecSys ’23)
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2022
In Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2022 (SIGIR ’22)
[Preprint]
Analyzing Clarification in Asynchronous Information Seeking Conversations
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2022 (JASIST)
[Preprint]
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2022 (JASIST)
[Preprint]
Retrieval-Enhanced Machine Learning
In Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2022 (SIGIR ’22)
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2022 (SIGIR ’22)
[Preprint]
MIMICS-Duo: Enabling Both Offline & Online Evaluations for Search Clarification
In Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2022 (SIGIR ’22)
[Preprint] [Data]
In Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2022 (SIGIR ’22)
[Preprint] [Data]
Curriculum Learning for Dense Retrieval Distillation
In Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2022 (SIGIR ’22)
In Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2022 (SIGIR ’22)
Stochastic Retrieval-Conditioned Reranking
In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 2022 (ICTIR ’22)
In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 2022 (ICTIR ’22)
[Preprint]
Revisiting Open Domain Query Facet Extraction and Generation
In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 2022 (ICTIR ’22)
In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 2022 (ICTIR ’22)
[Preprint]
Neha Nayak Kennard, Tim O’Gorman, Akshay Sharma, Chhandak Bagchi, Matthew Clinton, Pranay Kumar Yelugam, Rajarshi Das, Hamed Zamani, Andrew McCallum
In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2022 (NAACL ’22)
Stochastic Optimization of Text Set Generation for Learning Multiple Query Intent Representations
In Proceedings of the 31st ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2022 (CIKM ’22)
In Proceedings of the 31st ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2022 (CIKM ’22)
[Preprint]
Yaxin Zhu and Hamed Zamani
In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP ’22)
[Preprint]
[Preprint]
Andrew Drozdov, Shufan Wang, Razieh Rahimi, Andrew McCallum, Hamed Zamani, Mohit Iyyer
In Findings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP ’22 Findings)
[Preprint]
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the ICML 2022 Workshop on Knowledge Retrieval and Language Models (KRLM @ ICML ’22)
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the First Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge (Alexa Prize ’22)
Are We There Yet? A Decision Framework for Replacing Term-Based Retrieval with Dense Retrieval Systems
arxiv, 2022 (preprint)
[Preprint]
[Preprint]
2021
Conversational Search and Recommendation: Introduction to the Special Issue
ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2021 (TOIS)
[Preprint]
ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2021 (TOIS)
[Preprint]
Context-Aware Target Apps Selection and Recommendation for Enhancing Personal Mobile Assistants
ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2021 (TOIS)
[Preprint]
ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2021 (TOIS)
[Preprint]
A Flexible Framework for Evaluating User and Item Fairness in Recommender Systems
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 2021 (UMUAI)
[Preprint]
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 2021 (UMUAI)
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Generalizing Discriminative Retrieval Models using Generative Tasks
In Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2021 (WWW ’21)
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2021 (WWW ’21)
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Intra-Document Cascading: Learning to Select Passages for Neural Document Ranking
In Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2021 (SIGIR ’21)
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2021 (SIGIR ’21)
[Preprint]
Towards Multi-Modal Conversational Information Seeking
In Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2021 (SIGIR ’21)
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Current Challenges and Future Directions in Podcast Information Access
In Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2021 (SIGIR ’21)
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In Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2021 (SIGIR ’21)
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In Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2021 (SIGIR ’21)
In Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2021 (SIGIR ’21)
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2021 (SIGIR ’21)
In Proceedings of the 30th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2021 (CIKM ’21)
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In Proceedings of the 30th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2021 (CIKM ’21)
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In Proceedings of the Sixth ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2021 (CHIIR ’21)
Somin Wadhwa and Hamed Zamani
In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Design of Experimental Search and Information Retrieval Systems, 2021 (DESIRES ’21)
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Design of Experimental Search and Information Retrieval Systems, 2021 (DESIRES ’21)
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In Proceedings of the 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2021 (NeurIPS ’21) – Datasets and Benchmarks Track
[Preprint]
2020
Information Processing & Management, 2020 (IP&M)
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In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2020 (WWW ’20)
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In Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2020 (WSDM ’20)
In Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2020 (SIGIR ’20)
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2020 (SIGIR ’20)
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In Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2020 (SIGIR ’20)
In Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2020 (SIGIR ’20)
In Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2020 (SIGIR ’20)
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2020 (SIGIR ’20)
In Proceedings of the 29th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2020 (CIKM ’20)
In Proceedings of the 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval, 2020 (ECIR ’20)
In Proceedings of the 2020 Text REtrieval Conference, 2020 (TREC ’20)
[Code]
Common Conversational Community Prototype: Scholarly Conversational Assistant
arxiv, 2020 (preprint)
[Preprint]
2019
University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2019 (Ph.D. Dissertation)
[Preprint] [UMass CICS Outstanding Dissertation Award]
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2019 (TIST)
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2019 (SIGIR ’19)
In Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2019 (SIGIR ’19)
In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 2019 (ICTIR ’19)
[Preprint] [Best Short Paper Honorable Mention]
In Proceedings of the EMNLP 2019 Workshop on Machine Reading for Question Answering, 2019 (MRQA @ EMNLP ’19)
[Best Paper Award]
In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM RecSys Workshop on Recommendation in Multistakeholder Environments, 2019 (RMSE @ RecSys ’19)
arxiv, 2019 (preprint)
2018
In Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2018 (SIGIR ’18)
In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2018 (RecSys ’18)
Information Retrieval Journal, 2018 (IRJ)
Information Processing & Management, 2018 (IP&M)
[Preprint]
International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval, 2018 (IJMIR)
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2018 (WSDM ’18)
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2018 (SIGIR ’18)
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2018 (SIGIR ’18)
In Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2018 (SIGIR ’18)
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2018 (SIGIR ’18)
In Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2018 (SIGIR ’18)
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the 27th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2018 (CIKM ’18)
In Proceedings of the 27th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2018 (CIKM ’18)
In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 2018 (ICTIR ’18)
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Design of Experimental Search and Information Retrieval Systems, 2018 (DESIRES ’18)
In Proceedings of the 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval, 2018 (ECIR ’18)
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the SIGIR 2018 Workshop on Learning From Limited or Noisy Data for Information Retrieval, 2018 (LND4IR ’18)
2017
Information Processing & Management, 2017 (IP&M)
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2017 (WWW ’17)
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2017 (SIGIR ’17)
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2017 (SIGIR ’17)
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2017 (SIGIR ’17)
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2017 (SIGIR ’17)
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In Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2017 (SIGIR ’17)
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In Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2017 (RecSys ’17)
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval, 2017 (ECIR ’17)
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In Proceedings of the 2017 Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval, 2017 (NeuIR@SIGIR ’17)
In Proceedings of the 2017 Text REtrieval Conference, 2017 (TREC ’17)
2016
Computer Speech & Language, 2016 (CSL)
In Proceedings of the 25th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2016 (CIKM ’16)
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 2016 (ICTIR ’16)
[Preprint]
In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 2016 (ICTIR ’16)
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In Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2016 (SIGIR ’16)
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In Proceedings of the 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval, 2016 (ECIR ’16)
[Preprint]
2015
Recommender Systems in Multi-Publisher Environments
University of Tehran, 2015 (M.Sc. Thesis)
In Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2015 (SIGIR ’15)
In Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2015 (NAACL ’15)
Reference-free and Confidence-independent Binary Quality Estimation for Automatic Speech Recognition
In Proceedings of the Second Italian Conference on Computational Linguistic, 2015 (CLiC-It ’15)
2014
In Proceedings of the 2014 Recommender Systems Challenge, 2014 (RecSysChallenge ’14)
In Proceedings of Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction – 5th International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, 2014 (CLEF ’14)
In Proceedings of the CLEF 2014 Workshop on Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse, 2014 (PAN ’14)