SIGIR

Efficiency Unleashed: Inference Acceleration for LLM-based Recommender Systems with Speculative Decoding

Yunjia Xi, Hangyu Wang, Bo Chen, Jianghao Lin, Menghui Zhu, Weiwen Liu, Ruiming Tang, Zhewei Wei, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu

Comments Accepted by SIGIR'25

Clarifying Ambiguities: on the Role of Ambiguity Types in Prompting Methods for Clarification Generation

Anfu Tang, Laure Soulier, Vincent Guigue

Comments 11 pages, 3 figures. Accepted at SIGIR 2025

FROG: Effective Friend Recommendation in Online Games via Modality-aware User Preferences

Qiwei Wang, Dandan Lin, Wenqing Lin, Ziming Wu

Comments Accepted in SIGIR 2025

Why is Normalization Necessary for Linear Recommenders?

Seongmin Park, Mincheol Yoon, Hye-young Kim, Jongwuk Lee

Comments Accepted by SIGIR 2025

Extending MovieLens-32M to Provide New Evaluation Objectives

Mark D. Smucker, Houmaan Chamani

Comments This is a preprint. The definitive version was published in SIGIR 2025 ( https://doi.org/10.1145/3726302.3730328 ). Our extension to MovieLens-32M is available for researchers at https://uwaterlooir.github.io/datasets/ml-32m-extension

PSCon: Product Search Through Conversations

Jie Zou, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Evangelos Kanoulas, Shuxi Han, Heli Ma, Zheng Wang, Yang Yang, Heng Tao Shen

机构 * University of Electronic Science and Technology of China（电子科技大学） ； University of Amsterdam（阿姆斯特丹大学） ； Tongji University（同济大学） 纠错

Comments 11 pages. Accepted by SIGIR 2025

Adaptive Domain Scaling for Personalized Sequential Modeling in Recommenders

Zheng Chai, Hui Lu, Di Chen, Qin Ren, Yuchao Zheng, Xun Zhou

Journal ref Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2025

Pre-train, Align, and Disentangle: Empowering Sequential Recommendation with Large Language Models

Yuhao Wang, Junwei Pan, Pengyue Jia, Wanyu Wang, Maolin Wang, Zhixiang Feng, Xiaotian Li, Jie Jiang, Xiangyu Zhao

机构 * City University of Hong Kong（香港城市大学） ； Tencent Inc.（腾讯公司） 纠错

Comments accepted to SIGIR 2025

Retrieval Augmented Generation for Dynamic Graph Modeling

Yuxia Wu, Lizi Liao, Yuan Fang

机构 * Singapore Management University（新加坡管理大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted by SIGIR 2025

Bridge the Domains: Large Language Models Enhanced Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation

Qidong Liu, Xiangyu Zhao, Yejing Wang, Zijian Zhang, Howard Zhong, Chong Chen, Xiang Li, Wei Huang, Feng Tian

机构 * Xi'an Jiaotong University \& City University of Hong Kong Xi'an China ； City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong China ； Jilin University Changchun China ； Tsinghua University Beijing China ； Nanyang Technological University Singapore Singapore ； Independent Researcher Beijing China ； Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an China ； Xi'an Jiaotong University \& City University of Hong Kong ； City University of Hong Kong ； Jilin University ； Tsinghua University ； Nanyang Technological University ； Independent Researcher ； Xi'an Jiaotong University 纠错

Comments accepted by SIGIR'25

Revisiting Algorithmic Audits of TikTok: Poor Reproducibility and Short-term Validity of Findings

Matej Mosnar, Adam Skurla, Branislav Pecher, Matus Tibensky, Jan Jakubcik, Adrian Bindas, Peter Sakalik, Ivan Srba

Comments ACM SIGIR 2025. 10 pages

Review-driven Personalized Preference Reasoning with Large Language Models for Recommendation

Jieyong Kim, Hyunseo Kim, Hyunjin Cho, SeongKu Kang, Buru Chang, Jinyoung Yeo, Dongha Lee

Comments Accepted to SIGIR 2025

Replication and Exploration of Generative Retrieval over Dynamic Corpora

Zhen Zhang, Xinyu Ma, Weiwei Sun, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin, Maarten de Rijke, Zhaochun Ren

Comments Accepted at SIGIR 2025 (Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval)

Adaptive Orchestration of Modular Generative Information Access Systems

Mohanna Hoveyda, Harrie Oosterhuis, Arjen P. de Vries, Maarten de Rijke, Faegheh Hasibi

Comments Accepted at SIGIR 2025 Perspective Paper Track

You Are What You Bought: Generating Customer Personas for E-commerce Applications

Yimin Shi, Yang Fei, Shiqi Zhang, Haixun Wang, Xiaokui Xiao

机构 * National University of Singapore（新加坡国立大学） ； PyroWis AI ； EvenUp 纠错

Comments SIGIR 2025

Information Leakage of Sentence Embeddings via Generative Embedding Inversion Attacks

Antonios Tragoudaras, Theofanis Aslanidis, Emmanouil Georgios Lionis, Marina Orozco González, Panagiotis Eustratiadis

Comments This is a preprint of our paper accepted at SIGIR 2025

Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Unifying Retrieval and Ranking with a Single Generative Recommendation Model

Luankang Zhang, Kenan Song, Yi Quan Lee, Wei Guo, Hao Wang, Yawen Li, Huifeng Guo, Yong Liu, Defu Lian, Enhong Chen

Comments This paper has been accepted at SIGIR 2025

Disentangling and Generating Modalities for Recommendation in Missing Modality Scenarios

Jiwan Kim, Hongseok Kang, Sein Kim, Kibum Kim, Chanyoung Park

机构 * KAIST（韩国科学技术院） 纠错

Comments SIGIR 2025

Intent-aware Diffusion with Contrastive Learning for Sequential Recommendation

Yuanpeng Qu, Hajime Nobuhara

Comments Accepted at SIGIR 2025. 10 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables

NLCTables: A Dataset for Marrying Natural Language Conditions with Table Discovery

Lingxi Cui, Huan Li, Ke Chen, Lidan Shou, Gang Chen

Comments accepted by SIGIR'25

The Viability of Crowdsourcing for RAG Evaluation

Lukas Gienapp, Tim Hagen, Maik Fröbe, Matthias Hagen, Benno Stein, Martin Potthast, Harrisen Scells

Comments 11 pages, 9 tables, 5 figures. Accepted at SIGIR'25

Comprehensive List Generation for Multi-Generator Reranking

Hailan Yang, Zhenyu Qi, Shuchang Liu, Xiaoyu Yang, Xiaobei Wang, Xiang Li, Lantao Hu, Han Li, Kun Gai

Comments 11 pages, 6 figures, 9 tables

Journal ref Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR, 2025

Support Evaluation for the TREC 2024 RAG Track: Comparing Human versus LLM Judges

Nandan Thakur, Ronak Pradeep, Shivani Upadhyay, Daniel Campos, Nick Craswell, Jimmy Lin

机构 * University of Waterloo（滑铁卢大学） ； Snowflake（Snowflake公司） ； Microsoft（微软公司） 纠错

Comments Accepted at SIGIR 2025 (short)

KGMEL: Knowledge Graph-Enhanced Multimodal Entity Linking

Juyeon Kim, Geon Lee, Taeuk Kim, Kijung Shin

机构 * KAIST（韩国科学技术院） ； Hanyang University（翰林大学） 纠错

Comments SIGIR 2025 (Short)

The Great Nugget Recall: Automating Fact Extraction and RAG Evaluation with Large Language Models

Ronak Pradeep, Nandan Thakur, Shivani Upadhyay, Daniel Campos, Nick Craswell, Jimmy Lin

机构 * University of Waterloo（滑铁卢大学） ； Snowflake ； Microsoft（微软） 纠错

Comments To appear in SIGIR 2025. Significant updates and revisions to arXiv:2411.09607

Linear Item-Item Model with Neural Knowledge for Session-based Recommendation

Minjin Choi, Sunkyung Lee, Seongmin Park, Jongwuk Lee

Comments SIGIR 2025, 9 pages

Exploring $\ell_0$ Sparsification for Inference-free Sparse Retrievers

Xinjie Shen, Zhichao Geng, Yang Yang

机构 * South China University of Technology School of Future Technology（南方科技大学未来技术学院） ； Amazon Amazon Web Service Shanghai China（亚马逊中国） 纠错

Comments Accepted by SIGIR 2025

Wrong Answers Can Also Be Useful: PlausibleQA -- A Large-Scale QA Dataset with Answer Plausibility Scores

Jamshid Mozafari, Abdelrahman Abdallah, Bhawna Piryani, Adam Jatowt

机构 * University of Innsbruck（因斯布鲁克大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted at SIGIR 2025

Journal ref Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025)

MRAMG-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Advancing Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Multimodal Generation

Qinhan Yu, Zhiyou Xiao, Binghui Li, Zhengren Wang, Chong Chen, Wentao Zhang

机构 * Peking University（北京大学） ； Huawei Cloud BU（华为云业务单元） 纠错

Comments Published as a conference paper at SIGIR 2025; 11 pages

WikiHint: A Human-Annotated Dataset for Hint Ranking and Generation

Jamshid Mozafari, Florian Gerhold, Adam Jatowt

机构 * University of Innsbruck（因斯布鲁克大学） 纠错

Comments Accepted at SIGIR 2025

Journal ref Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025)