Efficient Synthetic Data Generation for Text Embeddings, A Survey of Conversational Search, and More!

Vol.75 for Oct 21 - Oct 27, 2024

Stay Ahead of the Curve with the Latest Advancements and Discoveries in Information Retrieval.

This week’s newsletter highlights the following research:

1. Efficient Synthetic Data Generation for Text Embeddings Using Small Language Models, from Chen et al.

2. Improving Search Relevance Using Large Language Models, from Pinterest

3. A Technical Survey of Modern Conversational Search Systems, from Mo et al.

4. A Comprehensive Analysis of Negative Sampling Methods in Large-Scale Recommendation Systems, from Apple

5. Optimizing E-commerce Search Results Through User Intent Centrality, from Saadany et al.

6. Understanding the Benefits of Joint Training in LLM-Based Search and Recommendation Systems, from Spotify

7. A Simple Training-free Approach for LLM-based Recommendations, from Google DeepMind

8. Optimizing Multi-Channel Fusion for Large-Scale Recommender Systems, from SJTU

9. Enhancing Long-Context QA through LongRAG, from Zhao et al.

10. Enhancing E-commerce Content Curation through Automated High Consideration Query Ranking, from Amazon